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Sadly discouraged and just dont get it. I let everyone down including excalibur owners

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newtohunting

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Went out for a stroll in a local beach in MA, found some clad but could not get wet due to early morning obligations. Then went to Hampton beach NH. I was hunting dry sand in Hampton with Excal and did not get even a penny. I was mortified by the amount of trash at the beach. I have never seen so much trash, (potato chip bags, pop tops, magazines and crap) it was awful awful awful. They should call Hampton beach (dirty crappy and environmentally dangerous beach). NH should not state "Live free or die" instead it should be "Litter and you will die." For every bobby pin there are 5 bottle caps, for every bottle cap there are 10 tin foil pull off tops from fruit juices. For every left over flip flop, there is left over McDonalds wrappers. So damn disgusting, I feel like never wanting to hunt there again.
 
Try the wet sand it can be less trashy and you don't have to get wet. Pick up a pair of hip boots so you don't have to worry about the waves hitting the shore. I never hit the dry sand (Above the high tide line)with my Excalibur for that very reason to much trash. Thats my personal preference although some people do very well.
Time it so you go about 2 hours before low tide.
 
Hampton has not had a good target in the dry sand for WEEKS!! Summers over there will be no targets there till we get a HUGE storm that will do anything to the upper part of hampton.The only place you will have any chance of finding targets is the slope and wet sand. ANYWHERE WATER HAS REACHED to uncover targets. from what I saw at hampton and salisbury its so SANDED IN that its gonna take a real strong storm with good north east winds before it gives up good loot. there will be small pattches of clad here and there but not much else. GOOD LUCK.
 
Thanks, Appreciate the great advice, do you find more in neck deep water or do you do well in waist deep. How do you like the Excal? Find much gold and do you do better in winter?
 
welcome to the world of beach hunting; to be successful at beach hunting, #1 persistence,#2 attitude; you're going to have bad day's, #3 learning how to read a beach, to be able read a beach you have to do #1,#2 often to be able to tell how the sand has moved, any new cuts, new trough's in the water, how the bottom feels,hard good, soft bad. how the beach slopes, more slope the better. gradual slope usually sucks. hunting is better in winter, winter storms remove sand from beach, not only storms but the wave direction in the winter removes the sand from the beach while the summer wave action deposits sand on beach. this is why items are covered up so fast in the summer. excaliber; fine water machine; "this is my personal opinion, i don"t use water machines to hunt dry sand, to much trash. the sov. would be better, #1 it has a notch, to notch out to many of a certain type of target, pull tabs, bottle caps, ect; #2 it has a meter," All machines have a learning curve, some m0re than others. #1 learn your machine,#2 learn your machine, #3 learn your machine. hope i've been helpful. hh
 
If you haven't seen any of my posts here, I've "been there, done that" at Hampton as well.

I actually did fairly well in the early summer months, but even then the amount of trash was truly disgusting. I pick up what I can carry easily, but a large garbage bag would get full in a short period of time so I try to mostly pick up things that might hurt someone (like glass, sharp metal pieces and the ENORMOUS numbers of sparkler wires after the 4th).

I certainly find much less garbage out in the water or close to the water at low tide. I never went any higher than the high tide line in summer - lots of guys hunt the dry sand and I'm not out there for clad unless that's all I can find.

As the other guys said, you just have to be patient - when you've had a couple bad outings, try somewhere else - lakes, parks, playgrounds etc... just to get you back into finding things.

I have a very long ways to go in reading beaches as well, and every time out I can tell you I learn more things. Don't give up.
 
Thanks Cubfan64, I agree about the sparklers. My GOD! There were over a dozen last night when I went out. It was brutal. MY own damn fault for going out during high tide.
 
Thanks for the info. I agree with you 100% Just had to get out and try my new toy (excal 1000) and new I was hitting high tide. Oh well, ready to go, better to learn now than never learn.
 
I'd follow Beachhunter's advice as well and just avoid Hampton until there's some action pulling sand off the beach.

As far as the garbage goes, "smart" me figured that the morning of July 5th would be an excellent morning to go hunting with all the people that visit there on the 4th.

I'm sure there was gold and silver there, but trying to sort it out from the hundreds of pounds (and I'm being literal here) of garbage was ridiculous. Not sure of your age, but there was an advertisement in the 1970's for keeping America clean/beautiful that had an older American Indian paddling a canoe amidst piles of garbage on the river - at the end you see a closeup of him with a tear running down his face - I'm not a "tree-hugger" or strict environmentalist, but I can tell you I could definitely relate to that add on July 5th.

Best of luck and perhaps we'll cross paths sometime out there - if you see a guy with a Fisher CZ20 chest mounted wearing an off white Chicago Cubs hat, stop me and introduce yourself.
 
New,

I don't own an Excalibur but I am water hunter and the best tides are minus tides read your tide charts and mark them on the calender, hunt 2 hours before low tide and 2 hours on the incoming tide.

Just don't meander around out in the water look for depressions or area's carved out by the currents and work those area's, the bottom make up for best finds at least in my case are gravel, shells and rocks. Look for sandbars that are newly formed and hunt in the water behind them.. Hunt area's where you think others won't such as rocky stretches, some people want everything easy and won't hunt in difficult area's and its their loss because these area's usually hold lots of gold. I hunt a beach that is all fist sized rocks and under that mud and clay mix but I have scored a lot of gold in area's like that.

Just so you know, your going to dig trash and lots of it if you want to find gold. You may not dig iron but you will dig trash, pull tabs and such fall into the same VDI's as rings do and your detector will find bottle caps because they have the right shape that could be a ring.

Like BeachHunter says its 90% the person behind the detector and 10% detector, learn your machine and learn how to read a beach and you will be successful and remember you're not the only one out there, there are many of us going for the same stuff you are.
 
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