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Lake Lanier Beach Hunt

20 October 2007

	The Vast Beach The water park beach was divided into three segments like a pie. The 16 members had about and 1.5 to 2 hours per segment to recover what lies beneath. Detectors in the foreground range from Whites, Tesoro, Minlab, Garretts and others.
	The Gathering The group begins to assemble in the cool morning hours. As the sun subdued the shade, things got pretty warm at the beach. Hunt time was from 8am-1pm.
	Break Time After hunting each segment we assembled back at the stage deck to compare finds. Common coins were of course common.
	Gold! Three rings found by Michael Watts, two of which were gold, the other being only a plated ring. The Soccer pendant was also gold and Mel Parker, had plans to give it to one of his soccer loving grandchildren.
	Stone Mountain Treasure Hunters- The Gang Sixteen members were in attendance. All from differing metal detecting backgrounds. Some were regular beach hunter, others, relic hunters, silver coin shooters and play ground scouts.

The club is very grateful to Lake Lanier Islands and its staff for making this a very successful event. Aside from the coins recovered below the hunters collected a whole bucket full of debris from the sand including nails and other small chunks that beach goers do not want to encounter. All debris was properly disposed of. We hope to maintain our relationship with the island so we can have this great hunt again next year.

	Dollars	Quarters	Dimes	Nickels	Pennies	Total Coins		Other
John Dyer		35	45	52	140	272	$17.25	1954 Wheat
Michael Watts	1	76	16	22	60	175	$23.30	2 Gold Rings
Michael Lapina		32	66	22	106	226	$16.76
Clinton Bryan		28	77	25	182	312	$17.77
Stan Funk		27	60	25	169	281	$15.69	Riverside Money Clip
Jay Sword		21	58	32	205	316	$14.70
Doug Beaver		38	39	22	162	261	$16.12	Silver pendant and a wheat
Jack Shipley		6	26	10	84	126	$5.44
Robert Powell		27	39	8	145	219	$12.50
Greg Davison		24	20	20	100	164	$10.00	Estimated
Bill Robertson		30	55	21	60	166	$14.65
Mel Parker		20	27	32	110	189	$10.40	Gold Soccer pendant
Don Hawkins		14	27	36	142	219	$9.42	2 junk earrings
Jeff Herke		16	24	1	96	137	$7.41
Lee Godbee		8	43	18	111	180	$8.31
Beth Settle		24	20	20	95	159	$9.95
Totals	1	426	642	366	1967	3402	$209.67	16 hunters at 4 hours each = 64 hours- earning $3.28 per hour.