Ah, okay! Understandable, thanks!

I can't help you out with your question. But I have some good advice for you. Don't take your younger brother with you when you go detecting. Many years ago I want with my older brother to the Jersey shore.
He just got his first machine and was giving it his first try
Little did he know I had a pocket of pennies,and I was behind him tossing them in his sweep path . He was going nuts,and had visions of gold necklaces just waiting for the pickings.
He didn't think it was so funny when he found out,but I had a blast that day.
PS
Go ahead and down vote me , I deserve it.

I laughed.

My local sawmill uses them but still require a substantial deposit just in case they miss something and damage a blade.

Those of you who detect for civil war relics, how do you get permission? I live in a good area for it, but have no connections to actually hunt for anything. I have a cheapo detector, but it’s good enough to find some bullets. I have no visions of finding buckles or buttons...I’d just like to pull some bullets here and there.
If anyone in the are wants so my robe to tag along with them, let me know!

I've been out of hunting for years but if I was digging percussion caps I knew I was hunting well. If you are serious buy the best machine you can. Always try to get permission but sometimes I would find railroad tracks that intersect a roadway, hop out, go a ways down the tracks, enter the woods. Always cover your dug holes.

I have a Whites M6 with a sunray probe, the probe was an essential investment. I had a cheap handheld probe at one point but lost it along the way when it fell out of my pocket somewhere thats when I bought the sunray since it mounts inline and clips to the detector.
I haven't gone out in a few years now but from just detecting local parks and a few old home sites I managed to find a couple hundred in clad coins, junk silver jewelry, a handful of silver coins lots of junk etc. My best find was a 10K gold ring found along the fence of a tennis court I think I dug 3 or 4 pull tabs out of the same hole then the gold ring popped up.

My Nautilus doesn't seem to care for salt water but might try again this spring. There's a lot of crap on the beach, fishing weights etc. I much preferred the Virginia woods.

I always say I should hit the beach after a big storm.

I think it was just south of Canaveral, but he isn’t saying….

If I had to buy a detector today for <$500 what would you guys recommend? I don’t mean to hijack the thread or anything.

In the video there is a bit of land sticking out from the shore with some sort of structure showing. It is grainy as hell, but looks like Canaveral to me. Not too many other options for something like that on Florida’s east coast.

Check out the Nokta Macro Symplex.

Very good detector & not super expensive.

https://www.netflix.com/nz/title/80065658

Good stuff.

I get the impression it is public accessible beach. His partner tells him to hurry with the vid before people near them see what it is.

I found these at a garage sale 10+ years ago for $5 each.

The spectrum had a dead battery pack, and the coinmaster no battery. No chargers either, but I couldn’t pass on them for the price.

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It depends on where you live. Here in Maryland, you would not be able to metal detect on my property here on the Chesapeake Bay, even if you came by skiff. I have a natural beach, and even though it is below the high water mark, I have exclusive riparian rights to it. Could be different in other states.

That XLT was a steal for sure. That’s the best under $500 detector. The one somebody else bought new, then quickly grew disillusioned with the hobby.

A great series. You'll have to watch for sure.

This is wanting me to break out my old Minelab and go detectoring around @DBLM's back yard!

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Florida beaches are public land. When we were in the Boston area I was surprised to see public parks on the coast that were only for the locals (parking anyway).

Here are the Maryland Laws:
1. The State owns the land under the water, and the United States has an overriding interest in preserving public navigation.
2. The waterfront property owner has the right to accretion (such as a beach deposited by currents) and access, but a government may regulate access such as piers and wharves to assure that public rights are protected.
3. The right to extend and improve, where granted, transfers with the property.
4. The right to extend and improve does not allow a landowner to intrude on his neighbor’s rights.
5. The riparian owner has the “right of access” to and from the waters.

This even applies to folks building duck blinds in front of your property. It is a convoluted process involving how much waterfront you own or get permission to, but you can prevent people building duck blinds in front of your property. All dependent upon size of the navigable water, distance from property lines, etc. Took me two years to get my dock permit to go through. https://dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/Pages/Licenses/riparian.aspx

Edit: here is Maryland’s metal detecting laws for state lands. Seems restrictive, but I get it. https://dnr.maryland.gov/Publiclands/Pages/MetalDetecting.aspx

Shit @fulltilt, you know you are permanently barred from up here . Scared you will talk all my Boss Hog and Old Carter back to TN.

Got to go rent a detector or buy a cheap one. With the new fencing going in, I have two pegs I need to go find here in the next few weeks. The wooden stakes from the survey decomposed in 2 years time. Salt water is hard on things.