beach detecting?

[emubob]

on any beach,in iron mask or all metal,conductive or ferrous?a concess of opinium would be help full.emubob

 

[dewcon4414]

Im a full time beach hunter that used an Exp for several years. Its just a darn good all around machine. EXCEPTIONAL on the beach, dont miss a lot. BUT.... like any multi freq machine about .3 grams is the smallest gold you might pick up with the standard coil. Anything less than that isnt worth more than say $10 anyway. It transitions well from wet to dry sand and has outstanding depth. She may chatter a little with to much sensitivity at the surfs edge. Its not like an BBS that hates iron when in disc.... takes some playing to get the IM right on your beach. Ive found a bobbie pin is a good way to set it. There are way to many iron targets on the beach so ive found disc is best when set properly. Other wise you spend to much time checking iron targets. I prefer conductive just because the TDI is more consistant. There are a lot of ways to hunt with this machine.... but i wouldnt look for ways not to check targets since gold falls between foil and a penny and tagets change the deeper they are.... especially when mixed with salt water.

Dew

 

[emubob]

thanks dew,much appreciated,emubob

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Explorer SE Pro, SE Pro 11" coil very important, ferrous tones, setup your iron mask screen for all metal, I beach hunt in this mode 90%. Iron will give a low tone that's easy to ignore. I setup my Smartfind screen to discriminate out dimes and cents when I'm hunting after a big storm and looking primarily for gold and silver and don't want to waste time on the clad. On the NJ beaches you have only a short window to hunt twice a day between high tides. You have to cover as much ground as you can in that window and stopping to dig dimes and cents especially if they are abundant can waste a lot of time.

Here's some encouragement.

 

[mudpuppy]

Damn! Now THATS some encouragement!
Mud

 

[emubob]

i'm encouraged,emubob

 

[BigTony]

I love using my Exp II on the beach but wonder if the salt air is getting inside because it's not water proof?
I use a 10 x 12 sef or small coil if I am tired that day. I find going slow the SEF gets the job done better then the 10 inch stock coil. I use conductive sound but also like the 3 levels of Audio options.