Has anyone used or tried the Xterra 50 around slat water beaches?....................

[mtdoramike]

if so I'm curious how it performed.

 

[wpaxt]

From my post of 10/24/05:

B. Saltwater Beach

I spent the afternoon at one of our local ocean beaches, hunting both the dry & wet sand. Targets were sparse (as has been the case lately). The X-Terra was stable on both dry & wet sand with no falsing. I did try increasing the sensitivity from the preset of 12 to 20 & found that I could work the dry sand fine but had to back off to a high of 14 in the wet sand. The coil was submersed numerous times and did not false at all when the saltwater washed over it.

I did try the all metal mode on the detector but didn