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Sand Shark feedback please:thumbup:
- Thread starter C.J.M.
- Start date
cjmGood pulse induction (PI) detector. I like the 10.5 inch coil for sweeping the beach. One down side to the larger coil is that it does get caught and flipped by waves. Can cure that by putting a coil brace on it.
With the detector mounted in the clips behind the arm rest, it balances very well and is easy to swing. I like the headphones. I find them very comfortable and they cut out a lot of background noise.
It is not as sensitive to very small pieces of metal as another PI that I have, but it is very quiet hunting in the salt water. The other PI I have is not very quiet in the salt water and sounds off with salt water movement.
Sand Shark is a solid unit. Uses inexpensive AA batteries. Gets good life from the batteries. I don't remember how many hours I logged when I was keeping track of time on the batteries, but it was very reasonable. Manual says 10 to 20 hours, I think I was much closer to 20 hours than to 10.
After a hunting session near salt spray or in the water, you should take the shaft sections apart and rinse them and let them dry before putting back together. I've had the clamps and shafts lock up and take a lot of effort to get apart when I only rinsed them off and put them away rather than taking them apart, rinsing and drying.
With the detector mounted in the clips behind the arm rest, it balances very well and is easy to swing. I like the headphones. I find them very comfortable and they cut out a lot of background noise.
It is not as sensitive to very small pieces of metal as another PI that I have, but it is very quiet hunting in the salt water. The other PI I have is not very quiet in the salt water and sounds off with salt water movement.
Sand Shark is a solid unit. Uses inexpensive AA batteries. Gets good life from the batteries. I don't remember how many hours I logged when I was keeping track of time on the batteries, but it was very reasonable. Manual says 10 to 20 hours, I think I was much closer to 20 hours than to 10.
After a hunting session near salt spray or in the water, you should take the shaft sections apart and rinse them and let them dry before putting back together. I've had the clamps and shafts lock up and take a lot of effort to get apart when I only rinsed them off and put them away rather than taking them apart, rinsing and drying.
As TVR says, it's a pulse machine. So you'll have no way to reject nails , bobby pins, etc..... On some beaches, this may cause you to go psycho. I saw a guy show up with a Sand Shark on some of our beaches here in CA. He could effortlessly cut through black sand (although it's not too common to have to tackle that type sand here .....) . But otherwise .... he ditched it quickly and got a standard machine (Etrac) for the beach. So he could discern iron.
On some very touristy clean beaches, you could probably get away with it.
As for depth, I don't think it's going to get coin-sized objects any deeper than regular machines. In the old days, beach pulse machines got deeper than standard machines. But that gap has since been closed (unless you're talking insane pulse machines, like some nugget machines). But for beach pulse, there are standard machines that go just as deep as them for coin-sized objects nowadays.
But standard machines will miss tinsel fine chains and earing studs that a pulse has a fighting chance to get. So as you can see, there's scores of pros & cons.
On some very touristy clean beaches, you could probably get away with it.
As for depth, I don't think it's going to get coin-sized objects any deeper than regular machines. In the old days, beach pulse machines got deeper than standard machines. But that gap has since been closed (unless you're talking insane pulse machines, like some nugget machines). But for beach pulse, there are standard machines that go just as deep as them for coin-sized objects nowadays.
But standard machines will miss tinsel fine chains and earing studs that a pulse has a fighting chance to get. So as you can see, there's scores of pros & cons.
Nauti
Well-known member
Totally agree with what Tom said.Ive owned both types and unless you are prepared to spend thousands on a top line pi like the garrett or minelabs pi machines,you are better off with a top flight dedicated vlf machine.On coin or ring sized objects,as said above,it just is'nt worth the trade off for all the iron you will find.
My pi was very deep on small iron objects,but my dedicated vlf's matched it on rings and coins.You hear some amazing stories about the depth of a pi.......in most cases it just is'nt true,most depths are the result of the target continually falling back into the hole as it collapses due to being saturated.
I have done many tests on damp sand where the target has been located at measured depths and that is why i have a minelab explorer,whites bhid and no pi.
My pi was very deep on small iron objects,but my dedicated vlf's matched it on rings and coins.You hear some amazing stories about the depth of a pi.......in most cases it just is'nt true,most depths are the result of the target continually falling back into the hole as it collapses due to being saturated.
I have done many tests on damp sand where the target has been located at measured depths and that is why i have a minelab explorer,whites bhid and no pi.