SoCalBeachScanner
Hero Member
- Aug 17, 2013
- 601
- 547
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 4
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett ATX, AT Pro, ProPointer, and a weirdly good sense of direction
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
-
Went to Long Beach, CA, early today with my dog for a few hours. It was fifty degrees when I started at 5AM, but after the sun came up, off came the sweatshirt. I was working the machine very, very slow, and was targeting the first couple of feet next to the beach path (picture below). The concrete path runs the length of Long Beach (6-miles) and I never made it more then a few hundred yards on one side of it. The concrete path is full of rebar and some of the rebar extends into the deeper sand to the side under the sand, so the constant iron sound wears on you after a while. I did manage to pull many different items with mid to hi tone signals through the iron sound. MD'ing in a location like this is not for the faint of heart or for anyone slinging a PI machine
In beach sand, with all the different items and the sounds they make, you can learn you detector really fast. In some areas you can have four different targets within one square foot, get a repeatable signal on each target, and pretty much know what metal type each item is. And being its so easy to retrieve in beach sand, I would scoop everything when first learning, and now I have the discrimination etched into my head and rarely look at the display.
Although I got two rings, I can't seem to get a good quality ring lately in dry sand. The big ugly ring with all the fake diamonds has elastic in the band, which is really weird for a ring that size.
Thanks for dropping by ... Happy Thanksgiving to All
--
--
Another Perfect Day ... And No ... I Don't Love LA ... But I Like Orange County
--
--
Went to Long Beach, CA, early today with my dog for a few hours. It was fifty degrees when I started at 5AM, but after the sun came up, off came the sweatshirt. I was working the machine very, very slow, and was targeting the first couple of feet next to the beach path (picture below). The concrete path runs the length of Long Beach (6-miles) and I never made it more then a few hundred yards on one side of it. The concrete path is full of rebar and some of the rebar extends into the deeper sand to the side under the sand, so the constant iron sound wears on you after a while. I did manage to pull many different items with mid to hi tone signals through the iron sound. MD'ing in a location like this is not for the faint of heart or for anyone slinging a PI machine
In beach sand, with all the different items and the sounds they make, you can learn you detector really fast. In some areas you can have four different targets within one square foot, get a repeatable signal on each target, and pretty much know what metal type each item is. And being its so easy to retrieve in beach sand, I would scoop everything when first learning, and now I have the discrimination etched into my head and rarely look at the display.
Although I got two rings, I can't seem to get a good quality ring lately in dry sand. The big ugly ring with all the fake diamonds has elastic in the band, which is really weird for a ring that size.
Thanks for dropping by ... Happy Thanksgiving to All
----Another Perfect Day ... And No ... I Don't Love LA ... But I Like Orange County
----Amazon Forum Fav 👍
Last edited:
Upvote
9
