maxxkatt
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If you live within 2 hours from a beach and want to beach hunt please do yourself a favor and learn how to read beaches. Even if you just go to a beach once a year for 3-5 days on vacation learn to read beaches.
It will improve your find rate by a factor of 10x or more.
As an example there is a guy who hunts a specific beach in Florida. I know that beach and have hunted it. This guy has about 60 youtube videos and at the end of each he shows his finds. There are almost always coins, bottle tops, pull tabs and fishing lures. There are almost never any lead weights. Maybe on one of them I saw a very small lead weight not much bigger than a pea.
Learning to read beaches is not that hard. Just do some research. Someone who knows how to read beaches would never keep hunting a section of a beach that is just producing light metal. He would keep moving until he started finding a lot of heavy items like bigger lead sinkers and jewelry. Why waste your time digging those light items in the wrong areas of the beach or wrong beach?
And from what I can tell he is hunting the public beaches and ignoring the expensive hotels and condos beaches.
So watch a few beach hunting videos and notice these things. The guys who are pulling in the valuable diamond rings are not on public sections of beaches but are in front of expensive condos and hotels. They also know when a beach is sanded in (bad) and it is eroding (good). There are other things about reading beaches but just these two will increase your odds at finding valuable rings.
It will improve your find rate by a factor of 10x or more.
As an example there is a guy who hunts a specific beach in Florida. I know that beach and have hunted it. This guy has about 60 youtube videos and at the end of each he shows his finds. There are almost always coins, bottle tops, pull tabs and fishing lures. There are almost never any lead weights. Maybe on one of them I saw a very small lead weight not much bigger than a pea.
Learning to read beaches is not that hard. Just do some research. Someone who knows how to read beaches would never keep hunting a section of a beach that is just producing light metal. He would keep moving until he started finding a lot of heavy items like bigger lead sinkers and jewelry. Why waste your time digging those light items in the wrong areas of the beach or wrong beach?
And from what I can tell he is hunting the public beaches and ignoring the expensive hotels and condos beaches.
So watch a few beach hunting videos and notice these things. The guys who are pulling in the valuable diamond rings are not on public sections of beaches but are in front of expensive condos and hotels. They also know when a beach is sanded in (bad) and it is eroding (good). There are other things about reading beaches but just these two will increase your odds at finding valuable rings.