Ive yet to find a ring on wetsand. I can only ever really find a few coins. I have a minelab excal 2, I live in nothwest florida and detect at the beaches there on the ocean. ALL TIPS will be appreciated - thanks
One thing I use to do that really allowed me to learn my beaches- there were times when I just carried my scoop and a long thin diameter, but strong, metal probe. With just these two things I'd take hikes up and down the beach when it was flat and every so often I'd see how deep I could sink the probe without too much effort. Most often I had no trouble sinking the probe a lot further then I could detect but every once in a while I'd hit "an area" where it was much harder to sink the probe. From here I'd keep repeating the process to get an idea just how large this firmer/denser area was. I'd use my scoop to see what was making it denser, most often it was shell-pack or just really hard, tightly packed, "gray" sand, but it was firmer, denser bottom, the type of firm that could support those heavier items I wanted to find. I even mapped these areas for future reference and it eventually paid off and still does from time to time.
This thread reminds me of a recent post by Whydah in which he states something like, "when we arrived at the beach it was all sanded in so we went looking for a different place to hunt." I remember thinking at the time, "There is actually a mountain of advice in that simple statement from a very experienced and successful hunter that will probably go largely ignored by most readers." But this is what I'm talking about, after observing their targeted beach Whydah and those he was hunting with knew right away that they needed to find a different hunting area, one that offered them better odds of success. Guys like this just know how to keep their coils over the best ground possible, this being addressed before they ever turn their machines on.
I think I know who that "hardcore pro" is.Thats how its done I've been reading one guy who writes a blog.."hardcore....".. he seems to go on and on about how good he is at finding things in what is called bad conditions by most people.."sanded in".. I find it funny because while he's busting his hump to find something in the bad conditions most of us have moved on to where conditions are better to only go back and find things at that same place at another time.