Metal Detecting Beating the Odds

No matter how much you educate yourself. No matter how much knowledge you choose to absorb. Mo matter what kind of metal detector you have, it all still boils down to odds or luck.

Sure knowing how to read the beach will increase those odds and your luck will improve but it all really comes down to you moving your metal detector coil over that buried treasure. If you do not do that then you will not find anything. You have to get out there and hunt that treasure.

I have spoken in the past about looking at the beach and studying it. Try to find what looks like any low spots. This time of year, the winter, the beach is being changed and sometimes those changes are quite drastic. I found a strip of beach the other day that was cut really hard. What does that mean? It means that the beach has been eroded and a lot of sand has been moved.  How do I know that this beach had been eroded? Well it was pretty obvious.

This section of beach typically has  a nice gradual slope as you approach the water.  I have found gold quite often at this beach but only when the beach was not a gradual slope. It has produced treasure for me when it was more like a 35 degree angle going towards the water.

When I arrived there yesterday, I did what I always do. I got out of my car and surveyed the beach  looking for any signs of change.  When I first arrived, the beach looked flat, very flat but upon closer inspection it was just the opposite. I looked south and saw steep slopes. I looked north and too my surprise I saw large cliffs  where the water had eaten away at the beach. These areas are by far the best. These cliffs were over three feet tall. That means that over three feet of sand has been removed and carried out to sea or down the beach.  I was excited. I hit the area pretty hard and was finding lots of green coins and old big fishing weights. These weights are always a good sign.  If you start finding a lot of fishing weights, you will almost always start to find other heavy metals like gold and platinum. I worked this nice cut beach for about three hours and came away with some pretty cool finds.

Check out this picture of the how much sand was removed at this beach. My scoop in this picture is over four feet tall. Also something to notice are the layers of sand. Notice the top layer and then underneath there is a fine white layer of sand. That layer had been buried for a long time! The seas are supposed to increase to six and eight feet over the week. If they come from the right direction, this section of beach just might become a gold mine!