HELP WITH BEACH HUNTING PLS

[Bulgarian]

Hi All

I've been doing some beach hunting without much success I usually hunt within 10-20 feet of the water, fuguring thats where most people will lay on the sand. However I must be doing something wrong - last time in 2 hours I only found 2 clad pennies...not counting the pulltabs and foil of course I'm thinking maybe it would be a better idea to hunt in the shallow water. I know from experience it's much harder to retrieve something dropped in the water - waves push it around and it could move a couple of feet from where you dropped it within seconds...So I figure more things must get lost in the water... Any thoughts ? Tips ?

Also a wierd thing I noticed. As my MD's batterires get weaker it seems to be beeping more - when I touch the ground or grass with the coil, when I jerk it suddenly...sometimes I would hold it up in the air and it still beeps like crazy...Does this makes sense to anyone ?

By the way I went hunting at TOBAY beach, Long Island's South shore. Guys that are hunting here on Long Island - what do you think about this spot ?

HH and will really appreciate your replies

 

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[Bulgarian]

I USE A TREASURE HUNTER VISION PRO XJ9 DETECTOR. THE DAY AFTER I POSTED THIS I WENT BACK TO THE BEACH TO HUNT DURING LOW TIDE. I TIGHTENED THE BOLT THAT CONTROLS THE ANGLE OF THE COIL AND IT'S NOT BEEPING AT EVERY JERK OF MY HAND ANYMORE.... SO I LOWERED THE SENSITIVITY ALSO AND I WAS HUNTING ON THE WET SAND WHICH IS SUBMERGED DURING HIGHTIDE. THERE WAS MUCH LESS FAKE SIGNALS (MAYBE MISSED SOME REAL TAGRETS TOO) I ONLY DUG UP FOIL TWICE AND 1 PENNY AND A MATCHBOX TOY CAR.

TODAY I WENT TO A GHOST TOWN NEARBY. THE DETECTOR WAS BEEPING VERY OFTEN I DUG UP A LOT OF NAILS BUT NOTHING OF VALUE. THEN LATER I MET SOME HIKERS AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF ABANDONED COPPER AND IRON MINES IN THE AREA. SO I FIGURE A LOT OF ROCKS IN THE AREA MUST HAVE TRACES OF IRON AND COPPER ORE, SO MAYBE I SHOULDN'T BLAME MY DETECTOR FOR THAT.

YOU SAID U HAD A SUSPICION ABOUT SOMETHING ?

WHAT DID YOU HAVE IN MIND ?

BULGARIAN

 

[wmas1960]

It is hard to say what your problem is, not knowing anything about your machine.? I did a little looking around on GOOGLE and can't find much.? Accept a couple of vague ads on eBay for the model. I couldn't even find a manufacturer site that might have more info.

Being that I am not that familiar with all the machines out there, I don't know what to say.?

You seem to be using some good logic, regarding where you are looking.? Unless, there are a lot of other people searching area.? Maybe it is hunted out and you just need a new, fresher place to search.? ?When I go out on the beach, I think of the same sorts of areas.? I look at the layout of the beach and determine where the activity has been.? Where people have been playing frisbee,volleyball, digging or laying in the sand....? ?I look for the primary traffic patterns around the area, say from the beach up to a concession stand, pay phones, drinking fountains or play lot... up to the parking lots where people will remove their keys from a purse, beach bag, their pockets etc., and loose other items in the sand.?

It could be just understanding your machine, or how you are searching.? I don't mean to sound as though I am questioning your experience and all but you simply didn't mention if this is the beginning of your interest in detecting or if you have been doing it for a while.? So, pardon me if I go a little basic here.? ?

First, I would say, don't get discouraged.? I have a Whites XLT and the first couple times out on the beaches in Florida, I had the same sort of results.? I had another detector before that, and only found 1 thing with it.? I eventually gave up detecting and put it in the garage where it sat for almost 30 years.? ? Later, I got a rekindling of my interest from seeing a Whites ad on TV.? I went out to find the old detector and descovered that it had been dumped during some cleaning.? I had hoped I could get it working again but, Oh Well.? ?I then bought the XLT and tried again.? This time, I read some and realized some techniques that I probably hadn't thought of when I was a kid, nearly 30 years earlier.? ?Over a little time now, I started getting much better results.? Every time I go out, I figure I will find a couple bucks in change.? I still find a lot of foil, wire, pull tabs, beer caps and other junk.? I just keep going ahead though as, even much of the junk, has an interesting quality to it.? I usually take my finds home and photogrph it before separating out the good stuff and tossing the garbage.?

Note all the junk and non metalic stuff.? I pick up everything that I find.? Even some of the neat rocks that come up in my scoop. I figure my best prize from my searches is the escape that I get from things around home and the exercise and enjoymnent of being out doing something.? ?So, again, just keep at it and, hopefully you will begin to have some better results.

Think of how fast you are searching.? Slow down if necessary.? Make sure you are hearing things that you are going over.? Sometimes I have found myself going so fast that I may be passing over a lot.? Do you use headphones?? Personally, I am a little hard of hearing, especially to certain frequencies.? I find that sometimes, the ambient noise on a beach (waves crashing, seagulls, screaming kids....) can drown out some faint signals, causing me to maybe miss and pass over some good stuff.? ?By wearing headphones, you might hear some of those weaker signals.? ?Sometimes they can be the better stuff.? As you are walking along, covering the area more slowly, sweep the detector in a back and forth arc in front of you, overlapping your sweeps and rows.? With the coil as level as you can.? Don't let the coil go too high off the surface also.? If you find a coin, search your area again when you are done.? Sometimes someone takes their keys out of their pocket and might drop 3 or 4 coins in the same spot.? ?I have found, up to, 6 quarters in the same hole.? What I usually do, when I find anything on the beach, I mark that as a center point and radiate out from there.? Just in case other items were lost in the same area.? I will usually cover, heavilly, an area about the size of 2 or 3 beach towels etc.... an area where a couple people might have been sitting and lost a few things.? ?Also, to start, dig everything you find.? Some things can be decieving.? If your detector IDs targets, like a penny, it could be something else.? If your detector has ID, You might get a reading for foil and it could turn out to be a nickel.? A lot of people say they don't find many nickels.? I find the reason is that often the targets that ID on my display as foil or pull tabs actually turn out to be nickels. Many people, considering that foil and pull tabs are junk, will ignore them.? Thus, they could be ignoring rings and nickels and other items.? ?

Another thing, does your detector have depth indication.? That can be a good indicator but don't take it as gospel.? ?I have found, several times, that a quarter at 1.5" turns out to be something much bigger at 6 or 7".? ?Often that might be a soda can but once did turn out to be 2 nice diecast cars buried side by side.?

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What are you digging with?? ?When out on the beach, use a beach scoop.? ?It is so much easier and you will cover more area in less time if you are efficiently equipped.? ? You will also enjoy yourself more if it isn't that difficult.? That is why I always suggest for the beginners to start in sand so that they can get familiar with their machines in the easiest and most efficient environments.? You get far more searching per hour than if you were digging in hard soil or using a trowel to dig and sifting the sand with your hands.? If I get an item at 1.5 or 2 inches, I will skim the surface with my scoop.? Then sweep again with the detector.? If the target isn't there, I sift the scoop.? If the item is still there, I dump the scoop and scan the dumped sand with the detector.? Just to make sure a second item wasn't there. If the target is deeper, I plunge the scoop deeper as needed.? ?Other sand areas would be Volleyball Pits, Sand Boxes, Playgrounds etc.? Search areas where people are active, jumping around, diving, ie., volleball, swinging or hanging upside down.? Monkey bars and horizontal ladders, swings and other such play equipment can be good.? Don't ignore areas in front of park benches where mom or the nanny might be sitting watching the kids as they dig in the sand, loose toys....? ? Again, I don't want to assume you are a beginner.? You just didn't mention so I am putting it out there in case.? ?

Now, lets look at your detector.? Don't know what features you have and frankly, I don't know a lot about some of them but do you have preset programs?? ?My detector has several. Coin,? Coin and Jewelry, Jewelry Beach, Relic, Prospecting.? These programs are adjustments to account for certain conditions.? Jewelry Beach, for example is similar to Coin and Jewelry but it adjusts certain settings to account for salt in the sand and water.? ?Then the programs are designed to concentrate on certain types of targets while ignoring others.? ?Coin and Jewelry, for example, would reject or ignore many items of IRON composition, like the trash on the beach, to concentrate on coins and lost jewelry.? Or, especially large IRON items like some of the historical relics that you might be hoping for in a ghost town.? So, if searching in that environment, you might want to be using a Relic setting.? ?I think, Sensitivity will help for increasing your depth.? Check to see if your sensitivity is too high or too low.? I will leave that though for someone who knows more about those settings.?

Another thing you don't mention that I just ask to cover bases.? Did you buy this machine new?? or did you get it used.? Do you have the instructions?? If you do have the instructions, read up some to find out more about Discrimination, Sensitivity and some of the other settings.? ?There might be something there that would increase your success.? ?Also, think about how advanced the machine is.? Several of the Treasure Hunter models that I saw seem innexpensive and quite basic.? Could be that you are having the same issues that I had with my first detector.? ?It just wasn't that good.? Especially for searching in high trash areas like where I was looking back when I was a kid.? The area was where the school that I went to (Military School) used to have drills and war games during WWI and WWII.? Later, the trenches and fox holes that they had dug were all filled in with trash when the school dumped their garbage onsite.? ?All I ever found with the first machine was rusted pieces of old tin cans.? And a doorknob.? The only real find I ever found.?

If your machine is an innexpensive basic machine,? Maybe you might look at upgrading.? In the mean time, hopefully you just need to find the right location, understand your machine a little and perfect some of your technique.?

 

[wmas1960]

Oh, something that you specifically asked that I didn't notice. The other day I had a similar experience. Was searching around my backyard and got a hit on something. Started pinpointing and just couldn't zero in on it. Then, I noticed that, even when holding the detector in the air, it was squeeling. I looked at my batt power and it was down around 12v. Normally the detector will read about 14 or almost 15v. I assume it had to be with low batteries. I changed them and it seemed to work pretty good again from there. Also, the target I was trying to locate didn't come up again.

Which brings up, maybe low batts were giving you some difficulty or maybe your detector wasn't balanced, or both. My detector has an Air and Ground Balancing function. Not exactly sure what that does. When I start detecting I hold the detector level with my waist and hit enter. Then, put it to the ground and hit enter. It does some sort of balancing or adjusting. All I know is that whenever I start getting erroneous or inconsistant response from the detector, first thing I do is a new air and ground balance. I often start finding things more consistantly again.

 

[Bulgarian]

Hey Vito

Mine is same as the one shown except my coil isn't a disc but a double ring. I noticed the rings of the coil are not solid but hollow inside so you probably hit it right on the head, saying that water might get inside. I thought I was getting a good detector - I paid $150 for it....

Thanks

Bulgarian

 

[Bulgarian]

THANKS FOR YOUR ADVICE WMAS

MY DETECTOR ONLY HAS SETTINGS FOR SENSITIVITY AND DISCRIMINATION. IT HAS TARGET ID WHICH I DONT PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO - IT IDs MY FIANCEE'S PLATINUM RING AS A PULL TAB THE DISCRIMINATION ALLOWS ME TO SWITCH OFF SIGNALS FROM CERTAIN TARGETS I.E. NAILS BOTTLE CAPS PULLTABS FOIL - THIS I DONT USE MUCH EITHER - I DONT DISCRIMINATE THE TARGETS, I DIG EVERYTHING JUST LIKE YOU SUGGEST. I DONT HAVE ANY INDICATION FOR TARGET DEPTH AND I DONT HAVE ANY PRESET PROGRAMS FOR BEACH, PROSPECTING ETC.

I BOUGHT MY DETECTOR BRAND NEW - IT'S NOT A BASIC DETECTOR BUT I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S A GOOD QUALITY DETECTOR...AS FAR AS MY ABILITY - I'M RELATIVELY NEW TO TH DEFINITELY NOT A PRO. I USE A BIG SCOOP WHICH I THEN POUR INTO A SIFTER TO GET RID OF THE SAND.

I'LL TRY A DIFFERENT BEACH AFTER WORK TODAY. MAYBE THE BEACH WHERE I GO IS HUNTED OUT.

HH

BULGARIAN

 

[wmas1960]

I don't know anything about putting in an oven to dry out. I would be careful with that. But, I will defer to the experience of others. I can only think of bowling balls when I hear this. Balls can soak up oil over time and loose their reaction to the lanes. People often talk about dish washers and ovens.... leaving in the trunk of your car on an 90 degree day and so on. Under heat the oil expands and will ooze out of the ball. By putting on an absorbant pad, you can get a lot out of the ball. But, In the end, you hear of people who either had the oven too hot or cooled the ball down too fast when they took it out... They end up damaging the cover or causing a shock that cracks the core.... A lot of things that can go wrong if you are not careful. However, if you are careful, I would only add, let the coil cool slowly. Also, maybe use an oven thermometer, like those you can get at the hardware store, to make sure you don't exceed a reasonable temperature. Don't trust the dial on your oven.

Personally? I would just let it sit in a cool dry place for a while and be patient. Maybe turn it so that any holes are pointed down and at a lowest point so any moisture inside can run out.

You probably didn't get a bad detector for someone starting out. Certainly has it's value to get you started and familiar. If you can get the coil working right and put a little sealer over the hole that was mentioned you might be able to get your money's worth from it. I would still not submerge it though. You could take it to a beach and search the wet area of the sand but I wouldn't go out in the water with it.

As was mentioned earlier, You might look toward upgrading as your interest grows. The Garretts ACE 250 is highly endorsed here and a lot of people use it. I looked a little at it and found you can get it for about $199. Also, the Whites Prizms are often highly recommended and there is probably a model available at a similar price. The Prizm IV is one that I looked at not long ago. Has Discrimination, similar to yours. You select certain items that you don't want to detect. Say Nails, Foil, Pull tabs. However, I would point out that if you discriminate out Pull Tabs and Foil, you might miss some rings and other jewelry and nickels. With the Prizm IV, you also have Sensitivity adjustments, Depth indication and other popular features. A little more expensive at $360 but one that I have thought of as a second detector. I was really impressed with it. I use a Whites XLT but at $800 maybe a little more than you would want to spend. Certainly more than I was looking to spend for a backup detector. Was also thinking of the Prizm so that I could try to interest my girlfriend in detecting. Don't know that I would want to go with another $800 detector without knowing for sure that she would be interested.

If you do look into an upgrade, if water detecting is something that interests you, make sure the machine you get has a submersable coil. Also, make sure the control unit is safe around water. Something about my XLT is that the coil can be used in water but the control box is NOT even water resistant. Any water gets in there and it is probably fried. So, I have to make sure that I don't drop the detector in the water.

 

[Bulgarian]

THANK YOU VITO AND WMAS FOR YOUR FEEDBACK !

MY DETECTOR HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY TRUNK FOR 3-4 DAYS NOW SO ANY MOISTURES HOULD HAVE EVAPORATED BY NOW...ESP CONSIDERING MY CAR IS BLACK AND IT REALLY MUST GET HOT IN THE TRUNK.

SO I'LL SKIP THE OVEN PROCEDURE FOR NOW. MY FIANCEE ALREADY SUSPECTS I'M CRAZY BECAUSE OF MY TH HOBBY SO I NEED TO ACT "NORMAL" AROUND HER NO COIL COOKING

I'VE BEEN USING MY MD IN SHALLOW WATER. FROM NOW ON I'LL JUST KEEP IT DRY AND OUT OF THE WATER.

I'VE HAD MY DETECTOR FOR OVER A YEAR AND I CANT RETURN IT ANYMORE. I WOULDNT WANT TO ANY WAY. NOT THAT IT'S SUCH A GREAT MD - I JUST DON'T WANT TO WAIT FOR THEM TO SEND ME BACK ANOTHER ONE - I LIKE TO HUNT EVERY CHANCE I GET

BY THE WAY I JUST ORDERED A STRONG MAGNET. IT'S RATED 200 LBS I.E. IN THEORY YOU CAN LIFT A 200LBS PIECE OF METAL ATTACHED TO IT. I KNOW THIS OLD SWIM HOLE 2 HRS DRIVE FROM MY HOUSE SO I'LL TRY IT THERE SEE IF I CAN PULL OUT ANYTHING. THE SWIM HOLE IS IN A RIVER BED AND IT'S STILL FULL OF CRYSTAL CLEAR AND COLD WATER. I THOUGHT ABOUT DIVING THERE BUT I DON'T HAVE A WET SUIT AND THE WATER IS PRETTY COLD, SO I FIGURED IT'S CHEAPER TO BUY A MAGNET THAN A WET SUIT ... ALSO MY MD IS USELESS UNDERWATER AS WE'VE BEEN SAYING SO I'D HAVE TO RELY ON SEEING COINS IF I DIVE WHICH WOULD BE HARD BECAUSE THE BOTTOM IS COVVERED WITH MULTICOLORED LITTLE STONES. ALSO MOST OF THE COINS WOULD BE IN CRACKS BETWEEN STONES SO THEY WON'T BE VISIBLE BUT WHO KNOWS IF THIS MAGNET IS REALLY THAT STRONG MAYBE IT CAN PULL STUFF OUT FROM IN BETWEEN ROCKS...WOULDNT THAT BE COOL

JUST A THEORY OF MINE....DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH MAGNETS ? HAVE YOU HEARD IF THEY WORK FOR TH-ING ? I WAS ALSO THINKING I COULD TIE THE MAGNET TO A ROPE AND GO TO THE BEACH KNEE DEEP IN THE WATER AND JUST WALK IN THE WATER AND DRAG THE MAGNET BEHIND ME....

HH

BULGARIAN

 

[wmas1960]

I have heard of people dragging magnets to pick up stuff. There might be quite a few things that will be attracted to it. However, note that a lot of jewelry and probably most, if not all, coins will not be attracted by the magnet. If you want an idea of what might be attracted by a magnet, take a bowl full of various different metalic items and take a small magnet and dip it in to see what will come up. I read somewhere, the other day that people do put a small magnet in the bottom of their sand scoops to hold small items like nails and bobby pins that they scoop up. To keep these items from falling through the holes and back into the sand. Thus confusing their search.

Also, with a magnet as big as you are talking. Be careful around your watch. Some watches with quartz crystals will get messed up big time when exposed to magnetic forces. Keep it away from your watch or wallet, Ie., credit cards.....

Good Luck and Happy Hunting.

 

[Bulgarian]

VITO THAT WAS FUNNY ABOUT THE SUBS ! LOL ! ARE YOU REALLY IN GERMANY ? US MILITARY ?

WMAS THE MAGNET IS REALLY NOT THAT BIG. IT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF THOSE OLD HANDHELD RADIOS (WALKIE-TALKIES) AND IT WEIGHS A POUND AND A HALF. i'LL KEEP IT AWAY FROM ANY WATCHES AND CREDIT CARDS JUST IN CASE. I DONT KNOW IF ITS GOING TO BE OF ANY USE AT ALL BUT I ONLY PAID $15 FOR IT SO IT'S NOT A MAGOR INVESTMENT

HH GUYS

BULGARIAN

 

[wmas1960]

As for the size of a magnet and the damage it can cause, it doesn't take much. Good, as you say to be careful, just in case. One thing I remember was when I was working in a radio station, we used to erase tapes with an electro magnet. I knew of many people who would forget to take their watch off when hitting the tape eraser with a cassette in their hands. Yikes!!!

Hey, it is always worth a try. You never know what you will find. Some knives and tools are made of steel or IRON and would be attracted. Also, some watch cases and bands might have some stainless steel in them. But, your magnet might ruin the internals of the watch. Although, anything that might have been in the sand and water for a while might be trashed anyways. Some stainless steel items like tools and some jewelry findings (a finding is the part that would attach to a jewelry item and make it wearable. Pins, posts, clasps, chains... etc.), might be attracted. If attached to something good like a diamond earing, or gold broach or a clasp on a bracelet, that might pull some gold or silver up. Could find something interesting. If nothing else, Drag it through the sand and pick up all the bobby pins, nails, bottle caps and other IRON or steel trash items that might contain ferrous metals. Then go over the area with your detector, not having to worry about looking through all the junk you might find some other good stuff.

 

[Bulgarian]

I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST GERMANS, VITO. YOUR GREAT ENGLISH AND YOUR NAME MISLED ME...I AM A 100% BULGARIAN MYSELF, CAME TO THE US 6 YEARS AGO. LOTS OF TREASURE BACK IN BULGARIA, BUT IT'S ILLEGAL TO EVEN OWN A METAL DETECTOR OVER THERE...

I WENT HUNTING WITH MY BROTHER YESTERDAY AFTER WORK. WE WERE ONLY THERE FOR AN HOUR. IT WAS ALREADY GETTING DARK BY THE TIME WE GOT THERE....SAME OLD POOR BEACH ...BEEN WANTING TO GO TO A DIFFERENT ONE BUT IT'S FARTHER AND WE WERE STRAPPED FOR TIME...HUNTED THERE FOR AN HOUR, LAST HALF HOUR IN THE DARK... FOUND 5-6 BOTTLE CAPS, SOME FOIL, 2 SODA CANS ABOUT 1 FEET DEEP AND ....A CLAD QUARTER ! MY BIGGEST FIND ON THIS BEACH SO FAR

I POSTED THIS AD IN MY LOCAL AREA FREECYCLING GROUP IN YAHOO, SAYING I'M A METAL DETECTORIST AND IF ANYBODY HAS LOST SOMETHING VALUABLE OR IS JUST CURIOUS WHAT LIES BURIED IN THEIR BACKYARD THEY SHOULD CONTACT ME. I GOT IN A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH THE MODERATOR, SHE DELETED MY POST 2 MINUTES LATER, BUT I STILL GOT 2 RESPONCES. A GUY WANTS ME TO FIND A "LOST" WELL IN HIS YARD THAT HE COVERED WITH A METAL PLATE YEARS AGO AND LATER COVERED WITH MULCH AND SOIL, AND DOESNT KNOW WHERE IT IS ANYMORE. SHOULD BE FUN.

YOU GUYS HAVE ANY RECENT HUNTS/FINDS YOU LIKE TO SHARE ?

BULGARIAN

 

[wmas1960]

Haven't been out, away from the house, in a while. Last searches I did were in my own yard. Was figuring I wouldn't find anything significant as there isn't any significant history here. However, I learned not to assume that nothing significant.... about anywhere.

First day I was out in the yard I found a sliver of aluminum, probalby from some gutter installations over the years. Then, I got a hit that I couldn't find in the plug that I pulled out. Dumb founded as the plug came up clean and the hole was also clean I went to set the detector back down to fill the hole and heard a squeal. As I looked closely, by the coil, I found a .45 cal bullet on the ground. I figure it fell to the ground from the plug when I pulled it out. Thus meaning it had to be, at least, 5" deep.

The bullet came out of the ground in tact. The slug inside the shell. Upon cleaning it I found a hole eroded into it. And the bullet or slug fell out of the shell. Then, while looking at it, later that night, the brass shell started to crumble. The markings on the bullet indicate that it is Military and was manufacturered in 1928. Probably about the time our neighborhood was being developed. Our house would not be here for about another 25 years though. The house next door was built in 1928 and a handful of other houses around here were built, pre depression in about 1926 to 1928. Then along with the depression, the development stopped until after WWII when another spurt of building began. So, it was a very wierd find for this area.

Further searching has found some interesting things. A quarter and a few pennies, 1 is a wheat that dates to 1944 or something like that. Others are all modern and would have been dropped while my family was here. We moved here in about 1964. I found a metal tag from a rose bush that I haven't photographed yet. Also a piece of pipe, an old hose nozzle the cap to a drain clean out but no drain and a small Native American Thunderbird symbol Keychain.

I had to stop because I felt that I was damaging the lawn some. Figured I would give it some time to recover and grow back before I dig some more plugs. Further, my hole digger, one that is used to plant bulbs, bent and I need to find a new one. There are more targets out there. I have identified a few. Looking forward to an opportunity to go looking some more.

 

[wmas1960]

Thanks for the compliments on my finds.? ?Even though I have found little of huge value, it does keep it interesting to find things that do have some meaning.? Like the toy cars, the key chain, ...? Even the clean out plug was interesting.? What that was doing in the middle of the back yard, about 11" deep, I don't know.? ?No plumbing, drainage or access to sewers etc., there.?

As I said, the Bullet is odd. I should also mention, that the Thunderbird keychain isn't anything old.? I rememver my dad getting those in the mail when I was a kid.? I think there was a charity that used to send them as an enticement for donations.? ?

A few more highlights of the other cool items that I have found, Not of great value but interesting , none the less...?

 

[Bulgarian]

hEY gUYS

NICE FINDS !!!

WMAS - YOU FIND THE MOST STRANGE STUFF - WHAT'S A BULLET DOING IN YOUR YARD ? AND WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF FINDING A GERMAN MARK ON AMERICAN SOIL ? MY FAVORITE IS THE PORSCHE DIE CAST CAR - ONE DAY MAYBE I'LL DRIVE ONE OF THOSE ....;-)

VITO- YOU'RE FINDING SOME REAL SPENDABLE CASH, MY FRIEND. PRIMA !

I WORKED ALL 7 DAYS THIS PAST WEEK, BUT TOMORROW I'M GOING ON A 2 DAY VACATION UPSTATE NY. GOING HUNTING IN THE HERKIMER DIAMOND MINES, THERE NOT REAL DIAMONDS BUT QUARTZ CRYSTALS BUT THEY'RE STILL PRECIOUS AND IT SHOULD BE A LOT OF FUN....WILL POST MY FINDS WHEN I COME BACK

HH

BVLGARIAN

 

[Rob in NY]

Hey Bulgarian,
Why are you hunting Tobay when the biggest crowds go to Captree or Jones Beach.....even Long Beach?
Re: Treasure Hunter detectors - Their website is www.treasurehunteronline.com.
I didn't look at the specs. to see if the coil is waterproof, but if water had gotten into the coil, the noise
would be continuous.
Hunting in dry sand is hit and miss unless you've scouted the area when it was crowded with droppers,...er, I
mean beachgoers. Paths to/from concession stands, volleyball areas, etc.
For water hunting, you,ve got to time the tide....about an hour or two before dead low tide will uncover the
swimming area where people tend to lose their jewelry but nothing is a given.
Many detectors out there cannot handle wet salt or salt water. Yours may be one of them.
Is there a ghosttown on Long Island or were you elsewhere.
Good luck,
Rob

 

[Bulgarian]

I USUALLY GO TO TOBAY BEACH BECAUSE IT'S CLOSE TO MY HOUSE. YESTERDAY AFTER WORK I WENT TO LONG BEACH FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. ALL I FOUND WAS A NICKLE - THAT AND A MILLION BIG RUSTY NAILS. I'M NEVER GOING TO THAT BEACH TO SWIM OR TO SUNBATHE AFTER WHAT I DUG OUT....I FOUND A ROCK THAT TRIGGERS MY MD. IT'S PRETTY STRANGE - I GUESS IT'S METAL ORE OR A METEORITE. HOW CAN I TELL IF IT'S A METEORITE ?

THE GHOST TOWN IS IN ROCKLAND CO, NY. IT'S CALLED DOODLETOWN. IT'S IN A STATE PARK AND MD-ING IS NOT ALLOWED THERE. I SNEAKED MINE IN ANYWAY, AND EVERY TIME HIKERS WOULD WALK BY I'D HIDE IT IN THE BUSHES. I SPENT MORE TIME HIDING IT THAN USING IT....

 

[Bulgarian]

hey Vito

I found a couple of good sites about meteorite hunting. They all say that all metorites are magnetic. My rock sets off the metal detector but when I tested it with my magnet it wasn't attracted to it at all...So now I'm even more confused....I'm thinking about posting this in the What Is It ? forum. Maybe somebody can help me figure out what this rock is ....

 

[Bulgarian]

HEY VITO

A FRIEND OF MINE HAS THIS OLD GOLD GERMAN COIN. IT'S 20 MARK FROM 1899.

HE WAS CURIOS TO KNOW WHAT IT'S WORTH ....

 

[Bulgarian]

THANKS VITO

MY FRIEND SAYS IF YOU WANT THE COIN FOR $300 - IT'S YOURS !

ANY INTERESTING FINDS LATELY ?

HH

BULGARIAN

P.S. WHERE IN GERMANY DO U LIVE ? I WENT THERE WITH MY PARENTS MANY YEARS AGO....