One last hurrah at the beach with Ruff
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Looks like you've got a good hunting buddy!
My German Shepherd loathes car rides, but when we're detecting around the yard, she can be pretty good company. Although I sometimes think she might be a bit confused about why it's okay for me to dig holes when she's not allowed to. 
My dog could not be any better in a vehicle, he hops right in and I almost forget he is there in the back seat, I guess he has associated rides with going to fun places like camp - Might be in for a rude shock when he goes to the vets, I have a vet that nakes home visits but I took him in once when he had a leg injury and he was real goodLooks like you've got a good hunting buddy!
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I feel your travel pains & then some. I moved out of CA & over to NV. Cost of living was just to much. We go down to San Diego from time to time & that's when I take my gear. I no longer can just hit the beach when I see a conditions report. I just have to go & hope for the best. Its usually not the best.... lol.... With CA gas at 7 something a gallon now and a 650 mile round trip drive it's just retarded to go for the sake of hunting.. We sometimes take the truck camper and do a 2 or 3 day beach stay but even then its about 60 a night to camp plus the gas etc.. I'm still looking at 400 bucks spent... I got down there last weekend w/ my new to me MINT Excal blue. Came onto 4 or so absolute gold (or nickel) targets but the water was just to rough & the sets were pummeling me. every 2 or 3 seconds.. mix that with the targets in rocky clay & it wasn't happening... Totally sucked. I KNEW I had a ring but just couldn't get it.... It's Monday now & my 50 yr old body is wrecked.I had a new knee replacement 9 weeks ago and its feeling great.Oddly every other muscle hurts. From my fingers, to my forearms, to my calves.. you name it.. Add the 5.5 hr drive with some traffic & I'm just wore the hell out... Didn't need a find to enjoy the water again...
Me & Ruff hit it again, found this nice link bracelet ,,, No hallmark and doesn't appear to be silver, stainless would be my guess. My style too I like it, but you can see that each link seems to have a gap, looks like the female retainer on this one slipped through a gap and that is how it was lost, so if I get it repaired I'll have to use a thick retainer to avoid those gaps.
Might be able to tell from the surface of the beach that this area was partially drained [don't know how or why], which is a happy circumstance for me and a muddy mess for Ruff. Deeper areas are pure mush, hopefully I can get to that before it freezes up.
Might be able to tell from the surface of the beach that this area was partially drained [don't know how or why], which is a happy circumstance for me and a muddy mess for Ruff. Deeper areas are pure mush, hopefully I can get to that before it freezes up.
Lol Ruff really trashed himself this time, he went chasing a pair of [flying] cranes and went running full tilt towards a nasty mud pit - I yelled at him to stop but he paid no heed, he must have figured they were landing at the other side of the pit, and he wanted to be there when they did.
I was worried he might get mired so went running over there as close as I could, after he crossed it I tried to get him to go around the mud pit to get back to me but he bounded right back across it again , luckily made it out, if he got stuck not sure what I could have done about it without getting stuck myself. Was some nasty, smelly, clingy vile mud, I took him to another area which had some fresh water and tossed a kids shoe I found in as a fetch toy, he went for it 3 times and cleaned himself off.
I was worried he might get mired so went running over there as close as I could, after he crossed it I tried to get him to go around the mud pit to get back to me but he bounded right back across it again , luckily made it out, if he got stuck not sure what I could have done about it without getting stuck myself. Was some nasty, smelly, clingy vile mud, I took him to another area which had some fresh water and tossed a kids shoe I found in as a fetch toy, he went for it 3 times and cleaned himself off.
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Ruff is sure a pretty pup! LOL at tossing a found kids shoe into the fresh water....
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The look on his face in those pictures! I don't think he was overly remorseful.
It reminds me of the day my dog chewed her toy apart, and then was all smiles, apparently rather proud of herself. I think she had as much fun (or perhaps more fun) with the toy after it broke than when it was in tact.At least you were able to get Ruff cleaned off before loading him into the vehicle....
Yeah sounds odd, beaches here are deserted for the season, plus there was only 1 shoe and was the only thing in sight to fetch ,, At least I didn't toss the kid in !
Yeah I know what you mean, gladly just the opposite, young, dumb and full of life
The look on his face in those pictures! I don't think he was overly remorseful.
At least you were able to get Ruff cleaned off before loading him into the vehicle....
Actually I had to load him in my car still gunked up to get to the clean water ,,, Thats how I know how stinky and nasty the mud is.
The pic where he is licking his nose he is a bit humbled, I just got done yelling at him
Yeah, I know the feeling. My pup is around 6 months old. Her chewing on things is costing me a small fortune.
Another one last hurrah and turned out very nice.
Ended up with 2 gold rings and 1 silver, been a while since I pulled a hat trick. I have been hammering this partially drained beach and obviously, there are areas which I had not hit yet. Most of the beach I struggle to get any signals at all but I started running into bottlecaps , vapes and change, I took this as a good sign as it showed people were losing stuff in that area and I haven't hit it yet. Sure enough, found them all in that one area.
Old coins was a different story, there is one area of the beach about as far as you can walk, after a volleyball net no one ever goes there. I have ignored this rea for years precisely because I never saw anyone go that far, and it is a bit tacky and unmaintained. One year some kid told me his mother lost a cell phone in that area and asked if I could find it, I didn't have the time then but next time I was at the beach I had a look back there. [Found the phone and returned it] But much to my surprise, I started finding all kinds of pre 1964 coins. Over the last few years I have hammered that area and found dozens of pre 1964 so its getting tough to find a signal there too, but today I concentrated on the outer edges of this area, I have avoided them because it borders on a picnic area and there is a fair amount of trash, but it paid off today with 4 silvers and a crusted wheat.
Not often can you find modern bling and old coins in 1 location.
Sp apparently, people back in the day went to that area alot ,, Surprisingly, have never found a ring back there. Saw an old pic from the 50's of this area and there used to be a row of changing booths there, I found where they were by the remains of old sign poles in the sand. I'm always meaning to take my Legend to that area for better depth but so far, never have.
Weird, half the beach was covered in snow, half of it wasn't, like you flipped a switch, guess due to wind patterns, plus it got warm enough to melt today in some areas.
Ended up with 2 gold rings and 1 silver, been a while since I pulled a hat trick. I have been hammering this partially drained beach and obviously, there are areas which I had not hit yet. Most of the beach I struggle to get any signals at all but I started running into bottlecaps , vapes and change, I took this as a good sign as it showed people were losing stuff in that area and I haven't hit it yet. Sure enough, found them all in that one area.
Old coins was a different story, there is one area of the beach about as far as you can walk, after a volleyball net no one ever goes there. I have ignored this rea for years precisely because I never saw anyone go that far, and it is a bit tacky and unmaintained. One year some kid told me his mother lost a cell phone in that area and asked if I could find it, I didn't have the time then but next time I was at the beach I had a look back there. [Found the phone and returned it] But much to my surprise, I started finding all kinds of pre 1964 coins. Over the last few years I have hammered that area and found dozens of pre 1964 so its getting tough to find a signal there too, but today I concentrated on the outer edges of this area, I have avoided them because it borders on a picnic area and there is a fair amount of trash, but it paid off today with 4 silvers and a crusted wheat.
Not often can you find modern bling and old coins in 1 location.
Sp apparently, people back in the day went to that area alot ,, Surprisingly, have never found a ring back there. Saw an old pic from the 50's of this area and there used to be a row of changing booths there, I found where they were by the remains of old sign poles in the sand. I'm always meaning to take my Legend to that area for better depth but so far, never have.
Weird, half the beach was covered in snow, half of it wasn't, like you flipped a switch, guess due to wind patterns, plus it got warm enough to melt today in some areas.
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Dog is having fun and so are you. Great finds.
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It looks like you & Ruff had another fun hunt! Congrats on finding some older coinage... I especially like the silver Washington.
So, do you typically use your Ace on the beach? My main unit is an Ace 250, but I don't often venture onto the beach with it. I'm curious to know your thoughts... does it generally do alright as a beach detector, based on your experience?
It looks like you & Ruff had another fun hunt! Congrats on finding some older coinage... I especially like the silver Washington.
So, do you typically use your Ace on the beach? My main unit is an Ace 250, but I don't often venture onto the beach with it. I'm curious to know your thoughts... does it generally do alright as a beach detector, based on your experience?
I only use my Ace 400 at the beach, with the exception of water hunting in the summer, for that I use a AT Pro.
I like it because it is so simple and it is a coin/ring magnet. Also, I keep it in my vehicle the entire season, sometimes I don't plan on detecting, but just do on an impulse. The reason I don't feel compelled to take a better, more modern detector is because, well, I don't need to. My object is to find things as efficiently as possible, and I don't see another detector doing better. In fact, that is why I hesitate to use the Legend, serious ring hunts are not the time for on the job training, I feel as if my efficiency would go out the window, in trade for what ,,, Greater depth ?
May be true, but at a beach typically you don't need much depth, at least the dinky fresh water beaches I hunt. This concept in hunting has also allowed me to stop lugging around a sand scoop, I can dig down a ft quickly if I need to with my little digging tool, and find it pronto with my pinpointer. I don't want to dig craters, don't need to, so the depth thing is not a huge deal for me.
So there is my logic, I have to admit though, would make much sense to take the Legend to that area where I have found all the old coins, that would be worth sacrificing my efficiency if I can pull out some more a bit deeper than the 400's range [which is about say, 7" for a quarter, maybe 8 max].
Another last hurrah lol, managed to find a crusty wheatie and a junk ring, imagine if that stone was legit !
Ruff is pictured examining my blowed out Ace, tried to leave it standing on the coil and that didn't last long.
I accidentally swung it into his fuzzy hock a few weeks back, now he views it as a potential enemy.
Ruff is pictured examining my blowed out Ace, tried to leave it standing on the coil and that didn't last long.
I accidentally swung it into his fuzzy hock a few weeks back, now he views it as a potential enemy.
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Haha, that's funny! A shepherd's wary curiosity as he investigates a "threat" can be so amusing.
Nice photo!And thanks for replying to my question about using an Ace on the beach. I agree, sometimes efficiency on a simple machine takes you much farther than inefficiency on an advanced one. The Ace 250 works well for my style of hunting, so I enjoy using it; but with the release of modern technological advancements, it no longer seems to be the topic of much discussion online. That's understandable, but it's nice to hear now & then from someone who operates a detector like mine. So I appreciated hearing your thoughts!
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