Yahoo, two gold rings and a diamond encrusted brooch off Talacre sands.
I wish!
Swung through the hours, from 0630 to 1530 and gave a few bits of kit a good exercising. The Safari/Nel Big coil combination worked well, once I gave up all metals and the manual sensitivity setting of 20. Once I flipped the machine back onto auto sensitivity and set coin and jewelry mode into operation it fare settled down.
Sadly, the Easyswing bungee wasn't man enough to stand up to the weight of the Safari/Nel Big coil combo and repeatedly stretched beyond use, despite repeatedly adjusting both the elasticated and webbing straps. The backup bungee supported the machine somewhat better but restricted my swing. Time for a rethink on bungees, me thinks!
Earlier in the month I had a problem with a set of headphones and wasn't sure if the problem was down to the jack plug, or the Safari socket. Switching to my set of Coss headphones resolved the situation and proved that it was the jack plug on the other phones that was causing the intermittent connection problem.
Sadly no bling and only one coin, a George VI ship halfpenny, but stumbled upon an unusual section of beach that keeps producing WWII .303 brass cartridge cases that initially look as brassy as the day they were dropped there by fighter aircraft. The cases soon tarnish once recovered and the air gets to them.
The Safari worked well differentiating between the cartridge cases, 50 cal projectiles, .303s, copper jackets, and small shrapnel. But not a single coin was to be found in amongst all that scrap. Next time out I may reintroduce the Quest Q40 to Talacre and see what it makes of the same section of beach; I sure won't need a bungee for it!
Chris