Recently I’ve had some nice luck at the beaches north of Santa Cruz. A couple weeks back I found the ring on the left, it has a ruby and looks somewhat roughed up by the sand and waves but my wife still likes it! The one in the middle I found last weekend. It was pitch black with tarnish but in good shape. The little ring at the left I found even earlier than the other two.. it was in a high sand bank in an area hard to get normally… I love my Tesoro Sand Shark and I am getting more in tune with it each time I use it!

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I found lots of very worn and deteriorated clad coins but nothing really interesting to show..

One thing I learned that’s really helpful is that when you find a place that is producing targets, you don’t want to leave it for other places until you truly stop finding anything else there. A friend of mine named “Hoss” who is a nugget hunter, keeps going back over and again to hunt nuggets at a place where you would think it has been all hunted out.. well, he keeps finding nuggets there and he keeps going back!

The place I found this ring is kind of like that. Each time I go back I find plenty more targets to dig up and they are all older coins and relics. So – if you find a place like this, be patient hunt it slowly and thoroughly and then do it again and again until you really stop getting anything.

— Cheers and Happy Hunting!