I already told you Dude, due to your park results you are BANNED from the beaches!!
10 ft cut.......... UPDATE
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I already told you Dude, due to your park results you are BANNED from the beaches!!
Flying Dutchman
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Dang thats pirating as it should be 
Congrats man!
Did the GT get you that tiny yellow or did you bring the minelab
Congrats man!Did the GT get you that tiny yellow or did you bring the minelab
solcalpete
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Dang thats pirating as it should be
Did the GT get you that tiny yellow or did you bring the minelab
You've lost me on that one...
The GT is a minelab Both chains were accidental, they came out of the sand with nickels. I love it when that happens.
I cranked up the GT at home and it can't pick up either, so i got very lucky and brought home 12 grams of gold i shouldn't have lol..
L.I.Digga
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You've lost me on that one...
Both chains were accidental, they came out of the sand with nickels. I love it when that happens.
I cranked up the GT at home and it can't pick up either, so i got very lucky and brought home 12 grams of gold i shouldn't have lol..
Wow lucky lucky...Awsome man
Flying Dutchman
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You've lost me on that one...
Haha, my fault meant the Gt or X-terra. The X-terra should pick such up with the 18 coil?
GroundSweeper
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Congrats in the 18k bracelet!
solcalpete
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Yeah the x-terra will pick them up., but it would not have been a good choice on that beach.They hate wet black sand.
Donneybrook
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30+ grams of 18k and nearly 5 grams of 14!! I'm feeling sick... what a haul!! Not to mention all the clad you indicate to be pulling out!
It's the last time you'll see it... I just took it to a local jeweler and got $730.
Probably not the best deal in town at 15% but hey..you won't see me complaining
That is a nice payday... congrats on all your finds...
Looks like you added some pix from this AM....more GOLD!
BUZZ WILSON
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Hey solcalpete. I'd think about going further south a bit and see if you can find Spanish treasurer on the baja left from the storm.
Congrats on your gold goodies bud.
AT PRO DUDE,,,, Hit the parks, Ron is not kidding.
Congrats on your gold goodies bud.
AT PRO DUDE,,,, Hit the parks, Ron is not kidding.
stewart73
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Wow, great results! Love it.
I went to Montage Beach Thursday later afternoon. I just got a CTX and am learning how to use it (have multiple alternates like Surfmaster, XLT, and gold detectors). I searched south all the way to Aliso Creek and found nothing. Then at Aliso just south of the creek I was hitting pennies and nickels every 6 inches. I found my first gold ring there too - little birthstone ring. But so many coins and all really trashed with corrosion and none older than the late 80's. So I set them out on a board and set my CTX to ignore the pennies while still sensitive to the nickels and rings. Went back yesterday afternoon and now the beach is significantly cut as you probably have read. Still lots of nickels and pennies but on both sides of the creek. Not many quarters at all and no rings... So my question is - am I just late to the party and someone else got the rings/gold/quarters - or are they offshore 30 yards? What advice for my next move - move to lesser known beach along the South Laguna stretch or go to Laguna Main beach and just walk south?
WildDigger
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SWEET!!! Congrats on all the goodies!
Tom_in_CA
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Bklein, you don't appear to be doing anything wrong. Your ring ratio might just be the current "luck of the draw". Seems to me that you should be averaging a gold ring for each 100 to 200 coins. That seems to be a So. CA average. A bit less for beaches with a "local's only" feel (dog walker type beaches, with no amenities, or an industrial/fisherman-only type feel). And a bit better/higher for high-end touristy swimming beaches.
When you say you got to to where you set your CTX to "knock out pennies", that can either be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending on what you mean by "pennies". Because if you included corroded zincs in that category, then you could have missed heavier men's bands. They will read mid-level (or even up near fresh zinc for really big college men's rings, for instance). And so too does corroded zinc read in about that same level. But if you meant copper pennies, or fresh zincs, then no, you wouldn't miss too many gold rings by knocking out those and quarters.
If you got into heavy coin concentrations, and were getting nickels as you say, and knew there were ample quarters there, then you should eventually be getting gold. As for the dates being "80s and newer losses", that's ok, for when jewelry is your goal. They don't have to be old (silver, or greenish/brown older clad, etc...) to have good odds at gold . Just any beach erosion where targets (old or new) are prolific in numbers.
Sandcrab
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Tom I think you mean well, but have you hunted that beach??? Honestly. Have you parked there, walked through the river, has the small stretch with the houses, the small stretch without the houses, then the small stretch below the hotel. Its cut into chunks. Go further and then cut through the hole in the wall and around the corner to the right.
For that freaking beach, with the conditions that were there, from the unusual swell, you are wrong! Dead wrong... where did you get that average??? 100 to 200? Just curious? So if I found lets say 5 gold rings on one beach, I have 500 to 1000 coins? Were you not the one that got info for someone else, then burned him, and boasted on here for days, but the totals did not match the boasts??? Just curious...
To the question a couple messages above, that beach is tricky at times. There are a couple things going against you, especially with the waves/swell from the last couple days.
~SSC
Tom_in_CA
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Tom I think you mean well, but have you hunted that beach??? Honestly. Have you parked there, walked through the river, has the small stretch with the houses, the small stretch without the houses, then the small stretch below the hotel. Its cut into chunks. Go further and then cut through the hole in the wall and around the corner to the right.
For that freaking beach, with the conditions that were there, from the unusual swell, you are wrong! Dead wrong... where did you get that average??? 100 to 200? Just curious? So if I found lets say 5 gold rings on one beach, I have 500 to 1000 coins? Were you not the one that got info for someone else, then burned him, and boasted on here for days, but the totals did not match the boasts??? Just curious...
To the question a couple messages above, that beach is tricky at times. There are a couple things going against you, especially with the waves/swell from the last couple days.
~SSC
wow, what a post SSC. I got the "100 to 200 per each gold ring", by long-time observations of lots of So. CA beach hunter tallies. That's also about the average for Santa Cruz main up our way, which mimic's so. CA look & feel & traffic/usage. No, I have not hunted Montage or Aliso. I assumed them to be akin to other So. CA beaches. But you'll see I noted that the averages depend on the touristy-ness, versus local/industrial-ness.
As for the rest of what you said, wow. No, no one got burned. I tried and tried to reach him, and ... unknowingly had only his work contact info (of which he was not to check those in-boxes till over a day later). I know you ... uh .... Mean well ....... but you may want to ... uh ... check the tone of your post.
plantguy
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Wow. That's some cut. Congrats, nice gold!! Besides the silver quarter, were there many old coins? I would think a cut like that would produce more silver coins?
Hi Tom,
I would say your ratio estimate is pretty accurate for me at least. I really had my hopes up as the conditions were so much better for success yesterday. And weird little or no silver. I did have some pennies sound off outside of my set ignore range and dug a few just to check.
SSC,
As you seem to know the area, would you now advise trying south in some of the less popular beaches? Even at Main Beach Laguna or CDM I've come across old silver in the past. Looking for bling or cool looking mercury's or buffalos. Love the CTX but wish it was lighter.
I would say your ratio estimate is pretty accurate for me at least. I really had my hopes up as the conditions were so much better for success yesterday. And weird little or no silver. I did have some pennies sound off outside of my set ignore range and dug a few just to check.
SSC,
As you seem to know the area, would you now advise trying south in some of the less popular beaches? Even at Main Beach Laguna or CDM I've come across old silver in the past. Looking for bling or cool looking mercury's or buffalos. Love the CTX but wish it was lighter.
