9 day vacation only found rocks

predrunner

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• Jul 19, 2014

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Well I went up North camping with the family. I only detected the beach and our campsite. There were a few different people metal detecting when I stopped at the beach the first day so I didn't expect much. I found just a few coins and a ton of junk and caps/tabs.

We decided to pick rocks all week because there were a lot of cool looking quartz style rocks and took home about 30 pounds of them. I've never tumbled rocks so this will be a learning curve. I separated two barrels worth to start with the same style rocks in each barrel and I will let them run until next Saturday with the coarse grit.

Wish us luck because we have no idea what we are doing. Now that I am home I think I will have to try to look for some metal objects.

 

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matmit

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• Jul 19, 2014

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Too bad about the detecting, I hope the mosquitos didn't get you!
Check with Glennz about tumbling, he is a professional from Alaska on the forum here

 

CA.KID

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• Jul 19, 2014

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Cool ! Post some pictures of the after tumble !

 

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• Jul 20, 2014

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hah! and I though I'm the only one having a bad day detecting...lol

two beach from tybee island, GA to Hilton Head,SC
all i got was a crusty 2 pennies and a fake bling hahaha
you add sun burn and that is how I spend my vacation this year. Flew from Iowa to Charlotte drove 5 hrs to Savannah for that 2 penny haul. I rest my case.

 

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Payloadjim

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• Jul 20, 2014

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Well........... Nice rocks either way. You could get a fish tank now!

 

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DillonSquared

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• Jul 20, 2014

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Yup...sounds like our recent Reno trip

Please post a pic of the rocks post tumbled. Would love to see how they turned out

 

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• Jul 23, 2014

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Here is a pic after the first round of coarse grit. I only ran them four and a half days because they are beach rocks and were already pretty round. If these turn out I don't know what I'll do with them but it is fun to watch the progress with the kids.

 

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