Beach Detector

[okienewbie]

I live in Okla. but will be working for the next few months in Corpus Christi. I know that there are a lot of good beach detectors out there, but I don't have much money to spend. I had a friend suggest a Garrett AT Pro. I have no experience with this machine. Several folks on my OK forum have a lot of success with it on land and on fresh water beaches. My question is how does it perform on the salt water beaches of the Gulf Coast?

Does anyone have a better suggestion?

Thanks!

Garry aka Okienewbie

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Should work just fine!!! You'll have to run your Sens. pretty low, but it will get the job done.

Thanx
John

 

[okienewbie]

Thanks, John!

 

[mickfin]

a PI would be your best bet on the Beach a Garrett Sea Hunter MK II , Cant beat the deepth, A VLF cant go as Deep on the Beach,

If your gana go on Land also the AT-Pro Not as Good on the Beach, Hope im not too late??? Good Luck, Mickfin

 

[grumpysrb]

I used a freinds AT Pro on the beach, dry sand, and it worked very well. Unfortunately he had just gotten it and hadn't spent much time in the wet sand or surf. My ACE 350 works very well in Dry and damp sand. It will detect at the waters edge, but I have never found anything deeper than a couple inches. I keep the sensitivity down a bit on wet sand and either in coin or I st it up in custom to eliminate Iron.