silver umax/beach!!

[gottit]

How are the tesoro's set up/ my new silver u max(new to me) ran great on the beach (salt h2o)/blk sand and dry sand and in the blk sand I found a quarter at about 10" no kidding . This is great for me but I would love to know how a fx'd grd blac. unit can do this. By the way I hunt the NC coast . My Mine Lab is the only other unit that can do this! gottit

 

[dahut]

...try it again.

 

[nad]

Go out,check, and re post results..The interesting possibility is that everyone may have assumed a Silver UMax would not work in those conditions, so they never tried the beaches, salt sand, black sand etc.... Tesoro built an amazing little detector in the Silver. Now ,we have to take up a collection to send Tabdog to the salt beaches to give us a report on his favorites..I may just have forget saving my money for a Sand Shark , and go to a GPR unit. Like bigger game hunting.......cordially Nad

 

[tvr]

I had my Cibola to the outer banks twice. It handled the dry black sand area fairly well, had to back the sensitivity down to about 7 in the bad spots. Ran super tuned in much of the dry sand areas. The wet sand was more challenging.

In the area where it transitions from dry to wet, the Cibola had a long loud but soft edged tone in one direction and a shorter hit on the salt in the other direction. Short strong hits would be targets. Sensitivity at between 6 and 7, higher and it falsed a lot.

In wet sand away from the boundary I could run sensitivity at 7. Any higher and there were many more falses than actual targets.

In the shallow water, when a wave ran over the coil it was just like the wet to dry transition area. With the water action I dropped the sensitivity down to about 5 to reduce the falsing some.

Found coins and a scout camp dog tag. The tag was about 4 inches into the sand with the coil about a foot deep in the water.

I don't think I would have found a quarter in the wet sand at 10 inches with the sensitivity down to 7. In the dry sand, running super tuned, and the center of the 9x8 standard coil going right over it ... a quarter sitting flat, yup!

But I don't have any Silver Umax experience.

 

[gottit]

I know this unit is not suppose to go about 10" but it took 3.5 scoops with my long handle beach scoop to find that coin! I ran sen at 7 while in and around the water and blk sand . I ran max in the dry sand. I guess I was not prepared for the silver to work this well at the beach. The area I went has gvn my white detectors a fit falsing and the like. Never had a problem with my Minelab GT on these beachss . So I expected the silver to preform simular to my Whites. Anyway weather it was the luck of the detecting gods or what ever. This was over a few days and with stops between fort macon park down to salterpath nc. All these beaches have a diff type of sand make up. The detector worked well along the entire area detected. Thxs for y'alls imput and help. Discrim. was set at about just above foil ! gottit

 

[tabdog]

Thanks for the info.

If I make it to the ocean again,

I'll be more confident.

Happy Hunting,

Tabdog

 

[tvr]

Oh ... forgot to say ... Congrats with your find. Keep us updated on future hunts.

 

[slingshot]

The two best things I have learned about the Silver from Tab and Monte are to slow down that sweep speed in rough areas and keep the disc. all the way down. I believe that somehow the Silver must readjust or something when it is slowed down and the depth increases.

 

[gottit]

If not for you guys I would not have bought a umax . This unit for me is like a new begining htx's again !! gottit

 

[marmota.monax]

Do you still have that Silver umax?

Where did you buy it back then?

Thanks