Fools Gold!

[DaChief]

Should be titled "old fool with bad eyes gold". I won't bore you all with the photos but I was doing well on my last hunt this weekend. By noon, I had put three and possibly four good pieces of gold in my pouch. All earrings and one that was really heavy. I found a couple of junk rings and a silver toe ring to boot. It was an earring kind of day. Ended up with about 15 of them alltogether.

Well I bragged to a couple of folks that asked what I was finding that I had three good pieces and one iffy. I must have repeated that brag about 4 times in conversations even showing gold-digger and his wife one of my "best finds", the heavy earring.

When I got back to my car, I pulled out my eyes, I mean magnifying glass and to my amazement, some of my finds had miraculously turned into junk. As a matter of fact, Mr. Magoo has nothing on me because every stinking piece I had in my bag was junk other than the cheap little toe ring. Talk about a big let down.

To make my idiotic longer story short, I will carry my magnifier with me in the water next time as to not let the fools gold get the best of me again. I can hear some of those folks as I was walking away. "Poor deranged man, he is in another world isn't he."

P.S. Not even the "At least you got out" replies will help me feel better on this one.

DaChief !!

 

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[Montauk3]

I feel your pain.

 

[finderzzs]

And I thought I was the only one with rose colored glasses. Man that has happened to me almost every time out, but when I tell you all it's gold, it's gold. So my Friend. Better than pull tabs, a little bit.

 

[erikk]

They all look great wet in the scoop . I don't even bother to try to see what they are till I get home and dig out the Lupe. No way I can read them with salt spotted bi focal sunglasses. Lucky to find my truck

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

They all look great wet in the scoop . I don't even bother to try to see what they are till I get home and dig out the Lupe. No way I can read them with salt spotted bi focal sunglasses. Lucky to find my truck

Most times what Errik says above applies to me too. The old peepers just are not what they use to be. Sometimes if the marking is very pronounced I can see it is good, most times I need the loop I keep in my van. Usually my glasses are spotted with the salt spray from the waves, and my eyes are strained from the eye candy.

 

[guzz1]

 Hey  Jim The  eyes go  after  40.. Its  hell  getting older. Same  thing  happen to  me  last  week   Thought  I  had  a  gold  earring  turned  out  to  be  junkeroo,,  LOOP is the way go   Guzz

 

[mumszie]

Awwwww come on DaChief! Everyone has bad days. My day today beat yours. So your stuff wasn't all gold. So what? It was all better than a sinker and a fish hook! Tomorrow is another day.

 

[rdi]

DaChief.........I do just like Erikk and Treasure_Hunter, take the ring,necklace,coin,etc. out of the scoop straight to the good bag without so much as a good look....why bother when I can't see without my glasses.... when we get home the wife goes through our goody bags (she's like a big kid at Christmas) and tells me if it was a good day or not and shows me anything special...for me the hunt is the fun,not the finds....with my wife it's a different story....rdi

 

[DaChief]

All good suggestions. Thanks for the ideas.

Gives credence to the saying that "Ignorance is Bliss". As long as I thought I had gold in my pouch I was happy as could be.

I just counted all my digs for the day. 114 separate items that I pulled from the water. 14 earrings, a bunch of coins including a James Monroe presidential dollar, 23 bobby pins, 4 pulltabs, a bottle cap, 3 junk rings, I know a few junk items fell out of my hand trying to get them into the trash bag. That is lots of digging!

About 7 hours total in the water equals digging about 16 items per hour. That didn't count several that I could not get to because they were so deep the hole kept collapsing.

Take care and good hunting.

DaChief!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

All good suggestions. Thanks for the ideas.


I just counted all my digs for the day. 114 separate items that I pulled from the water. 14 earrings, a bunch of coins including a James Monroe presidential dollar, 23 bobby pins, 4 pulltabs, a bottle cap, 3 junk rings, I know a few junk items fell out of my hand trying to get them into the trash bag. That is lots of digging!

About 7 hours total in the water equals digging about 16 items per hour. That didn't count several that I could not get to because they were so deep the hole kept collapsing.

Take care and good hunting.

DaChief!

Way too much digging of junk for me, but your younger then I am, h3ll everyone is younger then I am...

 

[gold-digger]

Hey Chief...Pleasure to meet you.

It still looked like a nice one to me. I hear you on the magnifier. Plenty of times I wish had one with me or even my reading glasses.

All we got that night were coins.

At least you got out on a nice day to a nice beach, right.

Maybe we'll see you out here again sometime.