Steve Andrews

8 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Anyone familiar with the Equinox Beach 2 mode knows that depth is not its strong point. 

For relic hunting on a wet beach, I have found that Beach 2 gives a clearer indication of targets at depth than Beach 1. I know that goes against the grain, but I have dug targets at massive depth with Beach 2. 

For example, I recently dug an 81mm mortar bomb that was resting tail up. The green line marked on this image was level with the beach when the tip of my spade hit the tail. I then had to dig down around the bomb to free it. That must be two feet depth before I reached the tail.

(It wasn't this hole - it's just a photo that I found which shows my spade)

The Garrett "Carrot" in vibrate-only mode is my choice and is my recommendation to you, Golden Pennies.

I detect wet beaches and always use Beach 2. I run an auto GB, which always comes in at 4.  I can run sensitivity at 23 with the machine giving good stability, though I do get a little chatter from some types of seaweed lying on the sand. I have not tried tracking GB and have found no reason to do so.

I have gone over the same targets with 0 GB and having performed the auto GB and have found very little difference ..maybe just a little clearer with the auto GB, so I stick with it.

I don't use one on the beach, unless doing a ring recovery, when I will use it to check for shallow targets, but I always use one "on land".

Yes, a WW2 German 210mm Mörser 18 shell.  EOD will destroy it when the tides allow.

Sorry CPT_GhostLight, I've just seen your question.

It's from a Czech-manufactured 100mm artillery shell fuse.

Having used both beach modes for hundreds of hours each, I have settled on using Beach 2 for my wet local beaches. I have found that I can get it to give a clearer indication of targets at significant depth, which I know goes against the grain, with everyone saying that Beach 1 is deeper.  

I use a 600 with 15in coil, horseshoe on, ground balance 4, I have the iron volume up to the same as the non-ferrous'. Reactivity 5, 5 tones, recovery speed 2 (800 equivalent 4), iron bias F2 0. I can run sensitivity at 23.

I have found that these settings will pick up targets that are very deep (some too deep to dig up) while still picking up tiny items like the pineapple in the second photo.

F2 0, all metal. I will dig a few bottle caps, but it's good exercise 🙂

I found this fragment of fuze on Monday. It's scary-sharp! Jersey, Channel Islands

I believe they're "arsenical tin bronze" GB.

Found yesterday on my local beach, these are sheathing tacks and a square nail from British fifth-rate, HMS Severn, which wrecked in a gale in December 1804. No lives were lost.

The Lieutenant in charge at the time was exonerated at court martial and commended for getting the ship aground and saving the ship's stores.

Found while detecting the beach, this is a German-fired Czech 10cm VZ21n fuze, for the Skoda Houfnice light field howitzer VZ 14/19 (given the German designation 10cm LeFH 14/19 (t) )

It would have been fired in preparation for the defense of the island of Jersey, Channel Islands, from allied attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoda_houfnice_vz_14http://michaelhiske.de/Allierte/UK/Handbook/Pamphlet01/01_008.HTM

It's not uncommon to come across live ordnance here, due to the island's location on the Atlantic Wall. In the last couple of years I've found live small arms and heavy machine gun rounds, 20mm cannon projectiles, numerous mortar bombs in 5cm, 51mm, 8cm and 81mm, and artillery shells in 75, 88, 100 and 210mm. 

When I come across live ordnance I will photograph it, rebury it and record a GPS position, before sending the information to our local EOD officer when I get home.

Thanks Ridge Runner. The fuze was wooden and has rotted away. The explosive element was a small charge designed only to open the ball in flight, so that the lead shrapnel balls could rain down on the target area. The larger cavity below the diaphragm holds the shrapnel balls, packed in coal dust.

On this shell the bursting charge cavity was wet and mainly empty and I flushed out the remaining powder residue.

I found this 19th century British 24 pounder Boxer diaphragm shell in 2018 with my PI machine, which I no longer have (I now use a 'nox 600 on the beach)

Hi Rick, thank you. Yes, I know Reg and Richard as I'm a member of the same detecting club as them. The hoard was found before I started detecting, but I saw it being craned out of the field while I was out on a run. Neil Mahrer from Jersey Heritage, who has been taking the hoard apart, lives a few doors down from me.

We are free to detect the beaches and although there is still quite a lot of live ordnance on them it was fired in training and defensive preparations.

There was no direct fighting here so there isn't the concern of disturbing a battlefield.

Hi, I have found DetectorProspector to have some very knowledgeable members and there is great information on the site, so I thought it was time that I registered.

I live on a British island which is 14 miles from the French coast and we have a rich history. 

I mainly detect the beach for military relics from the British wars with France and the island's German occupation during World War 2.

Though I never target jewellery, I very much enjoy undertaking recoveries on a voluntary basis and have reunited a dozen people with lost rings since I started detecting a couple of years ago.

I use an XP Deus in the fields and a Minelab Equinox 600 with 15in coil on the beach.

I look forward to contributing. Thank you.