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Little Gold and Ice off the Beach

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Buried Crap NJ

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Hit the beach for a couple of hours tonight. Should have left after the third target (pictured) 3.4 grams 10k 3 diamonds. First gold off this beach in a year for me!The tide was coming up the wind was blowing one minute your wet sand the next 4ft of water.The little slope became the ocean.The dry sand turned wet and got so soft I could not walk in it. I lost several targets because I could not pinpoint the target fast enought before the wave took it back from the dumped sand! I just haven't mastered the pin point. I know theres a trigger.It just takes too long to locate the target after you dump and kick out the target and sand! Most times you have only seconds to re-recover the target. I can't be pulling the PP trigger 500 times a hunt. Several times I re-scooped and chased the target 8 more scoops and had a full scoop again. The target sounds the same if your coil is over the target or 11 inches away once out in the loose sand.Hunting with the Excalibur or GT target recovery is 15 seconds. One or two sweeps and its in the scoop.With the 3030 I am lucky if its a minute or two as I push it about the beach.When I dirt hunt I love the PP trigger and my plugs are never off centered. But this in in a park and the target isn't going away on the next wave. I should be happy but I wanted to throw the detector in the ocean. This is supposed to be fun and relaxing. I am not new at this I have been hunting for 38 yrs and I have used the 3030 for over 100 hrs on the beach. It can find targets I just can't!
Ok I feel better now!
Side note after lowering the gain to 20 my falsing has disapeared. The beach was flatter than the last hunt and I wasn't in the water all the time too rought!
 
That is a pretty ring, congratulations.
 
Had that problem too with mine at the beach. I would get targets so small that it would take forever to find them in the sand.
 
I too was missing targets in the water but after knee deep I started using my Excall. You are right BC if you miss on that first big scoop odds of recovery go way down. Still learning the CTX. Another thing I have noticed is the audio is the same volume on 12 inch targets as it is on 2 in the water especially. I do think the gain adjustment makes the machine run a lot smoother. Don't get mad and throw your machine :jump: just push some more buttons. Really nice ring. Hopefully more to come. HH :minelab:
 
Nice one Steve!!! Have you tried the wiggle technique yet for pinpointing instead of the pp button? It seems a bit quicker and you push the coil away as you wiggle it works well. The ocean was really mean last night for this time of year hear with the weather. Hopefully a sign of things to come for the fall :)
 
I have a small 14k hoop that weights in at a whopping 0.30 grams that I found with a different machine. No matter what mode or what setting, even a wide open pattern...the 3030 will not hit it...nothing, notta, to the machine it is not there. This is disappointing to say the least. Those that may naysay or doubt I can film a video of my other machine hitting it and the 3030 does not even break the threshold. Being a beach hunter this really has me questioning the machine, earrings make up a lot of my finds. A 10k kids ring that is the same size but about 4 times heavier it hits very well.
 
Diggin-it said:
I have a small 14k hoop that weights in at a whopping 0.30 grams that I found with a different machine. No matter what mode or what setting, even a wide open pattern...the 3030 will not hit it...nothing, notta, to the machine it is not there. This is disappointing to say the least. Those that may naysay or doubt I can film a video of my other machine hitting it and the 3030 does not even break the threshold. Being a beach hunter this really has me questioning the machine, earrings make up a lot of my finds. A 10k kids ring that is the same size but about 4 times heavier it hits very well.
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Don't be to quick with those findings. I have seen this with many detectors including the Excalibur and GT and other brands. It can go either way, I had a 1.8 DWT earing not hit with the Excalibur in both modes. But a cheaper machine hit it like it was a silver dollar!There will always be quirks with each and every detector. They don't get them all.It's kinda like the earing that won't hit after the sand becomes loose, but the next scoop from the hole its sounds off on the beach.
 
Thing is I almost exclusively beach/water hunt. It is very important for the machine I'm running to hit gold, including small gold. My comment is about the 3030, not what other detectors can and can not do.
 
Diggin-it said:
Thing is I almost exclusively beach/water hunt. It is very important for the machine I'm running to hit gold, including small gold. My comment is about the 3030, not what other detectors can and can not do.
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And my comment was about the 3030, also so just add it to a list of detectors that can't pick up everything! None of them can that's why we have 10 or more different machines to hunt with. There each just a single tool to find treasure. The 3030 can't hit most of the chains I tested it with but the Excal and GT can,as a mater of fact it could only hit 1 of 6 we tested with. I am prety sure the CTX 3030 won't be anyones first choice for the beach as it doen't hold up against the other two mention. In 100 hours beach hunting I have yet to dig anything deeper that 12 inches with it. But I dig 18in quarters dime and pennies and rings with the other two. And the size has nothing to to with electrical signature. I have dug14k earring backs with the 3030 on the beach so its gets small. My point being that it just didn't like one earring.Do the math how many have that one type earring? Now if you go do an test of all the earring you can find and it misses most of them then we will all know, and them we have a problem!
BCNJ
 
Beach and water hunting was exactely what I purchased it for. I made this clear to the dealer and he pushed the 3030 over the Excal II that I was prepared to buy. He hyped the 3030 to be deeper then the Excal, faster,and better in iron. So I feel pretty tweaked that it was all about the money and not about what would best fit my hunting needs.

Buried Crap NJ said:
Diggin-it said:
Thing is I almost exclusively beach/water hunt. It is very important for the machine I'm running to hit gold, including small gold. My comment is about the 3030, not what other detectors can and can not do.
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And my comment was about the 3030, also so just add it to a list of detectors that can't pick up everything! None of them can that's why we have 10 or more different machines to hunt with. There each just a single tool to find treasure. The 3030 can't hit most of the chains I tested it with but the Excal and GT can,as a mater of fact it could only hit 1 of 6 we tested with. I am prety sure the CTX 3030 won't be anyones first choice for the beach as it doen't hold up against the other two mention. In 100 hours beach hunting I have yet to dig anything deeper that 12 inches with it. But I dig 18in quarters dime and pennies and rings with the other two. And the size has nothing to to with electrical signature. I have dug14k earring backs with the 3030 on the beach so its gets small. My point being that it just didn't like one earring.Do the math how many have that one type earring? Now if you go do an test of all the earring you can find and it misses most of them then we will all know, and them we have a problem!
BCNJ
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Diggin-it said:
Beach and water hunting was exactely what I purchased it for. I made this clear to the dealer and he pushed the 3030 over the Excal II that I was prepared to buy. He hyped the 3030 to be deeper then the Excal, faster,and better in iron. So I feel pretty tweaked that it was all about the money and not about what would best fit my hunting needs.

I feel for you,I bought it for the beach also but I also knew it was just one tool in the arsenal for the beach. I can't find a post from Minelab stating the CTX is for the beach. I see dealers listing it as a beach machine.They only say waterproof, but have a beach program like many detectors do! I will note Minelab shows the Machine underwater when not configured to be underwater.Lots of hunters noted that early on and were told not to submerge the detecor like shown! I have 2 Excaliburs and a GT and they will be front line for the beach till I get the 3030 rung out!
BCNJ
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