Beginner Question

[HavokSouls]

First off when you hunt in shallow water it doesn't damage your detector? And second is a tesero compadre fine to hunt the beach and shallow water? Also I was wondering if hunting the beach after spring break is a good Idea? I mean there will be a lot of drunk clumsy people who are more prone to lose things am I right?

 

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[Rawhide]

Your thinking, wish I could help you with the water question. But the beach is a good place for finds if you look at some of the pictures on here. I dont own a tesoro, most are waterproof to just above the coil. But you may need a detector specifically made for wet sand and beach water hunting.

 

[firemac]

I use my minelab etrac on the beach and picked up a excalibur ll last week to use in the water at the beach, if the machines are not totally water proof, you can short out the electronics, yes during and after would be good

 

[HavokSouls]

I use my minelab etrac on the beach and picked up a excalibur ll last week to use in the water at the beach, if the machines are not totally water proof, you can short out the electronics, yes during and after would be good

Well I'm still a teenager so I might be partying during lol

 

[Terry Soloman]

Your thinking, wish I could help you with the water question. But the beach is a good place for finds if you look at some of the pictures on here. I dont own a tesoro, most are waterproof to just above the coil. But you may need a detector specifically made for wet sand and beach water hunting.

The Compadre is horrible on wet saltwater sand and in saltwater, because it is a single-frequency VLF machine. Stay in the dry sand and concentrate on the "Towel Line" where everyone lays out their blankets and towels by the high tide line. Look for places they played vollyball and fFrisbee. - Good Luck!

 

[HavokSouls]

The Compadre is horrible on wet saltwater sand and in saltwater, because it is a single-frequency VLF machine. Stay in the dry sand and concentrate on the "Towel Line" where everyone lays out their blankets and towels by the high tide line. Look for places they played vollyball and fFrisbee. - Good Luck!

Thanks for the info!

 

[CASPER-2]

I would say about 90% of us here own underwater machines

 

[cudamark]

Really? I figured maybe 50% at most. How did you come to that conclusion?

 

[Sandscoopdan]

My experience is I got an underwater machine (whites surf PI dual field) for the beach. I'm getting another machine for relic, meteorite detecting. Plus, it is good to have a backup machine down at the beach. If one detector breaks down, I'll have a backup so don't lose detecting time. Another reason is the surf PI df is a pulse induction. I've learned some techniques reading Clive Clynicks books using different freq machines to cover the different parts of the ground; dry sand, wet sand, in water. Example is quickly covering dry sand with a vlf and then slow sweep with pulse.

of the people on this forum who do there research, I could see 90% of them owning a water machine

 

[keepmehumblelord]

I have a compadre and it is a kick butt machine. It does fine on freshwater lakes and on the beach. You will notice a little falsing if you have a high concentration of black sand on the beach but besides that in the water and out works great. I know you can manually adjust the ground balance so it wont false on hot rocks and black sands but that requires taking the faceplate off and adjusting it. You should do research if you want to mess with it. I have a bounty hunter fast tracker that kicks but in the lake waters and black sands just isnt as fine and depthly as the tesoro but it competes with a loss of a inch. Great machines. This is my opinion the machine. Salt water again you would probably have to fine tune it but not sure. I havent tried it yet in the ocean but like Terry said it wouldnt do so well. Im sure there might be a way to modify it but i cant say for sure.

 

[dewcon4414]

Salt water beach hunting on the wet sand or wading really requires a multi freq machine to be very effective. Other wise the conductivity of the salt will kill the id/depth. Anyone who hunts a beach soon realizes they need a machine that can do the job properly in and out of the water. Beach machines pay for themselves if used.

Dew

 

[bigscoop]

The beach & water environment is harsh, especially the saltwater environments. The more you hunt them the more likely you are going to be drawn to the water and that's when unexpected accidents occur. Machines that aren't sealed also become prey to the salt air, the humid salt air eventually attaching itself to the machine components. These are just a few more reasons why there are machines specifically designed for these environments.

 

[Sandscoopdan]

Salt water beach hunting on the wet sand or wading really requires a multi freq machine to be very effective. Other wise the conductivity of the salt will kill the id/depth. Anyone who hunts a beach soon realizes they need a machine that can do the job properly in and out of the water. Beach machines pay for themselves if used.

Dew