Proven Beach Programs??

[jaxtabking]

Anyone have a nice beach/wet sand program to recommend?

 

[jas415]

I use the same programs I use on demo lots. I keep seawater enabled all the time also.

 

[KinTN]

wide open + seawater on is what I plan on for this vacation. I want to see whats down there and then decide to dig or not.

 

[Mike MD]

Sea water On
Open screen
Manual sensitivity 28 in the water, Auto +3 dry sand
Volume gain 17, helps identify small shallow pieces of foil
I also scoop out some sand on any target the id's 10 to 12 inches and recheck. Some of those iron signals turned out to be gold rings and old silver that were a lot deeper than 12 inches.

Mike

 

[Jason in Enid]

Sea water On
Open screen
Manual sensitivity 28 in the water, Auto +3 dry sand
Volume gain 17, helps identify small shallow pieces of foil
I also scoop out some sand on any target the id's 10 to 12 inches and recheck. Some of those iron signals turned out to be gold rings and old silver that were a lot deeper than 12 inches.

Mike

Are you using low trash, high trash, FE-coin, or Ground coin on the beach?

 

[nolanation]

Open screen for sure at the beach, most beaches are fairly clean, and you will want to dig the full range anyway, minus the iron.

Mike, just to clarify, you have found gold and silver from targets that show 10-12 inches on screen, and that only give off an iron grunt?

 

[Mike MD]

Jason,
I have been using Ground Coin.

 

[Mike MD]

Open screen for sure at the beach, most beaches are fairly clean, and you will want to dig the full range anyway, minus the iron.

Mike, just to clarify, you have found gold and silver from targets that show 10-12 inches on screen, and that only give off an iron grunt?

Yes, along with the 1-50 iron wrap around signal. At those depths (past the 12 inches) the target ID and audio become unreliable, but once I take a few scoops of sand out the target ID gets better.I have been fooled by some deep iron but it never hurts to check.

I found about a dozen silver half dollars last year that were around 20 inches deep. Most of the time I would get a 1-50 that would bounce around to 1-49. These would be a very unstable signal only sounding off every few sweeps but in the same location.

The silver quarters, dimes and gold at the same depth sounded and ID'ed like iron.

I have been hunting some very old beaches and have been known to only move 10 feet in an hour. I hunt at a snails pace once I start getting a few targets.

HH
Mike

 

[don tyler]

thanks Mike for input, Don Tyler Merrimack,Nh