Boom! Boom! Two more Gold for the AQ! With Eric Foster 10 inch coil

[OBN]

Sandy was a long time ago. 6' of sand...ugh. Another major hurricane is going to bring more sand in. What will it take to get sand out ?

A miracle or time. My best spot was like that in 2019, 150 gold in about 9 months.. gone with a storm. I don't expect to see that spot open up again in my lifetime.

 

[Cfmct]

Sandy was a long time ago. 6' of sand...ugh. Another major hurricane is going to bring more sand in. What will it take to get sand out ?

I don't know, I am curious to know if Cupajo's boulder field exposed now as he is not in LI sound, he is closer to ocean water... a few of my beaches had huge sailing ship pieces wash up on shore where they came from no clue.... where I hunt besides being protected by Long Island I am also further protected from waves by 13 islands the thing that did the most damage was storm surge and everything it brought in.

 

[Cfmct]

A miracle or time. My best spot was like that in 2019, 150 gold in about 9 months.. gone with a storm. I don't expect to see that spot open up again in my lifetime.

That is the way I have it, I was looking forward to the storm and now its made finding gold harder. I won't give up though as long as I can hunt, I will try my health issues won't stop that. Diana wanted me to quit, i refused, its why I still work first off I enjoy it still and it keeps me active and not sitting around thinking about stupid stuff.

The first few weeks after Sandy all I was finding was silver its like WTH where is the gold... then it showed up where I wasn't expecting it at a beach I rarely found it lol...

First couple hunts after Sandy, Captain Silver and myself were killing the silver then we found a beach lots old gold close to where we took you and that spot lasted a few weeks it was small but I went very slow there digging anything the Excal heard hunting in PP mode. not gonna show any gold here just alot of silver we also found..

The nickels were all in one hunt, Captain silver coined this spot nickel beach lol... second pic from a beach closer to me, I was picking the silver up after Sandy removed 3 feet from above the slope... those spots gave up zero gold...

 

[Sand Hunter]

The Pacific really churns Gold up in big storms causing them to move quite far.

Same here on the Atlantic. I found this girl's 2012 HS ring last week of July 2012, returned it to her the following week. Most high schools give out rings in May or June, so she only had it for 1 - 2 months before losing. When I met the girl & her mom to return, I mentioned the beach where I found it, but she told me she lost it at another beach, which was about 10 - 12 miles south of the beach where I found it.

So, the water, current, wind, waves, storms moved it 10 - 12 miles in just a month or two, and by looking at the pics, it looks like the ring went through hell & back with all the pitting. If it had been lost in the bay, probably would have looked almost new, but in the Atlantic, the ocean is just one huge rock tumbler. It was this find that confirmed my theory that objects lost in the ocean can & do indeed move from where they were dropped.

 

[Sand Hunter]

a few of my beaches had huge sailing ship pieces wash up on shore where they came from no clue....

Saw this on the first beach I hunted after the nor'easter a couple weeks ago. Don't know what it is, but it was big, heavy, and came from the ocean. If a storm can throw this up on the beach, it certainly can throw coins & bling up as well. Never seen this much black sand at any of the beaches I've hunted, it was all over the entire beach for as far as the eye could see.

 

[johnny utah]

Thanks Johnny U! LOve yellow gold with red stones..

could be sapphire
i found one was hoping was a nice ruby it was glass or synthetic
it was around 100yrs old - but the tiny bubbles were visible
indicating this too

Thanks Earl............... 10k to cheap to use a ruby. Its red and very clean but more then likely glass or garnet.

certainly could be a pink sapphire
i would have it checked just because
hardness scale would b a 9 for sapphires

 

[KOB]

Same here on the Atlantic. I found this girl's 2012 HS ring last week of July 2012, returned it to her the following week. Most high schools give out rings in May or June, so she only had it for 1 - 2 months before losing. When I met the girl & her mom to return, I mentioned the beach where I found it, but she told me she lost it at another beach, which was about 10 - 12 miles south of the beach where I found it.

So, the water, current, wind, waves, storms moved it 10 - 12 miles in just a month or two, and by looking at the pics, it looks like the ring went through hell & back with all the pitting. If it had been lost in the bay, probably would have looked almost new, but in the Atlantic, the ocean is just one huge rock tumbler. It was this find that confirmed my theory that objects lost in the ocean can & do indeed move from where they were dropped.

12 miles is REALLY FAR ! Guess it could happen. Maybe she forgot exactly where or had been drinking. I know some finds have gone a mile or so here. But we have alot of obstructions like coves , extended points , and jetties. These will usually trap them from going too far.

 

[Sand Hunter]

Exercise and sunshine is a more natural way for a win win. GL

Amen to that KOB. Earl, I can't tell ya how many times in the last decade I felt like crap or was tired, but wife wanted to go to the beach, so we went. Going to the beach to detect is one thing, no problemo, I park, get out of the truck, walk to the beach and I'm off and running. But going with the wife requires a lot more logistics and much more work on my part, as I carried all the heavy stuff, trudging through the dry, and had to do all the setup of our "camp".

But once I got the umbrella & chairs set up, sat down, grabbed my binoculars to scan for dolphins, and the occasional, ahem, eye candy, I couldn't believe how good I felt, all was right again with the world. There's just something about being outside in the sun, on a beach, feeling a nice breeze, and looking out at the ocean that just makes all cares vanish. The beach is a refuge for the mind, one of the only places a guy can take his wife, sit down, do absolutely nothing, and it's perfectly acceptable, with no worries about catching any grief, lol.

 

[Sand Hunter]

That is the way I have it, I was looking forward to the storm and now its made finding gold harder. I won't give up though as long as I can hunt, I will try my health issues won't stop that. Diana wanted me to quit, i refused, its why I still work first off I enjoy it still and it keeps me active and not sitting around thinking about stupid stuff.

The first few weeks after Sandy all I was finding was silver its like WTH where is the gold... then it showed up where I wasn't expecting it at a beach I rarely found it lol...

First couple hunts after Sandy, Captain Silver and myself were killing the silver then we found a beach lots old gold close to where we took you and that spot lasted a few weeks it was small but I went very slow there digging anything the Excal heard hunting in PP mode. not gonna show any gold here just alot of silver we also found..

The nickels were all in one hunt, Captain silver coined this spot nickel beach lol... second pic from a beach closer to me, I was picking the silver up after Sandy removed 3 feet from above the slope... those spots gave up zero gold...

Damn, that's some nice silver Craig! From 69' to 2011, I was a dirt guy, coinshooter, looking for old coins around old houses, churches, parks, picnic groves, etc. In 2011, I switched to beach hunting, which I absolutely love as well. I enjoy both dirt & beach, except now it's a lot harder for me to get down and dig in the dirt. Well, it's not hard getting down or digging, it's getting back up that's harder than it was 14 years ago, so I need to get a long-handled trowel to dig plugs. Digging standing up on a beach really spoiled me, lol.

I no longer have easy beach access any time I want since we sold our beach house a few years ago, so to get my detecting fix, I've been thinking about going back to my coinshooting roots a bit and I'll continue hunting beaches whenever I get the opportunity. I have a couple turn-of-the-century house permissions lined up, so I'll be looking for old silver and IHP's. Cool thing about hunting dirt is that coins/objects stay where they were dropped, no worries about storms moving them around, lol. But I also plan to start researching old bay beach locations up in my area, need to find beaches that are accessible by truck, as I don't have a boat and my dad sold his.

 

[Cfmct]

Damn, that's some nice silver Craig! From 69' to 2011, I was a dirt guy, coinshooter, looking for old coins around old houses, churches, parks, picnic groves, etc. In 2011, I switched to beach hunting, which I absolutely love as well. I enjoy both dirt & beach, except now it's a lot harder for me to get down and dig in the dirt. Well, it's not hard getting down or digging, it's getting back up that's harder than it was 14 years ago, so I need to get a long-handled trowel to dig plugs. Digging standing up on a beach really spoiled me, lol.

I no longer have easy beach access any time I want since we sold our beach house a few years ago, so to get my detecting fix, I've been thinking about going back to my coinshooting roots a bit and I'll continue hunting beaches whenever I get the opportunity. I have a couple turn-of-the-century house permissions lined up, so I'll be looking for old silver and IHP's. Cool thing about hunting dirt is that coins/objects stay where they were dropped, no worries about storms moving them around, lol. But I also plan to start researching old bay beach locations up in my area, need to find beaches that are accessible by truck, as I don't have a boat and my dad sold his.

I have relic shovels I don't use, I'm older than you and I get down to dig every hole lol...

 

[Sand Hunter]

I have relic shovels I don't use, I'm older than you and I get down to dig every hole lol...

I'm just not used to getting down to dig like I used to before switching over to beach hunting, but if I had to, I'm sure I could work back up in short order.

This is what happens when the wife asked me to dig a few holes for some flowers she wanted to plant in front of the house. I get down with a 3-prong to dig some holes and what do I find? A friggin' pull tab stuck on the end of one of the prongs. Why on earth is a pull tab in the dirt in front of our house? Pull tabs are everywhere, I can't escape them, they seem to follow me, lol.

 

[Sand Hunter]

12 miles is REALLY FAR ! Guess it could happen. Maybe she forgot exactly where or had been drinking. I know some finds have gone a mile or so here. But we have alot of obstructions like coves , extended points , and jetties. These will usually trap them from going too far.

I'm convinced she lost it where she said because I was able to confirm this possibility based on a find that Mark Paddack mentioned on a weekly episode of Treasure Talk. Mark gave weekly beach hunting reports for the beaches in MD/DE/VA, and during this one episode, Mark talked about a man who lost a ABC300 ring at the Ocean City Inlet, which is a ring that Bowlers who bowl a perfect 300 game get awarded by the American Bowling Congress. After the man told Mark about the lost ring, Mark set off to look for it at the area where the man said he had lost it. Although Mark searched and searched, he couldn’t find the ring, even though he was searching in the exact location where the man said he had lost it.

Here’s where it gets really interesting. 2 days later, on one of Marks detecting group threads, one of Mark’s buddies mentioned that he had found the ABC300 ring. This was 2 days after the man lost the ring and Mark started looking for it. BUT the beach where Mark’s detecting buddy found the ring was 13 blocks north from where it was lost at the OC Inlet. The blocks in Ocean City and also in Delaware are short, as there’s many resort areas and attractions, so a block in either of those locations are much shorter than a block in a typical city. Using short block measurements, those 13 short blocks equal .65 miles, and 20 blocks would equal 1 mile. So, in just 2 days, that ABC300 ring traveled over ½ mile up the beach.

According to Google Maps, the beach where I found the ring is 21.2 miles from the beach where she lost the ring by car & road. There’s a lot of extra miles there as you have to drive out of your way to make a big loop to get back to the beach where I found the ring. But just looking at the beaches, it’s a pretty straight shot from 1 beach to the next, so I estimated it would be about ½ or so of the mileage compared to driving. To be conservative, I went with roughly 10 miles. This wasn’t scientific by any means, I was just trying to see if the ring I found would be in the ballpark of possibilities, traveling from one beach to another.

Since 20 short blocks equal a mile, 10 miles would be 200 short blocks, so since the guy Mark mentioned found the ABC300 ring 13 short blocks (.65 miles) up the beach just 2 days after it was lost, I used those numbers (i.e., traveling 13 short blocks/.65 miles in 2 days) as a speed guide to see if it was possible for the ring I found to have traveled 10 miles in 1 - 2 months. .

So, 200 short blocks divided by 13 short blocks = 15.4 x .65 miles = 10.01 miles. Damn, just about perfect. I’m probably off on the mileage a little bit between beaches, but it’s a fairly straight shot. And since the ABC300 ring traveled 13 blocks (.65 miles) in 2 days, in my example I took the 15.4 blocks I got by dividing 200 blocks by 13 blocks, then multiplied by 2 to get the number of days it would take to travel those 10.01 miles and that leaves me with 30.8 days, so definitely fits within the 1 - 2 month timeframe of when the ring was lost vs. when I found the ring.

It may have traveled slower and took 1.5 - 2 months rather than 1 month, but based on the numbers I’m looking at, they’re very close, which tells me it was definitely possible for her ring to travel 10+ miles in 1 - 2 months, based on the ring that Marks friend had found.

If that wasn’t enough, on the same Treasure Talk episode, another guy, I think his name was Rick, mentioned seeing a story about a guy finding a ring 50 years after it was lost. And where he found it was 50 miles from when the guy lost it. So, in 50 years, that ring had travelled 50 miles, crazy.

To hear these for yourself, check out the Treasure Talk Video I referenced (link below).

To hear Mark's story about the ABC ring, fast forward the video to 17:30.
To hear Rick's story, 50 years/50 miles, also on the same video, fast forward to 1:29:18.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gRDtf8EqIU&t=5413s

 

[Cfmct]

I'm just not used to getting down to dig like I used to before switching over to beach hunting, but if I had to, I'm sure I could work back up in short order.

This is what happens when the wife asked me to dig a few holes for some flowers she wanted to plant in front of the house. I get down with a 3-prong to dig some holes and what do I find? A friggin' pull tab stuck on the end of one of the prongs. Why on earth is a pull tab in the dirt in front of our house? Pull tabs are everywhere, I can't escape them, they seem to follow me, lol.

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Look at the bright side, one less you will find with your metal detector

 

[KOB]

I'm convinced she lost it where she said because I was able to confirm this possibility based on a find that Mark Paddack mentioned on a weekly episode of Treasure Talk. Mark gave weekly beach hunting reports for the beaches in MD/DE/VA, and during this one episode, Mark talked about a man who lost a ABC300 ring at the Ocean City Inlet, which is a ring that Bowlers who bowl a perfect 300 game get awarded by the American Bowling Congress. After the man told Mark about the lost ring, Mark set off to look for it at the area where the man said he had lost it. Although Mark searched and searched, he couldn’t find the ring, even though he was searching in the exact location where the man said he had lost it.

Here’s where it gets really interesting. 2 days later, on one of Marks detecting group threads, one of Mark’s buddies mentioned that he had found the ABC300 ring. This was 2 days after the man lost the ring and Mark started looking for it. BUT the beach where Mark’s detecting buddy found the ring was 13 blocks north from where it was lost at the OC Inlet. The blocks in Ocean City and also in Delaware are short, as there’s many resort areas and attractions, so a block in either of those locations are much shorter than a block in a typical city. Using short block measurements, those 13 short blocks equal .65 miles, and 20 blocks would equal 1 mile. So, in just 2 days, that ABC300 ring traveled over ½ mile up the beach.

According to Google Maps, the beach where I found the ring is 21.2 miles from the beach where she lost the ring by car & road. There’s a lot of extra miles there as you have to drive out of your way to make a big loop to get back to the beach where I found the ring. But just looking at the beaches, it’s a pretty straight shot from 1 beach to the next, so I estimated it would be about ½ or so of the mileage compared to driving. To be conservative, I went with roughly 10 miles. This wasn’t scientific by any means, I was just trying to see if the ring I found would be in the ballpark of possibilities, traveling from one beach to another.

Since 20 short blocks equal a mile, 10 miles would be 200 short blocks, so since the guy Mark mentioned found the ABC300 ring 13 short blocks (.65 miles) up the beach just 2 days after it was lost, I used those numbers (i.e., traveling 13 short blocks/.65 miles in 2 days) as a speed guide to see if it was possible for the ring I found to have traveled 10 miles in 1 - 2 months. .

So, 200 short blocks divided by 13 short blocks = 15.4 x .65 miles = 10.01 miles. Damn, just about perfect. I’m probably off on the mileage a little bit between beaches, but it’s a fairly straight shot. And since the ABC300 ring traveled 13 blocks (.65 miles) in 2 days, in my example I took the 15.4 blocks I got by dividing 200 blocks by 13 blocks, then multiplied by 2 to get the number of days it would take to travel those 10.01 miles and that leaves me with 30.8 days, so definitely fits within the 1 - 2 month timeframe of when the ring was lost vs. when I found the ring.

It may have traveled slower and took 1.5 - 2 months rather than 1 month, but based on the numbers I’m looking at, they’re very close, which tells me it was definitely possible for her ring to travel 10+ miles in 1 - 2 months, based on the ring that Marks friend had found.

If that wasn’t enough, on the same Treasure Talk episode, another guy, I think his name was Rick, mentioned seeing a story about a guy finding a ring 50 years after it was lost. And where he found it was 50 miles from when the guy lost it. So, in 50 years, that ring had travelled 50 miles, crazy.

To hear these for yourself, check out the Treasure Talk Video I referenced (link below).

To hear Mark's story about the ABC ring, fast forward the video to 17:30.
To hear Rick's story, 50 years/50 miles, also on the same video, fast forward to 1:29:18.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gRDtf8EqIU&t=5413s

I didn't like the TT weekly "fishing report". And it didn't last long. I couldn't believe guys were doing this. I remember seeing Jeff getting all bent "Are we still doing this , aren't we past all this now?" Something to that effect about guys withdrawing from disclosing info. And no-shows.. Then they trashed it ! Guys were taking alot of heat.

 

[Sand Hunter]

I didn't like the TT weekly "fishing report". And it didn't last long. I couldn't believe guys were doing this. I remember seeing Jeff getting all bent "Are we still doing this , aren't we past all this now?" Something to that effect about guys withdrawing from disclosing info. And no-shows.. Then they trashed it ! Guys were taking alot of heat.

The last episode was on Aug 25th if I recall, they shut it down after 6.5 years.

Luckily, OBN & CJC were interviewed just before they shut production down, so the video of their interview remains.

 

[KOB]

The last episode was on Aug 25th if I recall, they shut it down after 6.5 years.

Luckily, OBN & CJC were interviewed just before they shut production down, so the video of their interview remains.

No. You were strictly talking about the weekly treasure hunting report. That only lasted a few months.

 

[Sand Hunter]

No. You were strictly talking about the weekly treasure hunting report. That only lasted a few months.

Ahh, OK, I only discovered their channel several months ago. I did enjoy listening to the weekly reports but wasn't aware of any drama unfolding behind the scenes that would lead them to shutting things down.

 

[johnny utah]

That is the way I have it, I was looking forward to the storm and now its made finding gold harder. I won't give up though as long as I can hunt, I will try my health issues won't stop that. Diana wanted me to quit, i refused, its why I still work first off I enjoy it still and it keeps me active and not sitting around thinking about stupid stuff.

The first few weeks after Sandy all I was finding was silver its like WTH where is the gold... then it showed up where I wasn't expecting it at a beach I rarely found it lol...

First couple hunts after Sandy, Captain Silver and myself were killing the silver then we found a beach lots old gold close to where we took you and that spot lasted a few weeks it was small but I went very slow there digging anything the Excal heard hunting in PP mode. not gonna show any gold here just alot of silver we also found..

The nickels were all in one hunt, Captain silver coined this spot nickel beach lol... second pic from a beach closer to me, I was picking the silver up after Sandy removed 3 feet from above the slope... those spots gave up zero gold...

i see several shield nickels in there - along with the v's
cool!
nice finds!!

 

[Cfmct]

i see several shield nickels in there - along with the v's
cool!
nice finds!!

Other side were smooth...

 

[DudeDoubloon]

Three great finds in three hours. Great session.

What do you use to GPS track your hunts?