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Is the beach program:surrender:
- Thread starter markg
- Start date
Willee - Texas
Well-known member
That would depend on what your beach hunting philosophy is.
I hunt beaches in the summer time for recently lost jewelry either in dry sand or the water.
In the dry sand I want a large search coil not for depth, but for covering a lot of area as quickly as possible.
In the salt water I use a smaller coil as it helps pinpoint and handles the salt water better than a large coil.
In the winter time when the beaches are almost empty I want to slow down and get as deep as I can.
I will also sometimes use a small coil trying to find the smaller chains the larger coils pass over.
Very low winter tides offer a chance to get out there and as much detection depth as I can get is what I want then.
I have a PI type detector for that but did not get to use it last winter.
When I use my E-Trac at the beach I run a wide open discriminator other than masking out iron.
That way I hear every metallic object in the sand as the iron nulls out the threshold tone.
It is easy to look down at the numbers or just listen to the tone when a good target is hit.
With a small coil the E-trac is sensitive to small items and with a large coil it covers a lot of ground.
I do prefer a Double D but a large concentric will detect deeper.
The beach program on the E-Trac probably would not miss much.
But I would prefer a more open program.
I hunt beaches in the summer time for recently lost jewelry either in dry sand or the water.
In the dry sand I want a large search coil not for depth, but for covering a lot of area as quickly as possible.
In the salt water I use a smaller coil as it helps pinpoint and handles the salt water better than a large coil.
In the winter time when the beaches are almost empty I want to slow down and get as deep as I can.
I will also sometimes use a small coil trying to find the smaller chains the larger coils pass over.
Very low winter tides offer a chance to get out there and as much detection depth as I can get is what I want then.
I have a PI type detector for that but did not get to use it last winter.
When I use my E-Trac at the beach I run a wide open discriminator other than masking out iron.
That way I hear every metallic object in the sand as the iron nulls out the threshold tone.
It is easy to look down at the numbers or just listen to the tone when a good target is hit.
With a small coil the E-trac is sensitive to small items and with a large coil it covers a lot of ground.
I do prefer a Double D but a large concentric will detect deeper.
The beach program on the E-Trac probably would not miss much.
But I would prefer a more open program.
I think one of the main differences about beach mode is that the ground setting is "neutral" and not difficult.
The manual even states that you should use neutral at the beach. The discrimination pattern is more of personal preference. I think your ground mode, sensitivity, etc. is probably more important.
From the manual:
"Neutral should always be used whilst detecting on the beach. However, for beaches where the sand is contaminated with mineralisation (e.g. black sand), some experimentation is required."
The manual even states that you should use neutral at the beach. The discrimination pattern is more of personal preference. I think your ground mode, sensitivity, etc. is probably more important.
From the manual:
"Neutral should always be used whilst detecting on the beach. However, for beaches where the sand is contaminated with mineralisation (e.g. black sand), some experimentation is required."
Install the Gold program if you want to only try to search out the lower conductive items like Gold. I know some guys that eliminate the right half of the CO numbers from pennies to 50 but I don't mind digging a few pennies, dimes and quarters. This program would be best if you were just hunting for a couple hours and only wanted your chance at gold or you were trying to find a gold ring for someone because it will also eliminate some silver jewelry as well.
BCOOP
BCOOP
RandyNorthridgeca
New member
In parks I always detect in conductive mode. For the beaches I detect I switch to ferrous, run manual sensitivity as high as I can (usually between 19 and 22 in the wet and 24 in the dry), run wide open (zero discrimination) and dig everything that doesn't grunt iron. In the wet sand I do like to dig some iron hits especailly when good targets aren't plentiful. Hate those deep zincs in the wet sand 
. Hope you've got a long handle sand scoop because you're going to dig some deep targets.
. Hope you've got a long handle sand scoop because you're going to dig some deep targets.