Gold and Bullets...

Cfmct said:

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Steve.. I starting beach hunting with a pulse so I was used to digging everything I know when I am over big iron or certain targets using the PI... I have dealt with the hole collapsing on itself especially in the suction mud it can take two hands to pull the scoop out.. that is how I messed up my rotator cuff... I will not leave a target in the hole... I am very stubborn that way... I don't want to give anyone hope that they are going to find something..

Steve what is under the hard mud? Is it clay? I mean if so then sure nothing will get past that.. the conditions yesterday were some light silt/sand followed by a mix of gravel, stones and slurry of muck... it frustrates others so they stay away... some of the hunters up here should move to FL where they don't have to complain

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Ludlow6 said:

I showed up at low tide and saw a few sets of footprints and some digs in the sand... Nice ring Craig...

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Steve said:

1 beach I don't know. Extreme low tide has mud. I've dug leg deep just so I would know what it was. Used to have the fart smell but not for a couple years. Storm yesterday completely destroyed the winter high tide line and added a foot or so of mush sand everywhere where the gold is. Just took an 8 hour bus ride to a new spot.
The other mud beach gets progressively darker and muddier the deeper it goes. Underneath that is heavy brown sand. Almost like a sand gravel. I've found old bronze/!!!! crosses from 1920s European visitors. 24k and pt999 gets stuck in the mud. Stink smell is long gone there too

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Cfmct said:

I have a couple spots with the stink mud... I stick a mint in my mouth so I don't gag from the smell... I know in past years after a big storm clams and oysters would get buried and die nothing worse than the smell of rotting seafood...

Your beach sounds interesting with the artifacts...

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fsa46 said:

Old gold, always my favorite. Sweet ring Craig.

I told Craig about a hunt I had with my DF years ago that stated off as a a whisper and ended up a a crater that I gave up on.

I went back the next day to continue hunting the area and as I passed that hole I ran my coil over it and figured I'd give it one more try. First scoop, an old gold school ring.

I often thought, if I never went back that ring would probably still be there. Always love the depth of the DF but tough on us older fellas.

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OBN said:

Craig that is a beauty! Nothing like the solid gold class rings. And you have been on the roll.

I guess stinky muck is every where. Smells like septic tank stuff.

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Compass said:

Beautiful old gold Craig- congrats! Pretty efficient hunt for a PI machine.

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Cfmct said:

Canslaw, pulltabs are all a part of the game we play... if you don't dig them then you aren't finding gold... now if you hunt old beaches like we do.. you won't dig very many at all.

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Surf Master said:

Go up , and play in the stink mud with Craig, busy here, next week my truck and 4 toy's i need to convert over to DE tag's , this will be fun , i haven't ran the chopper since 2011, and the speedometer doesn't work , just what you need for inspection, so i will pull the tags on this one, and put it on my own honey do list, lucky i have a bike traler to take it down for insection when i get it running again , have fun guy's, Earl

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Surf Master said:

OBN your smoking some good s---- buddy, my chopper is a softail bro, the girl's will have to hold on tight from the torque when i get it running , as far as driving goes , that was a one time trip, i am going to be like Craig, hunt the surrounding area , as far as vacation's , i am on vacation here , I like it here, white sand, NO STINK MUD or ROCKS , Craig want's to hunt again with me, it's he will be- hitting the road this time howboutit

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Surf Master said:

Well you need a fast jet ski to hunt with Joe, on the Western Shoreline , you might do good, plenty stink mud over their , as i left that dump Eastern shore and won't return , other than one last time to file Md steel from ya taxes , you deserve a vacation, do it , Earl

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Tom_in_CA said:

Sweet. Hard to argue with gold.

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Texas said:

Nice

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PI JOE said:

Love those types of class rings.

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Surf Master said:

True down here in De . Md , coast, will be lucky to find any gold is correct, the season is July, Aug. Sept. here when the tourist deposit , otherwise it's dead, finding Old Gold in the Chesapeake Bay will always be their for him, research is the key player , on both sides of the bay bridge- Chesapeake bay, as Far as the dump goes , i was referring to Baltimore were i grew up born , and raised , as far as your territory, you will always find that old gold , and silver, more history their , i was over whelmed with the old silver being found , when Captain Silver pulled that Standing quarter 10 foot from me on the beach , that hit a bell inside my head , all , and all i had a good time up their , 2 week's would have been better, and if i was in better shape i would have dug the rock's with ease, still out of shape today, but did fine on the beach hunt, land is a work out , time's , tide's have changed Craig, still un- packing stuff getting tag's flipped over to DE this week, not really anything happening, all i can say this year , hopefully i finally can have a happy year, 10 miles from the beach, and a nice place to live, never had the steady option to beach hunt before just on vacations a couple weeks of the year, window's of opportunity are now open, best of luck 2018, look's like Mark is on top, Chop Chop -Craig, happy hunting, Earl

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