Hi All, (I guess that should be 'y'all' down here....) Winter Texan from Colorado relegated to beach duty with a scoop rather than much field or park detecting due to back, knee, joint problems. Mrs. Santa said I was good enough boy to get an X-TERRA PRO, and I did just that. I'm open to and hoping for all beach detecting/X-TERRA tips, because my two previous detectors didn't do salty wet sand. Wife sez: "Bring me a platinum diamond ring" so that's my goal, along with a Spanish real (now I'm dreamin').