Tell us the tale of your best hunt ever...

[SwinginDigginPA]

I can't talk about a couple of mine. But one hunt back when I was married I could only hunt 3 hours including travel. Wasnt worth the brow beating. Old gold and silver everywhere in the water. Had to leave and still caught hell from the wife. Couldn't go back a couple days. Went back and it had filled in. That beach filled in in 2013 and still hasn't opened back up. Got divorced that year. So that was better than the hunt. Lol.

Yikes. I cannot imagine needing/asking permission to do what I want in my life. Sounds like a prison.

Marriage is an institution... you have to be committed to it.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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My most memorable hunt was actually 4-5 hunts in a little over a week of high surf and extreme tides in September of 2022...........

Great post Compass !

 

[Compass]

Great post Compass !

Thanks Tom, Unfortunately, these prime conditions are too few and far between!

 

[Fishincontrol]

Yikes. I cannot imagine needing/asking permission to do what I want in my life. Sounds like a prison.

Marriage is an institution... you have to be committed to it.

My wife is as cool as cool can be. She knows that when I'm hunting, whether it be MD or whitetail, I'm not lazing around drinking beer. She practically shoos me out of the house sometimes and insists that I go fishing or detecting. Maybe she really doesn't enjoy my company anymore...that could be it. Maybe she's not cool at all and hopes I fall out of my boat or get struck by lightning...either way, still a win for me.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Thanks Tom, Unfortunately, these prime conditions are too few and far between!

Yes. Up here in Monterey bay , we seem to have these truly epic times @ once every 10 yrs. or so. And might last only a few days or a week here & there. Then, of course, there's other "minor" events where a guy can bag 50 or 75 coins, and a single gold ring. Those smaller erosion events tend to be each winter, here & there.

But the type where a guy stays in an area the size of your living room, FOR HOURS with non-stop-signals, is : Rare.

I knew a southern CA hunter, from the Segundo area (near LAX), who .... for an entire week during the 1982-83 storms, dug *AT LEAST* 100 silver coins per day. For a week straight. And the gold jewelry counts of each of those days was on the order of 6 to 12-ish EACH DAY. Total coin counts, I'd imagine, were 500+ each day (essentially "as fast as you can dig"). At the end of that week, he had to go check himself into the hospital because of repetitive stress (of the swing/arm motion of his dig technique) had utterly thrashed his arm, wrist, etc....

 

[Compass]

Yes. Up here in Monterey bay , we seem to have these truly epic times @ once every 10 yrs. or so. And might last only a few days or a week here & there. Then, of course, there's other "minor" events where a guy can bag 50 or 75 coins, and a single gold ring. Those smaller erosion events tend to be each winter, here & there.

But the type where a guy stays in an area the size of your living room, FOR HOURS with non-stop-signals, is : Rare.

I knew a southern CA hunter, from the Segundo area (near LAX), who .... for an entire week during the 1982-83 storms, dug *AT LEAST* 100 silver coins per day. For a week straight. And the gold jewelry counts of each of those days was on the order of 6 to 12-ish EACH DAY. Total coin counts, I'd imagine, were 500+ each day (essentially "as fast as you can dig"). At the end of that week, he had to go check himself into the hospital because of repetitive stress (of the swing/arm motion of his dig technique) had utterly thrashed his arm, wrist, etc....

Was that guy's name Len Burkett by any chance?

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Was that guy's name Len Burkett by any chance?

No. This guy's name was "Lance". He had actually picked up the hobby in 1980. Two years before the epic 1982-83 event. So because he had had a brush with the concept of erosion strategy (since there'd been some rough surf in the winter of 1980 ), therefore, when the '82-83 event happened, he was "already wise" to what to watch for.

And you know the drill Compass : On days when targets are THAT fast & furious , you end up leaving NOT because "you are done". But ONLY because the incoming tide chases you back out. And : Can you imagine, if you could go back in time, to target-thick days like that, armed with TID ability ? Then you could simply pass all penny/dime & up high conductors. ( I mean, shucks, the beach toast silver is worthless anyhow, eh ?)

There was actually already a machine on the market, by 1982-83 that had TID. It was a Teknetics. But I don't know of anyone , that year, that actually tried that, using that. I was swinging a Garrett ADS II that year. Most of my buddies were swinging Whites 6000's. And I heard some similar stories from here (that filtered back in at the club meetings) of "100 silver coins in a day" or "10 gold jewelry in a day" type tallies. From beaches here like Carmel, and Seacliff, to name a few.

So for "Len Burkett", what was his war story, from the '82-83 event ?

 

[Compass]

No. This guy's name was "Lance". He had actually picked up the hobby in 1980. Two years before the epic 1982-83 event. So because he had had a brush with the concept of erosion strategy (since there'd been some rough surf in the winter of 1980 ), therefore, when the '82-83 event happened, he was "already wise" to what to watch for.

And you know the drill Compass : On days when targets are THAT fast & furious , you end up leaving NOT because "you are done". But ONLY because the incoming tide chases you back out. And : Can you imagine, if you could go back in time, to target-thick days like that, armed with TID ability ? Then you could simply pass all penny/dime & up high conductors. ( I mean, shucks, the beach toast silver is worthless anyhow, eh ?)

There was actually already a machine on the market, by 1982-83 that had TID. It was a Teknetics. But I don't know of anyone , that year, that actually tried that, using that. I was swinging a Garrett ADS II that year. Most of my buddies were swinging Whites 6000's. And I heard some similar stories from here (that filtered back in at the club meetings) of "100 silver coins in a day" or "10 gold jewelry in a day" type tallies. From beaches here like Carmel, and Seacliff, to name a few.

So for "Len Burkett", what was his war story, from the '82-83 event ?

Len Burkett was a bit of a local legend when I met him in the 70's. I was in my teens and had only recently started metal detecting with a "Goldak". Len was a seasoned beach hunter and when we met him at his place in El Segundo I remember him showing us a small chest full of silver half dollars before we went to the beach and proceeded to find more silver coins in the surf.

 

[KOB]

Len Burkett was a bit of a local legend when I met him in the 70's. I was in my teens and had only recently started metal detecting with a "Goldak". Len was a seasoned beach hunter and when we met him at his place in El Segundo I remember him showing us a small chest full of silver half dollars before we went to the beach and proceeded to find more silver coins in the surf.

You ever know this guy ? I ran across him a few times in the 90s on a few hunts. Cool guy , gave me a few tips and even bought his book. Told me he's been hunting since the 70s. Don has got to be late 80s by now , if he's still around. I dunno.

 

[Compass]

You ever know this guy ? I ran across him a few times in the 90s on a few hunts. Cool guy , gave me a few tips and even bought his book. Told me he's been hunting since the 70s. Don has got to be late 80s by now , if he's still around. I dunno.View attachment 626726

No, I didn't know him but in the 90's I hunted lakes mostly because I didn't have a proper beach detector then.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

You ever know this guy ? I ran across him a few times in the 90s on a few hunts. Cool guy , gave me a few tips and even bought his book. Told me he's been hunting since the 70s.....

Very interesting. What year did that book come out (Perhaps there's a date of publication printed on the inside front cover ?) And : did that author talk about erosion ? Or was it about dry sand hunting , for example ?

And if he spoke about erosion , what sort of war stories did he cite ?

Here in Monterey bay (so I'm assuming Southern CA too) there were "episodes" in the winter of 1977-78 (or so I'm told by veterans that preceded me). And the winter of 1980 (that I got a taste of, while I was still in high school), and then ... of course, the winter of 1982-83 was the biggee.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I know there were "episodes" in the earlier 1970s, but that was before anyone in my area was wise to erosion strategy. And, let's be honest, the machines probably couldn't hack wet salt in those days. The reason I know of earlier 1970s storms, was the following :

I talked to a surfer, who had been a college age surfer, in the early 1970s. Him and several other surfer partyers were renting a house for the summer, a few blocks away from the ocean, in Orange county . One night, as they were partying, they could HEAR the sound of crashing waves. Even though they were blocks away from the ocean. You know the type audio : A long 25 second lull, then ....... CRASH. Then another long 25 second lull..... then CRASH. And so forth. So these guys knew, from experience, that the next morning was going to be great surfing waves.

Early the next morning, this guy goes down to the beach to surf. And when he arrived, he noticed that : Instead of the usual walk out across the sand , to the water's edge, that : There was a steep drop-off vertical "cut" in the sand. That he had to climb down to reach-the-wet sand. Like a miniature cliff, as he described it. That ran as far north and south as he could see.

Then he looked down, and noticed a round disk at the base of this cut. He picked it up and saw that it was a coin. So he started looking around, and saw more. So he propped up his surf board, and instead of surfing, spent the next couple of hours picking up coins . Just by eyeballing.

He recalled that he had about $5.00 by the time he was done. And he did not recall if any were old coins or not. And while I know that $5 isn't anything now, but , back in the early 1970s, that was fun money (fill your gas tank, buy more beer, etc....) for a college age surfer hippy kid.

I asked him if he saw anyone metal detecting, and he said : "No". He didn't see any detectors.

 

[KOB]

Very interesting. What year did that book come out (Perhaps there's a date of publication printed on the inside front cover ?) And : did that author talk about erosion ? Or was it about dry sand hunting , for example ?

And if he spoke about erosion , what sort of war stories did he cite ?

Here in Monterey bay (so I'm assuming Southern CA too) there were "episodes" in the winter of 1977-78 (or so I'm told by veterans that preceded me). And the winter of 1980 (that I got a taste of, while I was still in high school), and then ... of course, the winter of 1982-83 was the biggee.

94'. It is a collectors item now among beach guys. His book (more of a pamphlet) talks about it all. But mainly wet sand and every coastal beach down here. As I recall stories going back a decade or two along with pictures.

 

[KOB]

I know there were "episodes" in the earlier 1970s, but that was before anyone in my area was wise to erosion strategy. And, let's be honest, the machines probably couldn't hack wet salt in those days. The reason I know of earlier 1970s storms, was the following :

I talked to a surfer, who had been a college age surfer, in the early 1970s. Him and several other surfer partyers were renting a house for the summer, a few blocks away from the ocean, in Orange county . One night, as they were partying, they could HEAR the sound of crashing waves. Even though they were blocks away from the ocean. You know the type audio : A long 25 second lull, then ....... CRASH. Then another long 25 second lull..... then CRASH. And so forth. So these guys knew, from experience, that the next morning was going to be great surfing waves.

Early the next morning, this guy goes down to the beach to surf. And when he arrived, he noticed that : Instead of the usual walk out across the sand , to the water's edge, that : There was a steep drop-off vertical "cut" in the sand. That he had to climb down to reach-the-wet sand. Like a miniature cliff, as he described it. That ran as far north and south as he could see.

Then he looked down, and noticed a round disk at the base of this cut. He picked it up and saw that it was a coin. So he started looking around, and saw more. So he propped up his surf board, and instead of surfing, spent the next couple of hours picking up coins . Just by eyeballing.

He recalled that he had about $5.00 by the time he was done. And he did not recall if any were old coins or not. And while I know that $5 isn't anything now, but , back in the early 1970s, that was fun money (fill your gas tank, buy more beer, etc....) for a college age surfer hippy kid.

I asked him if he saw anyone metal detecting, and he said : "No". He didn't see any detectors.

I experienced the same thing mid 70s. Familiar with the sounds of huge crashing surf. I remember climbing around GIANT boulders going a few 100' ot from shore. This was far deeper than what we would call "hard pan". The sand must have been pulled out a good 25' in depth. Out in the surf zone ! Tried everything I could to research it and no history of it at all. I remember several years later that some guys found alot of silver and some Gold coins. Even though my 1st detector was in 1970 , I wasn't much of a hunter until the early 80s. Just used it here and there in the 70s as I was into other beach things.

 

[tnsharpshooter]

I went to the beach few weeks ago down the road, and found 3 big CornKOBs on the beach in different areas all read 99 ID with my Deus 2 HF2 coil. Took them home with me converted them to rodenticides and placed them in my barn. Would you believe it… They killed every rat in my barn.

 

[KOB]

I went to the beach few weeks ago down the road, and found 3 big CornKOBs on the beach in different areas all read 99 ID with my Deus 2 HF2 coil. Took them home with me converted them to rodenticides and placed them in my barn. Would you believe it… They killed every rat in my barn.

You crawled into the bottle again. All liquored up aren't you ?

 

[tnsharpshooter]

You crawled into the bottle again. All liquored up aren't you ?

Don’t drink booze buddy. Sorry.

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[KOB]

Don’t drink booze buddy. Sorry.

AI Overview

Kaput (often referred to as Kob) Rat & Mouse Bait generally receives positive reviews for controlling rodents, particularly for its effectiveness against voles, mice, and rats in DoMyOwn reviews. Users often note its low secondary toxicity, making it safer for pets, though some report slow results or that rodents do not immediately take the bait. [1, 2, 3, 4]

That's right ! KOB is poison. Let me get this straight...like Hicks from the sticks picking up roadkill for their next meal , You found a couple Korn Kobs , brought them home , and went nibbling away like a Rat ? So this is your weakness , your high...huh ? That explains everything.

 

[tnsharpshooter]

Don’t do drugs either buddy. Sorry.

Get your Ouija board out and try again.

 

[Cfmct]

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You crawled into the bottle again. All liquored up aren't you ?

I read this exchange early this morning, I was cracking up at TN's post... it surprised me, he has some work to do if he wants to be a good troll