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My Safari is running 'hot'!! more 18K gold!!

Goldstrike

Goldstrike

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I guess I'm on some kind of 'winning streak' because this year has really started off as an awesome year for gold finds!! Although I have 3 other detectors, I'm sticking with my Safari because it's taking me to some awesome targets...and yet another great find today from the beaches of SoCal!! Although it took quite a few hours of detecting, this time it got me 7.3 grams of 18K gold!.
This looks to me to be quite an old ring but it's in very fine condition and a great addition to my gold collection!!. I just wonder how much more the beaches will give up before my luck changes? One thing is for sure, although the weather has been chilly and cool, it has been really dry and really sunny....perfect weather for detecting anywhere! beaches, parks, deserts, mountains, ghost towns...wherever you feel like detecting!!!
Gonna get out there again very soon and look for more of the yellow stuff!!.....G.L. and H.H. everyone!!
 
Thanks Ken! running in A.M. registered 13 with sensitivity set at 14, although sensitivity settings are not critical at the beach because like I have said before, most all of my good gold and silver targets are close to the surface so I don't need to dig deep for them. When you venture out into the surf, the targets go deeper though so tactics have to change.
When I have to dig deep, I'm 90-95% sure it's a beer bottle with a metal/aluminum cap on it or soda cans which people bury rather than take them off the beach and trash them. I dig pretty much all I come across ensuring I don't miss anything. H.H.!
 
Man your streaks sure are nicer than mine! I' consider myself as having a nice silver month with 3 rings and a quarter.
One day I aspire to move up to the Bigboy League with GS!
 
OH NO!!!, thanks KinTN but respectfully, it is first and foremost my most favorite hobby for me and not a contest of who is better than who. The thrill that I get is learning more and more and bettering myself and not being better than others.
If I can inspire all of you by my posts of what I find along the way and help everyone to enjoy the 'journey', I will have accomplished my goal.
There will come a time where my health will limit me in being able to get out there and enjoy it as much as I do now. Until then, I'm happy to post my finds and I'm determined to help as many as I can to enjoy this wonderful hobby we all share!! I think others would get the same thrill digging a C.V. buckle or artifacts from a battlefield or ghost town, or old bottles from a Victorian privy as I do when I find a gold or silver ring off the beach....we are all definately in the bigboy league if there is such a thing!
Sincerely G.S.
P.s. I dig my fair share of tabs, bottle tops, bobby pins, rusty nails from the wooden pallets they burn in the firepits and elswhere on the beaches and even come across sometimes dirty diapers in the sand YUK!!! and miscellaneous junk just like any other detectorist I just don't post it all LOL!!!
 
Well said, GS. I feel the same way. Its all about the fun; heck, I still remember how thrilled I was when I dug my first penny.:spin:
(and i just added another silver ring this afternoon to my streak after an absence of 5 days of near constant rain!)
 
Thanks and congrats on your silver ring K! I meant to have wrote C.W. (Civil War) buckle! and not 'CV'! in my earlier post! Yep, I remember swinging my first detector, one of the old 'blue boxes' (a Whites 6000D Coin Master) that weighed several pounds and detecting some coins on the local park. I was thrilled to bits AND COMPLETELY HOOKED on this hobby. Although it weighed so much and I ended up strapping it to my waist, it felt so good and just pure fun adjusting and twiddling those knobs to get the maximum performance from it. We are so spoiled with the detectors and modern technology we have today!
I hope the rain lets up and you can get out and detect soon! G.L.&H.H.!
 
Whites Coinmaster here too as a 1st machine! (i dont count the cheap radio shack unit that i was given in the 70s and almost ruined me on the hobby)

Here's today's little silver ring:

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(those appear to be dolphins)
 
Very nice ring, not the run of the mill plain band style but contoured and shaped nicely!!! congrats!!!
 
Thank You and my apologies- I wont continue the thread hijack after this post, but I think it is an artisan made ring; each of the dolphins appear to be seperately cast, then hooked, then soldered together. There is no stamp or other identifier on the ring, but it came out of the ground looking like silver, acid tests out as silver, and besides, Safari sez a solid 39 so silver it has to be!

(curiously, it was my very first signal of the day which i got as i was walking to the field i was gonna swing over; always swing to and from the truck!)
 
Sweet, congrats! Looking forward to seeing more!
Bunker
 
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