Hello All, I've been detecting for about a year now and have been hitting the beaches from Santa Cruz to Sea Cliffs. I haven't really been that productive at these beaches, and wanted to know if this is what I'm to expect, or am I still not getting the picture (my detecting technique is still not up to snuff?). I spend alot of time trying different scenarios, slow, slower, then faster paced, or random pace, or listening for just deep objects, finding the cuts, working the rocks, etc. I'm locating nickles, pull tabs and some jewelry items (at some depths) but not as consistantly as I would suspect. If it's not the location, then I'd like to work in another direction of technique. Any help would surely be appreciated. Thanks, rdavison

practice - it takes time! It took me 9 months before I found my first silver! what machine are u using?

Thanks Matt, I'm using the Garrett Infinium on the Beach primarly and using XLT,MXT,Garrett 1350 in the sand and parks (with the Garrett Infinium and 5X10 coil occassionally in the parks). So are you familiar with these beaches? Do they seem to produce for you on a continual basis? Here's what I've been hitting lately. Surf and Turf with the Infinium. Turf on the Left and Surf on the Right. Thanks, rdavison


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no sorry Ive only ever hunted the beach one time - rofl . I cant offer any info on sand digging and wave dodging.

I used to have a Garret 1350 , i got pretty discouraged with it, sold it and bought a minelab.
I also use the XLT mainly for demos and dirt hunting and have done fairly well with it. I dig everything when using that machine.

I have found lots of stuff with both of my machines.

If you post on the main forum someone would help you, Also there are many topics already posted on beach hunting explaining all the do's and dont's of beach hunting.

Dont give up cause you never know what your gonna find! ;)

Matt

To Menstick,
I been metal detecting for 8 years. B)
Sometime the weather condition come into play! :(
Like heat, cold, wet, dry or windy if you have a good or bad of hunting day. :bonkers: Second the machine can make a diffence in finding things. B)
The frist 4 years used a White QXT found alot of coins. :D But the next 4 years used a Minelab Explorer II found alot of gold & silver jewelry, old/new U.S. coins, relic, etc.etc. :happydance: The bottom line need to know your machine sounds and how it work on old lots, beaches, schools & parks. B)
From Dougiedig :plato:

Did you try my "Tom's beach tips"?

http://forums.kinzlicoils.com/index.php?showtopic=1674&hl=

They only apply to wet sand though. I despise dry sand hunting ;) Better to let mother nature do the work for you, and get rid of all the light-weight aluminum, etc... Of course, really good erosion is infrequent, so you might have to take up land hunting for the times when the beach is lame.

Another tactic you might try is to do a pit where bedrock is shallow. One place I had some results doing this up your way, was at Capitola. On the SOUTH side of the jetty, bedrock is very shallow. You can try digging down around some of the exposed boulders (assuming the sand is not WAY in recently) and you can shovel out oldies that have become gravity-trapped against those riff-raff objects.

Hey Rick! For some reason I thought you had been detecting alot longer than that. So we're both kinda newbies! :lol: The beachs just havn't been giving that much this winter. Too much sand and not enough tourists! I am pretty much a dry sand hunter that Tom dislikes to do, but that is due to the limitations of my current detector. Want to upgrade this year!

Hey SEABEE Ron :morebeer: I just started this insane hobby, but is it how many day's or how many hours :bonkers: ? I've been hooked up to a machine almost everyday for at least 2 to 3 hours a day :spaz: . I know it's not much but you can learn something everyday. I try to read anything in the evenings that will help make the next day a little different (planned practice). Alot of the time I don't mind getting good targets or no targets, as long as I'm learning something.
Mostly I wanted to know if the stretch of beaches we work produce so poorly? I thought that I had just got a handle on the Infinium (I'd say 150hrs spent) when most of the desirable targets left town! I've been working the cuts, and the rock and shell base, and rocks, the depressions and alike, with little or nothing to show for the time (girlfriend thinks I'm doing the do). I've been getting out in the surf up to my chest and still haven't pulled a decent target in the past two months (did find a nice silver ring and two silvers at a school with the MXT). So I was wondering if anyone else was taken it tough also at the beaches. If not then I was going to re-evaluate my technique. I sold off a couple of my detectors that I wasn't using that much, and bought a Minelab Explorer II. So here goes another learning experience!!! If I don't hear from ya, it's because I'm under the headphones :D HH Rick

Have detector will travel!!