A ? For all you beach hunters

Vdubguy · Jul 4, 2014

So, do you detect in one long walking pattern? Basically just taking a long walk with a coil in front of you?

OR

Do you grid off an area, say 50'x100', and just concentrate on that one area?

Thanks in advance and HH

toni&kirk · Jul 5, 2014

Remember "It's not a job, it's a dream!" :skullflag:

lorraine · Jul 5, 2014

Occasionally, when I am obsessed with gridding, I will do a diagonal search within the square after completing the square

Found a 14 K gold ring doing just that.

L

lookindown · Jul 5, 2014

CASPER-2 said:
IVE ARRIVED AT SOME SPOTS AND THERE ARE GUYS IN THE WATER AND I SEE THEM GRIDDING A SPOT - DEEP TO SHALLOW BACK TO DEEP
OR DEEP FOR ABOUT 50 YRDS THEN BACK AND FORTH AND WORK THEIR WAY IN - LETS SAY 50 X 50 AREA - THEN THEY WILL MOVE DOWN
NOW IF YOU DO THIS - LETS SAY YOU GET IN 2-3 HRS BEFORE LOW TIDE (I KNOW EVERY BCH IS DIFFERENT) BUT THEIR ORIGINAL START POINT - DEEP LETS SAY CHEST DEEP AREA 2-3 HRS BEFORE LOW - MAY BE 2-3 FEET DEEP BY LOW TIDE - SO UNLESS THEY HAVE THE TIME TO GO BACK - THEY JUST MISSED A LARGE AREA THAT HAD 3 MORE HRS TILL LOW - IF IT TOOK THEM AN HOUR TO HIT THAT FIRST GRID PATTERN - THEN THE SECOND GRIDDED AREA THEY WOULD FINISH LETS SAY AN HOUR BEFORE LOW - SO NOW THEYRE IN THEIR 3RD AREA AND NOW MAYBE THEY ARE GOING OUT TILL THEIR FULLEST RANGE - I DONT KNOW MANY GUYS THAT GO BACK AT LOW AND HIT OUT WHERE THEY STARTED
I DO STRAIGHT LINE AT WAIST DEEP AND DEPENDING ON THE BEACH - WILL WALK A MILE - THEN TURN AND FOLLOW THE TIDE OUT - AT ABSOLUTE LOW -AT MY LIMITS - I WILL GO BACK TO STARTING POINT AND WORK FROM WHERE I STARTED - AND WORK THE SHALLOWS
BUT LIKE I SAID 10 TIMES MORE GUYS HITTING THE SHALLOWS (AND I KNOW - NO ONE GETS IT ALL) WORKING THE SHALLOWS FOR ME IS "PLAN B"
WET SAND IS PLAN C AND DRY IS PLAN D (SEEING ME IN SHALLOWS IS RARE - PEOPLE THAT HAVE MET ME CAN TELL YOU - SEEING ME IN WET - A ONCE IN A YEAR THING - SEEING ME IN DRY - ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE )
TO EACH HIS OWN THOUGH - OTHERS HAVE TRIED MY WAY - AND IT WOULD WORK AT ONE SPOT - THEN AT ANOTHER IT WOULDNT
YOU ALWAYS GOT TO BE WILLING TO CHANGE IT UP - ALWAYS TRY AND HAVE A "PLAN B" - OR JUST BE FLEXIBLE
SOME OF THEOSE GUYS THAT TOOK THE TIME TO GRID THE WAY I MENTIONED - I'D GO BY THEM TO WHERE THEY STARTED AT LOW TIDE AND CLEAN UP OUT THERE - I GOT 3 GOLD BANDS AT ONE SPOT - AND LATER GUY ASKED ME HOW I DID CAUSE HE SAW ME DIGGING ALOT - AND I TOLD HIM
"GOT 3 GOLD" AND HE SAID "HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THOSE" AND I TOLD HIM "WHEN YOU WERE IN THAT AREA - YOU HAD 2 MORE HOURS TILL LOW...AND I GOT THOSE AT LOW AT ABOUT CHIN DEEP AND IT WAS WAY OVER YOUR HEAD"
ALL I CAN SAY IS - MY WAY WORKS FOR ME - ALWAYS HAS
AND LIKE POLITICS OR RELIGION - WOULD NEVER PUSH ANYONE TO MY WAY OF THINKING

Yeah, I follow the tide out too when its dropping. I hunt a straight line in chest deep and work long stretches. Every time you make a pass your working new ground a little farther out. Like you said, its gridding on a larger scale.