My beach hunting experience is strictly limited to SoCal beaches. But I'm thinking of giving the Central and Northern California beaches a try over the summer. Does anyone have any experience hunting these locations? If so, any thoughts about which detectors work best on Cental and Northern California beaches would be appreciated.
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Hunting Central & Northern California Beaches
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verylazybeachbum
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All of Cali is well detected. I heard somewhere that there are more detectors in California than any other state. Last year I spent 1 month detecting SoCal Beaches every day. I found 1 silver bracelet from Mexico. Spent a week in Pismo beach and beaches just north of there, nothing. Then I spent a couple of weeks in Santa Cruz and got 1 gold ring and 1 silver ring, lots of coins. I went back for a few weeks to Santa Cruz this year, and few days in Monterey. Lots of coins in both places but no gold or silver. I use Pulsepower Pi's and dig all. I saw others using multi-frequency minelabs. I know beaches in San Francisco are usually considered off limits, Go south to half moon bay and you are ok to detect, although I have not tried there yet. Good Luck.
,,,,there was a british machine designed by eric foster ,,the company was / is called Pulse Power Developement,,,exceptional equipment,,,there is another machine which is very reasonable in price,,,and originally designed by him also,, which is currently manufactured by C-Scope ,, its the cs-4 pi,,,awesome performance,,,and superior build quality,,,look it up ,,rgdsberryman said:
verylazybeachbum
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Yes the brand Pulse Power as Comcat mentions. But they are hard to come by now, others will work pretty good though. I have heard PI's are preferred on west coast beaches because of the mineralization, but of the others detecting the wet sand, they were using explorers or excaliburs. On my last trip I talked to someone using a whites pi pro. Most people up there go to the main Santa Cruz beach because it is a little warmer and south facing. I think there is a machine that combs the dry, but I still found a lot of coins and tokens. Anyway, its slim pickins, but still fun to get out there. Good Luck though.
verylazybeachbum
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Also, check out this site, it is Cali specific and has good infor: http://forums.kinzlicoils.com/index/
And yes the cs-4 looks good, I have always wanted to try one. Or if I could an old CS7UMD, it was the first one designed (and I believe fine tuned) by Eric Foster. I read somewhere it used more analog components and was factory tuned more precisely. When C-scope copied it with the CS-6 and then the CD-4, they supposedly used more chips in place of analog, and these aren't quite as hot as the 7UMD, which was also waterproof. Of course, the the CS-4 would be newer and come with a warranty. I'm sure they are all good. Other PI options are Whites Dual Field, and Headhunter Pulse (i think this was based on the Eric Foster Beachscan), but i haven't tried these.
From what I understand Half-moon bay is OK and anywhere south of there, but don't go north of there unless you are going north of San Francisco. I never had a problem anywhere south of there.
And yes the cs-4 looks good, I have always wanted to try one. Or if I could an old CS7UMD, it was the first one designed (and I believe fine tuned) by Eric Foster. I read somewhere it used more analog components and was factory tuned more precisely. When C-scope copied it with the CS-6 and then the CD-4, they supposedly used more chips in place of analog, and these aren't quite as hot as the 7UMD, which was also waterproof. Of course, the the CS-4 would be newer and come with a warranty. I'm sure they are all good. Other PI options are Whites Dual Field, and Headhunter Pulse (i think this was based on the Eric Foster Beachscan), but i haven't tried these.
From what I understand Half-moon bay is OK and anywhere south of there, but don't go north of there unless you are going north of San Francisco. I never had a problem anywhere south of there.
