Japan Beach Hunt
DignDeep
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Hey All,
I joined the forum a couple months ago. Stationed at Misawa AB Japan and hunt with Trashman. Trashman is still learning his XLT, and expanded his detector stable with a Tesoro Silver Sabre (I had to downsize my collection). Good thing he and his predecessors weren't skilled experts with that XLT, I sure pulled alot of coins out of those "cleaned" shrines, hehe!
We did some research and located a beach 4 hrs south in Miyagi Prefecture that was advertised as "2 km of white sand beach" with 800 parking spots. We left at 0300 and arrived around 0730.
Sounded promising, but what a disappointment. The 800 spots were on a dirt road, and there was graffiti and trash all over (not to mention a big fish skull larger than a football).
So we made our way to another beach- Matsubara. It was nice, bagged about 3000 yen (30 bucks) but no jewelry. Trashman found a nice silver necklace, maybe he'll post it for us!
On beaches my weapon of choice is my Eric Foster Aquasearch pulse machine. Awesome on small gold and really pulls in the 100 and 500 yen coins. If trashy, I switch to my Excalibur. The locals here don't seem to wear jewelry in the water. I water hunted three beaches here so far and only found 1 silver ring.
This is a pic of some of the jewelry I found my first few months while stationed at Hickam AFB in Hawaii (my last assignment). I was there for 26 months, 12 of which were spent TDY or deployed (PI and Iraq). I hope to get stationed there again someday!
I'll be deployed soon to Afghanistan, but hope to post more next summer. Thanks for looking! Happy hunting!
Jim
I joined the forum a couple months ago. Stationed at Misawa AB Japan and hunt with Trashman. Trashman is still learning his XLT, and expanded his detector stable with a Tesoro Silver Sabre (I had to downsize my collection). Good thing he and his predecessors weren't skilled experts with that XLT, I sure pulled alot of coins out of those "cleaned" shrines, hehe!
We did some research and located a beach 4 hrs south in Miyagi Prefecture that was advertised as "2 km of white sand beach" with 800 parking spots. We left at 0300 and arrived around 0730.
Sounded promising, but what a disappointment. The 800 spots were on a dirt road, and there was graffiti and trash all over (not to mention a big fish skull larger than a football).
So we made our way to another beach- Matsubara. It was nice, bagged about 3000 yen (30 bucks) but no jewelry. Trashman found a nice silver necklace, maybe he'll post it for us!
On beaches my weapon of choice is my Eric Foster Aquasearch pulse machine. Awesome on small gold and really pulls in the 100 and 500 yen coins. If trashy, I switch to my Excalibur. The locals here don't seem to wear jewelry in the water. I water hunted three beaches here so far and only found 1 silver ring.
This is a pic of some of the jewelry I found my first few months while stationed at Hickam AFB in Hawaii (my last assignment). I was there for 26 months, 12 of which were spent TDY or deployed (PI and Iraq). I hope to get stationed there again someday!
I'll be deployed soon to Afghanistan, but hope to post more next summer. Thanks for looking! Happy hunting!
Jim
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I detected Barbers Point and the beach near the Hale Koa while TDY back in '97 and got skunked. Found a mere 6 cents and a key over a period of 2 months.
Drool.....
Wow!!! That's very impressive! That would be a lifetime of hunting for me at my current jewelry finding rate!
Well worthy of a
You....
I was lucky enough to live across from the Ilikai (Honolulu Harbor) for a couple months. I pulled about 10-15 pieces out of the Hickam Base Beach. The rest came from Waikiki (starting at the Pink Hotel toward Queens Beach), a few from Hale Koa, Barbers Point, Ewa Beach and ZERO from the North Shore! My favorite spots are the pools at Queens and Ala Moana. Barbers Point was good in the dry sand. There are alot of Iron deposits and mineralization there so water hunting is difficult, not to mention the waves. I did get in the water once with my Excal and got TONS of silver, including two thick silver chains weighing almost 60 grams each!! I hunted with a guy named Terry there. Electronics wizard and knows water hunting like nobody's business. Can read a beach like the back of his hand.
After my wife picked through the best, I wound up selling about $4000 worth in the first year. The move to Misawa was good for my career, but I kick myself in the @$$ everytime I see a nice jewelry post on the web.
I clean all my jewelry using dremel tool with cleaning disks, buffing wheels and rouge (available at your local jewelry supply store), and tumble my own coins.
If you ever head toward Hawaii again shoot me an email and I'll give you more info.
Jim
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Jim
Neat finds from Hawaii.
I used to detect the beaches and other areas there when I went on vacation. I found a few rings and lots of coins, but after a while it seemed that the beaches 'dried' up.
Ala Moana Beach was really interesting one day when I found about 10 quarters in one little spot - I watched where the water was flowing back out after the waves came in and 'hit the jackpot'. First and last time I ever found something like that.
The best thing I found was a chain type ring with diamonds on it on the beach in Waikiki.
I also found an old gold cross with Chinese characters on it and next to it was an old diamond ring. That lot vacant lot gave up a few silver dimes as well.
I found so many small coins that I put them in rolls and took them to the then First Hawaiian Bank (Are they still in business or have they been bought out) and the tellers REFUSED to take them......so I ended up using them in vending machines and throwing away the pennies!
In Japan I did the beach in Tsuruga and found basically nothing. I did a few parks in Nagoya where I lived at the time and found a few coins and a couple of cheap rings, but never did any places out in the country.
Next time your stationed in Hawaii, Try to find a unrestricted portion of Pearl Harbor. You're bound to find some sort of artifact. Even a simple bullett would be a nice keepsake.
I've never found a real "sweet spot" with multiple items, but I sure did like the beaches there. Before that I was stationed in Alabama and went to the Florida Panhandle alot. Slim picking with the deep sand and wave action.
First Hawaiian is still there. Beaches here in Northern Japan are few and far between. We've found a few rings, not many. Quite a bit of Yen though- I love those 500 ($5) yen coins!!
Lamborghini- I hunted an old beach across the harbor from Pearl and found over a dozen pieces of brass and a few live small arms rounds from the war. Pretty cool to think the Japanese mini subs were just a few hundred yards from where I detected.
Jim