Grid work

[Dadhumanizer]

While detecting over the past week I saw a few others detecting also. Only one was doing grid searching like I do. I cannot cover a large portion of the beach but I am very thorough. I drag my scoop behind me to mark my path. Am I a rarity or do you all do grid searching?

Also... Do you think dragging my scoop will harm it over time? It is a 16 gauge steel scoop. (BTW if you can afford a scoop with a handle it is the only way to go) the sand shines it up but will it grind it down over time. Thinking of tying a stick to my belt to mark my path.

What do you think?

 

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[toddbbq]

I dont grid search as my favorite beach is only 2 miles long but I have seen a lot of fellow hunters that grid the more popular areas and I suppose they do pretty good as I see them doing it over and over again. I hunt the dry sand down and water back in the popular times of the year. Winter months I just hunt the dry and wet sand as the water is toooo cold to get wet.

 

[bravobob]

I usually bee line to the high tide line and follow the beach for a bit then turn around and go back and forth gridding up just past the towel line. Then ill swing like a drunken sailor in the open area. I leave a snail trail to see where i've been tho.

Your not dragging it at 50 mph so sand should just keep it shiny.

 

[A2coins]

Have fun you can do a day and have no problem not going over the same areas too much!!!!!

 

[Terry Soloman]

Yes, I grid the wet sand into the water at low tide, and the towel line if it's high tide.

 

[cudamark]

I grid if there are enough targets to make it worthwhile. Dragging the scoop will eventually wear it out......might takes many years of use for that to happen though. Using it as a scoop will do that eventually too. By then, I'd be ready for a new and improved scoop anyway, so, not something I would worry about.

 

[flgliderpilot]

I grid

 

[TrashFinder]

I scuff my feet as I go. Works great when the grass has dew on it in the morning but rarely is it not visible when on the return parallel run.

 

[Mackaydon]

I grid by doing one section at a time; starting with gridding the perimeter, then doing a smaller lap, inside and overlapping the outer lap; etc.
I then place a marker where I finished for an easy find the next day.
Don...

 

[OBN]

99.9% of my hunting is in the water, I've found, on older beach's, there are Hot area's. And As well as I can, I'll spiral (circle) grid, loops, crosshatch gridding, blow sand, break patterns, re-hunt the dug sand and do what ever I can to clean that area out. And one thing for sure, everyone misses stuff, I've come back thru area's the next day after thinking I would find nothing and found smaller rings I may have dug and covered. Few years ago we had a spot that we mined, targets were just deep and couple not be heard, so we would dig a big hole sifting the sand thru a sifter. Never found any gold like that but many silver coins.

 

[xr7ator]

Towel line, Terry? I guess I'm more of a bikini line kinda guy...

 

[slider66]

I grid the dry sand and wet dragging my beautiful Stealth Extreme 920. Also grid in the water.