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« on: November 03, 2010, 01:30:00 am »
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This is the assortment of stuff I found on my very first day of metal detecting on a wet beach here on Oahu.  I was using my new White's Dual Surf PI and adjusted it according to the seller's suggestions.

I used it for about 3 hours before I felt like my arms would fall off!  I can see my shoulder muscles need work!
I'm very happy with the results.  Yes, most of it is just junk, and there were several pieces of wire and bottle caps I left in the beach trash bin, but this is a great hobby and I enjoy never knowing for sure what is there until I dig it out of the sand.

Unfortunately, I didn't look at the tide charts so was there at high tide and could only hunt the top edge of where the surf was breaking up to the dry sand line.

I found two quarters, one of which is highly oxidized, one dime and one penny.  In the lower left of the picture you see a round hoop object which is a .925 silver bracelet.  The chain still had monofilament on it and was a poor man's fishing weight I guess.  The B-52 must not have been there long, it has almost no corrosion on it (I didn't even know they still made metal toys) but it was 4 inches deep.

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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2010, 07:28:42 am »
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I like that plane...
Where's all the gold coins?Huh?Huh?
Don't beginners luck mean anything anymore?  Grin
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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2010, 08:52:57 am »
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Not bad for the first time. Dig, dig, dig. It will probably take 2-3 days for your arm to recover.

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« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2010, 03:02:36 pm »
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Went out again this morning, tried a different beach.  The one I went to was really junky!  All I found were pull tabs, bottle caps, wire, capri sun packs.  This Dual PI may be too sensitive, it alerted on a nice target and 30 inches down I found an only root beer can!!!!   
My only 'keepables' for the day were 4 heavily corroded pennies.




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« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2010, 02:23:19 am »
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Hi there Deadeye!  I just ordered a White's PI Dual - should arrive this week.  I have been hunting with a Minelab Excalibur II - does a great job nulling out the junk.  I want to make sure that it is just the junk that it is nulling out, so I figured that I would try a PI style detector.  On Sunday, I dug over 60 holes detected by the Excal (mostly clad coins and a few pieces of jewelry) - sore arms.  I better eat my spinach, in preparation for the Whites dual, since all those nulls I passed up will have to be dug.  Exhausted

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« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2010, 11:22:06 am »
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Have fun with it!!!  I'm already building up my arm and shoulders  Smiley

The deepest thing I've found so far was an old root beer can, measured with a tape measure at 34 inches deep.

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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2010, 01:42:50 pm »
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Thanks for your show and tell it's nice to see what you have found.
How did you find the people on the beach react to you waking around?


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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2010, 09:28:21 pm »
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Most of the people ignored me, a few were curious, some even asked questions.  Basically everyone was friendly.

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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2010, 01:37:45 pm »
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Not bad for the first time. How did you find the people on the beach react to you waking around?


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« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2010, 01:44:16 pm »
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With some more practice you'll ge the hang of it. Good job and good luck!

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