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Hunting Soft Sand

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BOIdaho

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I would like to ask for suggestion on hunting in soft sand. There is a very sandy beach on a nearby lake that gets used heavily in the summer. Sometimes the boats are lined up right next to each other on the beach, which is about 500 yards long. I have hunted it with my Excalibur a couple of times and I get beer caps and pull tabs along with a few coins. I know there has to be lots of goodies there; but they sink fast in the sand. What is the best way to hunt this type of area? I pretty much dig everything that makes a sound and I keep the sensitivity on Auto. I know this type of environment will require more technique and a healthy dose of luck.
 
Unfortunately boaters party, leave lots of trash, Take it out of Auto, and hunt the area everyday for fresh drops. Keep the area cleaned out, If you dig everything you may want to get a Pi this will help with the ones out of reach of the excal and with soft sand the gold is sinking like a rock or till it hits rock. I would say hunting everyday would be the big thing......Good Luck, Keep us up on your adventures..........joe
 
Wait until you get a good rain... That will flatten the sand and raise conductivity. Some of my best dry sand finds were after the rains had crushed the sand down a few inches. Beyond that take your excel out of auto, and dig it all for a while. Go over it in disc digging anything that sounds repeatable and decent in disc... Then after several hunts like this switch over to your all metal settings and pick up the really deep targets.
 
I have the same problem, the other day i took the Excalibur out got the right tones but pulled pulltabs,the next day it was all 5 cents and today it was bottletops,how strange that it seems to be the same items in one area or is it a coincidence? i have also been in the water again pulltab after pulltab it's so frustrating i haven't even seen gold yet here in Australia maybe they sold too many Explorers and the goodies have gone.

HH Maureen..
 
I do most of my hunting in the pinpoint mode. I've gotten signals in pinpoint mode then switched to disc. and nothing. I'm using the Excalibur 800 and I guess the pinpoint mode will pick up the deeper targets that would be out of the range of the 8 inch coil. I dig a good bit of trash but you don't know what good stuff will be in the trash. I've dug signals that I thought were trash and turned out to be something very nice.
 
And may we ask what the very nice was? i had a mobile phone this week a ladies watch,coins and believe it or not a radio i took the radio home and hubby cleaned it out and it works,it was about 6 inches in the ground and the noise it gave off when i found it was like a burp is the best way to describe it.

H.H. Maureen..
 
I was hunting a drained lake several years ago and I was digging a lot of .22 shells, so I figured I would move down the beach to get out of these .22 shells. I got the same signal and I figured another .22 shell and it turned out to be a ladies gold 1925 class ring, so now you know the rest of the story. Signals either good bad or ugly you never know what is there until you see it.
 
Less we all forget; it's called METAL DETECTING for a reason not GOLD RING FINDING, etc, etc, etc !!!!
NO more WHINNNNING, pick up your alotment of tull tabs and bottle caps and get on with it !!! I have always
wondered why the instruction books say ( more or less ) " to find rings , etc" set nob at this position etc etc
instead of " you will find a ton of pull tab's or bottle cap's at this setting and MAYBE some day a gold ring "
but don't count on it. Last hunt = 2 x .25 2 x .o1 15 pull tabs 5 nails 1 tent stake 4 cans ( 6 HR.s ) 3 HR.s )
driving time, 1 half tank of gas, brain cooked by 105 temp. due to no A/C in car. But there's always NEXT time.
 
Sorry you see this as whining i call it sharing our experiences to me all the comments seemed informative sorry you saw it that way.

Maureen..
 
A PI detector may be your best bet and dig every thing. I hear of a good many people hunting with the excal in pinpoint mode I never do.
I get deeper in disc than pinpoint most of the time it seems. Have had some light signals that when I switch to disc they were not even
There.

Jason
 
Like most have already stated, for targets in deep soft sand, use a PI with a large coil, and a large scoop with a magnet in the bottom of it. A floating sifter will also save you some time. HH,
 
use the excalibur set sens down a bit and just swing and dig everything..itll come up soon but you just gotta dig dig dig everything..jmho..:detecting::thumbup:
 
Same here DIG IT ALL.
I pulled a penny from 2 feet deep at the beach with my V3i. The more sand that I would dig from the hole, the vdi would change as well.

Remember its not all dry sand the deeper you go the wetter it will get. As long as you are near a body of water.

FERD
 
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