beach/saltwater detecting

[obxsabresfan]

I'm new to metal detecting and just bought my first md still enroute to me in the outer banks of nc, I plan on being on the beach almost all of the time. I bought a garrett gtax1000 to get started .I have borrowed a friends "back-up" (a freebie) when he bought a high end detector. a trident i think and have spent 3-4 hrs combing different high traffic portions of the beach with almost no finds but a few pieces of trash. should i be in the water,in the trough next to shore to find the goods? is the water where its at compared to the dry sand area of the beach??

 

[bcoop]

You can find jewelry almost anywhere on the beach. People take their rings and other jewelry off and lay it on beach towels and go play in the water, they come back and pick up their towels to pop the sand off from it then their jewelry is in the sand and gone before they realize what they have done.

The folks that play in the water lose their jewelry when their fingers shrink from playing in the cool water and throwing Frisbee's etc. If your hunting the sand your greatest results come from the high tide line to the low tide line and in the water to chest deep.

Is doesn't take long for coins and jewelry to get pretty deep on the beach, but the beach is ever changing and items are tossed around from the ever changing tides. An item lost today may be 10 inches or more deep tomorrow and 100 ft from where it was dropped, the next day it may be 3 inches deep depending on how the waves beat down the beach or sand it in.

The major key to finding good stuff is a machine that will penetrate deep enough to give a signal. There is a formula to successful beach hunting and reading the beach. You have to work the high concentrated areas where people play on the beach and in the water. The low areas where the beach sand has been pulled off from the surf will get you closer to the deep items. During the vacation season where there is tons of traffic I would concentrate on the wet sand and low tide line if you don't get in the water.

BCOOP

 

[obxsabresfan]

thx coop

 

[S.S.Tupperware]

Not to bust your bubble, but use the trident as a door stop til YOUR machince comes in...

 

[William123]

The GTA 1000 comes equipped with the new Garrett elliptical-design searchcoil which
provides for excellent ground coverage while being able to locate valuable targets
extremely close to trash targets. The loop is waterproof and the GTA can be submerged
up to the control housing for shallow-water hunting or prospecting in streams.

http://www.losttreasure.com/content/archives/garretts-gta-1000-ultra

 

[bootyhoundpa]

i have an older gta-1000. found alot of silver with it espiesally dimes .... i dont know if you are going to get the depth on the beach like a better machine but the gta-1000 was my first machine also ... for back yard hunting or hunting in the park it great....;so best of luck too ya... it is very good 1st machine to learn on....