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First Beach Hunt

DaytonaGold

DaytonaGold

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This was my first official beach hunt using the standard "beach" mode on the ctx. Dang, were those quarters ever so deeeeep, like 10-12"...seemed like I was digging to China. No silver but I really didin't expect any on this particular beach that's been hunted a billion times. I did however meet another gent who has been hunting for over 25 years and his eyes were bugging out of his head as he tried my ctx.

May I ask if the standard "beach" mode is ok or can it be improved upon by tweaking sensitivity or another setting? Does anyone have a custom beach program that they'd like to share?
 
I like 50 tones on the beach along with fast on,deep on! I hunt open screen and don't push the sensitivity so that it sounds forced.Most of the time auto +2 I set the second program in a combined mode with my tones set to my liking, as a cross check. Here I make my disseminate corrections. The most important item is swing speed along with rate of walk. This holds true of any detector but especially Minelabs. Now I have read and conclude that if it repeats from two direction dig. I found its really no different than the Excal or GT. You will get deep targets that have a bit of tone (chirp) and find a good target a 18 plus inches. I think its only because we as beach hunters can investigate with the ease of a few scoops of sand we know this. I would not want to be digging in the hard dirt 12 inches for a bit of aluminum all day either! It's also has to do with the type of strata we dig in loose sand verses hard packed earth.
BCNJ
 
Wow, that's a lot to absorb, sounds like you've been doing this a while. Thank you very much for the tip :)
 
Beach mode worked well to me. Lowering gain a bit and ground coin seemed to help me in Florida.
 
DaytonaGold said:
Wow, that's a lot to absorb, sounds like you've been doing this a while. Thank you very much for the tip :)
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38 years. Probally the reason I have had a hard learning curve with my first computer based detector.
BCNJ
 
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