need opinion on F2 & F4 for beaches

[Tajue17 @ Home]

I'm looking to buy two beginner detectors for me and my wife,,, was going with tesoro's but they are not fine for wet saltwater sand i guess so I'm asking you guys about the Fisher F2 or F4 but is it okay to use these over wet ocean sand and not mess them up?

finally is there any oppinions on fishers lower level detectors?

thanks for any opinions,, Ted in Mass

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

You can use them in wet sand but the salt will cause falsing and depth loss. better to stay in dry sand. you need a mutifreq machine or a PI unit to really hunt wet sand effectively. A single freq machine will do ok in salt if it has a manual ground balance.

 

[sqwaby]

I haven't used the F2 or F4 but I do use the F5 and a Tesoro Vaquero on Texas beaches, they both run fine in dry sand, but as you get closer to the water I would give the Vaquero better marks for less falsing and deeper. Either machine needs attention to the GB as you transition from dry to wet and the sens must be reduced as you get to the wet stuff. Once in a while I hit heavily mineralized pockets which I just have to go around, those areas are far and few between though. What ever you get, you really need a GB (auto or manual) once you leave the dry sand.

 

[Tajue17 @ Home]

whats a GB?

thanks for the posts also..

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Ground balance. It's a feature higher end machines use to cancel out the ground and minerals.

 

[richard thompson]

I have the F4 and like it very much. I have been to the beach and have found very little. However, I find all kinds of good things in parks and around parking metters and schools. Living in San Diego there are many old parks and schools to go hunt in. Don't limit yourslef to just the beaches, try other locations close to where you live.