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Attn all Beach Hunters !!!!

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rockyredbaron

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Hello to all beach hunters....
Got a few questions about beach hunting....I'm in Texas..planning a run to Galveston next week...First..does anyone on here do the gulf coast..appears almost everyone is on the east coast. does anyone have any photos they can post showing cuts..troughs..so I know what to look for when I hit the gulf coast next week...I have a Garrett GTA1000..not waterproof and not sure how to set it ..whether to use the beach mode or just go in All Metal mode and dig everything..and maybe cut down the discrimination to say 5 or 6 from the normal 9 that I usually run when Im in the local parks and playgrounds... Hoping to maximize my finds, Can anyone offer some positive suggestions ?
 
Well, the GTA 1000 will be fine for hunting the dry sand but will be dead meat in the wet. Unfortunately, the salt in the wet sand will give it fits. So that's out. And if you get near any black sand, like at the top of the high tide line, you'll be a hurtin' unit too. That's a land machine, totally. However, in the dry sand it will do well. And since after a storm like that you will be finding MANY targets WAY up on the beach, you'll probably do fine.

I recommend setting it to beach mode and digging everything. If it's gold jewelry you're looking for, any discrimination is going to kill your chances of that. Gold is in the range of foil and aluminum trash. Knock that out and you knock out gold.
 
Did you read my post at all? I said that I recommended setting it to BEACH mode, if you go back and look.

I know your detector has a beach mode. I used to use a Garrett GTAx 750 and bought a GTA 1000 for my Brother-in-Law for Christmas. It's absolutely useless in the wet sand, as are most single-frequency VLF machines. I'm not slamming on your machine here...I just assumed you would want to hear the truth. :) If you go down in the wet sand, regardless of how you have it set, it will chatter and false all over the place.

As I said, it will do fine for you in the dry sand, in BEACH mode.
 
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