We're headed to Virginia Beach next week for some R & R. Staying up around the 3100 area. My wife insists I take my detector. She says I'll be bored since I'm a very early riser and she and my daughter sleep late. I think she really just wants some free additions to her jewelry box. Anyway I'm not a beach hunter since I'm an inland person. Can anyone give me some simple tips or advice for the beach? Thanks!
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VA Beach
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Mike (Virginia Beach)
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Run your Explorer II at IM-16, Fast Off, Deep ON and sensitivity at about 18 to 22 (adjust in that range if it gets finicky near the water) and work the wet sand at low tide, from the water to the top of the wet sand, looking for the "target line" or any area where a concentration of targets are popping. Swing it low and slow and dig it all. There's very little trash at Virginia Beach and the gold rings and other good stuff is in the range of aluminum trash anyway, so if you aren't hitting on trash then you aren't hitting on gold. Many land hunters don't realize this. So discriminating out anything is bad. If you're hitting a lot of fish hooks and stuff you could go IM-12 or 10 but I prefer digging it all. There are some nice watches that are stainless steel that you might miss and it could help you snag a chain you may otherwise miss.
And don't sweat the sensitivity issue. There are many cases where running the sens too high can be a big detriment and the beach is one of them. Bad ground on land is another. I have a test garden that's 6 years old and the targets are tough hits for any machine, having sunk a bit since I buried them. My Explorer II won't hit two thirds of them at 28. At 24 it hits a few more. At 18 it hits them all. I've seen it go a foot deep at the beach at 19 or 20.
Good luck. I'm in a hotel in Orlando right now getting ready to pick up a cruise ship in Canaveral here in a bit. Bahamas-boun d with no detector. Wife's HS reunion cruise. Sometimes ya gotta know when to let it go and leave it home.
And don't sweat the sensitivity issue. There are many cases where running the sens too high can be a big detriment and the beach is one of them. Bad ground on land is another. I have a test garden that's 6 years old and the targets are tough hits for any machine, having sunk a bit since I buried them. My Explorer II won't hit two thirds of them at 28. At 24 it hits a few more. At 18 it hits them all. I've seen it go a foot deep at the beach at 19 or 20.
Good luck. I'm in a hotel in Orlando right now getting ready to pick up a cruise ship in Canaveral here in a bit. Bahamas-boun d with no detector. Wife's HS reunion cruise. Sometimes ya gotta know when to let it go and leave it home.
Nice tips on the beach hunting. I have a chance to hunt two areas that are private but all involve going in the water and the dge of it.
My wife was actually happy once that I had my detector in the truck one time. At the start of the kids baseball season they could not find the base pegs to mount the bases. I said " No problem" Got out the EX II and while dodging baseballs found the three pegs for them. Then she made me put it back and watch the kids game instead of running around the park grabing clad.
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My wife was actually happy once that I had my detector in the truck one time. At the start of the kids baseball season they could not find the base pegs to mount the bases. I said " No problem" Got out the EX II and while dodging baseballs found the three pegs for them. Then she made me put it back and watch the kids game instead of running around the park grabing clad.
jimb se wi