Mud-puppy
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Well, in your defense, you found more Gold than Todd Hoffman did that one year!...You didnt need to fly to the jungles of Brazil either!..so yeah in comparison,..Massive Great haul!
Both very true statements. I really onlyneed one really great find to hold me over for a bit anyway I'm heading out with the craziesthis afternoon to bark at the sea, hope this drought is over.
Welcome to the real world of beach hunting.
Reading the beach, following the winds and tides, seeing where people concentrate their leisure activities can and will put the odds in your favour.
Doug, your 'temporary' hunting buddy..........
Well, in your defense, you found more Gold than Todd Hoffman did that one year!...You didnt need to fly to the jungles of Brazil either!..so yeah in comparison,..Massive Great haul!
I'm in need of a ego boost or some firm advise. I've been hunting since April on the gulf coast but have only found two gold and a couple silver. I'm only a weekend and after work guy because work gets in the way of everything but I would think that with as many hours as I have put in I would have gotten a bit better at finding hot spots. I do somewhat blame my poor start on the garrett sea hunter that I was using, my particular machine was not so sensitive to gold and in fact never found any, my only gold was with my new excall II and the atpro. We have been very sanded in from the last storm and red tide destroyed a lot of fun. Are the retirees beating me to it because I'm at work? I go after work sometimes also or maybe its just conditions and a bad spell? Maybe I just stink at detecting? Hopefully this storm does the opposite of what the last did.
Yep, you have great machines so unless your technique sucks, they are probably beating you. So are the snow birds, so are the locals, so are the newbies...
Competition is fierce in FL. I hunt the east coast from the FL/GA line down to Vero. Seems every lil' beachfront/roadside park has at least 2 guys in it detecting. I've taken a few Sun evenings and Mondays to hunt places and have been really surprised to see just how much competition we have.
Every Sun that I've head out, folks are are on the beach with flashlights before day break. When I hunt in the evenings, I may leave at midnight and see guys unpacking their flashlights and detectors in the parking lot to start hunting. Monday mornings...same routine, but I see a lot of folks scuba diving with detectors.
I'm seeing more and more folks gridding out areas, like with actual wooden stakes to "mark their territory". Also seeing a lot of couples where one has a VLF and the other is close behind with a PI.
This year I've made more money flipping used machines than I have detecting.