Question about beach hunting?

[FloridaBill]

Although not new to detecting, I am sort of new to beach hunting because I never had a water machine.

My question is do any of you hunt the steep slope to the water were the wet sand is? I have had no luck doing this, and was just curious if all of the wave action here makes the targets to deep?

 

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[gamiller]

Although not new to detecting, I am sort of new to beach hunting because I never had a water machine.

My question is do any of you hunt the steep slope to the water were the wet sand is? I have had no luck doing this, and was just curious if all of the wave action here makes the targets to deep?

I have done it but I found hunting a steep slope tires me out to fast and I can cover more ground if I avoid them. Greg

 

[ron lord]

Hunt the top of the slope,the part that is flat coins ,ring and things are wash up here by the wave's.
Let me know how you do!!

 

[guzz1]

I go top to bottom.... have had some coins ,, guzz1

 

[Surfdigger]

Hi Bill.......

Hunting a slope can be different depending on the type of beach that you hunt.....is that slope always there?......over the course of time I mean......if your beach is flat most of the time and then an event such as onshore winds occur, this might just move sand around and cut into that body of sand via wave action. this will alot of time wash targets out of the sand bank that would normally be beyond the reach of our coils during tranquil conditions. another thing that occurs is what I call the spit zone......I find that alot of times below a slope in what is many times a trough. Wave action will actually "spit" targets up onto that slope.....things to look for here are broken shells and pebbles or pea gravel things that might have similar density to coins and or rings and other jewelry, of course this depends on the type of beach that you hunt and the prevailing conditions......there are more factors involved that I don't have the time to go into now but atleast it is a start of something to look for the next time you get to your beach.....by the way.....Observation of the beaches that you hunt first are as important if not more so as actually firing up your machine and detecting....JMHO....HH....Brian

 

[Sandman]

Learning to hunt beaches, fresh and salt covers a lot of info. Suggest you visit http://thegoldenolde.com/ to learn a lot more than we can put down here.

Sandman