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All sorts popped up today :)....

That's not a ring, it's a knuckle duster. :o

Plenty of digging there, well done you. Think I did about as much as that in the garden this afternoon. ::) and I only found weeds.

Val

I know size on it :O  and thats my good deed done cleaning all that off the beach :P

Cor Matt you've been busy. what detector are you using?
 Knuckle duster Val  ;D. How does a PROPER  LADY know about these things? ;D

minelab explorer  xs :D

Dylan, back in the 60's I used to go out with a Teddy Boy  :o ::)  He had a lovely big knuckle duster  ;D

Val

Found a bullet with unis 9x17 if anyone knows what that was fired from aswell ?:)

Fair play to that digging Matt, typical Aberavon finds thou ;) ;) ;)

Nice Ring Matt  ;)
Can't understand what I was doing wrong  :-[ I spent about 3 hours down Aber today, and only managed to come up with a few fishing weights  :P

The last few outings ive done ,have either been all weights or bullets depends which end i go , Atleast i had a variety today :P

A 9 x17 is a 9mm probably from a Browning 9mm pistol which has been the common sidearm for the British army from the war right up to today (it's being phased out now for the Glock)

O Yeah, I forgot to mention the bullets coming up today  ::)

ahhh thanks geoff :D  i know aberavon is full of them! how many bullets you get out today jeff?

Not so many today that I couldn't walk back up the beach  :P

wow mat you must be knackered mate weldone,surprised you didnt get more rings come up mate,im off to barry today but will try aberavon tonight then tenby tomoz.get back out there and get some gold bud.its there try a different spot where fishing weights coming up all over the place.
 i had a ring like that off there with a huge glass stone,thought it was a diamond and nearly had a heart attack lol

i know when i first seen it out the hole i was like :O:O Working 4 days straight so you can have my share of the gold ;)

I went down Aberavon yesterday; it was the first time I'd used my detector.  I was there for just over an hour and really just used it as an exercise to try to get familiar with it.  My first ever find was a rusty tent peg :(. 

By the end of my time down there I'd found 2 tent pegs, a stainless steel spoon handle, a rusty pair of pliers, a fishing weight with some sharp spikes sticking out (could've been nasty if someone had stepped on it) and a manky 20p piece! 

I had a few false signals too on the wet sand (mineralisation?) and a few times I dug and found what looked like bits of rust in the sand from something.  I quite enjoyed my first time out though :).  I think it was that "unknown element" of what I was going to find; sort of like a lucky dip.

Aberavon has that effect on people Venger, tent pegs tend to be high up on the beach line between Remos and the Lifeguard station due to the gala events they have throughout the year. Gripper leads are always a threat well done for taking that one out.
You did well buddy especially when you are getting use to your machine. Just think of it this way, lead is heavy and so is gold, so your covering a possible area for it. Getting use to a beach is hard work, and takes time just the same as knowing your unit. Nice one well done.  ;) ;)
Just as a point of curio what unit you using?

Those false signals your getting is probably deep iron ,aberavon is full of it , Just keep trying to learn the machine and listen to those signals. You will have get some junk but amongst that is the goodies :D

Alun, I'm using a Visua MD10 that I had bought for me by my girlfriend for my birthday this year.  I'm not actually that gutted by the tent pegs as they come in handy for football for securing the nets :).  My girlfriend took the gripper lead as she has a colleague in work that goes fishing a lot.  I couldn't do anything with the pliers and the spoon handle so they went in the bin when I got home.  I wasn't as far down as Remo's; I went down the steps by section E (in between Franco's and the end of the promenade) and detected in between there and the end of the promenade.

Matthew, I think you're right about the deep iron as I dug a hole almost a foot deep and the detector was still producing a signal when I put it in the hole.  I didn't dig any  further than that though as I didn't think there was any point (I didn't think the detector was good for detecting any further than 6 or so inches down so I thought the original signal was false) and I was just starting to hit water too.

I know the feeling you have , ive learnt the iron singals now but i was digging about five false holes a trip, try  detecting the spot from 2 angles if it's iron usually picks up only on one, also the size of the target can be a clue :) On my detector ive got iron on a low sound and other metal on a high sound, If i look on the screen iron seems to bounce around on the id .

Matthew, thanks for the tips.  I'll follow your advice next time I'm out and about and hopefully find some goodies :).

no worries goodluck :D