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Omega 8500 beachcombing

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Dragonrider

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Greetings everyone. Brand new to the forum and brand new to metal detecting. It is a hobby I've always wanted to take part in and now that I am retired I can finally do it.

My wife and I go to Cape cod every year for 2 weeks and I was so excited last year to take my new detector and comb the beaches only to fail miserably lol. Seemed no matter what I did to balance it out on the beach, I got a constant signal and failed miserably. We will be heading there again in July as we do each year for 2 weeks and I am dying to try it again and I am looking for some help to try to figure out what I am doing wrong. I have read the manual again and again and I just can't figure out why I can't balance it out on the beach.

I wish there was a way I could test it here at home without actually going to a beach but I understand that the salt in the sand is what I have to overcome. Could anyone please give me some advice or instruction of what I need to do to balance it properly so that I could do some detecting on the beach. I have no problem on land and have found several coins, nothing of note, but still I understand the basic operation of it.

Any help, advice, instruction would be very greatly appreciated and would make this old man's day. Thank you all in advance and hope to become a regular part of this forum.
 
I think the Technetics Omega 8500 is more suited for inland coin / relic hunting. There are many other detectors more suited for saltwater MDing . you might check YouTube videos to see what detectors are being used to be successful for saltwater. This forum and others probably have water hunting sub forums.
 
Dragonrider said:
Greetings everyone. Brand new to the forum and brand new to metal detecting. It is a hobby I've always wanted to take part in and now that I am retired I can finally do it.

My wife and I go to Cape cod every year for 2 weeks and I was so excited last year to take my new detector and comb the beaches only to fail miserably lol. Seemed no matter what I did to balance it out on the beach, I got a constant signal and failed miserably. We will be heading there again in July as we do each year for 2 weeks and I am dying to try it again and I am looking for some help to try to figure out what I am doing wrong. I have read the manual again and again and I just can't figure out why I can't balance it out on the beach.

I wish there was a way I could test it here at home without actually going to a beach but I understand that the salt in the sand is what I have to overcome. Could anyone please give me some advice or instruction of what I need to do to balance it properly so that I could do some detecting on the beach. I have no problem on land and have found several coins, nothing of note, but still I understand the basic operation of it.

Any help, advice, instruction would be very greatly appreciated and would make this old man's day. Thank you all in advance and hope to become a regular part of this forum.
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Try a minelab equinox 600 or 700
 
Thank you both for your recommendations! I was also looking at the Garrett ace Apex viper multi-flex. Going to take a look at the 2 that you guys recommended.
 
Like the Xterra Elite and the Garrett Ace Apex Viper. They are both around the same price and seem to have a very similar specifications. Just wondering which one might be easier for a newbie. Thoughts?
 
I had an 8000 for a while and tried it on the wet beach once . It worked OK with the large DD coil. It was hitting coins fairly deep (mostly quarters) It you haven't tried a DD you might give it a try if you have one. But you'll never get the performance Like the SMF's get on the beach. Good luck
 
Yeah I couldn't do a thing. It just whines like a baby the entire time LOL. As I said I have no problem using it on land. I know how to use the discriminators in the filters and so on. Just have to decide which one I'm going to get. It's really going to depend on which one is easier to use and has more automatic functions. Guess I need to do some more research.
 
Picketwire said:
Xterra Elite is waterproof, the Apex is not.
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Thank you for that! I really thought the Garrett Apex one was waterproof also. Okay so it sounds like the Xterra elite is the one I'm going to go for. I just hope it's not too difficult to learn to set up for beachcombing. I truly appreciate everyone's help and patience. The only thing left would be to figure out what kind of wireless headphones I can use on it. Would anyone happen to know if I can use pretty much any wireless headphones set or does it have to be something specific?
 
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