Hunting salt water beaches

[tc8745]

Anybody have any luck with any of the land machines.Looking to upgrade to hunt wet sand and land,,,
Thanks,,,,

 

[sqwaby]

I'm happy with the performance of the Vaquero. I'm on the Texas gulf coast so mineralized sand isn't a problem, once in a while I'll get a small area of mineralization and can't settle it down, but these areas are really small and very few. I even submerge the coil 1-2" when needed with no problems. Might have to break down and get a PI water machine someday though.

 

[tc8745]

Thanks...

 

[tvr]

Tom,
With the stock Cibola that was fairly well on the positive ground balance side in most places ... I had great results over the dry sand. Wet sand in fresh water no problem! Knee deep in fresh water found some nice stuff.

Wet saltwater sand ... with the Cibola I had falsing consistently crossing the wet / dry boundary. Once past the immediate boundary I could hunt the wet sand. In the wet salt I could detect with the sensitivity turned down to I think 5 or 6 with max of 7 without much falsing but didn't find anything much deeper than about 4 maybe 5 inches set like that.

Since then I have had some suggestions of maybe running the discrimination a little higher than just at iron and see if I could then run a little more sensitivity. I haven't tried that yet since I haven't packed the Cibola on beach trips in a while.

In the suds (up to knee deep) ran about the same as wet sand but would sound off with bonging type of sound as waves washed over. Then a few seconds to sweep and hear targets, then bonging, then sweep some more as the cycle repeated. Found some stuff on wet salt water beach but decided to get a waterproof detector ... got a CZ20 and the land detectors have stayed home on the beach trips since. I am thinking of taking the Tejon with a big coil to try it over the sand ... will see come summer.
tvr

 

[tc8745]

Thanks TVR,,,