MXT beach question

[juantonio]

Last week I was extremely disappointed when I web to the beach and tried to do some ankle deep detecting since the water was calm but everytime I put the coil in the water I got an overload? I really want to do shallow water detecting with my MXT. Can anyone help me??????

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

Too much mineralization in the salt water where you were. Switch to salt , reduce gain and try again. Thats been my experience but i usually hunt on waters edge. Good luck. CCH

 

[Nauti]

Hi juantonio,in my experience the mxt is not the best for hunting wet salt sand.The only way to go if you want a lot of success here is a dedicated beach machine or a minelab multi frequency unit as even in salt mode the mxt is inefficient.

 

[Larry (IL)]

All of the single frequency detectors that I know of don't do well in the wet sand and water. As others have said, you need a multiple frequency detector, preferably made for water hunting. I do think that the MXT in Salt mode is one of the better single frequency detectors though, just keep the Gain down.

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

All of the single frequency detectors that I know of don't do well in the wet sand and water. As others have said, you need a multiple frequency detector, preferably made for water hunting. I do think that the MXT in Salt mode is one of the better single frequency detectors though, just keep the Gain down.

Larry is right ! I've hunted gulf shore beaches up to the waters edge and made some great finds to include lots and lots of clad with the mxt.

 

[ML]

My MXT (since sold) was pretty much worthless in the wet sand/salt water environment. I went multi frequency about 7 years ago and have never looked back.

 

[Aarong81]

My MXT (since sold) was pretty much worthless in the wet sand/salt water environment. I went multi frequency about 7 years ago and have never looked back.

Well, your reading MXT forums so....welcome BACK.
If your MXT was pretty much worthless on salt water beaches there may have been something wrong with your MXT, others have had success with theirs on salt water beaches. Alternately, As Larry pointed out you have to know how to adjust the settings for the given area, perhaps it was user error. Also, Depending on the coil you were using, it would make a lot of difference and some coils ARE useless at salt water beaches.

 

[Nauti]

The mxt can be used for saltwater beaches with some success.I found my m6 to be a lot more stable in the wet sand and the better of the two machines for this kind of hunting.I now use a minelab sovereign for searching the wet sand on saltwater beaches which is far more effective than either machine.The point is this,if your main interest is searching saltwater beaches forget about single frequency machines and get either a p.i machine or a minelab multi frequency machine.

 

[ML]

You are correct. Worthless was too strong of a word. My bad. At my beaches it was very unstable (regardless of mode) and when tuned down had very little depth. Pretty much like most (if not all) single frequency machines in the wet sand/salt water. I tried both the stock coil and 6 x 10 (or 9?) DD coil. As I gravitated toward more beach and less dirt hunting, I switched to a multi frequency unit (not White's) and couldn't believe the improvement in performance. I was a long time XLT/MXT user but as my hunting environments changed, so did my choice of detector. I still scan the MXT forum now and then to see how others are doing.