Using a long handle scoop in surf

[ecastro111]

Hello All,

Could someone place a youtube link on correctly using a long handle scoop in the surf. I've gone out around 7 or so times with a 6" diameter scoop. It seems that it would be better to get on my hands and knees too fan items or find them by touch. With the scoop I just keep scooping and scooping and have actually lost an item or two. Please, help.

Ernie

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Ecastro.

What kind of unit are you detecting with? What is the width of your scoop?

Have you tried it on the beach with the pinpointing and digging first. I found when I first started that I was not scooping where my detector was pinpointing. I couldn't see the bottom to know exactly where it was.

I started marking the back of my coil with the toe of my shoe, I would then place the scoop at the end of my toe, back it up about 2 inches and start my dig there. I will also attack the target from different angles if I have trouble getting it.

I have also lost targets when scooping, I chased one for about 10 mins, it kept moving, it turned out to be a piece of aluminum foil that covers the top of some of the drink bottles floating on the sand on the bottom in chest deep water. I have also lost targets that fell through my scoop, they turned out to be the backs of earrings.

Daytona Beach this weekend, I hit a tone that started as a low chattering, I was about waist deep. I started digging and the signal got louder, but I couldn't find it, after a good 15 mins of trying, while fighting the surf, I kept digging deeper, till I was then in chest deep water. My hunting partner DR came over and we both attack the target. After about 5 mins of him and I digging, in the bottom of my scoop came up half a aluminum can, the other half was still in the hole. A good 20-25 mins trying to recover the darn thing The whole time the target sounded solid, and it was in the bottom of my hole, but about 18" deep at least. GRRRRRRR.

 

[ecastro111]

Hi Treasure Hunter,

Sorry I took so long to answer....it is 6" diameter scoop and the detector is an Infinium. The same thing happen to me with a beer can but it didn't make it into the scoop. I used my hands, luckily without cutting myself.

Its pretty much left to practice, practice, practice...

Ernie