beach hunting with the SE?

[greasecarguy]

I am at a beach right now in NC for a few more days.....there are not many people here as there's a lot of frontage and only families. Maybe there's 50 or 60 people per 100 yards of beach.

I have spent 5 or 6 hours hunting in the wet sand at low tide with my SE and 10x12 SEF coil, however, have yet to find anything good. A few clad coins and garbage. I am digging almost anything as you can go an hour in the wet w/o a signal....this beach is clean.

I had to turn the sens way down...anytime I hit the sand it makes a noise. Even if the water rushes under the coil, it makes a noise....what a pain.

Oh yeah, I have yet to see another detectorist anywhere....most people give me one of those strange "look at that guy" stares.

Any advice and I'll take it.

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Dig everything ...

 

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[dewcon4414]

What you are getting is a salt water reaction to the black sand. I have NO problem here in Fl hunting the dry or wet sand.... however put any of the coils in the water a foot or so deep and let the salt water rush over the coil and hunting just isnt happening with all the falsing. Its like 10X the worst EMI you have heard. But if you get it on wet sand she runs smooth. Use barely enough IM to knock out minerals..... like 30. Seems the higher sensitivity you run the more of a halo foot print you get and you catch a lot of tiny targets.... i mean tiny. Im talking spects of aluminum or copper. The big coil knows they are there but its even hard to find them with the probe and they drop thru a poor sand scoop. Dont ignore anything... you may think you are digging a lot of foil.... but those tiny bands register very near the bottom of the screen. Because thats where the Exps salt balance is set. Who wears the most jewerly? Women do and most of their items are small. I saw somewhere that 80 percent of the NOT recovered are small womens bands because people ignore them as foil. Take note of your finds.... if you are in wet sand and you sink to your ankles rather quickly its unlikely you will hit much more than coins. Why because they have a surface that will make the float and move.... rings dont they sink to their equal weight rather quickly and gold is 10 times heavier than sand. Find a place where you think the hard pan is close to the surface or cuts in the sand and always hunt as the tide is going out. If you are hunting recent drops..... hit the towel line to the wet sand. But be aware you GOOD find ratio will be about 50 to 1. In the water its 10 to 1. Make sure you clean your equipment EVERY time when you get home.

Dew

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Just like on land have to find areas that are busy in this case during the swim and sunbathe seasons. Resort areas that are and have been busy for years comes to mind for good finds.

Excellent analogy deer hunter is not going to shoot a 10 point buck if there is not one on the mountain he is hunting..kind of thing.......

 

[outdoors]

I use my explorer se pro at the beach alot, turn on your iron mask factory setting and go for it that works for me with great success, sensitivity at 22-25 auto! (san diego Ca.) stock coil..
I hunt the wet to about twenty feet into the dry sand and back into the wet sand right up to the edge of the water this works for me good luck

 

[greasecarguy]

thanks much guys....i appreciate the advice....will take it and give it a shot. I know to dig everything and to go slow.....when u arent hitting much it's easy to speed up....I will look for the hard pan areas too Dew.


aaron

 

[jeff68aust]

Hi mate I used mine in auto for a while and found I was not getting much so changed to Man sens iron mask on about 20 manual sens on what ever your machine can take and ignore any of the spits and beeps unless repeatable from 2 angles
even found a small hook down at 4 inches down it was thin and had no curl left just the eye and shaft once dug it did not ID had to go to pin point to find it out off hole

found some big sinkers at 13- 14 +inches mind you this was a big sinker
good luck
Regards
Jeff
PS using slimline coil at time 10 inch or is it 10.5 inches coil ?

 

[dewcon4414]

I did some testing last winter and found Auto was deeper but you have a point of no return. I found anything above auto 29 and there wasnt anymore depth. I still run mine at auto 24 and with the SEF im getting 14 inches on a penny. The one thing you will notice is the higher the sensitivity the more coil halo you get. Which means you get targets close to the coil and if you dont center them they will give different tones or might not ID or give you the proper depth reading. As far as using it on the beach, it does a fine job.

Dew