BuckleBoy
Gold Member
Hello All,
As many of you know, I recently bought a White's Dual Field PI. I took the machine on its inaugural run and did pretty well. I was hoping for some gold, but it was not to be this time. I went out for three, four-hour sessions in the surf and dug an embarrassing amount of change. Also got numerous sunglasses (only 3 pair were keepers, but one was prescription, which I tossed). The other 5 were destroyed when found. Also got a large knife, a 1945-S wheat cent, and strangely enough I dug my first Susan B. Anthony Dollar.
No idea what that was doing there. I was lucky enough to dig three rings (one each outing). The rings were 2 tungsten carbide wedding bands and a silver ring with tiny diamond chips. Totals are below:
98 pennies (incl. 1 wheat)
10 nickels
31 dimes
38 quarters
1 Susan B. Anthony Dollar
($15.08 in clad)
1 pocketknife
fishing sinkers, etc.
small necklace (junk)
bracelet (junk)
8 sunglasses
7 junk earrings
2 silver earrings
2 tungsten wedding bands
1 silver ring
Overall I had a blast, but I did dig by butt off. What you see below was the product of 12 hours of nonstop digging. What you aren't seeing is all the pulltabs, bobby pins, rusted nails, encrusted fish hooks, junk, crappe, foil, bottle caps, and destroyed pieces of metal framed sunglasses. The junk I dug totally filled up a kitchen trash can. Detecting in the surf waist deep at night is not easy, but it's a nice change of pace from land hunting. I think I will go for a wider scoop next time, as I almost Never got the target in the scoop the first try, so being able to remove just a little more sand each time would be ideal. If you hunt with a PI machine, I'd appreciate your scoop suggestions. I did have the gain cranked way up and was digging knee-deep holes a lot of the time. Long way to go for a zincoln.
BUT--time to go back to the real world of snakes, gators, skeeters, sucking mud, and 105 degrees on land.
Cheers,
Buck
As many of you know, I recently bought a White's Dual Field PI. I took the machine on its inaugural run and did pretty well. I was hoping for some gold, but it was not to be this time. I went out for three, four-hour sessions in the surf and dug an embarrassing amount of change. Also got numerous sunglasses (only 3 pair were keepers, but one was prescription, which I tossed). The other 5 were destroyed when found. Also got a large knife, a 1945-S wheat cent, and strangely enough I dug my first Susan B. Anthony Dollar.
No idea what that was doing there. I was lucky enough to dig three rings (one each outing). The rings were 2 tungsten carbide wedding bands and a silver ring with tiny diamond chips. Totals are below:98 pennies (incl. 1 wheat)
10 nickels
31 dimes
38 quarters
1 Susan B. Anthony Dollar
($15.08 in clad)
1 pocketknife
fishing sinkers, etc.
small necklace (junk)
bracelet (junk)
8 sunglasses
7 junk earrings
2 silver earrings
2 tungsten wedding bands
1 silver ring
Overall I had a blast, but I did dig by butt off. What you see below was the product of 12 hours of nonstop digging. What you aren't seeing is all the pulltabs, bobby pins, rusted nails, encrusted fish hooks, junk, crappe, foil, bottle caps, and destroyed pieces of metal framed sunglasses. The junk I dug totally filled up a kitchen trash can. Detecting in the surf waist deep at night is not easy, but it's a nice change of pace from land hunting. I think I will go for a wider scoop next time, as I almost Never got the target in the scoop the first try, so being able to remove just a little more sand each time would be ideal. If you hunt with a PI machine, I'd appreciate your scoop suggestions. I did have the gain cranked way up and was digging knee-deep holes a lot of the time. Long way to go for a zincoln.
BUT--time to go back to the real world of snakes, gators, skeeters, sucking mud, and 105 degrees on land.
Cheers,
Buck
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