2013 Hunt#8 Lord of the Rings, Literally

Good day everyone.. and i mean it!
Had a time before my afternoon shift to get to the beach for an outgoing tide,
The first target was a bit junker silver ring, then pull tab, and 3d target of the morning was a heavy 9 CT band! :-)
See the video here :

I didnt film any other recoveries , but i got total 6 rings for the day and a Silver Locket (tried to find a chain around- no chain, or to thin fro Excal)

Here are all finds for today :

The Close up of rings:

 The Ring on the right upper corner is a "The One Ring" from "Lord of the Rings"






I also got two silver 3 pence :-) one English and on NZ

Thanks for visiting ,y Blog and all comments are welcome :-)

Ring Recovery for Magdalena and Scott by Allan- Mount Maunganui 29/12/2012

It was my please arrange a ring Recovery by Mount Maunganui resident Allan via my metal detecting website : www.metaldetecting.co.nz

Here is what they write :
"Thanks again so much for helping us find our precious wedding ring and getting us in touch with Alan who found it so efficiently for us.
As you know we lost our ring while swimming in the surf at mt maunganui beach at high tide. After hours of fruitless searching in the dark and in the pouring rain we thought we would never see it again. We considered hiring a metal detector the next day, but fortunately came across your website first. Thanks for picking up our call at 10:30 pm and organizing getting in touch with Alan.
Alan was an amazing help and clearly a very experienced searcher as he found the ring in no time. The ring was already buried under 5 cm of sand, so the metal detector was the only way of ever finding it.
Thanks so much, it's amazing having the ring back as it means so much to us.
Lesson learnt - never swim in cold surf with wedding rings. :-)
Kind regards
Magdalena and Scott Taylor"


Here is word from Allan :

"Hi Max
I was very pleased to be involved in this textbook recovery,was very happy for them as the Ring was one of a matching pair
The Mount was packed with people their for New Year and quite a few had gathered around to witness the Recovery and clapped(something I will remember for along time)
Regards  Allan "

2013 Hunt#6&7 Once nice, next day sanded in

Good day everyone,
Went on the evening hunt last night at Cheltenham Beach, Devonport, Auckland

And  o Boy! what an evening, first target is a coin spill of 4$ -that covered the ferry ticket right away (it usually cost 6$ one way from Auckland cbd to the Devonport, but i got 10 ride pass for 40$ )

Then moving through enormous ammount of "Fluffy" sand i got to one of the popular sport of the beach and ... Bang! a Ring... and you would not belive me.. it turned out to be another PALLADIUM 950 ring! Crazy! 2 similar rings in 2 weeks

The next good target i hit took me about 30 minutes to collect..... and the reason was - about 100 coins were spilled/deliberately dropped at the beach. There were just blobs of coins, as some of them were crappy plated steel ones like use 1 cent and nz 10 cents and other...

 And then with the night fall... i got it.......I GOT IT!!! :

It is 18 Carat 5.56 grams :-)

Here are all the finds with coins being cleaned up :

Sweet hunt of only about 4 hours...
But that was yeastarday.

Today i went to the same beach to finish couple of spots i was unble to do as i had to run for my return ferry.
and... nothing... i got absolutely nothing today....
I am pretty sure that i jinxed it saying that "oh its easy to find couple of bucks at the beach during summer"
i will never say that again :-)

Thanks for reading and see you all at the beach 

The Reason i chicken out to detect in water during dark hours

The reason is really simple :

Never, never detect beach(in water) during night time.

2013 Hunt#5 Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake!

Good day everyone,


Woke up with the sun rise to catch the first bus for Mission Bay :

And a return ticket (by time stamps you see that it was 6 hours:45 minutes!)


With low tide around 8 am i was able to finish the whole wet sand at mission bay before tide start coming up, so i moved to Kohi beach....

But first the mission bay fidns,
I got about 13$ HEAPS of junk blink,
the only 2 piece of Jewellery that are of mention are Big silver ring with a "roses" and a silver hoop ring :

The ring is 9.6 Grams

The Kohi was a big triple disappointment!
First of all, it looks like someone already cleaned it out last night, and dropped a number of those stainless steell pallets around - same as last year (see on main picture of all finds)
Second Disappointment was a FAKE wedding band! I almost thought :"YAY 1st gold , finally" and then ...   :-(  ...
I think someone deliberately dropped that ring in surf for me to find... and i even can guess who.......i will check with that person :-)

and Third one was  Key find request- sounds easy and the area was pretty small on dry sand.... but... Key was lost yesterday during the day and whoever went over Kohimarama last night picked it up.

Fellow detectorists readin my blog, whoever went to Kohi last night and picked up a house Key with a mailmbox key on a ring with a triangle, Please send me a txt 0272766257 so we can return it to the person.

And here are all of my finds :

Hope you all enjoy the sunny weather
See you at the beach

2013 Hunt#4 The Lord of the Rings and the chain to hold them all

Good day!
Still chasing my Gold Ring for my Australian Competition... No success :-(

Spent about 4 hours at the beach this morning and even had a chance to try out PI machine!
Garrett Sea hunter is an interesting machine and i liked that it was possible to"shape" the object by signal, but i do not like to dig bobby pins. nails and other ferrous targets, where my Excal just nulls them

Here are all the Uncleaned finds from the beach (+ 7.2$ that went into piggy bank right away)

No No, there were not found on the chain at once :-) i just put them like that :-)

Total 33.11 of sterling :

And lets make a nice composition again :

Tomorrow, Tomorrow is the day i find my first gold for 2013 :-)

2013 Hunt#3 Somewhere around Northshore beaches

Good day!
Trying really hard to find my first gold of 2013... but still no success,.....


Check these finds from today : 

So you see 2 rings ,

No they are not both silver.... :-)
The band on the left is a wooping 6.75 Platinum stamped 950 :-)

Sweet! :-)
thanks for stopping by