2012 finds

[CASPER-2]

I detected 80 hunts this year - I broke personal records in some depts. - fell short in others
but a lot of it had to do with where I hit - and where i didnt hit

I found 72 gold rings (1 returned - so 71 in pic) - personal best for me

other gold

silver (upper 39) and junk rings (bottom)

other silver

silver coins ( all from water except 1 Barber half from a farmfield)
12 halfs this year - 10 were silver - personal record

other old coins

coins for the year

coins from mexico trip

old beach tags - old bathing suit buckles and swim cap snaps
all signs that lead me to "old" gold and old coins

religious medals

keys (forgot to put in huge skeleton key)

cracker jack toys (I think these are cool)

musketballs and minie balls( I found most at one spot but found some at 7 beaches in 3 states and 2 dirty ones were found near a CW battle site)

junk earings

just some of the lures

and the sinkers

sunglasses - low count because I hit older areas and fishing areas (that used to be swimming areas)

 

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[tnt-k9]

Very impressive year! Good luck with 2013.

 

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[CASPER-2]

Average..... wow where does that put the rest of us I hunted a lot of days this year.... not every day but a lot of days. I think i ended the year with 65. You just find some incredible.... incredible rings. Maybe i need a job ( that) .... ya right. You and your crew..... i wouldnt call average hunter. I think you fall into the 10 percent that get 90 percent of the gold. Once again .... great year.

Dew

2011 I think I got a dozen gold - got alot of silver but I was real lazy - maybe got out 30 times
I have had real good years and so so years
I may average 20-30 pieces of gold jewelry (which would put me in the middle i would think)
- so I had an above average yr - i got my butt out there more and change my attack of the water this year too
Flickr: casperther's Photostream
some pics of previous years (some yrs I returned 2 - 5 rings so those would be missing from the pics too)

 

[OBN]

Casper don't you live several miles from the beach? Seems like I seen you drive a few hours to hunt most places? And Night work, Good, because not many around, but hard on your body...

 

[CASPER-2]

Casper don't you live several miles from the beach? Seems like I seen you drive a few hours to hunt most places? And Night work, Good, because not many around, but hard on your body...

I travel 2 to 2 1/2 to get to alot of the beaches i did good at (Whydah lives 2 hrs away)
Ct. beachs are 1 1/2 to 2 hrs for me
and RI beaches are 2 hrs away
so I spent a lot on gas and I spent many long weekends down his way
so spent $70+ a night on rooms - so the gold did not come cheap
luckily with the high price of gold - it made it worth while - plus this is my only hobby really now - I dont drink - dont use drugs -
detecting is my only vice = been in the HOBBY since age 12 in 1975
I got a few easy ones - but most I worked hard to get - I swallowed alot of water this year
if you look at my album for 2012 - you'll see I had many multiple gold hunts - which is why I did so good
I did a lot of scooping
I drink a lot of those 5 hr power drinks to make the drives and to get me thru the days sometimes
another thing people dont realize
some areas of New England have bays and coves where the tides are off from the big beaches areas - so I can hit a low in one spot at 7am - then drive 1 or 2 hrs to another and catch its low at 2 pm then drive back and hit the Pm low again at 7 pm
then the next week the one with the 2pm low tide will be at 7am and 7pm - so in the summer we can hit 3 low tide most days if we chose - where lets says Fla, - low tide is 12 noon - you can only hit one low
I can hit a RI bch at sun rise and then drive to a spot on the Cape and hit midday low there then drive back to RI or Ct and hit sunset low - this worked good for me
thankfully I have a girlfriend that loves driving too and 50%of the time she is my driver - which helps too

 

[Whydah]

awesome collection of Gold. Glad I witnessed it .... You worked for it and also did a nice job keeping everything in baggies so that the rest of us could see it at the end of the year... Nice work...

here is a good example


I hit morning AM tide with Whydah at one spot - He got a huge gold
Pm tide that day we went to another beach and I got a huge gold
next morning we hit another AM spot and I got 2 gold
and then we moved to another spot for PM low where I got another 2 gold
and I think he got 1 too
so 2 days hunting BUT 4 hunts

 

[CASPER-2]

cant forget this guy too

 

[bigscoop]

Treadmill, jogging, working the weights, diet, pushups, situps, winter aerobics, etc.,.....going to be tough to top 2012.

 

[testing123]

wow, 72 gold rings!! just wow!

 

[looknforgold]

Awesome! Congrats on a great year, LFG

 

[PI JOE]

Fantastic year Casper!

 

[Hag730]

 

[s1u2r3f4]

OMG! I need to move....

 

[search and recovery]

Great year on gold! And it all started with the silverman! Congrats and thanks for sharing all those great hunts with us poor working souls who do not get out detecting nearly enough. You know, I live about the same distance from my beaches in N.C. and Va. so I have little excuse for not getting out there more often. So this is my new years resolution (although a little late ), to get my butt in gear and find more gold at the beach in 2013. So would you show us a video of your ring dance? By now you should have perfected it.

 

[CASPER-2]

Great year on gold! And it all started with the silverman! Congrats and thanks for sharing all those great hunts with us poor working souls who do not get out detecting nearly enough. You know, I live about the same distance from my beaches in N.C. and Va. so I have little excuse for not getting out there more often. So this is my new years resolution (although a little late ), to get my butt in gear and find more gold at the beach in 2013. So would you show us a video of your ring dance? By now you should have perfected it.

ring dance in the water looks like just a lot of thrashing around - looks like a shark attack
and if you do it at the wrong time - it attracts the life guards

 

[cudamark]

Wow! nice year. Which detector(s) did you use?

 

[CASPER-2]

Wow! nice year. Which detector(s) did you use?

I own 3 CZ-21s - there were responsible for all the gold
one hunt with Whydah my batteries died and I only had my old PI Pro as a back up and used it for a few hrs - and I did pretty good with it after not using it for like 5 yrs

 

[Southern_Digger]

You have had an amazing year. Congratulations.

 

[lorraine]

That is astounding, Casper!

I wish you an equally lucrative 2013!

Lorraine