I’m just returning to detecting beaches after a long lay off, digging out my explorer and tying to reacquaint my self with it. I had five short sessions so far, the first was a bit of a disaster with just about every thing that could go wrong going wrong. Basic mistakes no gloves couldn’t find a single repeatable signal on the wet stuff so after doubting the detector was working I relocated up to the dry stuff. I Discover a cashe of bottle tops at least proving my machine was working.
My second trip was much better concentrating on the dry stuff finding lots of bottle tops ring pulls and junk. Cost £2 to park and I found 3p and they were both mackerel lol. I dug most if the signals many knowing they were iron but getting confidence in the machine.
Third trip was my local beach, walking there as the wife had the car. I fared a little better still digging a lot of crap but in amongst that I managed £1.76 in loose Change and I think a silver ring, I say I think because the tone isn’t as high as other silver rings I have, possibly it’s pewter there’s no numbers on the inside, but it’s has some sort of inscription on the out side but I’m having trouble reading it.
The forth was over low water hoping for some jewelry I know the beach well as I fish here as well and knew as soon as I got there it was heavenly sanded.not deterred I got stuck in dug a lot of blobs of aluminium probably left overs from barbecue time. They give a great signal and have to be dug, I dug a lot of small bits of aluminium cans as well. Later on I was rewarded with a nice stainless steel ring. Not very deep and in very good condition so I’m guessing a recent loss.
Trip five was the same beach as the low water adventure only up on the dry and the start of the wet stuff. I dug lots of crap in the end the signals with a low tone right at the bottom of the screen I left. Not a single coin came up, this is a busy beach even in winter there’s lots of dog walkers, cold weather swimmers, and people generally milling around should be something coming up. I’m begging to think that the beach has a resident detectorist or maybe two or three
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its Steep relearning curve but I’m quite keen at the moment so onwards and upwards gents..
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