Tejon with clean sweep on the beach

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I ran the Tejon with first discriminate just at foil and did dig some fairly small foil. Second discriminator at tab just to check if a lower or higher conductor, but dug everything that hit with first discriminator. Bottle caps that were rusted had real clicky edges to the sound off and I knew it was a bottle cap before it came out; bottle caps in good shape sounded like good targets.

The clean sweep over the salt sand is a bit chatty but good signals were repeatable.

Over wet sand and especially in the black sand areas, the pinpoint was not of much use as it sounded off pretty constantly and I couldn't find the targets that gave a good consistent beep in discriminate mode. Over the dry sand the pinpoint was fine.

Black sand hurt the Tejon with the cleansweep a good bit. I hit a solid high conductor over a wet sand blackish area with the Tejon, scooped it and nothing. Swept the area, nothing. scooped the hole again and dumped the scoop on the surface and it sounded off. A dime. Dropped it back in the hole and gradually filled the hole and raised the dime until it hit ... about three inches is all I got in the black sand on a dime. I did get a nickel at between 5 and 6 inches that was a solid hit over an area that showed grainy black streaks.

The cleansweep sure covers ground. In the dry sand I found a 10k ring with this set up.
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Thanks tvr for the info. Been thinking about the clean sweep for my tejon. It is real help.
Willard in Spokane

 

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Slowmotion,
What I really need to do is hit some of the soccer fields with the clean sweep.

After re-reading some thoughts about working difficult ground, particularly some of Monte's, I decided to go try the Outer Banks with the Tejon.

Higher frequency and bigger coil are wrong way to go when there are conductors besides a good target (like salt water and black sand) under the coil.

I wanted to try out covering larger surface areas and see how bad it was going to be. The Tejon air tests nickles real close to where it air tests quarters; and near nickle is the area of conductivity I want to hit hard.

I expected the black sand to be problematic and was surprised that the Tejon wasn't completely unmanageable over the really dark areas of the sand, although I did struggle with it, and it was not very deep when the sand was black.

I am looking forward to hitting some other beaches that I know are not as difficult with the Tejon / clean sweep combination.

Even without the ring, this trip produced about three times as much change as my previous trips to this area with comparable hunting time. I took my Sand Shark and CZ20 and spent half the time with the Tejon and split the rest between the other two detectors. Both other detectors got deeper in the black sand areas, but total coin counts were better with the big coil just covering more area.

I am also thinking about adding a clean sweep for the Sand Shark..
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