LawrencetheMDer
Active member
It isn’t very often I have a 100+ coin day and the day was only 3 hrs long! But I’m more of a traditional water hunter where targets are far fewer and much further apart. Heck, I’ve gone at least ½ hour in the surf without a single solid signal at some very popular beaches! That’s another story.
I’ve been meaning to hit this particular out-of-the-way spot for several years but it posed certain challenges. However, given the recent dearth of people at the beach and fewer in the water along with hordes of MDers circling like mosquitoes, I decide to give this new spot a try. Any ways, I finally hit the spot today and I expected a lot of junk targets, particularly pull tabs and push tabs, but the overwhelming numbers shocked me. Think fully automatic fire arm (not semiautomatic) is how my detector was going off as it SLOWLY moved across the wet sand. The tide was coming in. It didn’t help I forgot to change from my standard 17” coil. Nevertheless, the Nox 800 had the ability to identify by sound or VID number many good targets buried in the sea of pull tabs. The pull tabs were running between VID #14 – 16 on my Nox 800. The settings are highly confidential; after 3 years I don’t remember them anymore. Back to the hunt, I quickly learned to ignore the #14 - 16 VID numbers. But the push tabs are what got me good; they ring-in at 17 – 18 which is the lower range for zinc cents on my machine. They also sound really good; easy to be confused with rings. I ended-up digging 49 push tabs in addition to 103 coins (34 coins/hr), 8 fishing weights and about 20 other junk targets, mostly bent pull tabs. Overall, I dug about 180 targets in 3 hours or 1 target a minute. Traditionally in surf I find about 6 coins/hr. Talk about a workout! [What helped speed the hunt was when the tide started to come in and I could shake-out the scoop in water rather then the old dump-kick-scan-kick etc routine. Also, most targets were +/- 3 inches deep.]
I know I missed a lot of good targets, in part, because of auditory masking from the multitude of pull tabs. I’m planing a return to the site and sound-null the 14-16 range to improve audio detection of the good targets. I covered about 20% of the site and I just know there are a few good rings to be found there but also know one thing for sure; I could never dig all the pull tabs...dang too many and life too short. I also didn’t have the right coil for the job. Plan to use my 11” coil the next time I attack the beast. [Too cheap to buy an even smaller coil.]
Happy Hunting
2022
Gold/Platinum – 10
Silver – 17
I’ve been meaning to hit this particular out-of-the-way spot for several years but it posed certain challenges. However, given the recent dearth of people at the beach and fewer in the water along with hordes of MDers circling like mosquitoes, I decide to give this new spot a try. Any ways, I finally hit the spot today and I expected a lot of junk targets, particularly pull tabs and push tabs, but the overwhelming numbers shocked me. Think fully automatic fire arm (not semiautomatic) is how my detector was going off as it SLOWLY moved across the wet sand. The tide was coming in. It didn’t help I forgot to change from my standard 17” coil. Nevertheless, the Nox 800 had the ability to identify by sound or VID number many good targets buried in the sea of pull tabs. The pull tabs were running between VID #14 – 16 on my Nox 800. The settings are highly confidential; after 3 years I don’t remember them anymore. Back to the hunt, I quickly learned to ignore the #14 - 16 VID numbers. But the push tabs are what got me good; they ring-in at 17 – 18 which is the lower range for zinc cents on my machine. They also sound really good; easy to be confused with rings. I ended-up digging 49 push tabs in addition to 103 coins (34 coins/hr), 8 fishing weights and about 20 other junk targets, mostly bent pull tabs. Overall, I dug about 180 targets in 3 hours or 1 target a minute. Traditionally in surf I find about 6 coins/hr. Talk about a workout! [What helped speed the hunt was when the tide started to come in and I could shake-out the scoop in water rather then the old dump-kick-scan-kick etc routine. Also, most targets were +/- 3 inches deep.]
I know I missed a lot of good targets, in part, because of auditory masking from the multitude of pull tabs. I’m planing a return to the site and sound-null the 14-16 range to improve audio detection of the good targets. I covered about 20% of the site and I just know there are a few good rings to be found there but also know one thing for sure; I could never dig all the pull tabs...dang too many and life too short. I also didn’t have the right coil for the job. Plan to use my 11” coil the next time I attack the beast. [Too cheap to buy an even smaller coil.]
Happy Hunting
2022
Gold/Platinum – 10
Silver – 17
