In the words of David Vilett.
“Thanks to all who participated in making this one of the best seeded hunts Coinshooters has ever had! If you missed it you missed out. Lots of silver coins, ( I got three Washington quarters and four Mercs), foreign coins, rings and jewelry, tokens for up to $100, 50, and 25 gift certs for Amazon and a bunch of clad. This was an event not to be missed. Thanks Cris, Mark, Denise, Jeff and everyone else who made it happen.”
Another great meeting with excellent finds in the monthly competition. Below are the winners.
We had a good meeting. Following are the pictures from the winners of the September competition table.
This month our hunt was at the beautiful Coronado beach. Now that’s a very long beach that has tons of sand to hunt. We meet an hour before low tide and continued into the night for an hour after low time, for a total of 2 hours. I think all in all the finds were slim and far in between we did clean up a bunch of trash. Bill was the winner with a glass pendent.
Following are the winners from the August meeting competition table. This month was the competition table. This month the club hosted an ice cream social. Thanks to Kurt for bringing a great assortment of ice cream treats. Much enjoyed by all.
Have you even been on a metal detecting scavenger hunt? This month was the Coinshooters of San Diego’s annual scavenger hunt and it was great. The hunt was in Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA.
This is how it works. Each person is given a list of things to find. Find as many different items on the list for your best chance of winning the hunt. Each item on the list found will then have a random point value based on a 10 point wheel of fortune spinner. Most points wins the scavenger part of the hunt. There will also be a prize for best find and most unusual find.
This hunt will be at Ocean Beach from 8am to 10am. No early starts or raiding the trash cans please. All items must be found with a metal detector as usual. We’ll meet in the dog beach main parking lot toward the rest rooms end of the lot. For those of you who complain that all they find is junk, this is the hunt for you!
The winners were Cris for the most scavenger points. Mark for the best find (Gold w/diamonds ring), Cris for most unusual – a drug pipe.
These are the July competition winners selected from 8 categories. Pictures curtesy of Kurt. See the About page for more information
The July 2024 hunt started at 3:00am to take advantage of a very low tide. The hunt was amazing with many great finds. A designer watch, rings and gold necklace. Pictures curtesy of Kurt.
Here are the winners from the June 2024 competition. For more information about the competition see the About page.
It was a beautiful June morning with a super low tide. We began the hunt at 4:30 am to take advantage of the low tide. There is a splendor to be at the beach to see the awakening as the sun rises. This was truly the treasure for me today. I don’t think the pictures does it justice but perhaps it shows a glimmer of how it felt. As far as the detecting goes, it was slim pickings for all. Rick out did us all with the amount of jewelry and coins that he found. There were only two entries for the competition for the best find. It was a standoff between a pretty stainless steel men’s wedding band found by RIck and a Milwaukee Hydro Flask (found by Cris). It was a very close count, and Chis won. Cris will receive a silver quarter at the next meeting.
May’s hunt was held at Crown Point, in San Diego’s Mission Bay.
It was another beautiful San Diego day for Metal-detecting. Lots of sand to hunt. I concentrated my hunting around the volley ball courts. Even though they were playing at the time, i took advantage of the outside areas and when they were taking short breaks between sets.
I only found 1 gold Spanish coin the others were silver colored :). David L. also found some Spanish replica’s as well. However the best find was Lance with a chunky 14k ring. Congratulations to Lance.
The following pictures are the winners from the April meeting. During the monthly meeting there is a competition with 9 categories, The winners of each category receive a silver quarter and one point. The points are totaled at the end of the year to determine the winner of Detectorist of the Year award, which is presented at the annual Christmas Party.
Here are pictures from the Coinshooters of San Diego monthly club hunt. This month’s hunt was held at Fiesta Island, San Diego, CA.
2 rings, 12 dog tags, and about 80 coins between 2 people.
Here are the winners from this Months competition table. Each winner receives a silver quarter and bragging rights!
Not a bad club hunt. Another beautiful day at the beach. This month was held at Imperial Beach, CA.
I thought for sure that I would win with a gold ring. Nope, it was actually Dave with a Brass Social Security Card.
What I found out was that a company made these cards, it was not part of the SS department. Cards were being easily destroyed because they were made of paper and especially service men needed them because of their environments. Several nice finds were recovered as usual with the normal amount of cleanup. It was nice to see a good turnout for this fun event.
Winners from the monthly competition,
The February hunt was held at Carlsbad State Beach. The hunt was at minus tide and there was a nice slope with some rocks exposed and some beach erosion. We hit it hard for two hours. It was slim pickings with noting to brag about other than a being a beautiful day in Southern California.
January Meeting, – This is the competition from December and January. We have a Christmas party in December in lieu of a meeting so the competition is for two months.
The Coinshooters of San Diego had their 1st of the year in Mission Beach. It was a late afternoon / evening hunt with a minus tide. Unfortunately the finds were slim. This may have been due to the fact that there have been king tides all week and the beach was heavily detected all week with detectorists taking advantage of the moving sand. Despite this a couple of rings were found and everyone enjoyed the Gold Sunset.
The December hunt was in Pacific Beach during a minus tide at night. It was a beautiful evening and everyone had a great time,
Jeremy was the winner, finding and returning a wallet. Lance found a very little ring might be white gold or silver need to be tested.
This was the last meeting for 2023. December 15th will be the club’s Christmas party.
Following are the pictures from the 8 categories in the monthly competition table.
This was the most unusual request that the club has received. A few months back a retired FBI agent contacted the club with some questions about the capability of modern metal detectors. It turns out that there is a cold case that the agent would love to solve. The request was to search an area in San Diego County for the remains from a serial killer that occurred over 20 years ago.
Here is the story of the case: Click to watch about the “Serial Killer”
This excerpt is from the Coinshooters November Newsletter by President, Mark Rubey
November was an interesting month for us Coinshooters. We had the opportunity to help law enforcement look for a crime victim in the east county by using our skills as metal detectorists. 11 of us met with two FBI agents, Sasha and his wife, to see if we could help solve a cold case involving the murder of a woman married to a psychopath who had been convicted of murdering his first wife also. The story of these crimes were showcased on a TV show that I linked to you all in a previous email. Even though we weren’t able to come up with the victim, or, anything definite connecting the criminal with the crime, we found a few items of interest that may lead to something. We now have a better idea of the search area and what might help in any future searches at that site should we be asked again for our help. If nothing else, it was a beautiful day for a hunt out in the fresh air. We all got a bit of exercise hiking and searching the hills out there. A few relics and several coins were found along with the typical scrap metal we all get on every hunt. Dave Vilett even managed to find a mercury dime! Congrats Dave! Looking for coins, relics, and jewelry type treasure is fun and what got most of us into this hobby, but, we as a club might think about volunteering for more of these sorts of outings. I would be willing to make contact with various agencies in this regard if we get enough support from our members. We’ll talk about that at our next meeting to see what interest you all have. See you there!
Thanks, Mark Rubey
It was a drop dead beautiful day at La Jolla Shores for our November Club Hunt. Not a lot of great finds, but after all it is November :). San Diego does not disappoint. Cris was the winner with a Hobie Kayak pedal drive mechanism. I saw a lady walking a pet Holland Lop bunny, pretty unusual.
The San Diego Coinshooters October hunt was held at the Silver Strand State beach, San Diego, CA.
The finds were slim to none but a few good ones did surface.
The September meeting was lots of fun with the competition of the month and the White Elephant Sale that generated some funds for the club. Thank you to SAKOBS for donating a metal detector to the auction, your generosity is greatly appreciated.
SponsorsThe San Diego Coinshooters had their semi-annual seeded hunt in Bonita Cove, Mission Beach area, San Diego California, USA September 17.
Such a beautiful area and such great fun to search for coins and tokens. We had a great turnout with 34 hunters. Thank you to our sponsors for the great raffle prizes. Proceeds from the raffle are donated to the Ronald McDonald House. Sakobs was very generous donating three metal detectors. Two were given away at this hunt and the third will be auctioned off at our next meeting which is a White Elephant Sale (9/26/23). Come to the meeting to see what we are finding and meet some fun people.
Here are the winners from the August competition. There are 8 categories in the competition. This month Rick and Mark tied for the Best Gold/Platinum category.
A scavenger hunt is a really fun type of hunt and really levels the playing field. This is how it worked. Everyone meet at South Mission beach and was given a list of items to look for. Tent steak, Red pull tab, copper penny, ring, jewelry, and many more. Then after the hunt, points are randomly assigned for each item. Everyone adds up their points and the winner always seems to be Mark who won again :).
There is also a prize for BEST (Barbie – Watch) and Most Unusual (Cris boat rudder).
The June club hunt was held in Mission Beach from 3:30am to 5:30am. Have you even gone hunting in the middle of the morning at O’Dark hundred? Why? to catch a – 1.5 ft tide. The finds pictures below represents the best find from each person. Then we vote on the best find. On this hunt Mark won with his most unusual find. Want to know what it is? Ask Mark.
The following pictures are the winners from our monthly competition. Each of the winners here are from the 8 categories.
The April metal detecting club hunt was a Dusty Rhodes park in Ocean Beach, CA.
When the Coinshooters of San Diego board members made the schedule they they didn’t realize that on the day before would be an organized hunt in Lake Elsinore with very enticing prizes. Several of the coinshooters participated in the Lake Elsinore Hunt. Coinshooter Tom Dunning won a boot load, check out his post on the Blog. The coinshooters played hard at Lake Elsinore and others had work or family things that prevented them from going to the hunt. However that didn’t stop the Coinshooters Newsletter Editor and Sectary Kurt Hoeger. Kurt did really well using his new Equinox 900.
These are the winners of the best finds of the month. This month, Jan, also includes finds from Dec. The Christmas party was instead of the meeting.
What a great time to have a hunt in December. When the Hunt was planned we know it was going to be a minus 2 foot tide; However, we had no idea that there would have been recent storms with beach erosion that we have not had in years!
It was raining during the day but stopped before the hunt started. It was windy and cold but that didn’t stop all of us. The time of the hunt was selected for a minus tide. It was tough pickings with few targets. We did scratch up some odds and ends, a few rings and even a laser pointer. Josh was the winner with a silver ring.
A mini hunt is where coins and tokens are seeded in the sand. You keep the coins and trade tokens for prizes.
