Hello From California

[BeachGoldGT]

New member here - look forward to making this my go to forum. Great to see the hobby is alive and well. 
I am a long time metal "detectorist” - ever since the mid eighties. Owned practically all different makes of machines. 
Long time white’s , Tesoro and Minelab user. 
 

current arsenal : 

Minelab Sovereign GT - 15” WOT , 5” SUNRAY 

MINELAB Excalibur II - 8” coil , straight shaft  - (looking to mod this rig )

Minelab Equinox 800 - 11” coil , 6” coil

Fisher Gold bug 2 - 10” and small 6” coil.
 

Sov GT is my main beach hunter - it is ridiculously deep seeking . And use it armed with the WOT coil on wet sand  / sand cuts .

Water hunting - Excalibur II.

Equinox is dry sand / park / general . However …. The GT is killer with the 5” sunray coil in park locations also.

 

Designed some interesting equinox program settings (user) that allow good silver hunting in field and parks too.

I look forward to being part of this community of treasure hunters !

 

[okara gold]

Sounds like a good arsenal. Welcome to the forum!

[BeachGoldGT]

[BeachGoldGT]

BTW …. anyone looking for a great headphone (sunray gold) .. They are very hard to find. But are extremely sensitive to the deepest targets. I had to do a cable repair (worth it ). So if you find one …. Grab it. 
 

😁

[JCR]

Welcome from East Texas.

[Tom_in_CA]

Welcome from Salinas, CA .   What city in CA are you from ?

[CalReg]

Welcome from San Jose, CA! You've got some solid rigs there...happy hunting!

[GeoBill]

Welcome from Palo Alto, CA.  Still have my Sovereign but haven't used it in many years. Had the WOT but unfortunately sold it. Was sure great on the Santa Cruz beaches. 

[Tom_in_CA]

19 hours ago, GeoBill said:

... Was sure great on the Santa Cruz beaches. 

 

I knew a Santa Cruz hunter, who had the Sovereign / WOT combination.   And it was SUPER deep !  He also had the after-market TID meter on his.   And : One time, he and I were hunting Santa Cruz main beach, @ the wet sand, and comparing flagged signals.   He called me over to have me check one.  I was using the Explorer II , if I recall, with standard 11" coil.   And : I could BARELY get a warble/flutter.  Ie.: I'd never have heard it, if it hadn't been pointed out to me.   

 

But my buddy was saying "corroded zinc at 14" deep ".   And he let me hear what he was hearing and : There was room-to-spare , on it.  😶  So he dug it up, and ....... sure enough, at a MEASURED 14" (hard wet-pack sand),  was a corroded zinc.  Exactly as he had called.   

 

He would sometimes get quarters to seemingly 1.5 ft. deep.   All while retaining good TID, iron-disc, etc...

 

I was impressed enough to give it a try myself.   But found that the tones were just too "warbly" and "fishy" for my blood.  I could never get used to those tones that had the long bbbeeeooonnnngggg tails to them.  🫣 But to the guys who got used to the sounds, and in-the-right hands, it was a super deep machine.

 

I wouldn't recommend it for junky parks or ghost-townsy iron-ridden sites, but :   For the wide-open beach, in the right hands, you're right that it was a deadly combination.