sunday morning bonanza

well it has been quite some time since i've been detecting due to the extremely hot summer. my brother and i have been waiting for the cooling temperatures so we can get heavily into detecting here again.

we decided to give it a shot yesterday morning. the weather called for a low around 50 in the morning and 70's in the afternoon. it was an absolutely beautiful day to be outdoors.

there was some good erosion this year and we hit an area of the local beaches where we knew erosion would likely be just a bit better than other areas of the beach. when we arrived we discovered that the beach had been wiped out more than we have seen in years and had we known we would have been there weeks ago. apparently the one storm that skirted the coast here did the damage.

the finds were beauties. one 18 kt charm, one 18 kt id bracelet, one 14 kt ladies bracelet, one 14 kt chain. we got lucky that these finds were shallow enough to detect. we all know how hard it is to detect necklaces and chains. besides the jewelry we found over 300 coins in the four hours. no lack of signals and many aches and pains and stiffness for both of us today but we had a ball. hope you enjoy the photos of the finds.

here is a group shot and some individual close ups




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Looks to me like you had a hot day detecting - enjoyed seeing your finds. Sue

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Nice finds good days play!

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viking,

on this particular day i was using the old  original 90's model sovereign xs and my brother was using the old 80's model white's eagle ii sl. we have been detcting over 20 years now. over the years on the beaches up north and down south i have used the minelab explorer, excaliber, quattro, fisher cz's, white's beach hunter,whites dfx and numerous other machines both old and new.
 in my opinion most of the newer machines are not as stable or consistent as these 2 machines are that we use on a regular basis. they handle mineralization well and they get great depth. so as i said just my opinion but each time i've gone to a new machine i'm greatly disappointed that i can out perform any of them with these 2 machines. at least here.
here's an interesting tidbit. this particular model that my brother was using of the whites eagle 2 sl had a circuitry issue involved in a teknetics lawsuit and then whites had to make a modification. we did purchase the following eagle 2 sl model i believe it was in 1990, that whites released, but this model that we have from the 80's pre-lawsuit is better it is just phenomenal and consistent on coins, relics, and jewelry. it really shines. and the minelab is untouchable even by other minelabs-again in my opinion only.


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tht's nice keep it up bud hi all

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