Beach Trip

[m bryan]

Had a blast! Found a bunch of clad, a Mexican dollar coin and a 1945 Canadain penney........Good practice with the MD. Pistol probe was a huge assett!......Something I noticed, Lots of pennies and dimes, several quarters and no nickels. That seems to be the norm, so why are nickels not as plentiful as quarters?

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

Maybe you're running your disc. too high? Nickels drop out at the lower end of the disc. scale (as do small to medium sized gold rings too). So if your disc. is too high, you'll loose nickels. To test this, do an air test on a nickel. If you get a beep, then that's not the problem

 

[Sandman]

Tom is right!!! You should check your disc settings in the area you plan to hunt with a scattering of coins on the ground to see how they respond. If you don't hear the signal on a pull tab you probably won't hear a gold ring either.

 

[m bryan]

Was in all metal........I haven't been at this very long but have found one nickel. Been trying to dig everything... thanks, Melvin

 

[Lazy J]

Hello,

You have to watch your nickle count. About one out of five or ten coins should be a nickle. This tells you if you are adjusted to find gold. Mass and conductivity being about the same if you find nickles you will find the gold if it's there. On beach hunts as well if you have an iffy signal dig it or use your foot to scrape sand from over the target and recheck. Targets meter lower often on salt water beaches as well. On a Whites gold will meter as low as -15 on the scale. Hope this helps.

HH,
T

 

[BURLIVES]

Here's another view on this.....believe it or not alot of water hunters don't dig the penny ,dime , quarter sounds. Machines that are newer have tone id....my buddy has a cz 20 , if we get into a place with a ton of pennies he just digs the lower foil nickle sounds. I still have a 1280 x, I dig every sound. I've spoken to guys at the big city beaches we hit, they tell me the same thing. They'll be there for a couple of hours, I'm there all day. It doesn't always work for those doing that, they may miss out on some smaller silver or even large gold items. I found 2 platinum bands last year while hunting with my friend, I called him over to listen to what I thought were hits that could be good and he thought they sounded like coins, the heavier platinum bands sounded different than gold to him....he finds a ton of stuff, but never thought these would have been good. The beaches we hit are virtually free of tabs and nickles and full of clad and pennies. On land or in the water dig every sound, it's the best advice...it does pay off eventually! Burl

 

[chicepo]

WOW! That's a big beach all the way from Mexico to Canada. You must be wasted.

 

[m bryan]

WOW! That's a big beach all the way from Mexico to Canada. You must be wasted.

LOL! It was a heck of a drive.........Still wondering how a Canadain penney got lost at Padre Island.