Sand Scoops

[101numlock]

i do a lot of beach hunting and am thinking of buying a long handle scoop, Who all uses one and what should i be looking for? My back is killing me after 3 days of bending over with a little hand scoop.I am only using it on shore wet and dry sand, no in the water detecting as of yet anyways LOL

 

[Ray-Mo.]

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[Deep Digger]

101 numlock,
I also do SOME beach digging and have a few ideas for you.
It depends largely on the type of substrate you have at the beaches you hunt.
If you have a lot of large "stuff" shells and heavy sand then go with a large hole screen type of sifter.
If you have powder sand on do mostly dry sand you can get away with most of the smaller round holed type scoops.
And since your posting on the ETrac forum I'm assuming your not waist deep in the surf, an aluminum scoop weighs
significantly less than a stainless one and should do it for you. But if you have rocks get a stainless steel lipped one.
Check out Demarco detectors (nice guy ) and hell put you onto what you need.
I use several scoops, aluminum from Babbs and RTG and Stainless from pro stock for chest deep stuff.
Good luck
Deep Digger