gumbo
Junior Member
Went to a local beach that I frequent quite often, usually with mixed results. I find a lot of clad but have found one wedding band there in the past month, I think it's a heavily picked beach and I rarely find silver. But I got out there during the hurricane and just after it with my BH 3300...so eat that you professionals with your ETracs!
We had about 3 feet of erosion along the tide mark, and to make things even better, a bulldozer knocked out another few feet along the peer to use as a barrier against the storm surge, leaving a nice, flat stretch of clay (tough digging, but clearly very old).
I went out twice, first at about 5PM (low tide, 60 mph high winds, rain, etc.). My wife called me crazy. This hunt was four hours, I brought my headlamp and my pro pointer because I couldn't see a thing. The second hunt was yesterday, for about 6 hours (I decided to take the day off after the success I had had the previous night).
In total, I managed 20 silver dime (14 mercs, 4 Rosies), 5 Silver quarters (4 Washington, 1 SL), on silver Franklin half, 7 buffalos and 1 shield nickel, 3 indian heads and 50 wheaties...lol...that's more wheaties than lincolns, various religious pendants and trinkets (what are they made out of?) 2 Gold ring (one 9ct&silver with marcasite, one 14k Claddagh wedding band), one old MTA (pre-MBTA for you Bostonians) subway token, a silver bracelet, a few silver plated spoons, and about 7 bucks in clad.
It was crazy, I was finding mercs face up on the ground! I don't know when I'll ever have a hunt this good again, but I'm heading to upstate New York to my old town of Guilderland for a hunt with my dad this weekend in an area with some really old (pre-revolution) homesteads. Should be fun.
Thanks for looking at my first real post!
We had about 3 feet of erosion along the tide mark, and to make things even better, a bulldozer knocked out another few feet along the peer to use as a barrier against the storm surge, leaving a nice, flat stretch of clay (tough digging, but clearly very old).
I went out twice, first at about 5PM (low tide, 60 mph high winds, rain, etc.). My wife called me crazy. This hunt was four hours, I brought my headlamp and my pro pointer because I couldn't see a thing. The second hunt was yesterday, for about 6 hours (I decided to take the day off after the success I had had the previous night).
In total, I managed 20 silver dime (14 mercs, 4 Rosies), 5 Silver quarters (4 Washington, 1 SL), on silver Franklin half, 7 buffalos and 1 shield nickel, 3 indian heads and 50 wheaties...lol...that's more wheaties than lincolns, various religious pendants and trinkets (what are they made out of?) 2 Gold ring (one 9ct&silver with marcasite, one 14k Claddagh wedding band), one old MTA (pre-MBTA for you Bostonians) subway token, a silver bracelet, a few silver plated spoons, and about 7 bucks in clad.
It was crazy, I was finding mercs face up on the ground! I don't know when I'll ever have a hunt this good again, but I'm heading to upstate New York to my old town of Guilderland for a hunt with my dad this weekend in an area with some really old (pre-revolution) homesteads. Should be fun.
Thanks for looking at my first real post!
That's a lot of precious metal there sir! 
