Will My 1350 Be Ok at the Beach?

[SpencerHughes]

I won't take it in the water obviously, waiting for my AT PRO for that!

But will my 1350 be ok on dry and wet sand OUT of the water?

Any suggestions on settings, etc.?

It's my first beach outing soon as I can get out there and I want to do it right!

Thanks for any tips.

Cheers,

Spencer

 

[bcoop]

I would hunt in jewelry mode and adjust my frequency as high as possible without falsing. These machines will work on the beach but they just don't get much depth, you need a good beach scoop for the wet sand and a good sifter for the dry.


Good Luck

BCOOP

 

[SteveP(NH)]

Your 1350 will do ok in the dry sand but will false in the wet sand. Salt water will cause a single frequency VLF machine to signal a target in the foil range so notch out all of the iron and the first notch above iron. This should keep the machine quiet in the wet sand. You will also likely need to drop your sensitivity down to 40% or 50% or else the salt will still ding thru. Unfortunately notching out the salt will also notch out some rings such as wedding bands but the bigger rings will get thru if they are shallow enough.

If there is black sand at your beach then you might have more trouble as it will mess up the auto ground balance causing it to set itself too high. If this happens then you can try setting the discrimination higher (adding more notches above iron) and lowering the sensitivity down to 20% to 30%, but even this might not be enough and if this is so you will need to stick to the dry sand.

One other thing you may notice is that pinpoint mode may seem like the whole beach is a target so you might need to just zero in on the target without using the pinpoint mode. Again in the dry sand it should work ok but in the wet sand you might run into this problem as the pinpoint might detect salt water as a target and as it is an all metal mode you can't discriminate out the salt response. You are more likely to run into this issue if the beach has black sand as the ground balance won't be right. If you are hunting a white sand beach like those in Florida or along the Gulf coast this probably won't be an issue.

 

[Uncle Willy]

You can put the coil in the water but not the control box. It should do fairly well if you keep the sensitivity low but don't expect it to perform like a machine built for that kind of hunting in and out of the water and over the wet salt sand. In the dry sand it should do okay.

Bill.

 

[Ken in NC]

I tried my 1350 on the beach here in NC. These beaches have plenty of salt to disturb most single frequency machines. I specifically wanted to test out the "Salt Elimination" search aid function. To my surprise, the machine ran quietly over the wet sand when ran with the "Salt Elimination" turned on. The 1350 easily hit a wedding band at 4" in the wet sand.

It may not be real sensitive to smaller pieces of jewelry, but should do fine for rings and coins on the beach

I would avoid taking it to the beach on very windy days, as that blowing sand will find it's way onto the screen