This weekend was going to be too rough for me to get out in the water. However, I needed to feed the addiction. I hadn’t been on a dry sand hunt all year so I figured that would be fun. We are going through “Art Miami” with many artsy fartsy events, some yearly music events and all sorts of events that attract all the beautiful people with money from all over the world. Noxy is still not repaired from my Treasure Coast trip, but in any case, my preferred weapon for dry sand hunts is my Tesoro Deleon with the “clean sweep coil”. It’s heavy to swing but nothing covers ground like that. I charged the 8 AA batteries on Friday expecting to hunt Saturday at sunrise. I woke up Saturday morning earlier than my alarm and thought to try and go back to sleep as Sunday might be better to hunt – giving an extra busy Saturday night for beach depositors. (Turned out to be the right move! 
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So today was the day I headed out and was on the beach before sunrise to hopefully get my goal of 100 coins. I was surprised at how decently the coins were coming.
Quite a few pocket spills. Less than an hour into the hunt, I see an area that looked like it had late party goers the night before. There were 1 or 2 champagne glasses in the sand, an empty bottle of champagne, and an opened full one sitting in the sand along with some other items. I headed straight to it and swung the coil right in the middle. I got a weird, but loud target sound with the Deleon. As I pull the scoop up, I noticed a nice-looking lady’s watch in the scoop. 
I put it away as there were people nearby. About 5-10 minutes later I pull it out and see that it’s a RADO!!! 
That’s a BIG score and I knew that no matter what else I found my hunt would be successful. 
I hunted for 3.5 hours and was happy when I got home that I had surpassed the 100 coin mark. 
With all the talk of these new “multifrequency” detectors with their depth and ability to “see through iron”, the most important factor of all is getting off the couch and getting out no matter what equipment is in your hands. What’s funny is, I had been recently mulling over selling my Deleon, but when I have hunts like this with that coil there is just nothing else like it for me in the dry sand. I also don’t dirt hunt as much as I used to, but I prefer it hands down as well to my other detectors for its ability to pinpoint accurately. I find it deadly accurate with the regular coils. Looks like the dinosaur is going to remain in the stable with the other machines. There is no golden unicorn detector guys just get out there!
)So today was the day I headed out and was on the beach before sunrise to hopefully get my goal of 100 coins. I was surprised at how decently the coins were coming.
Quite a few pocket spills. Less than an hour into the hunt, I see an area that looked like it had late party goers the night before. There were 1 or 2 champagne glasses in the sand, an empty bottle of champagne, and an opened full one sitting in the sand along with some other items. I headed straight to it and swung the coil right in the middle. I got a weird, but loud target sound with the Deleon. As I pull the scoop up, I noticed a nice-looking lady’s watch in the scoop. I put it away as there were people nearby. About 5-10 minutes later I pull it out and see that it’s a RADO!!! That’s a BIG score and I knew that no matter what else I found my hunt would be successful. I hunted for 3.5 hours and was happy when I got home that I had surpassed the 100 coin mark. With all the talk of these new “multifrequency” detectors with their depth and ability to “see through iron”, the most important factor of all is getting off the couch and getting out no matter what equipment is in your hands. What’s funny is, I had been recently mulling over selling my Deleon, but when I have hunts like this with that coil there is just nothing else like it for me in the dry sand. I also don’t dirt hunt as much as I used to, but I prefer it hands down as well to my other detectors for its ability to pinpoint accurately. I find it deadly accurate with the regular coils. Looks like the dinosaur is going to remain in the stable with the other machines. There is no golden unicorn detector guys just get out there!
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She can stay unhappy. She'd prefer a new case for her Apple watch anyway. 
