Beach Sensitive For Coin Shooting And Relic Hunting? Yup.

[F350Platinum]

You've probably already seen my recent post at a campground, 337 coins in 4 days. I was mostly using the D2 and MI-6 pointer with the 13x11" coil and my "Hoover" program based on Beach Sensitive. There were a lot of sand spots, but the extra controls Beach sensitive offers (Salt sensitivity and Magnetic Accept/Reject), combined with full tones in High Square is so good everywhere there was no need to use anything else.

Here is my other post:

This was the largest amount of coins I've ever found at a campground, the 13" hit on chains, rings, and even bits so tiny they may have fallen out of my pouch through the mesh.

A few things really jumped out to me this trip, not only is the 13x11" coil fabulous, but I came back with tricks to better separation and EMI mitigation.

First the coil. I was able to use it next to tot lot equipment, under park benches and everywhere one wouldn't think it would be usable at all. I also found it was no worse than the 9" coil regarding EMI, and there was a lot of it, underground power, audio lines, cell boosters, Wi-Fi, park low voltage lighting, you name it.

The 13" is good at separation initially, but varying reactivity was key. Most of the time I was able to use .5, but sometimes it got machine-gun, so I switched to 2 reactivity and slowed down. I'm amazed at the D2's ability to retrieve target info at any speed. 👍

Last is EMI. I found that varying Audio Response from 6 down to 3 pushed EMI to the background so it was barely audible, and good targets stood out plainly. Try it. You will lose depth but you can turn sensitivity up to compensate, I ran sensitivity as low as 87 most of the time and still hit stuff 8-12" down. If you're not in trashy spots keep your AR high and sensitivity low.

Additionally I was using GB tracking with no ill effect. 

Obviously this is all dependent on your conditions, but where I am this works a treat.

I found my program to be the same on both the D2 and WS6, making them interchangeable, just the coil size.

[ColonelDan]

Wow!  Great job.  Very profitable to experiment with this machine.  It's really something.

 

 

[F350Platinum]

8 minutes ago, ColonelDan said:

Wow!  Great job.  Very profitable to experiment with this machine.  It's really something.

 

 

Thanks Colonel,

I'm stating the obvious with varying reactivity, but I was very pleased with other results. I like the 13x11" coil for just about everything.

Lower audio response is pretty good in two scenarios, land hunting with an EMI presence, and simply the lower it is it lends a perception of depth (0-3). EMI gets heavily amplified at higher levels. I tried everything and it was the only setting that made a big difference in reducing EMI at its worst.

Using high AR when there is no EMI will really make deep targets sound off, and very deep targets are faint, but accurately identified. Using the MI-6 as a depth gauge helped a lot in the fine grassy spots, but I could tell at an AR setting of 3 that a target was too deep to get with a probe.

It's a balance for sure. 🤔

[midalake]

22 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

and my "Hoover" program based on Beach Sensitive.

Sure......Why not use Beach Sensitive!!!!!

[Lodge Scent]

I like how you think out side of the box F350. Clearly you have it dialed in to be deadly at your sites with modern trash. Have you had a chance to run it in the older iron choked sites? I am itching to give a shot at one of my cellar hole sites.

[F350Platinum]

26 minutes ago, Lodge Scent said:

I like how you think out side of the box F350. Clearly you have it dialed in to be deadly at your sites with modern trash. Have you had a chance to run it in the older iron choked sites? I am itching to give a shot at one of my cellar hole sites.

Thanks LC,

Sadly the crops have not been harvested on most of my sites, and those that have been cleared have an inordinate amount of stubble. 🤬 I'm praying for tilling or Bush Hogging at worst, so I don't have to use the 9". 😀

No more camping trips are on the schedule for this year, economy as it is. It's going to get cold fast anyway.

So, for the moment I'm stuck with local beaches and King tides. 🤪 hope there are still some deep finds there.