South Korea Beach Finds

[echo]

Well, I had my first weekend out with the Garrett Ace 150. I am really impressed.

Detector: It's a basic detector. Turn on and go. I'm new to detecting so this is ideal for me. At first I put the detector on "All Metal" and turned the sensitivity up to full. In this mode it found everything.
I then set the detector to "Jewellery" and kept the sensitivity on full. This eliminated the iron junk.
It does lack a pin point feature, so I used a X pattern to locate finds.
It was finding bottle tops at depths of 10+ inches on dry sand. It also worked on wet sand and I dug down to around 8+ inches on the wet sand.

Finds: Well, I basically found all the rubbish and junk you could imagine. Bottle tops register with the same tone and visual indicator as gold rings. So I was really excited only to find bottle top after bottle top. There was hundreds of pull taps, after a while I just didn't dig that signal. No gold rings or jewellery. I found 25p worth of modern coins!

Here is the best find:

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A 69' Ford Torino

Was good fun and I'll be out this weekend at a different beach.

[Dave8472]

Well done on the car, Clint Eastwood would be proud

Dave

[keithf]

Sorry for the naivety, but are you in South Korea? (judging by the scenery in the pic that isn't UK) Nice find, didn't starsky & hutch drive a torino?

[onthebeach]

Hi think they drove a Morris Marina

[tinsmith]

Nice picture , car looks like its ready to drive off
Not many people can get an ace to work on wet sand though , your doing well

[Dave8472]

Hi think they drove a Morris Marina

That was my first car

Dave

[Dave8472]

Poster lives in South Korea and this was his best find

Not sure if post should be in this section or "International Metal Detecting Friends"

Dave

[echo]

Yes, I live in South Korea. I posted in the beach section as I went MDing on a beach here. If it's not in the right place, please move it MODs.

The car was found on a beach here. It's a nice car and the mountain in the background is the view from my window. Old Clint would be proud!

I was surprised the Ace 150 worked on the wet sand. It was finding loads of bottle tops and I even buried my own gold ring as a test. It didn't like the shallow sea water though and kept false reading "Iron" or "Nickel".

I'm off to another beach this weekend, I'm after my first gold ring. So watch this space. B-)

[Dave8472]

Hi Echo, might just be worth editing the sublect to "South Korea Beach Finds" ?

You are doing well on the beach with the Ace, as people say they are a little difficult on wet sand, but sounds like you have mastered it



Dave

[stephenbeetleman]

The grand ford torino joins the detecting finds forum collection! Also dug up this week was an e type jag, a fire engine, and ambulance and an aeroplane!

Onthebeach .... if clint eastwood had of drove a morris marina he wouldnt have lived through all the dirty harry films he would have got shot way too many times due to the marinas woeful acceleration!

[keithf]

[quote="stephenbeetleman"]The grand ford torino joins the detecting finds forum collection! Also dug up this week was an e type jag, a fire engine, and ambulance and an aeroplane! quote]

You can add a ford explorer van fire engine and a 1980 corvette to that list!
Beautiful view from your window echo, better than what I see when I look out of mine!

[Hieronymus]

Hi

Good to hear that you are doing well with your new machine. You can always try to look for local fields or pasture with some history attached and ask present owners for the permission. I bet you can find old coins there!

[echo]

Dave8472: Title changed As to mastering the Ace...I guess it all depends on the composition of the sand in regards to its content. The Ace is so simple to use. I think it is fantastic. It just does what it does. Great piece for the money. I don't do anything but dig

I will be hitting a different coast this weekend, so I'm sure the sand composition will be slightly different. We'll see what happens.I'm hoping for the best

Next weekend I'm going inland to some sites with another detectorist/detective?? Is that what you call people with this hobby? Should be interesting. I know people have found some very old coins.

[echo]

Just an update:

Visited another coastline last weekend. I detected 2 beaches and again found nothing but rubbish.

I'm learning a lot and it's great fun. The detector truly amazes me with it's depth. The only notable find was a rice bowl lid. It was notable as it was buried nearly 18 inches down. I had no idea a detector would go that deep. It was in dry sand and was a very strong signal. I nearly gave up digging but had to see what it was.

The Ace did struggle on a certain part of the beach that had lots of black sand deposits. This lead to constant false signal. The detector really struggled there.

Here's the rice bowl lid and the only modern coins I found, plus a large aluminium screw.

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No gold or silver but lots and lots of rubbish.