Detecting one beach or many?

[Crunchyhippo]

Do any of you primarily hit one beach with your detecting and just vary the when and where, instead of constantly traveling to different beaches?

The one nearest to me is a big vacation destination, and there's a never-ending cascade of people visiting there and dropping jewelry. I don't really see a need to go elsewhere, especially after my last three trips there when I found four rings and a gold chain (a big deal for me), despite the horde of detectorists that hit the area. I could go to the next-nearest beach, but it's frequented far less frequently, thus there's far less to be found there (I've come back from many a trip there empty-handed, much more so than the other beach). I figure that as long as I'm finding stuff, why leave?

 

[Blak bart]

Stay....keep finding till you cant find anymore.

 

[no2pencil]

despite the horde of detectorists that hit the area.

On one hand you say that YouTubers fake their findings, yet you also repeatably post this belief that every detectorist prior to you is finding everything. I've found stuff right after another detectorist has passed by, I've seen other detecotrists digging sand that I was just at five minutes prior. I bet most of the stuff I find are not fresh drops, but dynamically moving from tides. Each day is new opportunity, & someones gonna have a fresh drop after the prior detectorists have gone home.

 

[Terry Soloman]

I'm fortunate to have Atlantic, and Long Island Sound, beaches within an hour of my house. I like to mix it up with different low tides and Atlantic and Sound beaches. If you are killing it at one beach stay at it and GRID! I have well over a thousand active detectorists within a 25-mile radius of me, so there is a lot of competition!

 

[Sandog]

Lot's of things go into that process of choosing a beach. I've never detected beaches other than the Treasure Coast, but here is what I look for:
1. Condition of the beach. I might drive to a couple of them to see what the sand looks like, cuts, scallops, mushy, hard, shell lines, how high the tides and waves went, number of beach goers, can I see what looks like original sand and not renourishment. Tides.
2. History at that beach. Mine and others. Especially when looking for OLD stuff.
3. What am I looking for that day. New drops, really old treasures, serious detecting or just out for fun and exercise.
4. If it's too crowded, can I get past the crowd. If there are others detecting I don't care, may even chat with them.
Who knows where Jose Gaspar may have dropped a trinket or coin. Best of luck wherever you go.

 

[Sand Swinger]

Do any of you primarily hit one beach with your detecting and just vary the when and where, instead of constantly traveling to different beaches?

The one nearest to me is a big vacation destination, and there's a never-ending cascade of people visiting there and dropping jewelry. I don't really see a need to go elsewhere, especially after my last three trips there when I found four rings and a gold chain (a big deal for me), despite the horde of detectorists that hit the area. I could go to the next-nearest beach, but it's frequented far less frequently, thus there's far less to be found there (I've come back from many a trip there empty-handed, much more so than the other beach). I figure that as long as I'm finding stuff, why leave?

I would stay at the beach that's coughed up four rings and that gold chain. If it ain't broke, don't try to fix. That's a proven beach and you now know where you found all those trinkets, shallow water I think, so keep going back to the shallow water, let the other guys work the dry. Just keep working the area(s) that have proved to produce your recent finds. It's hard to walk a straight line in ocean water, as waves and current are constantly moving you around a bit, so the sand underwater will probably never be totally searched by a coil, so keep going back.

Also, I don't' remember if anyone previously brought this up, but when you hit on a ring, jewelry, bling, OR a heavy fishing sinker, don't just pop it in your pouch and keep going. Focus and rescan the hole you just dug, then slowly start walking in a circle around that hole, extending the circle outwards as you continue circling. The reason is that if there's one, there may be another. A fishing sinker may not excite most, but it excites me because its heavy, and if heavy objects are buried where I'm searching under water, there could be other heavy objects nearby. Ocean currents, waves, and tides tend to group similar objects & similar weighted objects together.

That's why when you're working the wet and finding coins, after finding several, you can look back to see where you dug, and almost always, your holes will form a straight line. Pennies, being lighter, are usually up higher in the wet, larger/heavier coins typically lower down the slope. Not always, but generally. So, when you find a nice or heavy target, don't keep moving. Start where you found that target and scan slowly and deliberately around that target hole in a circle. If there are any similar targets, or similar weighted targets in that area, they'll probably be close by.

 

[surfnturf]

Do any of you primarily hit one beach with your detecting and just vary the when and where, instead of constantly traveling to different beaches?

The one nearest to me is a big vacation destination, and there's a never-ending cascade of people visiting there and dropping jewelry. I don't really see a need to go elsewhere, especially after my last three trips there when I found four rings and a gold chain (a big deal for me), despite the horde of detectorists that hit the area. I could go to the next-nearest beach, but it's frequented far less frequently, thus there's far less to be found there (I've come back from many a trip there empty-handed, much more so than the other beach). I figure that as long as I'm finding stuff, why leave?

Would you stay at a beach and keep hunting it if you found nothing day after day?
Would you leave a beach if you kept finding good targets?🤷‍♂️April Fools 🧐

 

[Crunchyhippo]

On one hand you say that YouTubers fake their findings, yet you also repeatably post this belief that every detectorist prior to you is finding everything.

Both true. Every detectorist at my beach doesn't have his own Youtube detecting channel.

 

[Mdpartner]

What's a beach?

 

[Sand Swinger]

What's a beach?

I've heard many people say that "Life's a Beach", so a beach must be life, lol.

 

[Mdpartner]

I've heard many people say that "Life's a Beach", so a beach must be life, lol.

I'm from Oklahoma We got sunnuh beeches but no sunnybeeches.

 

[pepperj]

I'm from Oklahoma We got sunnuh beeches but no sunnybeeches.

Well isn't that a beech

 

[Sandog]

Well isn't that a beech

Sun of a beach, someone stole my joke.

 

[mjb Mike]

If im finding good stuff i stay if no find or junk I move.

 

[OBN]

I have always said when one door closes another will open, If I'm finding treasures at one I will stay, after a few no hitters I move on and look for that open door at the next beach.

 

[Mdpartner]

If im finding good stuff i stay if no find or junk I move.

If I'm finding junk, I know there has been human activity so I change to my 3 inch sniper coil.

I can then get inbetween the junk and find the Mercury dimes.