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F5 on the beach
- Thread starter Mezrein
- Start date
Salt water is tricky for most medium priced detectors. I use my f5 on the beach all the time here in Virginia. ground bal best you can in wet sand almost impossible too. Wait for low tide and let it dry out for awhile before starting out. Yes you will get a lot of false signals but they are faint, the good ones will still be loud and clear. Oh yes I always take my trusty old nickle with me and buried it about 6" inches down adjust setting till I get a solid sound in the wet sand and you will then you will find the gold rings we are all looking for
Big Boys Hobbies
Well-known member
As was said. Ground balance is key. Very hard for machines to do in wet salt water.
texasranger
New member
Why not try a manual setting...anywhere between 11 and 15.
Or pump the coil between 3 and 6 inches above the wet sand, and sync with the Phase Lock.
p.s. Help, please.
Can anyone provide some readings of VDI AND PHASE for several of your modern US coins?
Reason for request....to check the calibration of my F5 here in the UK.....Tex.
Or pump the coil between 3 and 6 inches above the wet sand, and sync with the Phase Lock.
p.s. Help, please.
Can anyone provide some readings of VDI AND PHASE for several of your modern US coins?
Reason for request....to check the calibration of my F5 here in the UK.....Tex.
Here is something you might try. I have a gold band and a silver ring on a two foot cord, one tied on each end. On the beach when i first start to hunt i will lay it down on the wet sand and see how the readings on the F5 are displayed. I then bury it at different levels in the wet sand and check the reading and sounds at each level.
This will give you as sense of what it sounds like in that soil conditions
Also try it at parks too, works well
This will give you as sense of what it sounds like in that soil conditions
Also try it at parks too, works well
I use the F5 several times a year on gulf coast beaches. In the wet stuff I keep the sens down to 35-60, threshold 0-+2, Bob the coil and hit the phase lock for ground to balance. If the GB fluctuates I will manually set it a bit positive 5-8 points. My beaches are fairly mild so I can hunt right down to the water. Max depth with these settings seems to be about 6-7" Dig any repeatable or iffy signals no matter how faint, you never know, could be a deep ring.
Well I went to the beach for fathers day, and I dont know if I was doing something wrong or if my beaches just are not places to detect. I've tried detecting with two different detectors and at two seperate beaches and both times, I've spent around 6 to 8 hours swinging, and came up almost completely dry. first time was with a bounty hunter tracker 2, I found one bottle cap, one nail, and a quater that was on the surface. Second time was with my F5 and found one bottle cap. Note here that in both cases I was running AM and verified detector functionality by burying coins at varying levels in the sand just to make sure they were working. It's quite depressing! Any other Oregonions had luck on the beaches?
Hello from Oregon,
Depends on where you go and what time of the year. All in all I have not found too much on the beaches here around Coos Bay. Some sunbathers, very few swimmers. Most are bundled up and just out for a walk because its so cold and windy.
Best I have done are in older areas where people used to congregate or where kids will go to the beaches for parties. Believe me...I know the feeling
I have walked beaches here many times with signals few and far between. Although I have gotten lucky other times.
Also every other retired RV'r that frequents our beaches and many of the camp hosts at the beaches have metal detectors. So even while it may seem as though you are the only one ever on the beach detecting *I often thought that*, youre not.
For sand/beach detecting I have done much better at river swim holes and beaches at lakes slightly inland. Hope this helps!!
Depends on where you go and what time of the year. All in all I have not found too much on the beaches here around Coos Bay. Some sunbathers, very few swimmers. Most are bundled up and just out for a walk because its so cold and windy.
Best I have done are in older areas where people used to congregate or where kids will go to the beaches for parties. Believe me...I know the feeling
I have walked beaches here many times with signals few and far between. Although I have gotten lucky other times.Also every other retired RV'r that frequents our beaches and many of the camp hosts at the beaches have metal detectors. So even while it may seem as though you are the only one ever on the beach detecting *I often thought that*, youre not.
For sand/beach detecting I have done much better at river swim holes and beaches at lakes slightly inland. Hope this helps!!
Back to the California beaches with the F5 settings GB about 10-10 Gain on 35 running in the all metal mode, worked very well disc about 0 to -0 with no noise and depth of about 10". this also worked well in about two foot of sea water, not much noise until hitting a target.