Dry sand detecting question

[Raven69]

Hi,
I currently use a Excall ii and an E Trac, I am considering selling my E Trac and getting a CTX for beach and park detecting and keep the Excal for SCUBA diving.

I have read a couple of posts that the CTX will sometimes have trouble finding a coin on the surface that has just been dug or coins that have been buried when testing for depth. I understand this is due to the CTX liking the coin to be part of the soil matrix? I was wondering how this effects finding freshly dropped coins in dry sand? As they my be 3-4 inch's deep but the sand is loose around them.

Thanks ;-)

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

I have never seen that happen and I test mine for customers all the time.

 

[xQuestx]

I've never had that problem on my beaches.

 

[Raven69]

Thats all good then

Just a couple of post I had read that had me wondering if there would be an issue, which I would hope there wouldn't.

Thanks.

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

I have posted that a coin on the surface after being dug can be a pain to PP once dug from the depths it once was buried. Its just not an Excalibur on the beach. I like to keep my recovery time to 20 seconds or less. I find I push the coin on the beach once dug and have just as much sand in the scoop as I did before I dumped it the first time.The coil will pick the target up from about 2 or 3 inches from the coil plus the 11 inches of coil. The PP at first did not lock and now it does and this helps a great deal.But when using the PP switch you add time to the recovery. This isn't a problem on land as the tide doesn't come in when hunting a park.This is IMHO. Time is a big factor when hunting the low tide line to me.With the Excal.when you sweep a target on the beach that's been dug its recovered on the first attempt. I find at times I missed the target lots of times. The more I use the 3030 the better I become with the PP'ing.
BCNJ