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Hi Ray. Tnx for watching! With 60 subscribers, low-key videos & never finding gold, I don’t think I’m going to cause a new horde of experienced-capable detectorists to overrun the public beaches that I detect. Anyone like that already uses google earth to scout new sites. Maybe the only help I'm adding is noting "free parking." Of course, I won’t post any detecting sites that are repeatedly productive for me (so far 2 of those, but still no gold), or any that are revealed to me in confidence. 😃

Thanks James! I hunted on a Monday morning after a warm weekend. No one else was detecting so I got a lot of fresh drops, especially bling. You're right, the dry was a lot easier on my Manticore.

Hi Ray! Now I remember, there's an undiggable long target (maybe a chain or cable) buried on the seaward side of the baby swings too. It's weird. There are also cut/exposed ends of random coax cables sticking out of the sand on the S side of the pier. 😯

I parked in the wrong lot (Surfers Knoll) and walked onto the wrong beach. It was too sanded-in, as expected. But I got that ring. Now I know for sure how to reach the adjoining pocket beach next time.

@@OLdweeb remember the large part of the harbor beach is reclaimed sand from dredging

Thanks for the info. I dimly remember a lot of excavation work around Ventura/Oxnard harbors. But at 40 miles from home, I wasn't paying close attention at the time.

Thank you! Guessing the target is a major part of the fun for me. 🤪

As far as clickbait - I think this one's very low level. 🤪 I soooo wanted to be confronted for using a 'clam detector' without a license. But all the locals were friendly. (Note - @ 5:26 I DO 'rescue' a pismo clam)

@@OLdweeb sure the little critter was happy as a clam 😁. Nice vedio by the way. I’m a bit south here in Oxnard and primarily hit just local beaches.

@GoldDiggerBarbie - I have them scattered all over the house now. There's usually one within reach to open packages or to do random cutting. / None found locked open (yet). But found a rusty steak knife.

@@OLdweeb lol. I'll have to show you my favorite serving spoon!

Thanks! From L.A., my usual away-from-home detecting trips are to Monterey & San Diego. Pismo was new. 1/2 the miles to Monterey & 1/3 the hotel price. Met no clam snobs, (unfortunately). 🤪 The resulting video could've gone viral. 😃

Thank you! I had fun making it. 😄

I just watched your 2021 video. You had a good haul! It looks like Pismo Beach is a hot spot for digging bling. I saved the N side of the pier for my next trip. 😃

@OLdweeb the bluffs on the north end is a hit spot. There's a stairway that the residents use to get down to the beach and sun. 4 gold in 1 day. I've been there a bunch of times, I deleted lots of those vids...

@@raydigsdetecting - Thanks! I remember those stairs from a 5 minute visit to find a geocache 10 years ago, driving back from Monterey. Definitely going on my next Pismo visit. 🙂

It's an interesting area. If I wasn't so obsessed with metal detecting, I'd wander around looking at all the stores, restaurants & people. 😀

Thank you for watching!

Tnx Ray. Fun stuff!

The owners are good about pickup up deposits when their dogs are close by. But it's an off-leash beach and dogs can wander hundreds of feet away to do their business, often while the owners aren't watching. Great exercise walking the human section. Interesting neighborhood too. 😃

Yeah, it's the longest pier I've ever seen. But it's 58 years old & so heavily storm-damaged that it's going to be torn down & replaced. 😯

On the bay-of-E. The cellar is 'The Ultimate Finds Box.' Sorry for the weird spellings. Otherwise this would be blok 'ed out. Good Luck.

I'm a former local. As far as I know the "island" was formed by the sand dredged & deposited to create Mission Bay. There was industrial dumping before my time, not trash, outside the SE fringe of the bay. It's still undeveloped (probably contaminated) there, brush-filled & in recent years populated by the homeless. 😵‍💫

Thank you, Ray. Had a very good variety of stuff, tho no jewelry. Except for a few clad coins, I get skunked on my next video, at Ocean Beach.

I saw "Toys for Tots," back at the hotel in good lighting. Sand scooping is what I like, especially washing water thru to see the find. Stomping a shovel is probably a permanent no-go w/my newly healed knee. The dog was a dalmatian. Annoying but taken out with one swipe of my scoop if it'd gotten loose. The owner was scarier!

@@OLdweeb I know what you mean, some people have no care for anyone else whatsoever.

Tnx, Oscar! Finding a Leatherman is a bucket list item for me. That Gerber knife is the closest so far. The next hunt (Ocean Beach) was really bad with only a few clad coins - video nxt week. 😵‍💫

Thank you. It was good detecting weather! 😃

Oh, it's still a crime. The problem is that for low $ value offenses, the consequences are usually trivial. / Where I was didn't look like a bad area. But having my vehicle broken into & losing my laptop would've ruined my mini vacation. 😵‍💫

@scottp7587 - I think he's very entertaining. He says, "BLOB-EE-RITE." In Dweebian dialect, it's "GLOB-YOO-LITE." I know that it's those partying sea lions that burn their used beer cans. 🤪

Hey Tommy: My Manticore beeped like crazy on every swing at default sensitivity 20. Turning it to 18 reduced that to mostly usable levels. Extreme black areas needed 16 or even 15 to quiet the beeps. It's weird how the black sand looks gray as it washes away. I’ll bring a magnet next time to verify if it's iron. The TJ outflow is 10+miles S and the current goes from N to S. So, I HOPE the contaminants aren’t being deposited where I detected. 😮

​@OLdweeb just hose yourself and your equipment down before touching your face, you'll be ok. 😊 My new microphone is arriving today! 🎉 That Mantacore seems to be a great machine. I'm pleased to see it detects Globulite and MUO's also! (Metals of Unknown Origin). 😅😂

@@GoldDiggerBarbie - I'm a big hoser! 😆

Thank you, Oscar. I go to uncrowded beaches. Good scenery but mostly clad coins and some odds & ends, with very little silver or gold. 🤪 I'm a recreational detectorist, not a treasure hunter.

Will do! Though I'm huffing & puffing, I'm having great fun chasing whatever might be in the next scoop! 😛 (Next video: I found some good stuff.)

@OLdweeb always the anticipation of a great treasure. That's what keeps us going...we're hooked 🙄

Thank you for subscribing! New subscribers are hard to find. 😃

@corythetreasurehunter9638 - At the local Chuck E. Cheese in the early 1980's there was a leftover 1960's hippie who hung around inside and sold us the tokens, 10 for $1. 😃

I want to belt-carry my Leatherman Skeletool (includes a small blade) everywhere. But the world being what it is, it'd cause more problems than it's worth. But I DO have it in a zippered compartment in my hobby day pack. It's been great for minor equipment adjustments & repairs.

Same response as the last time you left that comment: The tones, always. My guess what the target is, most of the time. VDI numbers, they're often visible. But I only call them out sometimes because they won't match the scale used by anyone with a (non-Minelab) or (pre-2023 model Minelab) detector.

Thanks, Oscar. I'm too impatient to learn how to do nice graphics & audio effects. So, I just show a clip of almost every dig. 😃

That makes sense, Ray! I flushed out the sand & oiled the pivot. The knife easily flicks open & locks one-handed with the snap of the wrist. 😮

@OLdweeb I've found so many knives there and Santa Monica. Usually it's the homeless who carry them.

I believe you! A couple of times in the winter I detected to sundown. 'Zombies' starting trickling onto the previously deserted beach. I'm sure they leave a mess. The city/state do a good job of cleaning the trash off the sand.

Tnx. It cleaned up nicely with LPS-1 sprayed into the pivot. I'm more worried about those grimy ground squirrels. 🐿

I always keep an eye out for you. 😜

@@OLdweeb I almost went out there on the overcast day. It would've been fun

On past visits I found an expensive laser pointer, needle nose pliers & big bling. Only steps off the walkway/bike-path, I picture 20-somethings swinging away here after dark and dropping this stuff.

Tnx, Ray!👍

Yes. That's the main thing for me now in retirement. But with each scoop I still hope for precious metals. It happens, but not too often. I need to detect in the water more.🤪

@@OLdweeb I figured you were slowly easing back into it after that knee injury. I know I can't do any of those 8-hour searches I see the younger guys doing, age and injuries have caught up to me!

Thanks for watching, Oscar! Getting views & subs is proving to be tough. Will keep at it... Am looking forward to your next video. 😀

Tnx Tommy. True nut cases are unavoidable. There were multiple (different perps) daylight attacks on beachgoers at Santa Monica this month. I do my best to pick out anyone looking my way who might come over, ask to see what I've found and then ask to 'try out' my detector. Because of them and traffic/parking I've avoided L.A. County beaches. But, for video variety, I'm going to carefully go there now that I have CA State & L.A. County senior parking passes.

@@OLdweeb I understand your worries, and it's only smart to have those worries. Before when I was younger, I felt nearly invincible as a Marine when those times came to pass, not so much at 57.

Hi Ray! Soon, a right turn at the water & out to where the RV's park.😃

@OLdweeb I know a spot that you'll like. I'll have to email you later. One of my favorite spots. But don't give the name up

Thanks, Ray. I absolutely won't give out or show anyplace you don't want publicized. 😶

The tones, always. My guess what the target is, most of the time. VDI numbers, they're often visible. But I only call them out sometimes because they won't match the scale used by anyone with a (non-Minelab) or (pre-2023 model Minelab) detector.

It was an especially productive day. Tnx for watching!

I want to detect SD a few more times by year's end. We'll connect and have a fun beach hunt! E-mailed my info to your YT addr. / That pendant HAD TO BE found during the 5 min that a woman (who climbed out from behind a chain link barrier) was telling me that she once found a gold class ring right where I was searching. I was distracted trying to decide if she was homeless or just a roughly dressed character and didn't pay attention to a couple of 'coins' that I dug then.