Salt water sand ... low tide hunting ...

[Willee - Texas]

I have been reading that the DD type coil adds to the problem of salt water sand.
Anyone use the 950 coil for that?
Would that be a better choice for a salt water beach than the standard D2 coil?

Willee

 

[david1962hd]

I have the 950 coil and have used it on salt water beach hunting and it worked fine. I mostly use my 10" DD it works just fine for me on Pensacola Beach. I turn on salt water compensate at the tide line and have no problem. Both work fine for me.

 

[Rob (IL)]

Last year with the V3 the coil of choice at the beach was the 950. I haven't had a chance to check the D2 with the V3i at the beach. The V3i compensates the salt better and the D2 early problems seem to be solved so the D2 might work fine now. I'll know next month. Rob

 

[gilfordberry]

The D2 works fine for salt water beaches (use salt water compensate). I still prefer a pulse machine for low-tide hunting, though, because you have to dig EVERY target when salt beach hunting, anyway, or you'll lose a lot of small gold. At salt beaches the ability of a VLF machine to ID targets suffers considerably if the target is at any depth and even with a PI machine you can usually ID ferrous vs. non-ferrous targets. I still use the V3i in the dry sand, though, because the discrimination helps a lot there in separating the junk from the treasure. As for depth, the PI might have a slight advantage, but if so, it's sure not much. The V3i with the D2 coil amped up to the max without suffering instability goes DEEP.

 

[calibil]

I'll agree with that, the V-3i works well in dry sand with excellent id and depth, I'll stick with my water proof PI in the tide water