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The legend of the rafters lost ring
johnnybravo300
post Dec 6 2016, 07:55 PM
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Winter is long and the digging gets so limited around here that I was thinking of hitting a few of the landings along the Taylor or Gunnison rivers?
We have tons of rafting traffic all summer and I'm sure a few of them might lose some jewelry getting in and out of the rafts? That's when it seems to happen.
I have a cheapy f2 that I got used but I can set it to detect gold (pull tabs) and silver (quarters and dimes?)
Hopefully any actual pull tabs have blown away with the other light trash, but that would at least set me to the right targets. I wouldn't be trying to dig every target while standing in freezing water in my waders. Only the select targets. Gold and silver jewelry of course a few pull tabs hehe.

I was reading about beach hunting along the coasts so it made me think of our "beaches" along the rivers. Has anyone detected areas like this with any luck?
I would be limited to working in the water since the dry ground would be frozen but there could be things just off shore in shallow water.
In cold water fingers and wrists shrink, necklaces can be caught in life vests and paddles by unwary oblivious tourists...I'm just tossing a bone here....what do you think?


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nate
post Mar 16 2017, 07:02 PM
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I've been looking into this a lot recently. Especially with daylight savings time and the long afternoon, I have 4-6 hours of daylight minimum after work 3 days a week. Bought my whites treasure pro last year and had a blast with it on dry ground. I've spent the last 2 weeks on drives home from working looking for old farms) structures that would have been around for 100 years or better. I'm hoping I can find some landowners who would let me go peruse with my whites. Also, I've recently been watching a YouTube adventurer named nuggetnoggin and he does a lot of water detecting back east......All that to say I have a bad itch that needs a hard scratching.
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