First Beach Hunt

[Treasure Scout]

Did my first beach hunt on Doran Beach (at Bodega Bay, No. of San Fransisco). I used my Whites XLT on the pre-set coin and jewelry program. The XLT didn't work on wet sand, so I stayed on the dry areas. Found most of the coins next to a picnic table. I checked most every target so I would get used to the tones and ID numbers. Total clad was 30 coins and two toy trucks. A smaller coil would be better as there was lots of trash along the walkways to the water.

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Good first hunt. Hope you figured out the ID for those bottlecaps so you won't be digging them anymore. HH

 

[Steve and Bia]

Hey Treasure Scout- Nice machine you have! I have one too. You can hunt the wet sand if you change some hings around.
Load the beach/jewelry program and do this...

Tone Frequency: 226 (sets the tones for the audio disk. This produces high tones easy to hear)
Audio disk: ON
Mixed Mode: OFF
Tone ID :ON
Transmit Boost: Off


Set the block edit to this:
Reject -95 to -41
accept -40 to -1 (-35 to -1 on some beaches)
reject 0 to +5 (wet salt)
Accept +6 to +95


The tricky part!

A.C SEN: 60
D.C SEN: 25 (This makes pin pointing hard)

Preamp Gain: 4


Balance the detector over WET SAND but don't let the coil hit the ground! Hover it during balancing!

Depending on the environment, you will need to lower or raise the ac and dc sensitivity in order to get it "tuned" for the wet sand. Usually, 60/25 works for me and I adjust the preamp gain (lower) to prevent false reads. It works O.K. but it's not great for wet sand!