First day with sov gt at beach

[Murphdasurf]

All I can say is what a big difference. They say its not the machine but the man behind it but when it comes to beach hunting and comparing a sov gt to an ace 250 I beg to differ.

I will admit I was a little concerned when air testing and going over my test garden situated in my back yard and under power lines and two tranformers I was haveing some trouble with the machine. All of these worries vanished however as soon as I turned it on at the beach. It is rock solid from wet to water to dry. I don't believe I encountered a single false and was running sens in the ten o'clock position. My ace in the wet was like being locked in a room with a pinball machine that did not know the meaning of "game over".

I also encountered some vary faint coin sounding hits early in the hunt that I dug down to around 8 inches and gave up on. On the way back to the car toward the end of the hunt I got another one of these and decided no matter how far I had to dig I was going to find this target. At around ten inches out came a penny that obviously had been calling this beach home for quite some time. Outstanding, and I guess I am going to have to get use to digging some deeper holes.

The best came quick at about ten minutes after hitting the wet. Quite possibly my best find ever. Silver setting with some kind of large pink gem in the middle and two smaller stones on each side that I am hoping are diamonds. Along with a 925 stamp on the inside is what appears to be IO NV. I don't know what this indicates. Maybe some here can help me out on this one. I cant believe my luck and needless to say any uneasiness I had about spending the money I did on this detector has gone away.

Picture quality is not the greatest camera sucks.

 

[adam in cal]

The sovereign is a killer beach machine, (with the exception of the box not being waterproof) I think you will find it finds targets very deep, 15 inches at the beach is a real possibility. You need a big heavy duty scoop, and be ready to dig some deepies ...glad to hear you were sucessful. It only gets better from here on out .....

 

[plugger]

Don't forget to "shave" the sides of the hole when you get that deep. Sometimes that's where you find the target. Also, while digging deep, you should raise your coil and see if the signal lessens or goes away. If it's a very deep can it won't lessen much as you raise the coil. I almost gave up on a couple of silver dollars because they were so deep, but the signal lessen quite a bit when I raised the coil, so I kept on digging and at about 10-12" there it was! I love to find halfs and large dollar coins, it's worth digging a few coke cans in my humble opinion. HH, you love that GT, between my GT & my Excal, I don't think I'll ever need another beach machine.

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[bottlebum]

GREAT finds. It's cool that you didn't give up on that last signal lol, made a believer out of you to, which is real cool. I don't think there is anything that can compare to the Sov. or Excal. on the beach. Kinda makes you feel like "THE METEL DETECTING MAN!" It's awesome........

 

[Murphdasurf]

Don't know about the metal detector man part but I have far more confidence now that I am using the right machine in the sov gt given the type of hunting I am doing hear on the west coast of FL.

The ace 250 is a great little coin shooter and is doing a wonderful job of getting people into the hobby for a reasonable price, but when it comes to the beach it was starting to feel like I was trying to drive nails with a screw driver; it just ain't the right tool.

 

[Gulf Hunter]

You are so close to gold, you won't believe it! Consider yerself wrecked! This is an outright obsession! Low and slow, will get cha the gold and that is just the unit to get it done, without buying an Excal! OBTW, in my experience, everything that has .925, has CZs, but don't lose heart, gold is in your future! GH