uk hunters?

[thebarnacle]

Just wandering how many of you are from the UK? do you do the uk beaches? i have been doing the beaches for 20 yrs uk and abroad. how have you found the uk beaches to be producing over the last few years?

 

[Toddy from Scotland]

Hello is this the Blue Barnacal ? Transit van??

I just started to get serious about beaches through my mate Bobby about two years ago. Last year I took my infinium to spain but never really had the beach experience as I have been a field man for 20 odd years. Since then I have hit the beaches as soon as the fields are cropped and tried a good few pulses I have been doing really well. I have found stuff from Charles I upwards and the rings are appearing more regular. I loved the US beach detecting and If i liked there I would be swinging a S.Master DF for speed. But on my beachs the same detector and other PI's just can't cope with the Rocks.

HH

T

 

[ashmonkey]

i,ve been doing the UK Beach's since 1979, but i lived at mablethorpe Linc's between 2003-2006 and went down the beach at least 6 days a week, things have changed a lot , visitor numbers have dropped, and people are not losing as much. the constant beach nourishment schemes have not helped either. a lot of the coastal detector users are spending more time inland on the ploughed fields these days, and only venture onto the shoreline after big storms. but a lot will still depend on where you dig in the UK. i bet the south coast is still good. with all the digging done in the last 35 odd years any type of digging has got harder, doing your homework is more important than ever before. where abouts are you located mate?

 

[thebarnacle]

yep its the blue barnacle here, well the blue van died a few yrs back - its silver now, i am based in the midlands so all the beaches in the uk are accesable, i have found alot of the uk beaches to of dried up - it seems like a blanket of sand came on about 5 yrs ago i have not seen the gullys like i used to, maybe they are due to strip back, - i am down in cornwall for a week late august so maybe i will hit it right, i keep trying the old holes when you hit it right on a few of my best areas in the uk it beats abroad anytime for quality. i love to see a nice victorian ring come up.

 

[darkmark1967]

Yep, I'm a UK hunter too, but only been going about a year. I use a PI PRO and have found a few rings but also a lot of bullets. The beaches up here in Norfolk had firing ranges on them in both second and first world wars. Even found a few live rounds, a few weeks ago I knocked the head of a .50 Caliber tracer round that was covered in concretion, YIPES!!
The main reason I do the beaches is that so far I haven't had any luck gaining permission on any land for detecting, where i live we have a BIG problem with night hawkers and it takes a while to gain any kind of trust between farmers and ourselves, but I keep trying.
I was having a conversation with a couple of my friends and we all agreed that there was a lack of bodies dripping gold on the beaches, think that they probably are all stuck inside because of the poor weather over here.
Happy Hunting All
Dark Mark

 

[thebarnacle]

norfolk good land detecting - a friend of mine does the beaches in your area - for yrs he was finding live amo and piling it in one area, it was in the papers not long ago that a local walker had come across them but no one can understand how they all came to be in the same spot, i have dome mablethorpe and gt yarmouth but not with much luck

 

[ashmonkey]

Norfolks Beach's are hard going, i have done very well at hunstanton over the years, but never got much at cromer, which should be fantastic. i hit brancaster about 15 years ago when the whole beach was stripped . there was bullets just laying on the surface everywhere you looked. there used to be a few lads from nottingham that were going over to Spain just to do the Beach's, Fred bamber from wisbech was another

 

[thebarnacle]

been told alot about hunstanton over the yrs but never tried it, i have done cleethorpes, a friend lives by the beach and has dnt well over the yrs but all the good stuff it down in the clay, i tend to stick to wales now or cornwall,

 

[darkmark1967]

Hunstanton is my local! Unfortunately there has been a lot of parties at the beach over the weekends and so also a lot of trash. The beach is pretty much sanded in right now and even the low tides of last week didn't reveal much.
There's a lot of talk about Happisburgh beach being good but travelled there last week and was shocked at the amount of iron sea defences that are being slowly destroyed. Any other tips for the UK out there?

 

[tonyweston]

I suppose you could call me a Traitor ?? I live only 10/15 minutes from Scarborough but I never hunt there ? I have tried hunting both the wet and dry there but the sea was to cold and nothing much came off the beaches ! If the water was to cold for me then I reckon its to cold for everyone else !! so perhaps thats why I didnt find much ??
I much rather prefere the crystal clear warm waters of Spain were I hunt for hours with my arsenal of excaliburs, surfmaster and for the beach my trusty S.E Sorry but its Spain for me its tooooooooooo bloody cold here
happy hunting Tony Weston

 

[grahamp]

I've been enjoying metal detecting since 1980 a lot has changed since then, been doing Cromer and the Runton areas for a very long time but never done well, Cromer perplexes me as its a Victorian resort but never seems to reveal anything. I went down to Lowestoft last Saturday to clean up after the 2 day air-show, after a 70 mile drive got on the beach at 6am by 7am I counted 9 other hunters. I found about

 

[UK Brian]

Beach finds are down in the U.K. I think its the combination of beaches stripping a few years back, few holiday makers since and then the sands have built up in many popular resorts. Last year I found 103 gold rings but also Roman, hammered and a variety of older stuff including a cannon plus cannon balls from several sites.

I tend to be abroad now for two or three months in the winter to avoid the frozen ground period and in the summer travel to sites in my camper. If a beach is productive I work it for several days then move on. Second day this week I've been out at five in the morning to suit the tides.

I have been using a Whites DF this week but have three of Eric Fosters pulse machines of which my favourite is the Deepstar. I also use Minelab and the Beach Hunter I.D. in heavy rubbish areas if I can't avoid it. My underwater machine only gets used abroad nowdays, I can't take the cold anymore.

A Bigfoot coil (18 x 3) helps make certain I cover travel and parking charges with modern coins and can cover large areas of dry sand quickly..

 

[thebarnacle]

I used to use the deepstar when i travelled with the Wizard but i then bought an xs2apro i had a trigger switch put on to flick from all metal t reject on one trip we compared the pro to the deepstar we found it to be just as deep in all metal so i now use this in all metal then check with reject if it nulls out i know its iron if there is no change in tone the signal is to deep for the reject so take a few spades out, i now mainly do abroad for most of the gold i have but we have found we have to keep finding new resorts as some have silted up and gone bad i think its when they pump the sand on in the winter and the shore drift even washes this down coast.

i have just returned from abroad with good results,

i find on this forum its mostly the Americans we Brits should chat more about what we find, don't you think?

 

[UK Brian]

I've got my Minelab/Whites etc as I said but your comparing with the original Mk 1 Deepstar. No SAT control, less depth, no option of extending running time from five to ten hours etc we are a good few models/improvements on from then.

Picture is my original Sovereign. Push button mode change, boost adjustment knob bottom left for internal Pre Amp, shielding fully covering whole of the internal surface of the control box, Andy's British straight shaft, U.S. stainless arm rest. Aussie/Bulgarian and U.S. coils.

Deepstar is still deeper.

 

[thebarnacle]

machine looks great a real bit of kit, your right i am thinking of the old deepstar was not aware they had updated it.

 

[chipmonky]

Hi been hunting my beutifull cornish beaches for 6 month now
with my ex 2 this is just some of my finds.
My good beaches you can pull 10 pound an hour a lot look like they been there a few years
but i photo sand levels for refrence and remember most beaches now wont hunt unless
sand levels droping and remember when one beach filling anuther will be emptying
Lucky to live where i do north coast or south coast in short amount of time all ways look for beaches that are getting the strong
wind blowing of the beach you can watch the sand blow away 20-30mph wind easy
Plus the best thing at beaches not having to ask and just get on with it
since being made redundent have been working the beaches at night 9pm to 7 am 3-4 times a week
have made the same if not a bit more cash then when i was working all tax free as well lol fill so good
when i get my cheks for my scrap gold platinum trader plus the 1-2 pounds keep me going in betwen
this is all top secret thou i wont to keep the beaches to my self while fellow friends dig the mud avg pay at beach much better
i think good luck all

 

[ashmonkey]

nice one mate, i would love to have the Cornish Beach's on my doorstep, saw your post and thought you were my mate rob for a minute

 

[chipmonky]

cheers mate yes very lucky doun here where in uk are you
my fav beaches are full of drunks and drug addicts partying dancing and fighting love picking all ther stuff up
the only doun side is are fields doun here not so good as rest of country but ill take me beaches any day love um
and some of the thing u see at night would make you laugh normaly have head tourch switched of and rely on my eys adapting
i can see them but they cant see me doun on the beach love it

 

[thebarnacle]

i like the cornish coast - i usually do the night shift when on holiday, i like it when the gt weston at newquay strips, but gerry brown used to keep an eye on it, have not seen him for yrs wander if he is still doing them, another old mate is Bill Harris if anyone knows how they are or sees then about please let me know.

 

[chipmonky]

most cornish beaches have web cams now so easy to chek before you go
plus see where every one is sat makes life so easy
http://www.fistrallive.com/ thers one for starters