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southern california

From Long Beach here (just moved down from Seattle a few months ago)

Have gone out about a dozen times or so now... Malibu / Santa Monica / Venice / Newport / Huntington / Laguana and LBC of course. Had the same luck all around.

Always interested in meeting up to hit some new areas!

Am self employed so if work isn't slammed I can leave any day of the week really.
 
wporch said:
Just hit up northern san bernardino and only came up with about 2.50 in clad. I'm starting to get frustrated with the coinmaster I know that it takes awhile to het used to a new detector and granted I have only used it twice but I didn't know it didn't come with tone discrimination when I bought it. I never seem to get a good reading with this it always jumps between targets such as 50 cent to nickle to one cent over and over as I go over the target, and sometimes it says its about 4" down so I dig and by time I'm 10" down and still have not found it I give up. I did not have that problem with my last detector. Well anyways thanks for listening to me vent anyone Herr in cali have any tips for the whites coinmaster?
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First of all welcome. And i would suggest turning down the sensitivity. Also throw different metal objects on the ground and pass the coil. Turn the sensitivity up to highest point where you get correct readings in depth and type of object.
Also are you using a pinpointer? That will help finding the objects and not digging more than the depth of the object, it zeros in. GL!
 
Claremont

I'm new to the area as well. So far only found a couple of rusty nails and a mangled piece of metal. All older stuff by the look of it. Always looking for people to detect with. :D
 
haven't been on since last year i think! but during the last 12 months i have moved to so cal, san gabriel valley. and now working 70 hrs a week. got the weekends off though. anyone around? or any recommendations for places to hit around here? my wife likes going to the beach a lot, but i havent taken the detector the times we have gone. twice the last two weeks.
 
My mother and father in law live in Wildomar, Im up in Long Beach but go down a few times a month, would be happy to meet up down your way

Shoot me a text 206 450 9784



Baja Vinnie said:
Murrieta checking in... I hunt all over Southern California, from the Beach to the Salton Sea. :D

BV
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Hi I'm a newbie, My name is Elsa and live in Whittier, CA. I haven't purchased my MD yet. I'm trying to figure which one is best for me. I've never done MD but I am very interested in it. I would like to MD at the beach, dry sand and some water, also the parks, woods, trails.

any suggestions on a MD? budget would be around 300-500 bucks.

Thanks!
 
egcampos said:
Hi I'm a newbie, My name is Elsa and live in Whittier, CA. I haven't purchased my MD yet. I'm trying to figure which one is best for me. I've never done MD but I am very interested in it. I would like to MD at the beach, dry sand and some water, also the parks, woods, trails.

any suggestions on a MD? budget would be around 300-500 bucks.

Thanks!
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Hey, welcome from Long Beach.

I am thinking about selling my first machine, its a minelab 505, it was a great starter machine, very simple though. I usually get out a couple times a week with some friends around here, youre more then welcome to come down and try it out (whether youd like to buy it or not since you dont have one).
 
btcstinky said:
how is hunting at the salton sea?
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If I can chime in on that answer: It would be lousy. Not worth the time & energy. The Salton sea was formed in 1905. But for the next 50 yrs., was in no way shape or form a destination for anyone (ie.: recreational purposes). At least not on any sort of scale. Yes it's true that there was a short-lived period where it was trumped up as a vacation destination resort area (late 1950s to early 1960s). Because by then fishing had caught on. But it fizzled out. And let's be honest, '50s/60's silver can be had ANYWHERE. Plus a lot of that old beach frontage of that short-lived era is now underwater (as water levels rose), or .... if exposed, is now blighted junkyard areas. Any of the old beach front commercial zones are just blighted trailer parks now.

And if you're talking PRIOR to the formation of the salton sea (ie.: emigrant era, or ghost towns, etc...) that was a pretty remote sparse desolate area. Some salt mining occurred, but that would be under the waters of the current sea.

Even the towns around there are fairly new (in terms of CA history). Like Brawley, El Centro, etc.... are all turn of century at oldest.
 
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