The beach gold program ...

[Willee - Texas]

In Andy Sabisch's XP Deus manual on page 119 there is a program for beach hunting that is designed to improve your chance of finding the gold jewelry.

This morning was the first opportunity I have had to get to the beach and try out my new Deus detector.
I started the morning by using the 9" coil and the #1 basic program to get a baseline reference about how the detector was responding to the dry saltwater sand.

After about an hour I switched programs to the Beach Gold program and continued to hunt.

I do like the gold program.
It moves the likely gold objects to the high tone area and the coins (except nickles) to the mid tone area.
So all I had to do was dig the high tones and disregard the rest.
The ID numbers are still there to aid if needed.

No gold today but did recover several nickles and a few other coins.
Coin tones were sharp and solid and it is hard to resist digging them.
One strong mid range signal yielded a nice Sheffield folding knife ... open and ready for use.
Another strong mid tone turned out to be a large earring.
So even though I am looking for gold objects I still have the option of recovering coins and other items
depending on how good the signal sounds or reads on the digital scale.

I think this gold program will be my go to beach program with the Deus but the 11" coil might be better as
it will cover more ground.

 

[HuntinDog]

Nice recoveries..
That earring looks like it might be silver..
I ran that program in Maui and found it to be very good for the dry sands there.
Found a nice 10k mans band right in the surf in the hard coral.
I think now that I'm better with the Deus I would most likely do a bit of modifying of some of the other settings just to see if I could get a bit more out of it....
What part of the world are you hunting??

 

[Willee - Texas]

Hunting the beaches around Corpus Christi, Texas.

(snip)
What part of the world are you hunting??

 

[JWHunt]

What is the gold beach program?

I saw the picture of the beach and thought it looked like Corpus Christi. I have never hunted on the beach and I live 30 miles away. I need to try it some time.
congratulations

JWHunt

 

[Willee - Texas]

What is the gold beach program?

JWHunt

Check the first sentence of my post ... it tells you where to find it.

Come on down sometime JW and we will go beach hunting ... I will show you my favorite spots.

Willee
361-563-1303

 

[Sleepyjim]

Willie was your hunt all dry sand or was it wet as well? Have you tried underwater yet?

Thanks for the post and tip, good finds, glad you was not stuck by the knife!


Jim

 

[Willee - Texas]

Willie was your hunt all dry sand or was it wet as well? Have you tried underwater yet?
Thanks for the post and tip, good finds, glad you was not stuck by the knife!
Jim

Jim, it was all dry sand.
Today I am going to Rockport Beach to try it in shallow saltwater.
I am doubtful it will perform well as it was not designed for that ... but who knows ... it might.
I also want to see how deep the coil can be submerged before the headphones lose the wireless siginal.

I do have a new CTX-3030 purchased last month just for salt water hunting this summer.
So far its been my experience that PI detectors are the best (depth, and sensivity) in saltwater except that you dont get much discrimination.
The Multi-Freq detectors such as the Minelab Excalibur/CTX , Fisher CZ-20/21, and White's Beach Hunter ID, are the top choices for getting discrimination.

It is really hard for a single freq detector to do well in a saltwater environment.

 

[Willee - Texas]

Spent this morning at Rockport Beach ... Beautiful weather ... Overcast, cool light breeze, and plenty of mosquitos.

The Deus coil will not transmit a siginal more than a few inches under saltwater.
In the wet saltwater sand it will need to be tweeked to handle that.
In the dry to damp sand it works great.

First three photos are Rockport beach.

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Lots of shallow water to water hunt in.

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This one is North Beach in Corpus Christi Texas ... I think I am detecting something big!

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