:detecting:Working a Hard Worked Beach!!

[Cupajo]

Three hours or so on Saturday my Excalibur and I cleaned s couple of dollars in clad coins and four nickels from the beach I frequent near here.

Along with a half dozen bottle caps, a couple of toe rings and two .38 caliber bullets, I found two silver rings and a half dozen fishing sinkers and a few bits of aluminum.

I had little doubt that if there had been gold there I would have found it, however I opted to return yesterday with my Infinium LS to see if maybe a deeper scan might reveal something missed!

Thanks to the area being heavily worked by myself and others I didn't suffer the chore of clearing every blasted bit of scrap metal that using the LS usually involves.

For four and a half hours of hunting;

I found about a dollars worth of clad, no nickels or sinkers, and six bullets (2- .30 caliber and 4- ,22s), two toe rings and two ear rings and four bottle caps and a few bits of aluminum!

In all fairness to both detectors, I know you can't exactly cover the same search pattern, but I did notice the LS found smaller bullets.

The subsurface was mostly cobblestones, some gravel close to the waters edge and a thin layer of sand in spots.

At low tide I waded as deep as I could and moved closer to the waters edge as the tide came in.

I worked mostly parallel to the beach and concentrated my efforts on the center of the most active part of the half mile or so of beach front.

Walking on cobbles means that you can't get any closer to the targets than that.

If I didn't bring home the gold, it was because I missed it or it is very scarce!

Two of the three gold rings I found on my first hunt this year were old and deep and I fully expected to find more!

Reality is had to face sometimes, but it seems I may have to move on to other hunting grounds soon (like dry land!!)

CJ

 

[Sandmagnet]

I've been trying to work with my LS and figure it out. This weekend it looked like I had it down and started pinpointing a few targets and scooping them up (hair pin, penny & sinker). Then I noticed as the water/waves stated going over the unit it became noisy and was very difficult to tell a target and just noise.I ryed lower the Threshold and uping the discrimination to no avail. I've seen where you posted some of your frustration and thought you could help before I get ride of it!. I use a Goldquest SS too and it is very stable/quite but, not waterproof. Trying

 

[Cupajo]

Hi Sandmagnet,

The first and best thing I can suggest about taming the Infinium is to pad the earphones to quiet down the blasts of sound!!

Before I did this my machine drove me up the wall!!

Ground ballance and being aware of frequency interference are two essentials too!

You can learn all about these topics on the Garretts Infinium Classroom Forum or the Garretts Prospecting Forum.

There is almost always odd chatter from the machine in my experience and I have come to think of it as the machine talking to itself as it finds me gold!

In different locals the chatter may dissappear or change somehow.

Where I hunt there are great days with only a little chatter and on other days it is a trial to put up with, but even on those days I know when I have a target!!

Certainly contact me (or post if you don't mind sharing) if you have any questions and I'll help if I can!

I wouldn't part with my LS!

GL&HH Friend,

CJ

 

[Sandmagnet]

Thanks Cupajoe,
I'll try working on the area's you described this weekend and check out the Infinium forum too! Sometimes when the unit is hitting the water or slightly submerged it gets to where I can't tell a target from false signals. I've got to work this out because I need a waterproof unit. Talk at you later! HH