Beach Season Has Begun

[schoolofhardNox]

       So, my beach season hunting has officially started. I was going to shoot for two days hunting but a wash out on Thursday made me change some plans. I had reserved Thursday for the GPX 6000 and the 14” DD coil, but had to settle for trying the 6000, 5000 and Equinox on Friday. I changed beach locations too and ended up at the less EMI beach for the day. Started out using the GPX 5000 for clearing out some of the recently deposited junk in an area that has produced silver before. I thought the storms that ripped through the previous day would remove some sand, but it was just the opposite…. sand deposited along 3/4 of the beach (top to bottom). Also, high tide reach to the highest point of the beach, so I could only hunt where the waves did not constantly reach up top. The 5000 did well considering the beach was really sanded in and gave me my first silver of the season – a 1955 Washington quarter. The rest was clad, but for 2 copper pennies. Some junk jewelry, and maybe some iron shot or just a ball bearing, - it measured .75 caliber. The big spoon was found at 20” and I thought I was going to get a beer can or some big iron, so that was a nice surprise. Hunted with the 5000 for 6 hours and decided I cleared enough to try the 6000 in that spot. The EMI was a bit more than usual but not really bad. I’m still not sold on that 14” coil. I tried both ground settings, as well as both Salt mode and EMI mode. I tried auto, auto +, manual (full) and manual (setting 1) and some in between. I just could not get the 6000  to not false on the sand. It was partially damp, as high tide receded a while ago, but with a sensitivity of 1, I would have expected a smooth clean machine. IDK maybe the coil is not good. I did not bring the 11” mono as I really wanted to see if the salt mode would work on the 14” DD. Being a bit disappointed, and after trying all combinations of settings, I called it after around 10 minutes. So, the tide was getting as low as it was going to be, so I hunted for 3 hours with the Equinox and traded my spade for my scoop. I didn’t use the Nox much last season as the 5000 was killing the silver, so the Nox sat idle. But I wanted to see if the heavy waves dropped anything on the beach along with all that sand. There weren’t many targets, so I dug everything to get a feel for all the numbers. The hairpins and tiny wire all read a steady -2, -3. The Nox did well for the short time I used it and if I wasn’t beat from the hunt, I would have stayed in the area that was producing some coins. It was the best machine for the day to give me a chance at some gold. It felt really, really good to get out and just walk the beach. Next week all 3 machines will be at the crazy EMI beach. I will have the mono coin and the DD to see if this beach (dry sand) will be ok for the 14” coil. Can’t wait!!!

[Tom_in_CA]

Good report.  Thanx for bringing us along !   Our west coast beach erosion season (at least where I'm at), can start as early as November-ish.   That's when sometimes an early arriving Alaskan winter storm (d/t winter starts earlier, the further you go north, eh ?), can kick up swells that come all the way down to central CA, as early as Nov .  By Dec. for sure.

 

At *any* time of *any* year there can be fluke swells that roll through.   Like an equatorial storm that sends swells all the way north to our part of North America .  Those would be south swells.   But the ones from Japan And Alaska tend to be NW to W direction.

[Rick N. MI]

I like the toy soldiers. I've only found 1. I thought there would be a lot of them lost.

Good luck finding gold.

[Raphis]

Good report on the use of your machines at the beach, and congrats on your finds!   I’m sure it must have felt great to be back on your beaches again!

So, what size coil and design (DD, mono) were you using on your 5000?  Something just doesn’t sound right if your 5000 wasn’t falsing on the wet sand while your 6000 was.  I’ve only use a mono coil on my PI at the beaches, even in the blackest of sand with only minor falsing...but I have to swing my coil very level and slow (coil control), while also walking perpendicular to the water swinging the coil instead of walking parallel to the water.  I also can’t lower my pulse delay below 15 uS or I will false more on wet/salt sand.

Keep us informed how you fare next week with the 6000 and the mono coil. 
 

Good luck!

 

 

[Joe D.]

Great job,

    Can't wait for our beach season to begin! Need some serious Noreasters to get the party started! Sooo much renursment, and deposited sand, that i literally need 8-10 feet in some spots to get to any old stuff!! But hopefully, the ride down will concentrate some newer stuff!!

    Nothing like you find, but we work with what we have available! Good luck, with your detector arsenal! And I hope you have a banner season!!🍀👍👍

[Valens Legacy]

Thanks for sharing your hunts along with the photos, I really need to take a detector to the Gulf to use on my rest days.

Good luck on your next hunts and happy swinging.

[rvpopeye]

Just the volume of targets you find ........very impressive !

You must live in the "land of the lost " ,,,,hmmmmmm , OH , I get it now.

Researched your locations ya did !

You found a notice about those yearly litterbug conventions at that beach  !

And they had concession stands to up the coin count too....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[schoolofhardNox]

On 9/11/2021 at 9:08 PM, Raphis said:

Good report on the use of your machines at the beach, and congrats on your finds!   I’m sure it must have felt great to be back on your beaches again!

So, what size coil and design (DD, mono) were you using on your 5000?  Something just doesn’t sound right if your 5000 wasn’t falsing on the wet sand while your 6000 was.  I’ve only use a mono coil on my PI at the beaches, even in the blackest of sand with only minor falsing...but I have to swing my coil very level and slow (coil control), while also walking perpendicular to the water swinging the coil instead of walking parallel to the water.  I also can’t lower my pulse delay below 15 uS or I will false more on wet/salt sand.

Keep us informed how you fare next week with the 6000 and the mono coil. 
 

Good luck!

 

 

I use a 12.5" DD coil on the 5000. It has proven itself as the best all around coil for my beaches. It rarely falses and some better coil control on my part would get rid of that falsing. It does pick up emi fairly well, but the is probably due to the fact that I run my settings... let's just say, not the recommended settings from the manufacturer. 😆 I may hit a heavy emi beach next visit so I may try the 14DD again to see how it does on completely dry sand. If it does not work well, it may end up in the dead coil, time out pile 😉

On 9/11/2021 at 9:37 PM, Joe D. said:

Great job,

    Can't wait for our beach season to begin! Need some serious Noreasters to get the party started! Sooo much renursment, and deposited sand, that i literally need 8-10 feet in some spots to get to any old stuff!! But hopefully, the ride down will concentrate some newer stuff!!

    Nothing like you find, but we work with what we have available! Good luck, with your detector arsenal! And I hope you have a banner season!!🍀👍👍

Thanks, I hope you lose a couple of feet soon, although I bet there are still a lot of targets that are really mixed up in that 8-10 feet. I wonder how much tiny gold (studs, chains, charms) are in that mix? For sanded in times, I would use the Nox and try for micro gold.

On 9/12/2021 at 1:56 AM, Valens Legacy said:

Thanks for sharing your hunts along with the photos, I really need to take a detector to the Gulf to use on my rest days.

Good luck on your next hunts and happy swinging.

You should try it. Any chance to get some time in with your machine is good for the soul.

23 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Just the volume of targets you find ........very impressive !

You must live in the "land of the lost " ,,,,hmmmmmm , OH , I get it now.

Researched your locations ya did !

You found a notice about those yearly litterbug conventions at that beach  !

And they had concession stands to up the coin count too....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do some serious research. Here is what I do..... Get in car, take machines, spend all day on a beach, dig like crazy 😄 Works for me.

[rvpopeye]

What works is what works , and it's working !  ,,,,,, Nice work ! 🖖

[kac]

Beaches down the coast were the same, everything was washed out and all soft sand from top. Quite a few lobster traps washed up too along with tons of pieces of them. I chickened out on using my pi.

Good haul.