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All great information above, I would have very little to add except for this. Watch videos of other peoples hunts on youtube. It could be as simple as searching for " Equinox 800 old church" or "Equinox 800 old farm" or something similar to what and where you want to hunt. Seeing and hearing someone else is like taking a lesson for free. I watch beach hunts specifically those using the 15" coil in wet sand because it helps confirm what I hear when I'm hearing it. If you were to spend an hour a night for the next couple of weeks watching people's hunts I'd bet your understanding would grow by leaps and bounds. Can you imagine if Steve or Chase or TNSS filmed a bunch of their hunts and you via youtube got to look over their shoulder and learn from them? Good luck, HH and don't give up. Frustration is temporary in this business until you decide to fiddle with your settings. ?

Very nice write up and much appreciated. My hope is that it will open up the wet sand hunting opportunities regardless of tide and sand conditions. Depth is depth and nothing beats a PI so my funds are going to be committed. Gas prices are too high to head to the beach for clad so it's gold or stay home for me.

Rick, What do you think the learning curve will be like on the Impulse? For most wetsand(with black sand influence for me) will it be set it and forget it? I'm trying to get me head around what exactly is going to be the way to go on most beach applications. I know it's early to speculate but you're better connected than most.

million dollar question years in the making. Latest I heard was testing on lithium batteries for plane travel was being conducted. Since my daughter flies for a living I'm okay with seeing this done.

That was a great day of hunting for sure. Well done and you cleaned them up well.

I stick pretty much to the Ventura County area for hunting purposes. Unless the wife wants to take a trip North to Pismo or Avila that is. Treasure is pretty much what you make of it, I believe in leaving the beach better than how I found it so I pretty much will take away any trash I find regardless of size or value.

It sounds like a great site for the 6" coil. I hunted an old site similar to what you're describing and it was frustrating until I realized I needed to clean out as many of the bad targets until I could get to the good. The key was to work a section at a time, put some cones out in a roughly 10x10 square and remove as much of the junk as possible. Once I did this the good targets just kept coming and I had an awesome site that produced good coins and relics for months. I'd also maybe play with my tones and go to either 5 tones or 2 tones as I was cleaning things up. 50 tones in that environment would get you a padded cell by the end of the day I'm sure.

Truth! I have a nice dent in my tailgate right where I leaned my scoop. ?

The last two trips to the beach have been so bad in terms of totals that i scored more in aluminum cans than I did in coins. Most of the drinkers now seem to prefer the 24oz cans of beer over the traditional 12oz variety. The problem is how to get them crushed up sufficiently to fit inside my garrett pouch.

Check your tides and get a good headlamp with a red bulb if you plan to detect at night. HH

I was the first PE teacher to bring skateboarding into the curriculum in CA and for years I was referred to as the "Skateteacher" and then the Skate guy. It just stuck so after awhile I just kind of gave up trying to go by my real name. The skateboarding in class became such a big deal I was even featured in an NBC Nightly news with Brian Williams segment. It was right after he was shot down in Bosnia ?.

That's a sweet piece of jewelry. It's amazing what people will spend money on and how much they're willing to spend.

Thanks for the extra info Steve. It's been years since I owned a Whites but I remember those who had one just raving about the Bigfoot coil. The ultimate beach sweeper.

Prop, I would suspect that your beaches are going to be money beaches, specifically old money beaches. Also it's important to remember that sand moves not only daily but historically. What I mean by this is erosion from 100 years ago can and does look entirely different that what it does today. An example of this is happening right now in my county. I live across from a canyon that is basically sandstone and the city of Malibu(or LA County) is currently trucking that sand in to replenish the beaches down south of us in Malibu. The current erosion is happening so fast and at such a volume that they can't keep up. By altering the natural movement of sand they are obviously alternating the makeup of that particular location and just like my beaches are now different yours may have looked completely different during the roaring 20's. Cities/counties are notorious for jumping the gun on sand replenishment. About 20 years ago Ventura was in a panic over parts of certain areas losing sand and now there's parts where they're now having to remove sand because there's just too much and the movement was all natural. I'm not sure what kind of scoop you have but I would make sure it has an angular shape rather than the wide mouth so you can get into the rock layer. There's nothing worse when you're hunting in a rocky stretch to push into the back of a wide mouth scoop and have your foot and ankle try and separate because your foot twists off the back. If this hasn't happened yet you'll know it when it does. John Volek makes a good one (xtremescoops.com) and I'd recommend the Surfmaster type. I think your beach situation is going to net you some awesome finds and I would bet old money. I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Skate

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Even though your area is challenging try and look at it as a classroom every time you're on the beach and simply learn something new. Vary the sensitivity to see how that affects the performance as well. By learning to detect where conditions are difficult you'll be light years ahead of those who've never had to deal with that kind of stuff as you move from beach to beach. For me iron has the slightest of grind at the end of the tone as it relates to everyone's beach nemesis, bottle caps. I purposely dug as many as I could in the beginning just so I could differentiate the tones from a new one to a rusted one or slightly rusted one. I can now with about 95% accuracy tell if it's a bottle cap just by sound alone. If I have time I'll still dig them just to remove them so I don't run into them the next time I'm at the beach. Getting the coil clean from sand or salt is a pain. I hate it when I'm sweeping in the high tide/towel line and the top of my coil seems to collect a pound of extra sand. I'm thinking of drilling a couple of small holes into the skid plate to allow for the water to drain. HH and keep asking questions. Best Skate

Rules say post to relevant information/items of interest. Fits the bill with me. I hope I'm not violating any rules by posting this it's not mine nor do I know the seller but I was browsing Metal detectors for sale and I came across this: https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/spo/d/los-alamitos-whites-metal-detector-xlt/6916021862.html I am posting this because included in it is a bigfoot coil and when I used to run a couple of Whites machines I remember folks raving about the Bigfoot coil and for what I understand the coil alone is quite pricey nowadays. Best Skate

It's hard to tell what your beaches look like but on mine the key is sand movement as in is the sand being moved out or has it been moved in. The way to tell is to look at the water 30 yards out and determine it's color. If it's brown it's likely sand has been moved out. If it's nice and blue and clean/clear sand has been moved in or up onto the beach. Most generally when sand has been moved in the low to high tide area is squishy/mushy and my feet sink in 3-4 inches which obviously means your targets are also an extra 6-8 inches deeper than they were on a prior tide cycle. Beach hunting success comes down to being able to read your beach. I detect mine early in the morning but I like to go visit during the day to see where my local depositors are hanging out. On a good cut most of your folks will create a towel line at the top of the cut especially if they have kids so they can see them playing in the water. Your discreet sunbathers usually hang out towards the back of the beaches and they lose rings usually due to taking them off to put sunscreen on and forgetting they left them in a chair pocket or on their towel. Lastly do a survey of where the tides seem to hit so you can see where people play in waist deep water and what a 2.8 or a 3.4 high tide looks like at your beach. The last two rings I found for clients were both lost at the waist level on first high tide mark. I was able to locate them during the first low tide just in the wet sand. I have another one tomorrow morning where it was lost shin deep at 1st high tide(2.8 feet) and I'm hopefully going to be able to hunt the wet sand rather than the shore break which completely sucks. You probably knew all this but I thought I'd chime in. Best Skate

The best detector is the one you have the most time and confidence in. I took the time to learn the Deus and I was rewarded greatly. When I used it it was the best detector out there.....for me. When the equinox came out I invested hour's after hour's learning it, not the buttons, programs etc., but what a good and bad target sounded like in each of the programs. To this day all I do is select a stock program based on the location I'm detecting and do a noise cancel, ground balance and go. I wouldn't know iron bias other than to sit here and tell you I'm definitely against iron, always have been and always will be. I'm an ironphobe. The best detector you will ever own and use is the one between your ears. The deus, nox or the makro just tells you what it thinks might be in the ground, it's up to your experience via hearing and digging that makes all the difference. I don't want to be the best at knowing what a particular detector can do, I want to be the best at using that detector.

Well we are in the July/August production zone so here's hoping units are being mass produced and boxed getting ready to go out. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be a buyer on this one as my hunting has become nearly 90/10 beach to land. I love my 600 with the 15" trash can lid for a coil but I would really like to get deep in the wet sand with a PI. I hope that any of you who know a little more about dates for release will continue to bounce this thread.

I think the ads while corny, weird and loopy have done their job in that there's a 21 page thread on what many (I included) think is the preeminent metal detecting forum on the web. I'll buy it solely if it can work in the salt. I use my 600 for water currently and my 800 for everything else.I am notoriously hard on my equipment and if it's a poor mans equinox but can take a beating I'll add one to my stable of detectors.

That's what makes this the best hobby out there. Variety of finds and at any moment you could uncover a piece of history, a family heirloom, a precious coin, 22k of AU or a piece of canslaw. That must have been a roller coaster or emotions on that hunt. Congrats!

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That is a find! Thanks for sharing as it helps keep us going when it's hot, dusty and the digging is hard.

Haha I figured that was you! I had a great time. Definitely a bucket lister to get to go detecting in Gettysburg with you and Andy. Our world keeps getting smaller and smaller.