Does anyone recognize this scoop design? I bought this one over 20 yrs ago and have used it in rocks mud clay and it is still.like new.It is 5 inches and I would like to buy a bigger one .it weights 3.5 lbs. The lady I bought it from had a shop near siesta key and her husband was a well known around the west coast of fla.He might of even made the scoops.They definitely hold up to some rough use.
5 in stainless scoop
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Surf Master
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That is a RTG scoop . they are still in business in Florida ! http://rtgstore.com/ They still make that model for dry sand hunting . The RTG scoops are a beginner scoop , as you get into wet sand & water , Stealth now out of business , Xtreme makes a nice scoop in 316 SS get a carbon fiber handle with it , you will have a nice scoop for years , happy hunting , Earl
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CalReg
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I have one that I bought 4 or 5 years ago. I use it when hunting dry sand at the beach. It's not very big, so I opt for one of the larger scoops (8 or 9 inches) when hunting the wet sand.
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Thanks for the information. I will look into the extreme scoop. The RTG 5 INCH has a stainless long handle. It adds to the weight. It works well in the clay and the mud and getting through the small rocks.i could imagine what a 9 in full of mud and 4 0z piermid sinker would feel like trying to break it loose from the clay and mud.the bigger scoop would definitely be nice out in the water and a lot faster at retrieving targets.
metaladdict
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there are many scoops available, I use a lower price one. It is a Stavr brand.
The Extreme scoop is a lot heavier than the scoop you pictured here...
Water hunting has been my preferred method for many years and for most of those years I used a floating sifter with no metal in its construct. This allows for using the detector to quickly determine if the target is in the sifter and allows a pin-pointer to locate the item easily instead of trying to recover it from a heavy scoop-load of sand and gravel!
The sifter I used can be found in my past threads along with the stainless scoops I have used over the years.
Good luck and happy hunting,
CJ
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Not being nosey but what did you use for a sifter on the bottom? I was thinking about using pool noodles and a sheet of plexiglass with a bunch of holes drilled in it and held together with tie ties.Water hunting has been my preferred method for many years and for most of those years I used a floating sifter with no metal in its construct. This allows for using the detector to quickly determine if the target is in the sifter and allows a pin-pointer to locate the item easily instead of trying to recover it from a heavy scoop-load of sand and gravel!
The sifter I used can be found in my past threads along with the stainless scoops I have used over the years.
Good luck and happy hunting,
CJ
I used the bottom of a 55 gallon plastic drum with holes drilled just smaller than a dime and large foam swim noodles fastened with plastic slip ties. Works great!!
CJ
PS from an old post------------Water hunting has been my preferred method for many years and for most of those years I used a floating sifter with no metal in its construct. This allows for using the detector to quickly determine if the target is in the sifter and allows a pin-pointer to locate the item easily instead of trying to recover it from a heavy scoop-load of sand and gravel!
The sifter I used can be found in my past threads along with the stainless scoops I have used over the years.
Good luck and happy hunting,
CJ
This AM at 8 I waded out into our calm local waters to see how much metal I could remove from the waters edge out into the water for the distance of a long coil swing. (I was in knee-deep water.)
Both my hunting partner Frank and I have worked this short stretch to death, but I know from experience that no matter how hard you work an area there are still pieces of metal there to be found.
I brought along my little Fuji to record how important my sifter is to me for finding small targets.
The first shot shows the small stones left after I washed out the excess, but the dark colored piece of metal blended in so well with the stones I couldn't find it.
Rather than waste a lot of time I ran the coil over the all plastic sifter and determined the target was there.
With my Vibra-Probe pin-pointer I located the small fishing-net weight and separated it from the stones as shown in the next shot.
Pic 3 is of the weight in my glove and 4 is of a curious Gull that was only 6' or so away at one point during this exercise.
The very next target was a .22 Caliber cartridge case (shown in my next post) that was also tough to find and easily can fall through my scoop holes, so I make it a habit of dumping the scoop into the sifter as quickly as possible just to avoid losing the targets.
GL&HH Friends,
CJ
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PS from an old post------------
This AM at 8 I waded out into our calm local waters to see how much metal I could remove from the waters edge out into the water for the distance of a long coil swing. (I was in knee-deep water.)
Both my hunting partner Frank and I have worked this short stretch to death, but I know from experience that no matter how hard you work an area there are still pieces of metal there to be found.
I brought along my little Fuji to record how important my sifter is to me for finding small targets.
The first shot shows the small stones left after I washed out the excess, but the dark colored piece of metal blended in so well with the stones I couldn't find it.
Rather than waste a lot of time I ran the coil over the all plastic sifter and determined the target was there.
With my Vibra-Probe pin-pointer I located the small fishing-net weight and separated it from the stones as shown in the next shot.
Pic 3 is of the weight in my glove and 4 is of a curious Gull that was only 6' or so away at one point during this exercise.
The very next target was a .22 Caliber cartridge case (shown in my next post) that was also tough to find and easily can fall through my scoop holes, so I make it a habit of dumping the scoop into the sifter as quickly as possible just to avoid losing the targets.
GL&HH Friends,
CJ
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Nice looking sifter. Thanks for sharing.
hoser
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Careful what you wish for. The way the weather is going you may have waterfront property before you know it.
hoser
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Your scoop is probably the one I used for a pattern for the one I made years ago. Yeah I did it on company time. No wait! I was on my break. 
