First Beach Hunt in nearly 14 years...

[nwdetectorist]

First Beach Hunt in nearly 14 years...

No gold rings, No silver rings, and no necklaces and so forth.
I detected a small, very small inner city beach with my Equinox 800 in Beach 2 mode (set to 50 tone), with the 6" coil.
I walked into and out of water, up to dry sand and along tide out line.
I frequently adjusted sensitivity and ran noise cancel.
I settled on 19 sensitivity.
Lots of melted can slaw, bottle caps and other assorted detritus.
One good recovery in the hard sand and rock with a very scrappy signal and almost 4 inches down was a nice Gerber knife.

Now to harness up with the 11" coil and get to a better beach.

 

[Ronstar]

Nice find on the knife!!!! Looks in good shape too!

 

[jkline]

Feel your pain, bro. A week on the OR coast give me a buck in clad and one junk ring. I bet I walked 20 miles.

 

[nwdetectorist]

Feel your pain, bro. A week on the OR coast give me a buck in clad and one junk ring. I bet I walked 20 miles.

Maybe our hard, or is that hardy, work this beach season will payoff with well-honed skills when the 'humans' return to the beaches and drop goodies for us.

 

[jim tn]

Good looking knife. A day for cutting. Got a (pretty toasted) jack knife and a (good) working cigar cutter today myself. One thing about this hobby, there is always the next time. HH Jim Tn

 

[kajunman]

I couldn't ever imagine hunting a beach with a 6" coil. As the saying goes, miss it by an inch, miss it by a mile. A few questions. Is that a saltwater beach ? What was your iron bias ? Were you in F1 or F2 ? What was your recovery speed ? I hunt the beach a lot and I'm curious what your setting compared to mine are.

 

[nwdetectorist]

I couldn't ever imagine hunting a beach with a 6" coil. As the saying goes, miss it by an inch, miss it by a mile. A few questions. Is that a saltwater beach ? What was your iron bias ? Were you in F1 or F2 ? What was your recovery speed ? I hunt the beach a lot and I'm curious what your setting compared to mine are.

Good questions kajunman. I just left the default settings in Beach2.
I did look at the recovery speed and it was at 6, so I left it there.
This was an inner city freshwater beach newly created a few years ago.
The beach is directly under a freeway bridge and adjacent to very loud inner city roadways and streetcars, etc.
No fun for my lousy hearing and machine sound maxed and green edition wireless headphones nearly maxed.
Not necessarily a nice neighborhood excepting for the hi-rise folks.
Lots of junk and crap from the homeless/alcoholic/drug-addicted folks.
I found a ton of melted can slaw, bottle caps, some small heavy foil, bits and pieces of small iron and aluminum, and curiously only a few pull tabs.
Still have not counted the change but it was less than $2.00 with a couple of quarters, some dimes and nickels and 15 to 20 pennies.
This was constantly overlapping, up and down to the water edge, and back and forth on beach lengthwise.
As this was the first trip with the Nox to water, I will be making lots of adjustments to style and settings, etc.
About the 6" coil, I have no excuse other than my bad back and the beach is exceeding small, and it was my first jaunt to sand and water with the Equinox.
I did not look at the F2 settings.
The only change I made to default Beach2 was change to 50-tones.
I cannot wait for the Coiltek 5" by 10" coil to become available, as it would be ideal in my mind for beaches.
In a few days I am heading out with a ride from a friend to a very large freshwater beach on the Columbia River and with the stock 11" coil and my back brace.

 

[MikeO]

Good find on the knife. Mighta kept someone from getting poked in the foot.