Category: Minelab Sovereign

My friend’s apartment at the coast is empty for a month, AND comes the fact that I found so much last week (5x silver and 1 golden ring). So I headed back for more.
The beach, however, didn’t see things the same way. There had been a storm and most of the wet part far or close to the high-tideline seemed to not give anything except some scrap metal. I scouted a new spot in front of an old camping site, but also gave nothing but pulltabs. More pulltabs and balls of aluminum foil I got all through the hunting in these 3 days.. so it seemed the light stuff was lying in the upper layer and the rest went missing. I tried to find my sweet spot of last week again but I failed to dig up anything. Kinda realized I have to stop relying on ‘I will remember it with just my brain’. I need to put it in Google maps next time.
On top of that, my Sovereign GT was singing all the time which was annoying me. Cannot be a bad cable connection so soon on a new coil. So after 2.5 hrs I decide to head back to the parking (free parking at least during week days !!) and on the first signal on the dry sand, I see gold shining (I wonder if I hit the last 2 gold rings with my shovel since they were visible in the hole after digging ..) and there it is, a big 18kt wedding band. Woopsie.
That’s twice in 8 days. Three times in 6 months. 4 times I went to the coast and found 3 golden rings, and I don’t even go for longer than 2-3hrs lately because I’m wrecked after that. I’m amazed at my luck (it can’t be anything else). Whereas I LIVE on a Roman city and barely find anything that is worth bringing back home in these fields..
THe 2 next days were pretty crappy but if you found a big golden ring on day 1, who cares if you find a grand total 20 cent on 2 different beaches the next day 😀 DAy 3 I was roaming around on the dry a bit more, because the sand had been moved by bulldozers and there were some coins at the entrance. Did try the pools on the wet on Day 2 with absolutely NOthing to show afterwards. Did manage to find 5 euro altogether on the dry and the twilight zone. Good thing I didn’t have to pay parking because I would be at a loss. Sucks that the beach can just close its doors in a few days time, but on the other hand: so much gold lately. And that with a machine that hasn’t been in production since 2013.

Regarding the sound problems, I went out with the same coil attached to Excalibur 1000 on day 2 and it was really silent. So maybe my sens is too high for Sovereign GT.. I don’t know.
I remember being pissed because I didn’t find anything in the first hours and thinking i would want a new DEUS II because it wouldn’t have cable problems lol. But i don’t know if i would regret selling the vintage BBS detectors with their nice sound. Plus new Deus comes at quite a price with unit and headphones that aren’t really necessary. Big commercial move. Presales before Christmas so people can spend their money and they won’t even get their detector in the next weeks. Well, nothing’s on fire. I have 5 detectors at the moment. It’s hard to sell the first Sovereign, and there are 2 others for sale at the same time. Hard to sell the 14inch coil for Sovereign that I hardly used 3x. I got myself another Deus which is like new, just to test it and to realize that, yes, I just don’t find anything in these fields and it’s not the detector’s fault.

My friend asked me to come over to bring her to the airport on Monday morning. The forecast wasn’t exactly predicting it would be anything of a nice type of weather but I was so lucky to have had 3 beach trips without any rain ! The lowest end of Belgian’s beach has a special climate which is either rainy when the rest is dry or the opposite. So lucky me went out on the first day when it was a feisty icecold wind, and of course i forgot something in the car: my goggles to keep my nose from running. FOund only a piece of 2 euro and a junk ring (which cleaned up quite nicely still). The sand looked like it has been piling up on the dry beach again so it looked like the detecting would again be without much result.

Day 2: got my goggles and my 3 pants and 2 socks but then the sun came out and I had to return to the car to lose some clothing :p Found 6 euro, and a sweet spot in front of the hill where this stainless steel Diesel chain came out. I figured I’d try to look around in front of the hill as the water would bash into it and targets wouldn’t get further and sink in there.. I was right: the 2 pieces of same bracelet were there near each other. Weird. I saw a girl with a detector and her dad struggling to get a target out and went to warn them about the metal in the underground at that point. Never had a spot there before but as the tide was coming in, i had to move back to the dry sand as usual. Was happy with my Diesel chain.

Unexpectedly, a 3rd day came as I appeared to have misunderstood the deal and I had to return home only on Tuesday, so Monday: free parking day !! I took my time but it got misty and I found absolutely NOTHING on the same location; All bugged I decided to move on to another spot 20 minutes away. It’s in front of the buildings where I found a sweet spot before with older coins and bullets. this time I went around in raster and found a silver earring, a piece of silver bracelet, a silver angel wing and a golden ring finally ! I had it in mind but don’t we always have it in mind :p IT’s hollow and so small that it even fits me but fair enough; THree times gold since October 2020. Not too bad for someone who only comes every couple of months.

I had the Minelab Sovereign GT and the Detech 12 inch coil which is a great combo, seeing how deep it finds some bigger items and also how small some other items are. I found some flat circular things of 5mm wide.

My Xpointer MAx didn’t work on day 3 and kept giving an alarm and RAISE COIL. I didn’t know how to fix it so i returned to the car (again sigh) to get my pulsedive. I messaged Quest on Facebook and they told me to return it to the shop. Not sure how much that would cost me, as the thing is expensive enough on its own.. I’ll see for a while.