First time using ATPro at the beach

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Went for 2 hours today. Trying out the ATPro at the beach, I tried the surf, but I could NOT get it to calm down using automatic or manual ground balance. Even reducing the sensitivity did not work. Really alot of black sand in that surf. I'll try at other beaches, maybe it was just that one. I did not go wading with it yet, kinda scared it'll leak, though I shouldn't be.

Anything above the low tide surf was fine though and I searched the area between low tide and high tide. Found a few coins, the rusty ones really growled: especially the quarter, but even normal clad Canadian quarters have a bit of growl from the cheap steel in them. The pennies I found in the deep loose sand while searching sunbathing areas.

I found the Samurai #4 gaming figure along the high tide line. And this red tractor buried about 8" down, nose up.

The rest was bottlecaps, pulltabs, scrap alum, and 1 bobbie pin. Which I dug just seeing if I could guess what it was. I was usually right about 90% on my guesses.

All in all a good short learning experience, I just hope that it's not totally useless in the water here. It went nuts from the surf into the water 2 feet. I did not go deeper.

GL & HH all!

 

[John-Edmonton]

That will help you get better balance. The different layers of mineralization also run parallel to the water. If you detect in a zig-zag pattern on the beach, you will be constantly running the coil over different concentrations of minerals, such as black sand.

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

That will help you get better balance. The different layers of mineralization also run parallel to the water. If you detect in a zig-zag pattern on the beach, you will be constantly running the coil over different concentrations of minerals, such as black sand.

That's what I ended up doing, I was going to hunt the wet surf along the beach but the ATPro did not want to GB at all in the wet stuff. Above that, the dry area between low tide and high tide was fine, I worked down the beach and it GB fine there. Found the quarter, dime, nickle, statue and tractor. Two of the coins were lying on top of the sand and I saw them when the coil dinged on them.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Good hunt and items found

 

[John LA]

Mine worked okay at the beach but I probably would have used the Excal but the Excals batteries went south.

 

[qkslvr]

Where you in Standard, or Pro mode? Garrett's video in saltwater recommends pro mode to overcome the chatter.