Feb 21st at Daytona and Feb22nd in Naples

[JohnnieWalker]

I spent about 4 1/2 hrs on Daytona Beach with my Minelab. I covered from the Pier to the castle by the Hilton and then completely gridded in front of the arcades and found next to nothing. :-(

Then yesterday I hit a beach in Naples but got there at High tide so I gridded the soft sand and only found a few items a key and some loose clad.

Hope my luck improves, today we will hit Englewood Beach with both the Minelab and the Titan 2000xd.

 

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[astro-nut]

Re: Feb 21st at Daytona and Feb23rd in Naples

I do englewood daily with various machine it is bare picking yesterday i found som clad and an what i thing might be a silver pin hope u have more luck than i had. but i dont give up

 

[Hank]

Re: Feb 21st at Daytona and Feb23rd in Naples

Just returned from a two week Florida East & West coast beach hunt.

In thirty yrs. of Th'ing, I've never had such poor luck on any search. Not one 'keeper' was found, and less than fifty cents in clad. The beaches are all sanded over, and even bad targets were scarce.

I used a new Sand Shark, which ably detected minute junk, but soon acquired an annoying, periodic chirping for no apparent reason. I'm in the process of speaking with Tesoro engineers as I write. If anyone else has had this problem with a Sand Shark, please advise.

Please don't reply with 'you should have used a so & so', 'cuz I probably have used brand X.

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

wow i guess i was pretty lucky after all....

sorry to hear of the poor hunting there.

my 1 gold looks awful big now.

which beach area did u goto at naples ?

i was getting coins at least 1 every 10 or 15 min there

course i was out in the water about half the time.

looks like u are really putting some miles on

to be at daytona and then naplrs right away

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

Re: Feb 21st at Daytona and Feb23rd in Naples

Just returned from a two week Florida East & West coast beach hunt.

In thirty yrs. of Th'ing, I've never had such poor luck on any search. Not one 'keeper' was found, and less than fifty cents in clad. The beaches are all sanded over, and even bad targets were scarce.

I used a new Sand Shark, which ably detected minute junk, but soon acquired an annoying, periodic chirping for no apparent reason. I'm in the process of speaking with Tesoro engineers as I write. If anyone else has had this problem with a Sand Shark, please advise.

Please don't reply with 'you should have used a so & so', 'cuz I probably have used brand X.

wow thats even tougher.... i hate it when equipment acts up.

and if its new equipment grrrrr. even worse.

sooo.... when u say soon acquired a problem...do u mean

u had to switch to ur backup machine...?

i came with my hh pirate....not great for salt...kinda usable

drove 200 miles to purchase a used whites beachmaster2.

which worked great 1st time out. then was dead already.

then it wouldnt go on...with 3 different sets of batteries.

i couldnt figure it all out left the whole mess on the hotel floor

cussed it and went back to the pirate and umax silver..

when i came back to the so called dead machine that nite,

after very limited success w the otherz. it turned on fine..geez

lost one day goin over to buy it then another half day foolin with

i was ready to tear my hair out..... so the next day it work great and i

find a gold w it.go figure.

AND THE SUPER STUPIDITY OF ALL..... is the fact that i brought

the etrac which could have worked fine bit i couldnt find the manual

to get it in beach mode....


my lesson

take a lot of machines. i took 3 and ended up buying a 4th...

 

[Hank]

wow i guess i was pretty lucky after all....

sorry to hear of the poor hunting there.

my 1 gold looks awful big now.

which beach area did u goto at naples ?

i was getting coins at least 1 every 10 or 15 min there

course i was out in the water about half the time.

looks like u are really putting some miles on

to be at daytona and then naplrs right away

Thanks for your concerns. I never got to Naples.
The periodic chirping seems to be the result of natural/geological elements on Floridas' beaches, but otherwise performs well.
When the weather warms I'll try the Outer Banks.

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for Tesoros' engineer/owner to return my calls, but not holding my breath.

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

hey hank...yeah that was the same trouble my pirate had. chirping.

the post u quoted was meant for jw who started this thread.thats why the line about naples.

the other post was to u . sorry my bad

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I spent about 4 1/2 hrs on Daytona Beach with my Minelab. I covered from the Pier to the castle by the Hilton and then completely gridded in front of the arcades and found next to nothing. :-(

Then yesterday I hit a beach in Naples but got there at High tide so I gridded the soft sand and only found a few items a key and some loose clad.

Hope my luck improves, today we will hit Englewood Beach with both the Minelab and the Titan 2000xd.

Daytona is sanded in real bad. I can tell because my Minelab Excal and Sovereigns rarely null, meaning everything is deep...