Help need wet beach settings with depth

[Digger 45]

I'm on the west coast and using an xp deus for the first time, wet beach settings not working well, no depth, lots of false signals.

Most of the time i use the Tesoro Sand Shark, but i have an area where i have pulled out gold but there use to be a pier there years ago and it is littered with metal pieces and large nails, so with the shark i dig hundreds of hole and wear myself out. I'm 72 yrs old and have been hunting for 35 years. I would much appreciate some programs that work you

 

[Digger 45]

I see a lot of people looking so there must be others that need this help too, can't anyone give some different programs to try ? Sure would like some help.

 

[Sleepyjim]

I would ask Gary or Andy for help.....I am curious myself.

Jim

 

[wltdwiz]

i dont work salt water but you might try 4 khz it should be less sensitive to the salt water & turn down the sensitivity a bit

hope it helps

 

[LTimedigger]

I'm no salt water expert, but I remember Andy saying with a one frequency machine like the deus, you need to set the beach setting under your ground balance to yes while working in wet sand or the water to offset the salt water and you can set to no in dry sand or which ever works best.

 

[Digger 45]

Yep i have done all of that,ususally running sensitivity any where from 70 to 80, have changed reactivity to 4,power level to -1, iron to 5 still not getting deep, only about 4" with some false signals, i have used Sparky's wet and dry, still not quite right, i will keep experimenting

Thanks for all of your responses

 

[JP.Diggzzit]

It's a great machine but not particularly effective in heavily mineralized wet sand beaches on West Coast in my experience. I was having the same issues last year and ended up with the Minelab CTX 3030 and a used Excalibur II for beach hunts. I use the Excal II mainly for travel beach sites (carry on). They are both phenomenal in and around the saltwater. Just downloaded the V4 so I do want to get out to a park this weekend and give it a spin. I love the deus in the dirt but minelab rules the beaches IMO. Please let me know if you get any increased depth and stability with the deus.

 

[amberjack]

that's where single freq detectors will struggle and its hard to cancel out the salt and the ground with that 1 frequency , I used a PI on the wet beach for a few years and they are great but the iron is tiring , so as above the minelabs work well in this area and the CTX is pretty good

not saying singles don't work they just don't work as well as a PI or multi its just how it is.

AJ

 

[Goldpick]

I simply prefer to use my Racer 2 over my Deus for wet sand detecting, so much easier to ground balance and a very stable detector on the wet stuff for a VLF.

As others have mentioned, the least frustrating detectors to use are multi-frequency - seamless operation from dry to wet and back again. PI's do go deep, though you do get sick of digging deep bobby pins and tent pegs (ie. with my Garrett Infinium).

 

[Digger 45]

What seems to work well for me now it the Wet Beach program and modify it by turning the Reactivity up to 4, iron up to 3 and run in 12k. Still get bottle caps but an iron sound is better heard when moving the coil back towards you. In the wet sand a nickel at 8" was no problem, very little falseing or chatter.

 

[unearth]

What seems to work well for me now it the Wet Beach program and modify it by turning the Reactivity up to 4, iron up to 3 and run in 12k. Still get bottle caps but an iron sound is better heard when moving the coil back towards you. In the wet sand a nickel at 8" was no problem, very little falseing or chatter.

Digger, I'm on the west coast also, you're using the wet beach program in the Deus with the tweaks you mentioned. How about GB? How have you got that set?

 

[Digger 45]

Running at 27 on gb and sensitivity at 70 seems to run pretty smooth

 

[DrJoeprime]

Unfortunately the Deus is NOT great in wet sand.

It does work but with a change in signal mental attitude needed. Real hits are strong and without doubt. Maybe signals ALWAYS turn out to be false. That advice has helped me the most and I've actually got a few gold rings in the wet sand. Depth is not great...and a PI is actually the best machine to use in wet sand. I am hoping XP could come out with a PI which is light as a Deus.

Try anywhere from about a 10 to 27 on the ground balance..I run my sensitivity around hi 80's to 90 (a bit noisy..but I like it).

Joe

 

[Digger 45]

I works good for me where there is a lot of iron, other wise i use a Sand Shark PI