Oregon Beaches

[bluesky]

Hi i'm new to metal detecting. Just ordered my first detector. silver umax......I live on the oregon coast. How do you think my silver umax will do in the sand?
I don't plan on putting it in the water but i guess you can. Whats the best part of the beach to search? dry sand or wetsand or shallow water? Any advice for a beginner on the beach? thanks

 

[TONE JUNKY]

Hey Bluesky, first of all, the Silver Umax is not a water machine. If you drop it in the water, it will drowned. It should work fine in the dry sand, though. I've never had a Tesoro, but I know those who have & they are good machines. I'm not sure if that one will give you any trouble going from the dry sand to the wet sand. Some detectors will beep or chirp as you sweep from dry to wet or vice versa. I've been to the Oregon coast just a couple of years ago on the 4th of July. It was so cold that I didn't want to go out & see the fireworks.

Godd luck with your new machine & HH.

PS: You may want to find a local park, playground or Volleyball court to use your new detector in.

 

[Mat in MA]

Hi Bluesky, I don't know about your beaches but the silver is a good unit. I own one myself. It's a great unit on the beach as it's light weight and you can detect for hours. When going from the dry sand to the wet you may have to turn down the sensitivity a bit as it will chirp too much in that wet salty sand. Just turn it down gently as you don't want to loose to much depth. Once it levels out then go for it and Good Luck finding all that treasure.

 

[mattockman]

Well I feel no one has said anything about where to hunt...Dry, Wet, or shallow water. I am no expert but this is my opinion. During the hot season anywhere is fine...depending on where the folks are. Stay away from the crowds and don't tread on the blankets. Try to get there before they arrive or after they leave. Dry,wet,and shallow all produce. Now it depends on your beach and rip tides and storms.......but you got to figure your beach out by yourself......all are different........so this is where getting out there and doing it all will help you determine your beach. That is half the fun.....some beaches around here don't get much for rips and cuts cause of the protection they have from points, cliffs,pennisulas, etc......and some get ripped up and cut like no others.......so each beach will be different. At my beaches I normally hunt I find from mid tide to wey sand is best.......in the off season.....and in season anywhere is fine.....I don't ever do good in the water......but I read all the time that at other beaches they do.....it all has to do with the tides and currents and wind and rain and......etc........another words you got to get to know your beaches and shoot from the hip till you discover the patterns......the best way to start is walk on to the beach and walk parallel along the shore......start mid tide and zig zag till you find a coin...when you find a coin......walk in line with the coin found .....parallel with the water.....and you will find the coin line. You will notice that once you find a coin line the coins can be the same or change a little from time to time. Now once you find a coin line and you have gone about 100 feet to 100 yards depending on how you feel and how many targets are showing up.....look back to targets dug and you will notice all the holes you dug and buried and then step to one side or the other (towards the water or towards the shore) and about 5 feet and start another swing line.......now you might notice the coins found will be a different demention.....and after you get back to the end you started at from the first coin line go to the opposite side.....step towards what ever side you didn't go towards.....and swing another 100 feet or yards.....and you will find other diff. coin sizes..........If you can imagine say hitting a coin line.........and it was mostly pennies, and a few dimes......and then you go up tide and find tons of pull tabs and light stiupid junk.....and then go water side of first run towards the water.....and you start hitting nickles and quarters more than most........take a guess which line will have the gold rings in?.......I have found at my beach I can rund a coin line and hunt 5 feet to one side the other way and then hunt 5 feet from the opposite side of first run and find the whole run.....then I can pace off roughly 19 paces down or up shore and do it all over again........this is mostly in the wet sand........in the dry sand in which the tide never hits targets can and will be where it fell.....Hope this helps.....Just another observer.......not no expert.........

 

[bluesky]

Thanks alot Mattockman, that was very helpful and gives me a good start............Are these coins in these lines been dropped on dry sand mostly and then the tides move them around into some what lines? Or are these mostly coins dropped in the water and being washed onto the beach by the tides?
Thanks again................

 

[mattockman]

Tell ya the truth...I really don't know, it is probably both I am sure, but what I do know is some how they do line up parallel to the water. After digging and searching in a straight line I look back and yep....its a coin line. When I search 5 feet to one side of coin line it seems the coin dimention changes and so on. Then after that drys up I pace off 15-19 paces(longer than normal strides)( slightly)......... towards water and zig zag again till I hit a coin and do it all over again.......it seems to work for me where I hunt.....It seems like the lighter stuff is at the top of the line (towards the road) and the heavier stuff is lower towards the bottom of the line(towards the water).....Good luck with your hunts......

 

[bdahunter]

Think about the relative weights of each denomination of coin then factor in the resistance their surface area offers to wave action. The waves sift the coins up and down the face of the wetsand at high tide, you find them at low tide so they're in a nice even line relative to the high tide mark. Does this make sense? It's a little more complicated than this but the same principle applies throughout. You can do this experiment with a trough full of water, some coins and some sand, they will line up.

Cheers,

BDA