LawrencetheMDer
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- Feb 22, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Manticore, Minelab CTX3030 w 11" and 17" DD coils,
Minelab Excalibur II w 10" coil, Equinox 800 (4) w 11" and 15" coils,
Troy Shadow x2 w 7" coil, Pointers; Garrett Carrot, Pro Find 35,
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Needed a work-out and needed one bad. Grabbed the CTX and headed out the door at 5:30am to get to the beach by six. Planned on a 7 hr hunt with 4 ½ in the water. The water was warm at 76 deg.
Hunted the wet sand until I could turn my headlamp off and then headed for the water. Another surf hunter beat me to the surf and had past me earlier hurrying down the beach. Some metal detectorists think MDing is some kind of race…I don’t.
Met Ron Lord in the water. I see him often and we share MD stories and finds. Speaking of finds, I was hunting just ahead of Ron; I was about 2 ft deep and he was about 5 ft deep (Ron is 5’ something) and I hear him yell “what the heck” or sometime like that. I turned and saw him looking into his water scoop and pulling-out a large horse-shoe crab! He’s using a Nox 800, now, and dang I didn’t know they were THAT sensitive. Must admit – haven’t found one of those, yet. Now you know; Ron has crabs.
I had a good day in the surf and on dry sand (mostly back beach and pathways). On dry sand, I snagged about 20 coins/hr, an e-cigarette and sunglasses. Not much was happening on low tide wet sand; a few coins, due to it being heavily pounded the evening before.
The surf yielded a steady flow of quarters, a large SS wedding band (13.7g, 12:16 on CTX), and a presumably silver woman’s Middle Eastern ring (CTX 12-13:44). I assume the ring is silver because of the CTX coordinates of 12-13:44 (I find silver here but not gold). The problem with identifying the metal is that the markings are in a Middle Eastern language. However, it is a beautiful ring with filigree-work on the sides and unidentified symbolism/lettering (?) on the face of the ring.
It will prove interesting to figure-out the symbols of the face of the ring and the metal mark; another interesting side-line of metal detecting.
Happy Hunting
Hunted the wet sand until I could turn my headlamp off and then headed for the water. Another surf hunter beat me to the surf and had past me earlier hurrying down the beach. Some metal detectorists think MDing is some kind of race…I don’t.
Met Ron Lord in the water. I see him often and we share MD stories and finds. Speaking of finds, I was hunting just ahead of Ron; I was about 2 ft deep and he was about 5 ft deep (Ron is 5’ something) and I hear him yell “what the heck” or sometime like that. I turned and saw him looking into his water scoop and pulling-out a large horse-shoe crab! He’s using a Nox 800, now, and dang I didn’t know they were THAT sensitive. Must admit – haven’t found one of those, yet. Now you know; Ron has crabs.
I had a good day in the surf and on dry sand (mostly back beach and pathways). On dry sand, I snagged about 20 coins/hr, an e-cigarette and sunglasses. Not much was happening on low tide wet sand; a few coins, due to it being heavily pounded the evening before.
The surf yielded a steady flow of quarters, a large SS wedding band (13.7g, 12:16 on CTX), and a presumably silver woman’s Middle Eastern ring (CTX 12-13:44). I assume the ring is silver because of the CTX coordinates of 12-13:44 (I find silver here but not gold). The problem with identifying the metal is that the markings are in a Middle Eastern language. However, it is a beautiful ring with filigree-work on the sides and unidentified symbolism/lettering (?) on the face of the ring.
It will prove interesting to figure-out the symbols of the face of the ring and the metal mark; another interesting side-line of metal detecting.
Happy Hunting
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