JakePhelps
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Is it possible 
One guy did it in the 24th volume of W&E Treasures in July of 1990.
Heres a quik summary of the article in my words:
Ernest L. Mitchell spent a week MDing on cape cod in october.
He just spent a week on a family vacation to disneyland and was a little short on money.
Rather than living out of a motel for a week he lived in his converted van.
He brought coffee cakes, oatmeal, tea bags, and other breakfast foods and such.
All he needed to cover now was gas, supper, and lunch.
His major interest was detecting shallow water at low tide.
He says "I can hunt two hours before low tide and up to two hours after before the tide chases me out".
He arived at 7:00, just in time for the 9 o'clock tide.
By 11 o'clock he was done hunting and had two gold rings, one silver ring, and a pouch full of dirty change.
He ordered a BLT for 4.50 and paid for it in dirty change, the clerk gave him a nasty look.
Next he bought a pint of ice cream! ate the ice cream, filled the container with sand, soap and water, threw in his change shook it up and it was all clean to spend.
Next he hit a schoolyard and had a "good handfull of change".
By 5:30 he was back at the ocean working to beat the sunset.
That night he went to friendlys for a sit-down dinner, payed for it with cleaned change!
For the rest of the week he was able to pay for both supper and lunch plus put gas into the van.
He returned from the cape with all the rings and some of the silver coins he found. He also found a blue saphire ring with twelve diamonds and a very large gold cross.
Now....Iv been to capecod many times, been detecting on almost every beach on the mid cape, plus lots of parks and such. Im wondering what beaches he hunted when he found all this in a week. He must have found loads of change in order to pay for lunch and dinner plus put gas into his van(which was alot cheaper then, but still..)this was 16 years ago, is there nothing left to find now?? Living on treasure would be THE life to live, but is it really possible for someone who wanted to? Has anyone else tried since?
One guy did it in the 24th volume of W&E Treasures in July of 1990.
Heres a quik summary of the article in my words:
Ernest L. Mitchell spent a week MDing on cape cod in october.
He just spent a week on a family vacation to disneyland and was a little short on money.
Rather than living out of a motel for a week he lived in his converted van.
He brought coffee cakes, oatmeal, tea bags, and other breakfast foods and such.
All he needed to cover now was gas, supper, and lunch.
His major interest was detecting shallow water at low tide.
He says "I can hunt two hours before low tide and up to two hours after before the tide chases me out".
He arived at 7:00, just in time for the 9 o'clock tide.
By 11 o'clock he was done hunting and had two gold rings, one silver ring, and a pouch full of dirty change.
He ordered a BLT for 4.50 and paid for it in dirty change, the clerk gave him a nasty look.
Next he bought a pint of ice cream! ate the ice cream, filled the container with sand, soap and water, threw in his change shook it up and it was all clean to spend.
Next he hit a schoolyard and had a "good handfull of change".
By 5:30 he was back at the ocean working to beat the sunset.
That night he went to friendlys for a sit-down dinner, payed for it with cleaned change!
For the rest of the week he was able to pay for both supper and lunch plus put gas into the van.
He returned from the cape with all the rings and some of the silver coins he found. He also found a blue saphire ring with twelve diamonds and a very large gold cross.
Now....Iv been to capecod many times, been detecting on almost every beach on the mid cape, plus lots of parks and such. Im wondering what beaches he hunted when he found all this in a week. He must have found loads of change in order to pay for lunch and dinner plus put gas into his van(which was alot cheaper then, but still..)this was 16 years ago, is there nothing left to find now?? Living on treasure would be THE life to live, but is it really possible for someone who wanted to? Has anyone else tried since?
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The beach mode pre-set seems to be cutting out everything below nickel. So, I'm going to play with the discrimination notch settings a little to see if I can include gold, but not pulltabs. If not, I'll have to include them both, because gold is my main objective. Will turning the frequency and depth/sensitivity all the way up help it to discriminate between gold and pulltabs a little better or will that counteract the beach mode and make it detect salt more in wet beach sand? Hmmmmmmmmm. Now I see what you guys have been saying about pulltabs and gold. It's a fine line. SS
Theyre soo good :P
