Garrett 250 beep beep beep

[Orient-250]

Hi,

Am new to the hobby and enjoying it, although no finds yet.

Spend a few hours on the beach today and I get a lot of beeps.... Than beep disappears and never returns ... Walk on , beep beep ... Ok locate the beep and pin point .... Now it pinpoints all over the place .... Dig, nothing there.

So I throw some coins on the sand, damn these disappear quickly... Located all of them though.

The wet sand sort of just beeps all the time .../ discriminate some bleeps and still nothing.

I must be doing it wrong or found the one beach with bleeping sand but no metal, no garbage.... Just nothing

 

[IBdiggin]

Congrats on the new 250. They are a great entry level unit and very capable detector. But like with all entry level units without adjustable ground balance, there may be a problem in the sand, especially salt water sand as there are minerals in salt water that effect signals. Try lowering your sensitivity as much as necessary. This may work in fresh water. Good luck and HH.

 

[Orient-250]

My coil got wet in the salt water, is that a bad thing?

 

[Jay In NewKen]

The saltwater won't hurt the coil, just clean it when done. As for the 250 in saltwater or wet sand...i doubt it will work at all. It will hit on the black sand and salt which produces false targets. I recommend staying in the dry sand only on saltwater beaches

 

[marh415]

The saltwater won't hurt the coil, just clean it when done. As for the 250 in saltwater or wet sand...i doubt it will work at all. It will hit on the black sand and salt which produces false targets. I recommend staying in the dry sand only on saltwater beaches

Good advice, I found that most actual targets at the beach were 2-4" deep. After that I was getting a lot of false hits. Good luck!

 

[Orient-250]

Thanks.....

It seems the beach is basically under water on high tide for the most part, and under about 2 inch of dry sand is the black sand, which would than explain the false positives.

There is a massive festival on my local park this weekend (Japanese matsuri) with thousands of people getting drunk and dancing, so I might hit the park on Monday, beach is too far anyways for regular hunting.

Thanks for the kind comments, a lot of learning this hobby

 

[SC_hunter]

You will love the Ace...Nice detector and you can swing it all day without paying for it that night. I have used mine on the beach and does pretty good on the dry sand. Wet sand will set it off sporadically. Have fun and the best of luck.