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Metal detector still has not arrived. I continue to sight search while I am waiting. Found five or six pairs of sunglasses, a few matchbox cars, etc. Best finds this week:

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...n/DSC_0099.jpg

A great little Winchester side-folder that I now carry, a locket bracelet (the chain was broken when I found it), and #9 gold: another hoop earring. They tend to stay on the surface, I think.

It's Friday and no detector. I was really hoping for it by the weekend. Ah, well.

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I see a lot of folks metal-detecting on Virginia Beach.

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This week's stuff:

1: .417 marked (10k) gold earring- found sight searching Sat

Metal detector arrived yesterday. Went out this morning before work. Found-

2: .417 marked gold earring (I find a lot of these, it seems)

3: Sterling (marked 925) silver celtic style ring

also found 30+ nails, a cellphone, some junk earrings, and a pair of souvenir nail clippers from Cambodia. But wow, silver AND gold on DAY ONE!

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m.../DSC_01052.jpg

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nice finds.

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Very nice! What brand is that knife?

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Winchester.

OK, so I've had my detector for 10 days. Here is a list of my total targets recovered:

179 Nails
81 Unidentifiable
36 Aluminum "nuggets" (Melted pop cans from campfires)
25 Staples
18 Screws
17 Bottle caps
11 Junk earrings
6 Matchbox cars
4 Springs
3 Pull tabs
3 Bolts
2 Tent pegs
2 Butter Knives
2 Bungee cords
2 Silver rings
2 Junk rings
2 Keys
2 Lighters
1 Washers
1 Pliers
1 Allen wrench
1 Spoon
1 Cellphone
1 Gold earring
1 Proximity card
1 Blackberry travel charger
1 Sifter
1 D-ring
1 Hand rake
1 Hammer
1 Screwdriver
1 AA Battery
1 Fishing lure
1 Tire pressure gague
1 Laser Pointer
1 12ga shotgun shell
1 Pipe piece
1 Zipper pull
1 Pocket knife

39 Pennies
1 Nickel
14 Dimes
25 Quarters (Total $8.09)

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haha, tiki hut, you found all the dropped items in the area. That's what you have to do to find Gold, I find.
I have my discrimination set so high I only find silver and copper for the most part. But I don't dig many nails or pull tabs.

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That's the problem with a Pulse Indicator (PI) machine, no discrimination.

Then again, today I found a coin under an iron target... who knows what might get missed... dig it all, I say!

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Well, I think I'll post my finds from 2011. To recap: for the first half of the year I was beachcombing. I started finding gold jewelry by sight- so I went out and bought a metal detector (a White's Surf PI) and now spend about 8-10 hours a week in the surf. I was able to keep it up through December with the addition of waders and neoprene.

So here come the pics. Hope you enjoy.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...lePicture2.jpg

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Large metal stuff. This is from a swimming beach, too...

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/001.jpg

Assorted odd items. i probably cleaned up 10 times this much stuff; most of it goes directly in the trash can.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/002.jpg

Some tools. I found another hammer, too, an Estwing. That just stayed in the car.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/003.jpg

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Cutlery. It's odd how the waves can bend the spoons like that... :D

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/004.jpg

Matchbox cars. Notice how popular police cars are for leaving buried in the sand...

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/005.jpg

Other stuff. People practice drive golf balls into the lake. I call it littering.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/006.jpg

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Sunglasses are popular for losing in the water.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/007.jpg

So are cell phones. I was able to find the owners of two of these by pulling miniSD cards. I called the owners and they didn't want them back. The Samsung still works fine, too.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/008.jpg

And of course, keys are popular to lose as well. I had two people stop and ask if I'd found keys they'd lost. I hadn't.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/009.jpg

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If I keep up this hobby, I will never need to buy another pocket knife. I carry the CRKT regularly.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/010.jpg

For a bathing beach, I find a lot of munitions. Mostly shotgun shells, but the thing that looks like a tip to an artillery shell is, well, the tip to an artillery shell (or a rocket). The round ring is a piece of another one. The tail fin is from a parachute flare. And yes, that is a link from a machine gun.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/011.jpg

I won't need to buy lures anymore, either. There are several areas of the lake guys go to just to search for lures...

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/012.jpg

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This is a remains tag from a crematorium. I blurred the number for privacy.

Hope someone finds mine there a long long time from now.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/013.jpg

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Obviously, these are not metal detecting finds.

Apparently, beach-goers are pro-boobies. Who knew?

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/014.jpg

Here is a big old pile of junk earrings and bracelets. You'd think I'd be able to make a matching pair of earrings from all this, but you'd be wrong.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/015.jpg

Other "junk" jewelry finds. I got a rush seeing some of these in the scoop.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/016.jpg

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Does that mean someones ashes ended up at that location?

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297 pennies
48 nickels
96 dimes
148 quarters
1 $1 bill
2 $5 bill

1 euro cent

$63.02

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/017.jpg

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Yes.

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And the best for last.

27.36 grams of Gold

1.13 ounces of Silver

and a honking big stainless wedding band

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/018.jpg

Thanks for looking. I had fun finding all this stuff. It is true you can find the good stuff, but you have to do an awful lot of digging! Not included here are hundreds of pieces of metal scrap/nails/screws/etc. that go directly in the trash.

I hope to do better in 2012, now that I am learning the ins-and-outs of the hobby. It's not as easy as just swinging the detector around, although you can get lucky that way, too!

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Will you be keeping it or does it go back?

Great finds btw.

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Thanks for keeping this thread alive! Some really interesting finds.

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I'll take it out deep when I put the boat in the water in the spring. If I just flip it back in the water someone (probably me) will just find it again.

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Great pics. I love it. My dad's would love this thread too. I wish I could get him to check it out.

Thinking about getting one of the old White brand detectors out of his basement and taking my son out this comming summer.

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I love this thread, keep those find pics coming guys!!!

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Great finds Tiki. Thanks for sharing.

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Even though there hasn't been a post here in a while, I've been out fairly regularly. It's nice to be outside, even in the colder weather. It hasn't been a great spring, but I've found another pile of change and a few rings, a couple of silver ones and another stainless wedding band.

The hot season should start soon, which will both take me into deeper water where there are better goodies and bring fresh drops from summertime beach-goers.

Here's a teaser pic of a silver and topaz ring I found this week. Mrs. Tikihut27 has overcome her reluctance to wear beach finds and now actively snags stuff, after, she says, I am done "playing with them". She has her eye on this one. I like the silver stuff because they come out of the water nasty and tarnished, but a little work shines them right up...

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/036.jpg

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some good finds over the last year or so

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Another great find Tiki. Keep the pics coming.

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Here are some pics of a few more rings from the memorial day weekend:

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/040.jpg

The small gold celtic friendship ring is 14k.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/041.jpg

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Dani and I were snorkeling a couple weeks ago and met a woman searching the beach in Hanauma Bay. She said she had just found a 3.5 carat diamond ring with another 2 carats of sapphires. Heck of a find. Made Dani regret leaving her detector at home. :D

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Very nice finds guys!

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Great thread guys. I have always been a history buff and have relocated to middle Tennessee. I am also enjoy canoeing the many rivers and streams here. There were several civil war battles here. I believe I am going to combine the two. Several cigars, my canoe and a metal detector sounds like a fun day. I am going to the library to do some research. Thanks for the inspiration guys.

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Been too busy out hunting to post this summer. No hugely spectacular finds, but here's a few pics:

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/049.jpg

This puppy was marked 14k. I figure that means 14,000% FAKE since it is not gold:

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/051.jpg

Here's a sample of a half a month of hunting:

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/050.jpg

Last weekend's best finds- a new, working iPhone and a silver ring:

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/054.jpg

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Oh, and here's a 1oz copper bullion coin. I had no idea they even made these until I dug one out of the sand. It must have been someone's lucky coin.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/042.jpg

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Hey I see some vodka in there

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Rum. Yes, it is a full, if small, bottle of Bacardi.

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Well that's what I get for assuming

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Could it be white gold? I wear a 14K white gold wedding ring that is marked 14K. It has a TW with a circle around it just to the right of the 14K marking.

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I thought it might be white gold at first. But when you file test it you can clearly see that it is plated copper. Apparently this type of fake gold is very common. The detectorists call it "flea market gold". The 14k mark is like a bag with a Gucci label- if it sounds too good to be true, it was probably made in China.

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Good stuff from the last couple of weeks. Yes, I detected the Kershaw, too.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...0Finds/057.jpg

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Sweet finds!

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Here are some pics of my total finds from 2013. I go out 12 months out of the year, fresh water hunting in Lake Ontario, mostly. Dry sand and in water up to my chest at the local beaches.


Cell Phones

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps37035fe5.jpg


Pocketknives and working lighters

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps7452ee08.jpg

Junk jewelry

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps40f85680.jpg

Coins and tokens. Silver dimes and wheat cents. Narcotics Anon. coin.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps8eef7f00.jpg

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More junk jewelry and fake marked gold and silver

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...psa2eab2fc.jpg

$94.75 in change.

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...pscc2804a8.jpg

5 gold rings, 11 silver rings, 2 silver pendants, 3 stainless steel rings, 1 titanium ring, and 9 junk rings

http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps73ddf580.jpg

Fun hobby, even though I routinely take abuse from the Rochester Crew about it. They can laugh all they want. I'm the one who spent the day at the beach and came home with free gold...

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Very cool!

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and a Partridge in a Pear Treeeeeeeee.

Wow, nice finds.