Beach Detector

[goforgold]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to this form and need some advice.

I have been metal detecting for may years in the Midwest before I moved to Southern California about 8 years ago. I am an active small scale gold miner primarily drywashing in the Southern California deserts. NOW I WANT TO GET BACK TO METAL DETECT DURING THE WET MONTHS WHILE THE DRYWASHER IS SITTING IDLE. I want to primarily hunt the salt water beaches.....please give me some advice on the Explorer Pro as a salt water beach detector. Thanks everyone.....this looks like a great metal detecting site!!!

 

[stasys]

hello Goforgold remember explorer is fun with pain, if you will use it in beach buy or make your self some rope to support detector. you can buy them made for heavy detectors they a called bungy harness? or buy extension cable with other shaft just for coil. in other way you will end with pain in shoulder. everything ells in beach is simple like with other detectors. good luck Stasys

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Yes, all the explorers, all their incarnations, make good wet salt beach hunters. They won't tackle the very worst of minerals as well as a pulse, of course, but will do good on most all other wet salt sand beach hunting.

The nasty sands that Explorers (and any other machine that's not a pulse) will start to falter on, are distinguishable by their black color. Ie.: like a gun-powder dark grey. This is typically found in the gully-washes after rain outflows, where creeks and culverts enter into the ocean. But occasionally, I have seen these stretches happen on entire beach parralells, depending on how erosion is occurring. So for example, at the base of a perpendicular cut, you may find that the first several feet out, have this black-ish minerals, while the the rest of the beach does not. On certain rare beaches (Dockweiler, for example, in So. Ca) are rumored to be black-ish minerals all over the place, as the color of the sand indicates.

Where I'm at, in Monterey Bay in CA, I rarely find sand so bad that an Explorer doesn't do just fine. The only exceptions have been, as I say, gully washes where creeks or streams enter out during storms. A few other times, on a few stretches, I've had to lower my sens down to 8 or 10, or just go auto. sens. mode, and move the coil very slowly and slightly off the sand.

The other factor is that the Explorer is not water proof. So just be careful to wrap it in plastic bags and black-tape, if you intend to go out during storm erosion hunting, or think you might get slapped by waves, etc.... The coil and rod are waterproof, of course, but not the box and junctions. This is why some beach hunters like the Excaliber for beach hunting, 'cuz you never have to worry about it. The excaliber and explorer are different in tones, recovery speed, feel, controls, etc... Yet they fare exactly the same when it comes to mineralized black sand, but the one is water-proof, while the other isn't.

 

[OscarSE]

goforgold...... The Explorer is the Best Detector for the Beach..... No doubt. No coins can be found by this detector. I tried it in the water and was very stable but remember this is not submersible. only 1 meter deep no more. Anyway I found 18k Gold Ring and many other of Argent.

hope you buy a god machine.
OscarSE

 

[Bayrat76]

Just remember if you hunt in the water let's say 8" inches deep never bring the coil up over your head at anytime. Water will run down the shaft and get into your control box. There not water proof units. I use my in dry sand and wet sand, with not any problem from the SE what so ever. It will go deep so get a good shovel for the sand. I Never use a scoop in dry are wet sand anymore just a good light wieght shovel.