Any regular salt water beach hunters use Deus, if so what results please

[jtalley007]

I love mine for the 2 relic hunts I got in before the blazing summer heat and humidity kicked in. I'm 2 1/2 hours from the beach and wonder how well the Deus would cope with salt beaches? Has anyone switched from multi frequency detectors, if so please share the results. Is it smooth, deep, or?????

Thanks,

Jerry

 

[NYNURSE]

Dry sand it's a stable as you can ask for. I was digging 6&8 inches with strong tones. Wet sand was a tad chatty without altering factory settings. Same good depth. This is in NY and the Bahamas.

 

[Nuke em]

Its not the right machine for salt wet , but if the rumoured multi freq coil does come out then that could change.

 

[goodmore]

Depth is the absolute key for beach hunting. There are just too many other detectors out there that are better beach hunting machines.I have a Deus, but it will never see the beach as long as I have a Sovereign.or Explorer.

 

[Andy Sabisch]

Jerry

As we discussed in Amelia, while it woudl be great to say it is the one machine for all applications, in reality it struggles in wet salt sand. You can get depth but it chatters which makes it a second choice for those that own multiple detectors. Hunt pattern and settings can help to some degreee but once you get above the Jacksonville line in Florida, the combination of black sand and salt cause it to by an OK rather than a standout detector.

Andy

 

[Nuke em]

When the Deus first came out i used it on the beach just below high tide mark to half way and it works well on the dry to damp , found me 2 Gold rings on the same day one of which was quite a bad signal though the other was near the surface . Had around £200 in coinage when using the Deus too but not my first choice for either the dry or wet . On the beach you need very good target info , like the sounds of the ET/Explorer or Terra 705 and the numbers of the same machines too.
The numbers on the Deus jump more and the tones are a little hard to tell contact from contact.
If you are on a dead certain for a target and you know that the target is likely to be good then use the Deus but Minelab is best , unless on land then its more even and sometimes in the Deus's favour.

 

[jtalley007]

Thanks Andy and all who replied. Come on multifrequency coil.

Jerry

 

[Okierick]

I've actually had better luck in wet sand using Vance 18kHz deep coin program over using the standard Deus wet sand program. The items hit harder. The sound may get a little chatty, but you get used to it. Keep an eye on your ground balance. I don't immerse the coil. For in the surf detecting, I recommend the Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II. You dig everything, but it hits deep.