How Long Did It Take To Find Treasure

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CaliforniaKid said:
Well I'm not primarily a beach hunter but I guess I've been lucky because I've found either jewelry or coins every time I have detected a beach or around one.
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iffn you mean that you find gold and silver each time you beach hunt-- well you ought to go till the trend stops
 

No not always silver but I usually find other types of old coins like indian cents and things like that.
 

I hunted just the sand for years before I got a water detector and found a fair share of rings in the sand and still do. Also lucked into an old unhunted hotspot in the sand where I pulled out dozens of silver coins.

I like the water better, less people gawking at you and usually much less trash, got the headphones on, nice and cool in the drink and easy to get into the zone. I have found dozens of gold/silver jewelry items in the water last few years, though sometimes I find nothing. Fact is, if you don't swing your coil over something, you'll never find it. Sounds like you are hitting a hammered beach, but there are things to be found at those places too with persistence and luck.
Sometimes I try to grid, sometimes I just try wandering pot luck. Often have to detour around people/kids playing in the water so its not like you have to cover every square foot. Sometimes I specifically wait for a cloudy/crappy day just so I don't have anyone to detour around. Most beaches usually have traffic patterns that see more concentrations of people than other parts, so obviously those areas will have the potential for higher yields - But they are harder to detect on nice hot days just because of the traffic.

Usually there is not much to guide off of on a beach so I'll go up to ball level and try to stay there on a nice parallel run, then go out to belly deep and do another run, then up to the chest. Not practical to go literally neck deep, targets are very hard to recover with a scoop in all but the softest of sands when up to the neck in water. So I'd say keep at it, try some new places and don't expect treasure to come flying out of the ground at you.
 

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Chances are the places you are going are being hammered before you get there, try hitting one of those beaches in the evening as people are leaving or be there in the morning real early 0 dark thirty, that will increase your odds and you can see other detectorists in action. Keep at it and Good luck!
 

If you are using an Excal, don't discriminate. In my opinion you're leaving stuff behind and losing depth. My second hunt with the excal I found gold. Good luck.
 

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Thoroughly grid the hard wet sand low spots/wash outs/runnels/ripple troughs and the precious metals will come...
 

I agree with Rodbuster209. Chances are other guys are hitting that beach as well. Here in SoCal, the day beach goers leave around 6pm. The folks that go to make out and drink show up about 7-7:30pm. I try and hit it during the shift change. I've gone by the same beach in the mornings and see 4 or 5 guys detecting. They're not finding much where i had been either.
 

BeachCrazy said:
Just curious how long to to for any of you to find your first pieces of treasure at the beach... I'm getting a little discouraged and just need some encouragement. I'm still pretty new to the Hobbie so all hope is not lost.
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Took me 3 months to find my first Gold.. 7 1/2 years ago, with a blue 800 Excalibur, since then I'm over 400 gold rings. I've learned a lot and still learning. And the best advice is Location, location, location....along with what all the others have posted before me.. . Something that inspired me several years ago was meeting a old hunter who shared his Bay treasures. I knew if he found all this, I could do the same. So I retired and it's happening......but with a lot of hard work....:skullflag:


 

Are you finding pull tabs, nickels. fishing sinkers?...if you are then you aren't missing the gold, you just haven't swung your coil over it yet...you will find much more in the water than you will in the dry sand.
 

lookindown is correct about finding in the water......this is a discipline that takes much practice and patients.....I know....I have been working at it,,,tis very hard depending on wave size and surf conditions,,,,I applaud the guys that have masterered this,,,it is really a 'art' in itself !!!
 

BeachCrazy said:
Just curious how long to to for any of you to find your first peices of treasure at the beach... I'm getting a little discouraged and just need some encouragement. I'm still pretty new to the Hobbie so all hope is not lost.
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I doubt there is such thing as an average since there are so many variables.
I hunted 61.75 hours with my Bounty Hunter Sharp Shooter 2 in mostly dry sand. Then in my fourth hour of hunting (on a second beach) with the CZ-21 I had a gold ring. I think preparation helps a lot too, probably the MOST IMPORTANT thing. Though I haven't hunted that many hours I have read everything I can find on beach hunting, both books and on the Internet. I sifted through it, tried to determine what applied to my situation and then used those ideas to decide when and where to hunt.

GL & HH
 

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Just an update. I got this in today so maybe I can stay out a little longer. Anderson Straight Shaft. (Aluminum)
 

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First beach trip for my first ring (tungsten), 3rd beach trip for my first silver ring, have yet to find beach gold. Find plenty of gold in the dirt though!
 

A few things...

When I got my first good detector (CZ21) I found a gold ring in 2 days...but then I didn't find another for a few months. Everyone here has given you tons of good advice so just listen to what they are saying. Keep detecting, learning, and reflecting and you will start to get better and better finds. Now I rarely go 2-3 days in a row without at least finding silver.

As far as your settings, hunting in disc with a sens of 6 is really decreasing your depth a lot. If you want to hunt in sens 6 you need to switch to PP to get good depth. If you want to stay in disc I would crank the sens up to 10 but turn down the threshold so you cant hear it (it will be silent) that way you will be getting the best depth you can in disc.
 

I am doing something seriously wrong. I have yet to find a real treasure. Nothing but clad,lead, sunglasses,cell phones, bottle openers and junk. Dang I need help too. I have been hunting OBX NC since January. I am not going too fast. I am hunting slow.
 

Treasure_Hunter said:
I have over a $1000 worth of found clad in ajar at home now... Figured I would keep collecting it till I have enough to buy a nice detector I might want down the road sometime......




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That is too funny. "going to save to get a good detector" I see that all you have now is junk detectors...lol
 

Learn the different sounds your Excal is producing over known coins or metal. Congratulations on the straight shaft as they are a world of improvement over the stock shaft!
 

can said:
I am doing something seriously wrong. I have yet to find a real treasure. Nothing but clad,lead, sunglasses,cell phones, bottle openers and junk. Dang I need help too. I have been hunting OBX NC since January. I am not going too fast. I am hunting slow.
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WOW, with that arsenal of equipment that is surprising. But, since January, how many hours hunting is that? Time only counts when the coil is moving over the earth. 8-)

Are you in the water? Wet sand? From what I have learned your best chances are in the water waist deep or more. Depending on how heavily hunted your beaches are maybe you need to change your timing. Hunting low tides?

GL & HH
 

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WOW, with that arsenal of equipment that is surprising. But, since January, how many hours hunting is that? Time only counts when the coil is moving over the earth. 8-)

Are you in the water? Wet sand? From what I have learned your best chances are in the water waist deep or more. Depending on how heavily hunted your beaches are maybe you need to change your timing. Hunting low tides?

GL & HH
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I am hunting low tide, I have hunted high tide, Dry sand, Wet sand, shallow water and Just started hunting in the water. I have hunted fast, slow and in between.I am hunting in heavy populated places on the beach. I hunt first thing in the morning. I hunt in the last daylight hours of the day. I try to hunt 3 days a week about five hours at the time. I have seen some only a few other detectors out hunting.(maybe that is a clue) Not enough to kill any area. Man I am hitting it hard.
 

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