Beach huntin with the Vaqero

[Wishful-thinker]

My daughter loves the beach so today we took her to play in the sand....I also took the V.
Well it was bittersweet. I often see people posting wanting to know how the V works at the beach,well
as long as you stay in DISC.mode you can search the whole beach...,but you can only GB in the
dry sand i.e. the towel line. I did find some pennies and assorted PTs and bits of wire etc.
The only problem I really had was I set my SENS to 10 so that I wouldnt miss any gold,but
kept getting signals that were to deep to dig with my scoop.NO I wont be getting rid of my V.
I just think I may get a beach machine.

 

[sqwaby]

Don't know what beach you hunt, but I hunt the Texas beaches. If you run your sens high in the wet stuff your going to have falsing, I check the ground bal often at the beach not just when I go from dry to wet sand. Then set the sens till the machine runs stable, sometimes this will be at # 3 or so, most times 5-7.You might lose some depth but you should still get 4-6". I even run my coil submerged at times and it runs stable. You will on occassion hit pockets of highly mineralized stuff that you can't adjust for, I just skip past it and keep hunting, maybe recheck the GB.

 

[nad]

Were these salt or fresh water beaches? Assume the Texas beaches are fresh water, and so is the water the coil was submerged in Cordially Nad

 

[sqwaby]

Texas beahes I hunt are on the Gulf of Mexico(salt)

 

[nad]

WOW..A "V" working in salt water..I knew they were crazy", git up and go", machines.My admiration for the staff at Tesoro, just went up a couple of notches,,.And, you just got me off in a new direction, and a new post, to find what I hope to find. Thanks cordially Nad.

 

[sqwaby]

Nad, I don't think we have much mineralization at the beaches here, except as I mentioned there are what seems to be a few pockets of something once in awhile that makes the V run erratic. Its only small ares and I just work past it. My bud with a MXT has trouble in those same areas. Even my ace 250 will run smooth in damp sand here if I turn the sens down, it will not run smooth in the wet stuff though.

 

[Wishful-thinker]

Mississippi beaches ,salt water and yes I ran SENS at 10 w/no falsing in DISC the only trouble I had was
when trying to GB in wet sand it wouldn't.....pitch kept going higher when pumping the coil.
Not enough GB to compensate...And before you ask yes I checked in DISC A/M for a clean spot.
I'm sure I could of turned the SENS down,put it in A/M and turned the THRES down ,but was scared
that mabe I would loose too much depth.......But I will try it now,thanks, I'm still learning!

 

[tvr]

OK now I am getting excited about taking the modified Cibola back to the beach ... and a big thanks to Sven for posting his documentation on the mod and the words of encouragement.
tvr