Gold and Silver with the Dual Field

[Craig-PI]

I figured I would sneak out today before the "posse" and find some goodies...

I got to the beach and I wasn't alone like I thought I might be...

A few places were sanded in after the storm but the spot I found the 2 gold a couple days ago was still open for business... I found a nice heavy silver bracelet (55 grams) then a chain with a medal and assorted medals and coins in silver plus a heavy silver ring... I was hunting with Louct and then Robert and Joe showed up... Robert found very little but a friend of ours who was hunting further out pulled a diamond band who Joe got on video...

My total silver take for the hunt was 99 grams...

Gold 7 grams...

 

[amberjack]

well done Craig

do people just go to this beach and throw jewelry in the water or something?

wish we had class rings here all i got when i left school was a piece of paper and please dont come back no class rings here

AJ

 

[Terry Soloman]

LOL! Do you guys have a sign on the beach: "Throw your jewelry here" ? Nice work.

 

[Craig-PI]

AJ... I don't hunt where people swim... I hunt where they don't swim... I hunt where I feel the currents and wind will push the finds... I have been very successful hunting this way because most others don't. I do find a lot of school rings though

 

[Cupajo]

Keep this up Craig and I may be forced to drive all the way down there to have another shot at your hunting ground!!

CJ

 

[tvr]

I don't hunt where people swim... I hunt where they don't swim... I hunt where I feel the currents and wind will push the finds... I have been very successful hunting this way because most others don't.

You know, I've read a lot of material here from many seasoned and successful hunters and I've read many books including some of Clive's about looking for where the currents and wind move things; but seeing this particular post has me reevaluating how I'm going to look at the beach when I next get there. Kind of the light bulb going off and tying together the pieces of all the previous reading and teachings. Going to think more about why I found some of the things I found where I found them.

Thanks for posting it!

 

[Craig-PI]

Keep this up Craig and I may be forced to drive all the way down there to have another shot at your hunting ground!!

CJ

CJ... one of my friends pulled this sweet 18k ring further out from where I was hunting...


I'm going back tomorrow

 

[Craig-PI]

My friends at first scoffed at me going off on my own... but when I came back on multiple occasions with 3 or 4 gold rings they became believers... I don't mind sharing info or my spots with my friends because I believe for every gold ring we recover there are probably hundreds out of range of all the detectors out there today... it takes storms and currents to churn up the bottom and I follow these patterns...

 

[PI JOE]

Keep this up Craig and I may be forced to drive all the way down there to have another shot at your hunting ground!!

CJ

Come down, I'll put you on YouTube and we"The PI Posse" will make sure that Craig doesn't shows up! lol

 

[John(Tx)]

There is a section on the beach I hunt that is about 50-60 yards long where I find silver coins consistently. The rest of the beach (about 1 miles long) doesn't produce nearly as much as this small section does.. Must have something to do with the tides, wind and current in this small strip of beach. HH

 

[amberjack]

well good thread and got me thinking a bit as well just have to learn a bit more and keep looking at the beach, seems the same here though like Craig said most good stuff is out of reach but big swell tides wind expose them just have to know where they are, takes practice hey? am sure every area is different too, i like wat john said the good stuff comes in patches haven't been doing this detecting for long but that's one pattern i am seeing they are mostly in patches?

its all good fun

 

[Craig-PI]

If you have jetties and fishing piers (yeah lots of lead and tackle) but people love to throw stuff off of them.. coins and even rings... I hunted a tiny beach last year it was only 75 feet across and hunted next to the jettie and I pulled 5 rings gold next to it... my main places I hunt are not pretty beaches... I try to hunt where I believe others won't... I hunt in the rocks, the mud... I can hunt the easy places but thats where everyone else hunts... I have been hunting with a pulse for 8 years now... I pass over any target that has a long signature or wider than the inner coil on my DF's 12 inch coil... I rarely dig iron because I know its signature... do I get fooled now and then? sure I do... no detector is 100% and neither am I

 

[amberjack]

i have learnt that the hard way junk is not a sharp signal bit long and scratchy ripped a mussel in my arm digging what must have been a car at 10 feet i never did get to see what sort it was

we don't have jetties into the ocean here they would get washed away but lakes and rivers have them might try some ugly places like you say people do some strange stuff hey? i don't love you any more and toss the ring in the drink i have seen it happen, didn't have a detector then but.

heading south a for a few days next month and have some spots to look at in mind who knows what shows up, waiting on some big seas though sanded in here now. but it can change fast have to keep an eye on the surf reports.

i am due so expecting Gold soon