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Tis the season to be jolly. Anytime you can be jolly is the season to be jolly, but for beach hunters, the winter months are generally better than the summer months, unless there is a summer storm that shakes things up. From my personal experience, October to April is the best time to find cobs on the beach, with Nov. to February usually being the best of those. It is the opposite of the salvage season around here, which relies on the smoother summer surf. More likely than not we'll have some good opportunities to find cobs on the beach in the next couple of months.
Dan B. was hunting in South Carolina. Here is what he had to say about that.
I spent a solid week of research before heading to SC this year. I was surprised at how difficult things can be if they are not in one's own back yard. Going to unfamiliar territory is strangely challenging. Surprised that anything could stand in my way, I found that everything did. Satellite photos of streams were bulging rivers. The ground and roots in some places combined with many inches of leaf litter reminded me of how nice it is to dig in sugar sand. Trees were down everywhere and shotgun shells seem to be more of an issue than pop tops. Overall, I had a nice time in the woods and learned to appreciate my neck of the woods more. I was able to pull a nice variety of different buttons.
It is nice to be able to hunt various types of locations and do different types of detecting. It is difficult though - especially if you are accustomed to one type of location and one type of hunting.
Most of us beach hunters know the beaches that we hunt. We figured out what type of detector we need and are prepared for the sand and surf. In other locations our equipment might not be so well suited to the environment.
Sifting sand through a scoop is one thing, but digging in rocks or clay is another. You might choose both a different detector and a different type of recovery tool. It can be difficult to see a coin covered with clay, or dig through rocks and pebbles without destroying the coin, or find a target in a pile of leaves. Those are all things I have to do when I detect my favorite site in West Virginia.
A different search strategy might be required too. You don't have the surf to sift and sort things when you are not on the beach. You might have some sifting and sorting though, as I described in a recent post. You have water runoff, and you have erosion in some spots, so there are some similarities.
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| Buttons Found by Dan B. During A Land Hunt In S. C. |
Large flatty with no front design and broken shank. Looking closely you can see "plated" on the second. The last two don't appear as old.
Thanks Dan.
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Los Angeles, CA)—Artifacts from the epic movie "The Ten Commandments" are starting to surface from underneath the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes in California...
A giant sphinx was found in the dunes earlier this year and it's currently on display at the nonprofit Dunes Center in Guadalupe. More remains are expected to be found from a "lost city" that boasted a huge temple, four more sphinxes, massive statues, a 750-foot-long wall, and amenities.
Hamilton said roughly 2,500 people lived in the camp for several months during the film's production...
Here is the link for the rest of that story.
http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=17132
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That is all for today.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net