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The best beach detector ever ...

Willee - Texas

Willee - Texas

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A PI detector !!!

Figure it out.

People that come to the beach dont leave a lot of trash.
They either leave pull tabs, car keys, coins, bottle caps, or jewelry.
Two out of five aint bad and 1 out of five is very good odds for valuable stuff!

So dig everything that beeps ... it aint that hard to recover items in the sand.

A PI has no discriminator and is sensitive to small gold jewelry ... VLF detectors are not.

If you feel really adventurous and go for the wet sand where the PI will get the really deep stuff with out all the clatter and noise of a VLF.

If you dont have a PI detector then turn the discriminator to "0" on what you got and go for it.
Either way, you will find some gold if you just keep scoop'n that sand.
 
Willee said:
A PI detector !!!

So dig everything that beeps ... it aint that hard to recover items in the sand.

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Seven hours with a six inch scoop and HH PI says different. That's when I yearn for an Excal :)
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u lived on a summer time beach and people lost thousands of bobbie pins and hair brads, fish hooks, wire, snaps.

lets say u normally hunt a 30 block area with a VLF detector in maybe 3 hours.

u buy a PI.............now this 30 block area takes u 5 hours to hunt and u have to carry extra pouch for all your great PI finds.

to me i have lost 2 valuable hours of time............time is something we can not get back.

some beaches are well suited for PI's some are not.

here we have like 4 PI guys and 25 VLF guys.
 
I just bought the excal and it is my first detector. If you use the pinpoint mode on the excal, you get PI results - then when you hit a target, just switch over to disc mode and the unit will either null it out, warble a whole lot or confirm the signal.
Today after 3 hours on the gorgeous LI beaches, I practiced with my new excal 2. i have to say that it finds everything and i mean everything in pinpoint mode - a penny was easily 10" down - I had to hit it all the way with my 6x11" scoop. once you get a good hit you switch over to disc and listen to the tones. since I'm just learning how to use it I'm digging lots of stuff for the first hour and memorizing the tone of what I am finding. After about 2 hours I began to learn what was junk and what was really large which meant it was junk. only found a penny today but I enjoyed every minute. i'd rather swing a MD than a 6 iron anyday.
 
You seemed to have missed one very crucial addition to your theory. That is that most of the older/popular resorts have been around for around 100 years or more. They have seen hundreds of Winter Storms and Hurricanes that have ravaged buildings, and destroyed boardwalks. These have been built and rebuilt many times over the years. This has left a tremendous amount of rusty iron in the beaches for those with PI's or anyone hunting in All Metal to dig up. Some people will tell you that the iron targets will over time rust away and be gone. Maybe some of it will but most of it is still out there on the beach just waiting for you to come along and dig it up. So it is not just fresh drops of iron that you have to deal like the bobby pins and such that Max mentioned. Also you mentioned that a PI will see small gold that a VLF machine will not. Well that is simply not true..at least in a Saltwater environment. The reason is that a big part of a PI's ability to see small gold is tied to it's Pulse Delay. The best PI's for beach hutning today only have a Pulse Delay down to 10us. For thin gold chains, earrings, and other small gold that is not a closed circle you would need a pulse delay below 10us. The problem going that low is that below around 13us of delay a PI will detect Saltwater. Therein lies the rub. For a PI to work in the Saltwater and be stabel you usually have to set your Pulse Delay in the area of 13-15us in order for it to work well and that leaves out the smaller non-ring shaped gold. Freshwater is another story. A PI can be set to 10us or lower if one existed and would be able to easily find the small gold. When you are spending a beautiful Sunny Summer day at the beach you rarely think about all the storms that have hit those same beaches over the years creating an enormous under ground junk yard full of iron. JMHO

HH

Beachcomber
 
Right on Beachcomber I hunted the Florida beaches for months with my PI and dug tons of iron and all kinds of other junk, sure i dug a few nice rings but when i went back to the Excal 2 my finds double and the digging was cut in half, along with MR Gold Masters Peltor headphone mod to the Excal 2 i have dug gold down 14 inches loud and clear, that's plenty deep for me . Are beaches here may appear beautiful but they are full of junk.
 
very interesting thread, as i am just deciding which new beach machine to buy myself. thought i would treat myself after having a pacemaker fitted yesterday, i have used pi's for years but do envy the minelab users. i hope to move back to the coast soon as soon as the house sells. but this time the Beach's will be made up of sand ,pebbles and rock outcrops, where i lived before was pure sand, and would often get sanded in with up to 4 foot added overnight. no machine was deep enough until the next storm. here in the uk minelab do seem the dominant machine on the beach these days
 
Guess I should have said ... "in the dry fluffy stuff".
Yes ... diging iron in the surf is a bummer.
In the fluffy stuff it is no big deal ... scoop, sift, on to the next target.

Thanks for all the great information shared here.
 
What a bunch of naysayers Willee. I agree on the PI machines. 94 Gold and counting this year. How many excal users can say that? Let them use their excals etc. and I'll come behind them and dig out the gold, especially if it's near a bobby pin or bottle cap.
 
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