cibola at the beach .

[Dwight Frye]

Has anybody used the cibola at the beach ? Here in charlotte I pretty much can run it wide open with no problems . But want to use at the beach , just wondering if getting sand in the housing etc might cause a problem . Not really worried about real close to ocean . Just dry sand and wet packed sand .

 

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[Sandman]

Well if the surf it up I would place a baggie over the control box as any salt spray is not friends with the guts. Leave the baggie open at the bottom so condensation does not build up and make it unstable. It should be fine in all the dry sand. The hard packed wet sand you might have to lower sens. to let it run without talking to much. For true closer to the water work you are going to need a muiti frequency detector like the Sov GT, Excal, CZ-21, or Beach Hunter id from White's. Then there are the PI's like the Sand Shark.

 

[Dwight Frye]

I probably won't get close to the spray . I have seen where they sell rain covers , so I might get one . It amazes me I can run the senstuvity pretty much full blast around here without any problem . So turning it down should not be a problem . Can't afford a seperate machine for the beach unless I find a bunch of stuff .

 

[Terry Soloman]

You'll LOVE it at the beach! Have fun.

 

[coon8448]

I have a Vaquero and I have used it at the beach along the gulf many times. The best advise I can give you is to detect where the towel line is, where everyone puts their towels to sit on. You probably will not be able to get near the water. If I get close to wet sand my V gets real unstable even if the sensitivity is turned down.

 

[Fletch88]

I have a Vaquero and I have used it at the beach along the gulf many times. The best advise I can give you is to detect where the towel line is, where everyone puts their towels to sit on. You probably will not be able to get near the water. If I get close to wet sand my V gets real unstable even if the sensitivity is turned down.

I was wondering if you ground balanced your V in the wet sand to see if it would help stabilize it?

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[Dwight Frye]

I cannot see how it would not stabilize . The cibola I can run pretty much wide open without much trouble here in NC . So if you can turn it down to 7_8 .

 

[Sandman]

Doesn't matter what you can run it at elsewhere.

 

[Sandman]

Doesn't matter what you can run it at else where.

In the wet salt water sand it will be unstable.

 

[coon8448]

Sorry for taking so long to replay back I was on vacation. I did experiment with trying to get my V to GB on wet sand, but it never would. I could set the sens real low and GB it, but just as soon as I moved a foot away from where I GB it, it would start chirping like it did before I GB it. So to sum it up a V is useless in wet sand on the beach around Gulf Shores, AL and Pensacola, FL, but in dry sand you can hit a penny at 9in. And pull tabs are easy to figure out because when you use the pinpoint button you will hear a zip zip noise, because the detector is hitting on each hole of the pull tab. I guess two ear rings or two rings next to each other could also give that zip zip sound, so I dig every hit at the beach just to be safe.