I met Greg years ago through this forum. I was actually googling detecting my area, and it leads you to comments about the subject. Greg didn't know back then if you put exact beach names in your comment it winds up at the top of the feed on google. Turned out me and him lived on the same long street on the river. Greg lived in an RV and i lived in a house.
Met up with Greg and hunted a couple times. I keep pretty guarded about info on exact beach names, so i told Greg how his info on spots popped up when you google it. After that he learned about nick naming all the beaches we detected. I used to do that in my notes when i was into fishing tournaments of where i was fishing.
After i gained Greg's trust he was saying how much certain beaches stank at detecting. I was asking "Do they?" He was then asking "What do you mean?" I told him "Dude, where do you think I've been digging all my gold?" Greg was saying "Say what?" Then i taught him the basics. After that i created a monster
Beaches back in the day hadn't been ripped out by storms in a long while. I'm talking years! So i show Greg how to locate long, high sandbars. What we'd do back then is wade out to a long sandbar and stick your foot out to touch it. Then count three steps towards shore. Lots of stuff was lined up just waiting on our scoops to dig it out. At low tide the sandbar creates an underwater river. We'd travel through the trench and get out at the other end and walk back up the beach and enter the trench again and repeat. We watched each others backs for safety concerns like rips.
We had a lot of laughs, fun, etc. for a couple years. When my dad was going downhill, Greg was someone to talk to. My wife at the time didn't really care what you had going on in your life. All she cared about was you can detect twice a week max. And that was for three hours max, including leaving and getting home. We went to Daytona once and i was late. Man i caught hell! She always thought i was cheating. I guess i was sort of? Hanging out with Greg on the beach?
Me and Greg used to have a contest on who got the best finds. Loser bought lunch at a seafood place. I was buying every new detector that came out. And Greg kept swinging his "teenie weenie", which was an 8" excal ll. He usually held his own until i broke out the dualfield
While my dad was passing i couldn't detect for a few months. I lived on the beach through Greg's eye's. My marriage ended after my dad passed and Greg was there to help me move my vehicles to my new location. Not sure how awkward Greg felt? But man what a friend! Meantime Greg was wanting to be close to his stepmom, who he considered his real mom. I do not know if what i was going through with my own mom's health opened Greg's eyes to what is important or not? But he was a Great guy for going to be close to family, since he was pretty much alone here, except for a few forum friends we detected with.
Greg needed to get his RV going after sitting a couple years. He asked me if we could drop the fuel tank from below. I was like. Then Greg was like " I think we can cut through the floor? Know how to cut aluminum?" I'm saying "Sure, you just turn a circular saw blade backwards." Greg said " I'd prefer you do it since you got experience." We found out real quick they run electric lines and water lines side by side in an RV floor between two sheets of aluminum when we saw sparks and water at the same time After the water repair he found some young kid wanting to siphon the gas to use in a car. The young guy lived in another county and spent three days traveling for $70 worth of gas. Talk about determination.
Todays beaches here do not look like they did back then when me and Greg used to detect together. The storms wrecked dunes that were there before i was born. So some of our prime spots closed not long after Greg moved.
Greg found lots of bucket listers including a gold coin, 18K Rolex watch, and even a real gold pulltab. I will post a link to the pulltab below.
gold pulltabhttp://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=197957
gold coin http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=194813
I called Greg late last month and he sounded bad. If i would have known that would be the last time i talked to him, I'd have said more. Me and Greg were both September babies. And my joke was "You know what our parents were doing Christmas don't you?" Greg would say " You ain't right brother!" Greg passed on Nov 9th and will be put to rest Dec. 8th in the St Pete National Cemetery.
If there are gold pulltabs in the sky, Greg will find them! imalookin2, i'm gonna miss you brother!
Met up with Greg and hunted a couple times. I keep pretty guarded about info on exact beach names, so i told Greg how his info on spots popped up when you google it. After that he learned about nick naming all the beaches we detected. I used to do that in my notes when i was into fishing tournaments of where i was fishing.
After i gained Greg's trust he was saying how much certain beaches stank at detecting. I was asking "Do they?" He was then asking "What do you mean?" I told him "Dude, where do you think I've been digging all my gold?" Greg was saying "Say what?" Then i taught him the basics. After that i created a monster
Beaches back in the day hadn't been ripped out by storms in a long while. I'm talking years! So i show Greg how to locate long, high sandbars. What we'd do back then is wade out to a long sandbar and stick your foot out to touch it. Then count three steps towards shore. Lots of stuff was lined up just waiting on our scoops to dig it out. At low tide the sandbar creates an underwater river. We'd travel through the trench and get out at the other end and walk back up the beach and enter the trench again and repeat. We watched each others backs for safety concerns like rips.
We had a lot of laughs, fun, etc. for a couple years. When my dad was going downhill, Greg was someone to talk to. My wife at the time didn't really care what you had going on in your life. All she cared about was you can detect twice a week max. And that was for three hours max, including leaving and getting home. We went to Daytona once and i was late. Man i caught hell! She always thought i was cheating. I guess i was sort of? Hanging out with Greg on the beach?
Me and Greg used to have a contest on who got the best finds. Loser bought lunch at a seafood place. I was buying every new detector that came out. And Greg kept swinging his "teenie weenie", which was an 8" excal ll. He usually held his own until i broke out the dualfield
While my dad was passing i couldn't detect for a few months. I lived on the beach through Greg's eye's. My marriage ended after my dad passed and Greg was there to help me move my vehicles to my new location. Not sure how awkward Greg felt? But man what a friend! Meantime Greg was wanting to be close to his stepmom, who he considered his real mom. I do not know if what i was going through with my own mom's health opened Greg's eyes to what is important or not? But he was a Great guy for going to be close to family, since he was pretty much alone here, except for a few forum friends we detected with.
Greg needed to get his RV going after sitting a couple years. He asked me if we could drop the fuel tank from below. I was like. Then Greg was like " I think we can cut through the floor? Know how to cut aluminum?" I'm saying "Sure, you just turn a circular saw blade backwards." Greg said " I'd prefer you do it since you got experience." We found out real quick they run electric lines and water lines side by side in an RV floor between two sheets of aluminum when we saw sparks and water at the same time After the water repair he found some young kid wanting to siphon the gas to use in a car. The young guy lived in another county and spent three days traveling for $70 worth of gas. Talk about determination.
Todays beaches here do not look like they did back then when me and Greg used to detect together. The storms wrecked dunes that were there before i was born. So some of our prime spots closed not long after Greg moved.
Greg found lots of bucket listers including a gold coin, 18K Rolex watch, and even a real gold pulltab. I will post a link to the pulltab below.
gold pulltabhttp://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=197957
gold coin http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=194813
I called Greg late last month and he sounded bad. If i would have known that would be the last time i talked to him, I'd have said more. Me and Greg were both September babies. And my joke was "You know what our parents were doing Christmas don't you?" Greg would say " You ain't right brother!" Greg passed on Nov 9th and will be put to rest Dec. 8th in the St Pete National Cemetery.
If there are gold pulltabs in the sky, Greg will find them! imalookin2, i'm gonna miss you brother!
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