NEW AND NEED HELP

[RICKinFLA]

BOUGHT A CORTES( HAVEN'T RECIEVED YET BUT LIVING ON THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA I JUST COULDN'T STAND IT ANY LONGER! DO YOU GUYS IT WILL DO OK ON DRY BEACH SAND? I DONT THINK IN WET SALT WILL WORK TOO GOOD BUT JUST LOOKING FOR SOME EXPIERIENCED THOUGHTS, OPINIONS OR ANTHING OF HELP IN GENERAL ! TOOLS NEEDED OR WHATEVER,LOOK FORWARD TO MANY MORE POST HERE ,THANKS ALL.........................ALSO COMES WITH 9X8 COIL,8 AND 7 IN COILS

 

[tvr]

I have not used a Cortes. That said, I have used some Tesoro detectors at the beach. In dry sand you should do very well. Should be able to hunt the wet sand too. My couple of trips to gulf side of Florida did not find black sand at all; hopefully your hunting area is nice white sand too.

Looks like the Cortes has manual ground balance; that helps in the wet sand areas. If you ground balance the best you can and run a little discrimination (at the iron setting should take care of wet salt too) you should be able to detect the wet areas.

Where the beach transitions from wet to dry is where I have gotten some falsing. If you work parallel to the wet / dry line and work either side of it if you seem to get falsing right at the transition area you should do well.

Settings for dry area will probably not be exactly the same as for wet areas. Will need to check ground balance, and maybe run slightly less sensitivity for the wet areas; but run sensitivity as high as you can with out falsing a lot.
Good luck!
tvr

 

[RICKinFLA]

YES NICE WHITE SAND THANKS,DID YOU HAVE ANY GOOD FORTUNES ON THE GULF SIDE WHICH IS WHERE I LIVE?

 

[marcomo]

Actually the Cortes has a manual GB in all metal only. In discrimination mode it is a factory preset GB.

 

[Tejonman]

Hey Rick, Tesoros rock!.Get yourself a sand scoop if you are hunting the beach.Also get practiced up with the wide scan coils,the beach hunting is very competitive,i think you can get a 11" w/s for the Cortes,you will want to cover areas of the beach as quick as possible!,before the other guy!,the wide scans shoot signal in ground in a straight knive pattern down middle of coil and can cover areas of beach quick.You have to pinpoint different though,use front and rear of coil.If you start park hunting,check out the Sampson long handle shovels,they really cut a fast and nice plug.Good luck!.Charles.SC.A few cool finds with Vaquero with 10"x12" wide scan coil in local park yesterday and today.A few Charleston trade tokens,a few silver dimes and a North Charleston fire Dept,badge,just got Tejon today, will have learn it,Tokens read good for 1 QT MILK,back,WEST END DAIRY CHARLESTON SC.Good for 5 CENTS CIGAR.Happy diggin!.

 

[tvr]

Marcomo,
Thanks for correcting me. I misread the manual last evening. Most beaches I've been to, going all metal in the wet sand is not too bad; some iron and hair pins but not high density trash.

Rick,
I was at Mexico Beach and Port St. Joe area for a couple of family reunions ... but not there last year or this year. Found modern coins, couple of pieces of cheap jewelry. Turned up a lot of room keys at Mexico beach. Nothing special on the trips there so far. Water and beaches are nice and not very crowded.
Cheers,
tvr