Is ANYONE using the Anfibio water/beach hunting...

[Joseph in Alabama]

Hey Guys I check on forums and Utube couple times a week looking for anyone who is using the Anfibio to beach/water hunt..Should be a lot of information on this detector and beach hunting by now..am I just looking in the wrong place for info..any thoughts??? joe

 

[bigtim1973]

I too see the youtube videos but mostly it is just showing the guys use it and not how to set it up. I use mine just for coin and relic hunting as most people are land locked. However I did read somewhere else that some of the guys ground balance in beach mode and then switch it over to 3 tone or whatever other mode they want to search in.

 

[Champton]

Hello everyone. I am just new to metal detecting and i found and purchased a old nugget master. Can anybody tell me anything about good or bad. It has tubes inside so i am just in the process of making a 67.5v battery.

 

[nugget71]

I use the Kruzer in rivers and creeks. Beaches it works fine. Just gotta play with settings. Not all beaches are the same so depending where your located depends on performance. I GB in beach mode then switch to deep mode. Works well with the Anfibio coil. Turn the gain down if too chattery. Turn your discrimination up a bit too sometimes it helps. I'm talking 15 to 20. Notch out 99 and 98 as well. For me those numbers are useless. Just play and tweek.
Eventually u will find an awesome combo that works well for your terrain and style.

 

[Joseph in Alabama]

n/t

 

[Andy Sabisch]

It depends on the beach . . . freshwater no problem and at the higher frequencies, it hots small gold.

Salt water beaches . . . here is where the issues arose. We used it on the east coast beaches in SC and the black sand / salt severely impacted performance. It handed the dry sand with black sand stringers OK, not great but passable . . . when you got to teh wet sand region, performance suffered. Tried balancing in multiple modes and activating the EUD function but a few inches was about all it could get in that area. In the shallow water it was chattery . . . . but to be honest, not much different than other single frequency machines which is what the Anfibio is (one at a time). Had several other machines with us and the multi-frequency units did extremely well in this area.

Nokta is working on a multi-frequency unit and while they have stated that the Anfibio works on salt water beaches, as other manufacturers have found, when you add black sand in the mix, pulse induction or multi frequency is the trick to getting depth on these beaches.

Hope this answers your question but again, depends on the type of beach you are hunting and the conditions you will face.

Andy

 

[cjc]

ya, but when I want to know what a machine will and won't do, I begin with an objective source.
cjc