Tom_in_CA
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We FINALLY got some swells to line up with the tides, earlier this week. Even then it was hit & miss to find out where mother nature was eroding.
Got onto a pocket at a certain beach on the northern end of Monterey Bay. So I put the word out to a few buddies, who came down and met me there. We were each getting some coins and targets out on the wet, and were "pushing the boundaries" trying to determine the spread and direction of the pocket.
I noticed that the more I worked up towards a certain point beneath a cliff frontage, that the target concentration was getting more and more thick. We eventually found ourselves in a zone, about ~ 10 yards square around, that was super thick. So thick that as soon as you dug 1 coin, there was another on the side of the hole, and another underneath it, etc.... Sometimes 2 coins per basket, etc.... And sometimes even eyeballing them on top of the ground !
My take from this zone was nearly 100 coins, all clad (and another 40 or 50 coins from other zones on the beach, for a total coin count this day of 147). So I'm guessing that the coin total of all 3 of us, from this little honey hole, was easily 200+ Even though it was all clad, it was a rush just to hear machine gun fire beeps, haha
All I had was some junk jewelry. But my buddy "Mike" got the prize this day: 25 grams of 18k : A rope gold necklace. He has allowed permission for me to post pix. Maybe he'll hop on to claim-his-fame
It was a very difficult signal on my Explorer II . Coming through as nearly iron, at best. As most discriminators have trouble with chains, of course. But his Nox was able to get a hint of conductive on it, since the Nox can be set up to be hotter on low conductors. Quite humbling to admit that I probably wouldn't have dug it !! But it was fun to see the "hole in one" moment If my calculations are correct, that's over $1k in scrap melt gold alone, eh ?
Our other friend Sam also got gold: A ladies birthstone ring of some sort. Maybe he'll chime in with a pix of that.
1st pix is my coin pile and junk jewelry. Next pix is Mike's chain. Way to go Mike !
Got onto a pocket at a certain beach on the northern end of Monterey Bay. So I put the word out to a few buddies, who came down and met me there. We were each getting some coins and targets out on the wet, and were "pushing the boundaries" trying to determine the spread and direction of the pocket.
I noticed that the more I worked up towards a certain point beneath a cliff frontage, that the target concentration was getting more and more thick. We eventually found ourselves in a zone, about ~ 10 yards square around, that was super thick. So thick that as soon as you dug 1 coin, there was another on the side of the hole, and another underneath it, etc.... Sometimes 2 coins per basket, etc.... And sometimes even eyeballing them on top of the ground !
My take from this zone was nearly 100 coins, all clad (and another 40 or 50 coins from other zones on the beach, for a total coin count this day of 147). So I'm guessing that the coin total of all 3 of us, from this little honey hole, was easily 200+ Even though it was all clad, it was a rush just to hear machine gun fire beeps, haha
All I had was some junk jewelry. But my buddy "Mike" got the prize this day: 25 grams of 18k : A rope gold necklace. He has allowed permission for me to post pix. Maybe he'll hop on to claim-his-fame
It was a very difficult signal on my Explorer II . Coming through as nearly iron, at best. As most discriminators have trouble with chains, of course. But his Nox was able to get a hint of conductive on it, since the Nox can be set up to be hotter on low conductors. Quite humbling to admit that I probably wouldn't have dug it !! But it was fun to see the "hole in one" moment If my calculations are correct, that's over $1k in scrap melt gold alone, eh ?
Our other friend Sam also got gold: A ladies birthstone ring of some sort. Maybe he'll chime in with a pix of that.
1st pix is my coin pile and junk jewelry. Next pix is Mike's chain. Way to go Mike !