beachguy777
New member
Well, I say semi-official because I met with some guys down at the beach for a coin hunt at 7pm tonight, who are all in the detector club here in San Diego called Coinshooters. Nice bunch of fellas. I didn't qualify for the hunt because I'm not an official member yet, but I hope to be. My feeling is that even though this is kind of an individual sport, so to speak, it's nice to meet with other hunters, not only for the fun competition but the comradery. Who the heck else can you talk about this stuff with except other detectorists who are into it like we are, so I enjoy that, plus I heard a couple of good stories. One guy said he found a 1700 year old roman coin, I think it was right here in town somewhere. I was amazed because what would a coin that old be doing here in San Diego, unless somebody dropped it from a collection or something, but he said he looked it up on the internet and it was that old. He said it was pretty small in size. Well we hunted the beach for 2 hours and then compared what we found at a picnic table. One guy found two nice horse shoes, and another fella found one dice that had a light in side that flickered. Kinda cute. Two of the guys found silver rings and the rest of us just found newer coins, but it was a good experience. I really want to join the club and they meet once a month but they have different outings, like today from time to time. I'm gonna try and get off work to go to the meetings if I can, cause there's also a show and tell at each meeting. What a fun deal. It's also neat to see the other detectors they're using. Pretty interesting. Well, I only found 15 coins in the 2 hour period, but they were all pretty solid hits, and I've gotta say, that Quatro is one heck of a coin machine. I think that's one of it's highlights is coins. It really does seem to like coins and I found one quarter in wet sand about 10 or 12 inches deep. This one's for shagger: one of the men told me I probably wouldn't need my small shovel, but I just smiled and noded my head, but I kept the shovel with me. I swear I use that shovel all the time along with the sand scoop, otherwise it's to time consuming with just the sand sifter, especially in wet sand. With the small shovel I can dig a 10 or 12 inch hole a lot easier and faster than with the sand scoop and it makes me feel good that the Quatro goes that deep. Well, I just wanted to share all that with you, in case anybody out there is thinking of joining a detector club in your town. I'd highly recommend it. The comradery and just plain fun of being with other people that dig treasure like you do, I think adds another dimension to this terrific hobby.
