WaterWalker
Hero Member
- Jan 31, 2007
- 531
- 693
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett (Infinium, ATPro, ATX), Minelab Excalibur, Tesoro Conquistador, Whites (Surfmaster PI, Quantum), JW Fisher 8X, DetectorPro Underwater 8", Minelab Equinox 800, Manticore, Pro-Find 35
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Two weeks after the New England's deep freeze put me into hibernation it went north for 3 days. In its place came a blue sky, temperature hitting 49, melting snow, and 15mph winds…it was time to go detecting.
I was off to a less popular beach with a detecting partner. We had been to the small beach 7 times in the last 7 months. I had used my Infinium in all of the previous outing, this time I was going to use my new ATX. I just had to see what, if anything, I and two other detectorists had missed. Not expecting to find much I was surprised to find an old belt buckle, then a penny, a nickel and two dimes so thin they had only one side in the first two hours of detecting.
The 38F water was putting a chill in my hands and the thought of coffee was setting in. Then I heard the Hi-Lo, repeatable signal and yes it was a 14K white gold wedding band. Minutes later I heard another sharp, Hi-Lo, repeatable signal. This time it was faint and only 1 LED lit up. Digging six scoops (approximately 18 inches) down to the hard-pack layer a 10K 1972 class ring was looking at me through its green “eye”. It soon found its way into my pouch. Again that Hi-Lo signal sang in my ears, I saw 2 LEDs and after 3 scoops I was holding a beautiful 18K signet ring.
I could not believe, nor could my detecting partner, what was coming out of an area that three detectorists had covered so well over the past 7 months. And while he was watching I was digging after another ATX signal that produced 1 lit LED. This time I dug in what seemed to be an hour before hitting the hard clay bottom. In that scoop was a 10K 1960 class ring.
My detecting partner then told me to go for number 5. Another few minutes passed with only a nickel hitting the inside of my pouch. Then I had another nickel sound. I scooped shallow into a hard layer of snails but missed the target. The next scoop went through the remaining snail layer and into small pebbles and the signal was gone as was the 6 glowing LEDs. The target was in the scoop. Yes, number 5, another 14K wedding band joined the other rings in my pouch.
All this happening within 30 minutes had me thinking: How did I every miss all of these rings with the Infinium? I know I had covered the area several times and had only found two rings in the past. They were not fresh drops. Was it SKILL – I did not think so as it was only my 20th hour using the ATX. Had the sand moved that much, or what was it? I don’t think it was the sand movement, I knew the terrain and the area was only about 200 square feet and the water was less than waist deep at low tide. The terrain had not changed. Luck? Well it could be and I would say yes, but there were 5 rings. How could that be luck? That leaves only one variable – the detector – the ATX! Don’t you think so?
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