beach hunt

[homebre]

Need some advice. I will have a chance to hunt an ocean beach later in the week with my Vaquero. I will not hunt the wet sand at the water's edge. Should I use the 9x8 stock coil or the 10x12 SEF coil? Also, what settings would one use--all metal, low DISC, High DISC? Supertune, lower sensitivity?
THX,
Homebre

 

[Radio]

I would love to hear this too

 

[dirt doctor]

All metal and if there's a ton of iron nails you can't deal with use low discrimination or put a magnet in your scoop to grab the nails for your pouch as they will keep slipping through your scoop .The salt may require you to turn your sensitivity down a bit and in some cases you may have to turn the discrimination up a tad to deal with the salt . I would go with the 10x12 for coverage . At the beach it's best to dig all signals . If it's a trashy beach and the garbage cans are far and few between carry a plastic bag you can affix to your belt . My first dry sand machine was a Golden Sabre 2 with the 8" brown , concentric , donut coil . That machine found me a few gold rings at the beach and in the dirt . I haven't had my Vaquero to the beach ( I have a couple of detectors more suited for beach hunting ) maybe someone who has can help you out a bit more , if not you can experiment with what I've told you and fine tune it a bit . Don't forget to bring plenty of drinking water and sunscreen .Good luck !

 

[mudpuppy]

Big coil for sure...set-up depending, but like dirtdoctor said, you WANT to hear it all...what you find will tell you if you are in the right place that has had some traffic and not been hunted in a while...little foil, pulltabs, is what you want to be finding...the high sand gets overlooked by most detectorists...they generally head right for the towel line and onto the wet sand or right into the water...theres good loot to be had on the high sand!

Stop and have a look at the beach, I typically head downwind, (as most people do not like to walk with the wind in their face) and look for a semi-private location on the high sand, off to the side...if its really private and gets some night traffic, you are stone cold golden! If you find a foil condom wrapper, you are in the right area!

You are hunting the travel patterns/habits/vices of people...so even small things like cigarette butts/bottlecaps tell a story of what transpired in a certain location, and who this person was, how long they were there, etc.

You want to hear and find those metal tent stakes, 'cause somebody was there for the whole day! but the BEST locations are where folks have had a little to drink and go down there at night for a skinny-dip...all sorts of stuff gets lost under those circumstances! I found THIS on the high sands...in such a place I described...as well as all sorts of other things of the silver and goldy sort,

I will hunt the water if conditions are favorable, but if they are not, I hunt the high sands! Good Luck, report back as to your adventure please!
Mud

 

[square_nail]

Wow! That's some gold! Good advice too. Thanks.

 

[jorgevc]

The Vaquero can hunt in the most beaches, I go hunt every weekend with my sister and brother in law and yesterdad sunday this last one found with the vaquero a 1961 1 Peso silver coin (I live in Mexico) , the beach was the worst stage because from some black sand layers like iron grinding and magnetic so, my others brand names machines didn't work there like our Vaq with 5 x 10 widescan coil, Disc mode at lowest point, sens 7 and the ground balance was so so because the hight mineral present but in other beaches we have more luck with the vaq. A nice deep and stable machine. HH Jorgevc.

 

[Neil]

Need some advice. I will have a chance to hunt an ocean beach later in the week with my Vaquero. I will not hunt the wet sand at the water's edge. Should I use the 9x8 stock coil or the 10x12 SEF coil? Also, what settings would one use--all metal, low DISC, High DISC? Supertune, lower sensitivity?
THX,
Homebre

Wet sand is gonna cause you some problems even above the waters edge. Wet sand is literally wet sand or sand that's been saturated by high tides. You should use a DD coil so the 10X12 is good, disc where I hunt is probably gonna be just below a nickel so your gonna loose the smaller gold. If you can get away with lower disc that's good, but here that isn't possible. Sens is gonna have to be dropped a little too, experiment, your gonna wanna minimize the crackling and popping. Also keeping the coil off the soil is important and swinging perpendicular to the ocean to minimimize the changes in soil.
Up in dry sand you are gonna set it up just like any other regular dirt location.
Forgot to mention, forget trying to ground balance in the wet sand, the V doesn't have the ground balance range for that.

 

[penzfan]

Just buy a Sand Shark

 

[kaolinwasher]

if it was me , i would figure their will be black sand lenses from all the croding Iron so using a concentric in disc NO WAY 10x12 would work best in all metal you can find gold chains with a good sound and i mean thin ones at 4" easy if i ran disc i would use lowest setting, Gold awaits you ,

 

[homebre]

The only gold that awaits me now is a crown for a molar that broke!!!!

Andy from Hillsborough

 

[kaolinwasher]

Why could or teeth not be like rabbit teeth, they just keep growing & wearing I have 4 that are broken & need pulling