Vaquero and wet beach sand

[pennysaver]

I have never had the Vaquero at the beach before. Can anyone tell me how it does on wet sand. Does the ground balance help any.
Thanks, Jim

 

[tvr]

Hopefully a Vaquero user will chime in. I have used my Cibola on the beach. I have had great results over the dry sand. It falses consistently crossing the wet / dry boundery.

In the wet salt I could detect with the sensitivity turned down to I think 5 or 6 with max of 7 without too much falsing but didn't find anything deeper than about 4 inches set like that. The Vaquero ground balance may help here, hope to hear from others.

I also got the Cibola about knee deep in the suds at the lowered sensitivity. When waves washed in or out, the Cibola chimed loudly, but I could detect between the wave cycles. Turned up some finds, again up to about 4 inches.

After playing with the Cibola on the wet salt beach and in shallow water, I started looking for a water proof detector that handles the salt well.
tvr

 

[VBDave]

I've owned the Cibola and now a Vaquero and tried them both in wet salt sand. The V was no better than the Cibola, regardless of the setting. The V performed better than the Cibola in dry sand thanks to the manual ground balance. There's just not enough range of manual GB in the V to compensate for wet salt. Best to save up all your dry sand clad and buy a Sand Shark for the wet.

 

[pennysaver]

Thanks for the posts. I am happy with the Vaquero weather or not it will perform well in wet beach sand. There is usually enough
dry sand to keep me on the beach forever. I don't get to hunt at the beach enough to justify buying a Sand Shark now but I will
keep an eye out for a used one just in case. Thanks to everyone on the forum. Jim