I'm having problems with my WOT on the beach, or its having problems with me. I can search in iron infested areas, nails, bottle caps, pull tabs and not a peep. Sometimes when I hit a target I cant pinpoint it, I'm using the same settings on my Sovereign Elite and GT as my 10 inch coils. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for all your help..
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Using WOT on the beach
- Thread starter mexojack
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i understand what you are saying. the wot coil is a different animal. it will go deep but at the same time it will pick up alot of targets at once. you just got to practice with it and play with the settings.
i had one for both explorer and sovereign and found it to be alittle tooo big. i now use the sunray 14's and im alot more happy with them.
stan
i had one for both explorer and sovereign and found it to be alittle tooo big. i now use the sunray 14's and im alot more happy with them.
stan
What are the settings you are using on the Elite/Wot? I like all metal/ low threshold(less than barely audible)/volume,almost at preset/sens 11-12o'clock depending on conditions. Once you hear a deepie, ck in disc and if it cannot be heard then remove alittle sand. I have dug quarters at 18" with this setup
If this site is iron infested and you are in disc than this is normal to not hear anything as the Sovereigns hate iron and will null on it so you will not hear anything other than a false once in a while from the edge of iron. Now for a area such as this you want a smaller coil and not bigger so it can separate targets better so you can pick out good targets in with the trash. A large coil can see all the trash in the same sweep of the coil along with the good targets and null the good out.also make sure you are running 0 disc and the notch is also on 0 so the only thing it will null on is iron.
The WOT maybe good for cleaner areas where you need more coverage and less iron, but with a lot of trash it will not do well as it will be solid null.
As WW242 says try the all metal and you will see there maybe solid signals all over the place and will take you all day to cover 10 feet area if it is iron infested if you want to run all metal.
The WOT maybe good for cleaner areas where you need more coverage and less iron, but with a lot of trash it will not do well as it will be solid null.
As WW242 says try the all metal and you will see there maybe solid signals all over the place and will take you all day to cover 10 feet area if it is iron infested if you want to run all metal.
Running high or auto will give you alot more info than your machine can handle. Sorta like you turned up the background noise to the point of drowning out the slight differences a deep target will make in all metal mode. The threshold changes on a deepie will be slight. I do mean slight. Your job is to experiment with different volume and threshold settings to suit your own hearing. Try running sens at 10:00 at first. Once you get the hang of it, you will be a true believer
thank you once again. can't get out today but tomorrow I'll try it. We don't find much on the beaches around this area. Once in awhile a ring but mostly coins, lost out of pocket type no old coins. Beach is not a very easy sloping beach so its really hard to search in the water, at low tide is the only time for hunting in the wet sand. I dislike hunting in dry sand but do it just to get out. But I will try your advice with the WOT. Thank you
I'm in the lower part of central CA, Ventura, the water is too cold for people to go swimming except for the very brave. Water temp around 50degrees in the summer time, only surfers with wet suits and children in the water. Most of the people at the beach are from south of the border and they like warm water.
I tried the S-12 coil which goes almost as deep as the wot and it found targets 16-18" deep (at the beach)and my holes were the size of a fox hole! Man, after digging a dozen of them and finding nothing more than a quarter or less, I was bushed and I decided that I would use my lighter coil and recover 100 targets in one hunt and wait for Mother Nature to uncover more goodies. I use the S-8 and it finds dimes at about 9" deep on my beaches and that is about as deep as I care to dig. And, like Rick says, it would probably drive you crazy with multiple targets constantly under the coil. You could mistake a large coin drop as trash real easy. I followed a fellow in San Clemente using a fairly large coil on his DFX and found 3 rings in one scoop and several drops of multiple coins. I knew he had swept over them by his footprints in the sand. When I first saw him, I thought: "oh darn, someone has beaten me to best part of the beach. Then, as I watched hime hardly stopping to scoop anything, while I was doing pretty good near his footprints, I starting almost following his footprints and couldn't believe my luck. Use a smaller, lighter coil and hunt longer. That's the secret to finding the good stuff.
Bill (Calif)
Bill (Calif)
After shifting through all the advice posted here, almost all the same by the way. I took a run to the beach and tried my WOT. Dug 2 nickles, two pennies and a dime plus the usual pull tabs and hairpins all were below the 9 inch mark. One nickle was maybe 12 inches down. This was all in semi wet sand. I'm still having problems hearing anything down near the water line. We have about 4 to 6 inches of sand and then gravel, haven't found much of anything in that area. Between low tide and high tide lines I do find the usual trash which has been pulled off the dry sand area. But like everybody says it takes time to learn how to use the WOT. With my smaller coils I seem to do better tho..