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Beach hunting tips
- Thread starter Pirate91
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Joel-Winnipeg
New member
You may have falsing in the salty water and wet sand.
You might be religated to the dry sand for your hunts !
You might be religated to the dry sand for your hunts !
Joel-Winnipeg
New member
The wet sand contains salt if it's by the ocean which is a mineral similar as example black sand or hot rocks.
You may not have problems or you may, all depends on your machine settings.
Some detectors can compensate for that. Not sure of the 2000
I 've used the DISC 3300 which is good on freshwater beaches
You may not have problems or you may, all depends on your machine settings.
Some detectors can compensate for that. Not sure of the 2000
I 've used the DISC 3300 which is good on freshwater beaches
Ed in SoDak
Member
Salt is a mineral, so it's going to behave much like hunting over hot rocks. Most VLF-type detectors will have a hard time, but some older machines have a salt setting or have a wider ground balance adjustment to help compensate.
There's still a few things you can do in how you operate that may also help.
The salt/mineral effect is everywhere, but weak. A good target signal will be stronger. Raising the coil so you scan with it two or three or more inches above the sand will hopefully put the coil above the weak salt signal, yet still able to detect a shallow coin or ring. Lowering sensitivity will also help. Just try to find a point where the machine is not falsing but will still detect a test object buried a few inches deep. A smaller coil will "see" less of the salt and will be more effective than a large coil.
Expect target ID to shift due to the salt/mineral effect.
Hunt a narrow trail parallel to the water line so you are mostly within a certain sand moisture content. Heading up and down the beach, going towards and away from the water will present differing levels of moisture in every sweep. Also hunting parallel but using a wide sweep will tend to have varying moisture beneath the coil as it moves towards and away from the water. But keeping the coil in a narrow band of equal moisture and setting your machine to handle it will give more consistent results. Retune a bit each time you move to either drier or wetter sand. As you move away from the water, the effect should lessen and you can begin to lower the coil or increase sensitivity or alter ground balance.
-Ed
There's still a few things you can do in how you operate that may also help.
The salt/mineral effect is everywhere, but weak. A good target signal will be stronger. Raising the coil so you scan with it two or three or more inches above the sand will hopefully put the coil above the weak salt signal, yet still able to detect a shallow coin or ring. Lowering sensitivity will also help. Just try to find a point where the machine is not falsing but will still detect a test object buried a few inches deep. A smaller coil will "see" less of the salt and will be more effective than a large coil.
Expect target ID to shift due to the salt/mineral effect.
Hunt a narrow trail parallel to the water line so you are mostly within a certain sand moisture content. Heading up and down the beach, going towards and away from the water will present differing levels of moisture in every sweep. Also hunting parallel but using a wide sweep will tend to have varying moisture beneath the coil as it moves towards and away from the water. But keeping the coil in a narrow band of equal moisture and setting your machine to handle it will give more consistent results. Retune a bit each time you move to either drier or wetter sand. As you move away from the water, the effect should lessen and you can begin to lower the coil or increase sensitivity or alter ground balance.
-Ed
Aces High 333
New member
If you want to try wet salt sand then run your 2000 in DISC mode. Swing your detector over the wet sand and turn your disc knob clockwise until the falsing stops. DISC should be between 9-10 o'clock. You won't have much depth, but dig everything. With my 3300 I zapped out the falsing which was the first iron level target ID . I was using no-motion (pinpoint) mode also and didn't have very much difference in depth between the modes. I hunted low tide near the salt water, not in the salt water. That's a different story. On dry sand look for general area that people lay down and I have had pretty good luck around exit/entry points to the beach.
HHing
-Good tips Ed
HHing
-Good tips Ed