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I am new to the CZ70. Any beach hunting tips.Salt water.
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Run it at sensitivity 4, Salt mode, nothing notched out. Concentrate on the foil, round tab, and Relic signals, as this is where most of the gold will come in. Sweep slow, keep the coil flat, investigate all signals. If you want to notch out pennies, that's fine if there are a lot of them but I've seen large men's 14K bands hit on penny as well as a watch or two. Best bet is dig it all.
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at the beach, even if you notch out pennies, they more often than not do manage to come in at high coin at least that is the case with my CZ70.
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I was notching out iron.Why do you recommend not doing that. Thanks for the tips Rusty
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Bud, notching out pennies is really just notching out the newer zinc pennies (see the little letters "zn" on the CZ 70 penny button). Pennies have been about 90% zinc since 1984 (or is it '89?) and have a different conductivity than earlier pennies which were about 90% copper prior to that date. So notching out pennies is cutting out only the newer pennies. The older ones and wheaties still come up as high coin.
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In fact, you'll find some copper 82s and some zinc 82s as they used up what material was left over after 81 before they changed over to zinc.
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Never gave the "zn" much thought, just figured a penny is a penny. They need to revalue pennies either make them worth more or discontinue them. I opt for discontinue. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
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Especially on saltwater beaches as crusted coins may end in Zinc..Large gold ring, gold coin, nice watch, large gold bracelet can also be lost if notching out zinc. I know some areas are just loaded with them but ones choice can be costly at best..
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Rusty,
I normally listen to the iron. Depending on the beach and the amount total signals of all kinds vs the amount of "old" iron thats around I sometimes dig the iron signals. In deep sand where the old stuff is too deep and out of range, iron signals may very well be newer items like junk jewelry and the occasional stainless steel watch. Just depends on the beach conditions.
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I normally listen to the iron. Depending on the beach and the amount total signals of all kinds vs the amount of "old" iron thats around I sometimes dig the iron signals. In deep sand where the old stuff is too deep and out of range, iron signals may very well be newer items like junk jewelry and the occasional stainless steel watch. Just depends on the beach conditions.
Tom
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I think we can all atest that that is probably accurate <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
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In 1982 the spot price of copper rose significantly
making it almost profitable to take $100 dollars worth of pennies to a scrap dealer and getting MORE than a $100 dollars for them. Therefore the government changed the compisition, or metal content, from copper to zinc with a copper coating.
As we all know, the copper coating comes off a newer penny very quickly when in the ground even for a short amount of time. 1982 pennies come in the copper and zinc compisition. </STRONG>
making it almost profitable to take $100 dollars worth of pennies to a scrap dealer and getting MORE than a $100 dollars for them. Therefore the government changed the compisition, or metal content, from copper to zinc with a copper coating.
As we all know, the copper coating comes off a newer penny very quickly when in the ground even for a short amount of time. 1982 pennies come in the copper and zinc compisition. </STRONG>
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My beaches don't have too much iron, so I like to listen to everything and dig what sounds good. I will rarely dig iron at the beach, but sometimes the stainless steel stuff (like watches) can come in as iron. And very deep targets can shift to iron or bounce between iron and something else. The most successful beach hunters will usually be the ones digging it all. The next most successful will probably be the ones notching out hi-coin, zinc penny, and iron and accepting pulltab, relic, foil, and nickels. Which is where most of the gold is. But then you miss the coins and the silver rings.
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Good point on the watches.Thanks