A few hours at South Padre

The Beep Goes On

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Jan 11, 2006
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CTX3030, Excalibur II, V3i, TRX
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Metal Detecting
Had a chance to go down for a couple of days and spent a few hours (~5) at a couple of beaches. Some finds for the time spent, but no goodies, unless you count gold plated beads :icon_scratch:.

South Padre, as I learned, is known for their sand castle sand - part mud it seems. The wet sand is pretty hard and the goods may sit on the surface long enough to be spotted, or they get sluiced out to sea.

I tried in the surf, the wet and the dry. Surf was nothing, wet was coins only with no pull tabs, dry was everything else with plenty of pull tabs. Never saw another detectorist the whole time. Lots of people. Weird. I did check the legality and was told no problem. Probably just need to pay your dues and put in the time. Pull tabs were a consistent 12-15 double-beep with orientation-related variations, but I dug pretty much all of them.

Used the Excal II in the surf, E-Trac the rest of the time, not much discrimination, as high as I could go on sensitivity without much falsing.

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HH!
Beep
 

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Good looking beach,,,,nice pics and good finds :thumbsup:
 

Nice looking beach and pictures!
 

Nice pics & finds Beep !

Good to see you back :thumbsup:
 

Ah! You were in my part of the country! I am 60 miles from there. However, I do not hunt 'The Island'. You did OK on the hunt. You may not have seen any others with detectors but I can tell you that they are there. There are several regulars that hunt almost every day. They do hunt early. One starts at 4:00AM and is finished around sun up. Several in our club hunt there often.
 

Ah! You were in my part of the country! I am 60 miles from there. However, I do not hunt 'The Island'. You did OK on the hunt. You may not have seen any others with detectors but I can tell you that they are there. There are several regulars that hunt almost every day. They do hunt early. One starts at 4:00AM and is finished around sun up. Several in our club hunt there often.
Thanks James! I was hoping someone from the area would chime in. Thanks for confirming some of my thoughts...too nice a beach for no detectorists :occasion14:
 

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