On the beach what signals are you digging?

[Howard Snell]

I went out today to wildwood and ocean city. Wasn't expecting to find much dug up some change on solid signals. I was getting frustrated with the iffy non consistent signals. It seemed like I was digging but nothing was there. But I also feel that if the target is a microscopic chunk of a coat hanger I would have never found it anyways. What are you guys digging on the beach? Which signals? Solid Locks or iffys?

 

[PowerDetecting]

I only got one signal today and it was an iffy it read at 5 inches I dug 2 full scoops and nothing... Re scanned said 10 inches so either it sunk or deep iron. only my 2nd time at the beach with the ctx

 

[goodmore]

Repeatable signals do not lie. There is a target under your coil. It could be deep iron. But a target that repeats is a real target. And if it repeats with good numbers from two directions it is not iron. Targets that disappear at the beach are usually micro targets thet fell deeper in the hole.

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Howard, like posted above repeatable signals will always produce a target. The TID will always repeat so long as you don't go and change settings while your hunting. You will need to adjust your ear to what your finding. That is dig everything and learn just what's doing what! Your on the beach take a scoop and see. I find lots of as you call iffy signals turn out to be keepers. This was a problem I had in the first few months of hunting with the 3030. As always with any detector its not those loud blaring tones that dreams are made from. Some deep targets are coming from great depths that barely peep and don't repeat. Lots of reason for this too many to list but the 3030 won't stop calling you on tiny targets if they made a tone to alert you then its there. You just may have upended it in some way. If you are pouring on the sensitivity too much this can lead to falsing. As with the Excalibur and most Minelabs they do not like freshly disturbed targets.
BCNJ

 

[Howard Snell]

The problem I'm having with the iffys is they never turn up in my scoop. Today actually I went full throttle on one target turned out to be a microscopic peice of metal. I need to determine a way not to dig microscopic stuff.

 

[GateKeeper]

That will come with experience and intuition. There is no magic cure, just keep at it.

 

[Howard Snell]

I've been reading on the halo effect as some people are claiming the same thing on loosing targets. I believe that might be one of my problems. I just wonder why I never had halo effect issues when I had the excal.

 

["Dr.Tones"]

Try your sizing pinpoint function, also try raising the coil off the ground to determine how large/small the target is.

 

[SandSleuth]

Must say I get more disappearing targets with the CTX than the Etrac or Excal... I have come to realize that it is very small flat pieces of metal..whether it be can slaw, iron, copper jean rivits..the CTX hits on VERY SMALL objects..that are on the surface or just under it...if hunting near water line...the waves will wash away small light targets...i dont stress when that happens...just some slaw or pull tab.. If the target is heavy and has sunk deeper in hole...use pinpoint...it will go deeper and show you the target.

Conditions dictate the way I hunt the beach each time out.
If I'm finding shallow zincs,slaw and bottle caps...I know the keepers are deep..ill slow down my swing and focus on deep iffy signals and try to find some erosion..! Of course there are exceptions(Fresh Drops) that could be shallow..

Discrimination by depth....very important tool on the beach

 

[shaymodela]

Hello. I use the default beach mode regularly when detecting trashy areas at the beach, typically around fire rings where people hang out. I rarely dig any iron ie. nails, but to see the aluminum pull tabs and melted aluminun which are clone targets for gold items. I dig all of the solid targets in this mode, and usually find mostly coins, gold rings, and hundreds of aluminun pull tabs. It always pays off around the fire rings for a ring now and then. I found 10 rings so far this year, two of my best finds this year two gold rings yesterday ,one 10K in the low tide mark in wet sand, and one in the dry sand near a fire ring.

Keep on digging
Robert

 

[Howard Snell]

I'm going to have to apply myself to learn the pin point sizing function.