wet saltwater sand

[DirtAngler]

How well does the V3i or VX3 do in the saltwater wet sand?

 

[Rob (IL)]

Not all sand and all beaches are created equal. On the beaches, Texas and Florida, I have hunted it works super. I use the V3i with the 9.5 concentric coil using salt compensate and salt soil settings. The 12" would do as well, I just don't have one anymore. ROB

 

[burlbark]

How well does the V3i or VX3 do in the saltwater wet sand?

With salt compensate on running in beach mode you can run the gain to max on most of my local Pacific coast iron encrusted beaches. And this is in the wet sand. You can still find clad and quarters down to 8+ inches with salt compensate running. Dry sand and away from the salt crust switch programs to coin and jewelery and crank it up to find the deep ones.

This may sound entirely far fetched.... and even I know it.

I was beach hunting with my wife and friend last weekend and was pulling up allot of change. I came across a quarter signal saying 12". I dont rarely ever see this kind of depth on my depth reading. So I took a scoop with my 12" scoop/stealth shovel and scanned the hole again. It was still down in the bottom pinpointing in the same spot. I took a shallow 4" scoop and dumped my sand and this crusty old quarter came up. This quarter was down 12-16" deep and it rang loud and true. This does not happen very often and I can only attribute it to halo effect. But this is the kind of surprising depth that you will find with the v3i. It shocked me enough to comment on the depth to 2 couples who where walking by at the time. They where almost as shocked as I was.

 

[Rob (IL)]

The V3i is MUCH better in the wet sand than the V3. Changes were made in the tracking. Rob