whippy
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The plan was to leave Dallas at 4pm on Wednesday. As usual, the wife doesn't get home when she says she is. We ended up leaving Dallas at 11:15pm. 
We get to Galveston and make it to the condo by 3:45am. Having had a few RedBulls for the trip down, I decided to hit the beach after geting my wife and son settled in so no sleep for this hunter.
I hit the beach at 4:30am and get pounded by mosquitos. A quick trip to the local bait shop for some spray and I'm back on the beach by 5:10.
I worked the area pretty hard. As it got lighter, I could see evidence of the beach traffic and where people hung out, walked etc. etc. I set my BHID300 on Disc and hunted the areas pretty hard. The targets were few and far between. Bottle caps and a few pull tabs were the norm. In this particular area the sand was very firm and wet which meant to me that, if anything fell to the ground, it wasn't going to immediately dissapear. I moved up into lighter sand and hit more targets but nothing of value. I left the beach at 10:45 am with only a copper bracelet to show.
I hit the surf as well with the 300 in AM mode. I was amazed at how easy it was to run the machine in the surf. I spent about 2 hours total hunting in the water that morning.
The next morning I hit another beach. I decided to hunt this beach where the cars were parked and people got in and out of them as the previous beach had no vehicle traffic. I found some clad and the usual bottle caps etc. etc. I made a pretty good, tight search pattern in Disc and then decided to hunt the same pattern in AM. I hit some targets in AM that I missed in Disc. Could be that my loop just didn't pass over them the first time.
Anyways, I hunted the remainder of the weekend in AM but never found any gold or silver. I'd toggle back and forth between AM and Disc when I hit a target in AM as I am eager to elarn more about the sounds the BHID300 makes on certain targets. I am extremely impressed with the BHID in both the water and land. I had expressed my concern with the bouyant coil last week but found that I am able to work it pretty good in the water so there will be no weights or anything added to it. The deepest target I dug was 18 inches. It was the open pocket knife.
The take for the 4 day weekend:
Bottle caps - a bunch
pull tabs - not as many as bottle caps
coins - about $2.50
Filet knife - 1
large pocket knife with blade open - 1
medium size nail puller - 1
Fishing wieghts - 4
Aluminum cans - 6
Childs necklace pendant - 1
Since I was looking for gold and silver I dug every target whether it was a heavy signal or light signal since the targets were not as many as when I hunt locally.
I'll get my loot cleaned up and try to post a picture of it this week.
On a side note. My brother was using his Whites ID Pro and dug up a metal lid from a 5 gallon bucket at 27 inches deep. That was fun. Three feet from that hole he dug a quarter at 18 inches.
Whips
We get to Galveston and make it to the condo by 3:45am. Having had a few RedBulls for the trip down, I decided to hit the beach after geting my wife and son settled in so no sleep for this hunter.
I hit the beach at 4:30am and get pounded by mosquitos. A quick trip to the local bait shop for some spray and I'm back on the beach by 5:10.
I worked the area pretty hard. As it got lighter, I could see evidence of the beach traffic and where people hung out, walked etc. etc. I set my BHID300 on Disc and hunted the areas pretty hard. The targets were few and far between. Bottle caps and a few pull tabs were the norm. In this particular area the sand was very firm and wet which meant to me that, if anything fell to the ground, it wasn't going to immediately dissapear. I moved up into lighter sand and hit more targets but nothing of value. I left the beach at 10:45 am with only a copper bracelet to show.
I hit the surf as well with the 300 in AM mode. I was amazed at how easy it was to run the machine in the surf. I spent about 2 hours total hunting in the water that morning.
The next morning I hit another beach. I decided to hunt this beach where the cars were parked and people got in and out of them as the previous beach had no vehicle traffic. I found some clad and the usual bottle caps etc. etc. I made a pretty good, tight search pattern in Disc and then decided to hunt the same pattern in AM. I hit some targets in AM that I missed in Disc. Could be that my loop just didn't pass over them the first time.
Anyways, I hunted the remainder of the weekend in AM but never found any gold or silver. I'd toggle back and forth between AM and Disc when I hit a target in AM as I am eager to elarn more about the sounds the BHID300 makes on certain targets. I am extremely impressed with the BHID in both the water and land. I had expressed my concern with the bouyant coil last week but found that I am able to work it pretty good in the water so there will be no weights or anything added to it. The deepest target I dug was 18 inches. It was the open pocket knife.
The take for the 4 day weekend:
Bottle caps - a bunch
pull tabs - not as many as bottle caps
coins - about $2.50
Filet knife - 1
large pocket knife with blade open - 1
medium size nail puller - 1
Fishing wieghts - 4
Aluminum cans - 6
Childs necklace pendant - 1
Since I was looking for gold and silver I dug every target whether it was a heavy signal or light signal since the targets were not as many as when I hunt locally.
I'll get my loot cleaned up and try to post a picture of it this week.
On a side note. My brother was using his Whites ID Pro and dug up a metal lid from a 5 gallon bucket at 27 inches deep. That was fun. Three feet from that hole he dug a quarter at 18 inches.
Whips
