beach and shallow water

Very heavy iron spike found today in SW Florida where the Gulf of Mexico meets 10,000 islands. Thoughts? The inside is square (it is broken) so it appears to be hand made.

Decided to hit some long forgotten spots that I have on my little black book, since beaches are constantly getting pounded and with the lack of erosion sometimes you are lucky if you score some felix pennies, enough is enough. Started last weekend on this secret honey hole, got some wheats and a...

New, never used Fisher AQ Limited, a deep-seeking PI developed for gold jewelry, with both 11" and 8" coils, CF lower rod, Nimh and shorty OBN Li-ion battery with chargers for $1,800 $1,600 $1,300 Paypal F&F or +3% shipped to lower 48. This detector will go to Ebay if nobody in US wants it...

Lucky Gold & Diamond Horseshoe: 2nd Time Ever Metal Detecting Was at the beach with my mother teaching her the minimal amount I knew about metal detecting with my brand new Garrett ATMAX. Was cruising around the pepper corn trees finding all sorts of change, thought I detected a quarter but...

Went to the beach a few days back and found some gorgerous rocks. I've looked through my rock identification books, but I'm more of a shell expert. Anyone know what's up with this baby? It's insanely smooth and not at all brittle. It's black and the flat bits shine in the light, but there are...

My opinion is at the end of my post. So my earlier post was for opinions on the eBay Carbon Fiber travel rod(CFTR )met with a reply about their regular carbon fiber rod. That said I took the leap and purchased the chinese carbon fiber travel rod. This is the description on eBay: All sizes and...

I've been wanting to buy a CFTR for my Sunspot Stealth 720 scoop. The one that Sunspot sells for their scoops are really expensive like their scoops. Anyway I've found a chinese knock off that comes with a 7 year warranty and previous purchasers haven't really given any reviews about them. So I...

Hello Everyone these are a few of my finds I find worthy to show you new to the community . Been detecting for less than 1 year and All I can say I have found my true happiness ! Thanks for looking every one feel free to ask qeastions

We are taking a cruise to these ports of call and I have been researching on bringing a detector (Whites Surf PI) via Royal Caribbean and everything I have read is from several years ago and the replies are so conflicting. :dontknow: Has anyone been successful recently on bringing and using one...

Found these two items on the beach after a storm. Not sure what the big one is but I think it's Native American.

I took my minelab Excalibur 1000 to the beach and it would not work on the wet sand. All you could hear is the threshold and when the coil touched the wet sand, it would go silent as if there was iron. I placed a quarter at 4 in and it wouldn't pick it up. I adjusted the sensitivity many times...

Since the Excal doesn’t have a full-charge indicator, it is often a guessing game to fully charge the battery but not overcharge it and decrease battery life. For a while, I was charging my Excal 1hr per 1hr use (i.e., 1:1). After getting stuck with a low battery on a lonely stretch of beach...

I am making a trip to the beach soon and I always detect and find some cool irons pieces. But this time I will still detect but I would like to try magnet fishing from the shore. Have any of you tried this at the beach, and do you think that their will be stuff out there to find?

The weather has been cold (temps in the 30's and low 40's) and windy (10-30 mph) the past few days here in Wisconsin, and I was a bit cold & discouraged after being skunked the time before (except for a little clad) but I changed up my strategy- I decided put in more hours swinging the stick...

I'm Baack! LOL Just return from a weeks vacation in Playa Del Carmen Mexico, and it was a nice one indeed. a few interesting things happened during my trip as you will be able to tell from my pictures :D All told I found 5 Rings, 3 Gold & 2 Junkers.... But, my best find was some woman I've...

Hey folks, I'm down in Pensacola for the next few days with my detector, and was wondering what would be a good beach to go hunt on without getting my chops busted? I found a few 3 or 4 year old posts, about a nature reserve and Fort Pickens being out of bounds, but was wondering if some kind...

Onthespot called yesterday afternoon to do a bit of metal detecting and I was a bit hesistant at first because i'm supposed to be studying for a test coming up...but we all know how that goes. Of course I couldn't say no. The night started off slowly cleaning up a lot of pulltabs and bobbypins...

Hello everyone, name is Bill, First I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I live in the Space Coast area of Florida just across A1A from the beach. Just my wife and I and our two kids (the kind that walk on all fours and have problems enounciating). So far I have only been...

I finally got the chance to test out the Fisher Impulse I got off Ebay. Yea, ok, I was being punny. But it was sort of an impulse buy of an Impulse. I saw it going pretty cheap and I wanted a back up for my White's Surfmaster so I sprung for it. I headed down to Galveston, Tx for a meeting and...

Hi All, I live in south Florida (Boca Raton) and recently got into metal detecting. I got a Bounty Hunter Lone Star from Bass Pros Outdoor World. This is what i want to accomplish, detecting on the beach and in the water up to say 5' deep. What detector do you recommend for the salt water...

We are taking in the Kiss/Motley Crue show in Tampa at the end of the month and will spend the weekend. bringing the Detectors for a little beach fun but really have no clue what the popular beaches are over there..:icon_scratch: not looking to move in on anyone's turf so to speak. just maybe an...

Dug today at about an hour before low tide. best find of the day. other stuff includes a knife, some clad, bat mobile little car, a co2 cartrige and my surf pro made a sound i have never heard before, kinda a dull whine, turns out it was a magnet lol. the pendent has a no clasp stainless chain...

Whats the strangest thing you have dug up? whats the coolest thing? mine so far as strange would be a plastic pen, (metal eraser band) and the coolest being a Japanese yen or the silver ring from recent.

Found my first ring yesterday! it was in the "grandma" zone at low tide, dug at about 8" it has a 925 sterling silver stamp on the band, not sure if the diamond is real or not but will have it appraised. my thoughts are that its real only because the setting is heavy duty and would they put a...

nothing really good. just happy to be diggin! found with my new Whites Dual Coil on its maiden run. ( bobbypin first item found LOL!)

OK'' call me different, but I can't stand looking like everybody else, My detector has got tobe 1 of a kind"" I've re-couped 7 of these so far...its EZ, anybody can do it. I got the Idea from a guy in Southern Cal. Goodluck All,,See you on the beach'' HH. PS....Food for thought :-)

''aloha'' From the Beaches of Southern Oregon. Where the weather is always Fair. I've been Detecting for about 11 yrs now, The first 5 yrs. I was Prospecting, but now I've seen the light...Beach hounding is the way togo. I look forward too meeting all of you..,and maybe learning some NEW...