F75 and wet salt beach.

[Tom/Cocoa]

Today I took a small 14k gold earring (1.2gram) and my 18k ring to the beach. I used Zero discrimination, Jewelry Process, 4 Tones, 25 Sensitivity and I manually ground balanced the detector. It ground balanced at a setting of 1 (one). I then turn the sensitivity up to 60 and did my test. In wet sand that water hit on occasion. I could detect the earring at 4 inches.(my cz20 would only hit 3 inches) The 18k 8.8 gram ring it would only hit it at 9inches. (the cz20 would go much deeper) As stated in the manual it is not for the wet sand but I can use it to go in the upper parts of the wet sand with no problem. That was what I wanted it to do. I will use it for the dry sand and in N.C. to hunt old sites where my family lives. I know where there is a old civil war site not many people know about. Now, I have to learn how to use it in the dry sand. Will play again Saturday in the dry sand. Here is a picture of the gold I used. And no I did not find that ring. I bought it 25 years ago.
HH Tom

 

[AndyNM]

I thought at the wet part of the beach it would do better with a low gain mode (default)and higher sensitivity settings.
Did you try that too ?

9" on that ring in the wet sand is very good for a single frequency detector.

Andy,NM

 

[Tom/Cocoa]

Andy, these settings were given to me as the best for small gold in the wet sand. The only thing I did differet from what I was told was set sens at 60 instead of 50. I got some noise at this setting but it was smooth and easy to detect a target. This should be better for small gold which is what I wanted. I have a fine 12k necklace that I will take next time out and will also try different settings. Thanks for input.