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[guzz1]

Well I broke down this morning and ordered the sunspot stealth sandscoop .
Thanks Sandman and Jim for your input. Took a chunk
out of my wallet but I hope it will be worth it . GUZZ1

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

If your going to do much surf and beach hunting it will be well worth it's cost.

You can also always use it to fight off any land sharks if you hunt after dark.

 

[Highwater]

I have been looking for a good "mega" scoop myself. It is narrowed down to the Stealth Sunspot or the Pro/Scoop. http://my.net-link.net/~prostock/proscoop.html. The pro is only $149.00. Seems a little wide and somewhat heavy. Not sure what the stealth weighs, but the pro is a whopping 6 pound. I do like the way it is built. I had a fellow help me dig on a target on the treasure coast that had a pro as my scoop couldn't get down to it in the surf line. We never got the target, but he got down with his arm and touched the target at about 2 feet. The pro really mucked out the sand. I do like the stealth for it's open top. Anyone have an opinion on the comparison on the two?

 

[DaChief]

Good decision. I hope to get Santa to bring mine prematurely. Maybe he will put it in the same box with my new Wetsuit, Hookah Rig, Mask and Fins all packed into my new Porsche in the Driveway.

 

[guzz1]

WHEN MY WIFE FINDS OUT WHAT I PAID , SHE' GONNA BEAT THE HECK OUT OF ME WITH IT. LOL

 

[Highwater]

I just ordered a scoop from pro/stock. He no longer sends the scoop with a handle as it it oversized and cost too much to ship, so you have to buy your own post hole digger handle. (not sure how much, but will know soon) I got the scoop for $120 + 10 for shipping priority mail. Not a bad price overall. To find his scoops you have to go search for his e-bay store under the name: prostock detectors. Highwater.........

 

[syko]

I have one of these in my backyard right now digging a hole to China.
Maybe they'll leave it overnight and we can hit the beach tonight.

I also wondered about the stealth scoop with the open top, I thought you would lose
stuff,but it probably helps to clean itself out?

 

[guzz1]

I"LL KEEP YA"LL POSTED ON THE SCOOP, ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN WHAT I HAVE NOW ,,,, IF THE SANDMAN SAYS ITS GOOD , THATS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME

 

[kaptainkosmic]

here's how i carry my prostock pro.

I have been looking for a good "mega" scoop myself. It is narrowed down to the Stealth Sunspot or the Pro/Scoop. http://my.net-link.net/~prostock/proscoop.html. The pro is only $149.00. Seems a little wide and somewhat heavy. Not sure what the stealth weighs, but the pro is a whopping 6 pound. I do like the way it is built. I had a fellow help me dig on a target on the treasure coast that had a pro as my scoop couldn't get down to it in the surf line. We never got the target, but he got down with his arm and touched the target at about 2 feet. The pro really mucked out the sand. I do like the stealth for it's open top. Anyone have an opinion on the comparison on the two?

Highwater i use this sifter to carry that sccop and its really easy! on top of that i don't spend any time looking for targets in the bottom of my scoop. i spend all of my time looking for targets in the bottom.

hh steve

 

[Highwater]

Steve, that is a very nice looking set up you have. The first sifter I had I built myself. Used a plastic oil drain pan, cut the bottom out, put some screen in the bottom and lashed it to an innertube. I had a fairly good sized bucket scoop and it would ride on the sifter real well. It worked great in a lake or a bay, in calm water. Now I am in florida, hunting the coast. Too much wave action to have a sifter, but I love that kind of hunting. It makes it a lot faster to just dump and keep hunting while the sifter purges it'self. Just do a clean out once in a while and check what you have found, but in the mean time you get a lot more hunting time in than having to dig each target out of of the scoop one at a time. You also have to pack the scoop around with you. Can't wait to get it and try it out. The scoop is being shipped without a handle, so I went and found one in a hardware store for 5 bucks. The scoop should be here on monday. Will put it together and go give it a try as soon as I can. Will report my first take on it. HH Ken

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Sifter works great in lakes, but wont work good at all in the surf on east coast of Fla, west coast would work at times.

 

[Sandman]

Too much wave action to have a sifter, but I love that kind of hunting. It makes it a lot faster to just dump and keep hunting while the sifter purges it'self.

With a Sunspot you usually have all the sand sifted thru the holes before you would get a chance to dump it in a sifter. But of course it depends on the type bottom. I've used most of them and still like the Sunspot except for dry beach hunting. Then I like a screen scoop.

 

[Highwater]

Treasure Hunter and Sandman, I agree with you both. I just pulled a photo of the Stealth and Pro/Stock and put them side by side. I can see how much better the Stealth would be for draining sand. Maybe I jumped the gun and should have gone the extra bucks for the stealth, but will have to learn to live with it. (if I can) In the Pacific NW I got spoiled using a big "gutt bucket" of a scoop and it didn't matter in the lakes if the bucket drained as I used a sifter. When I hit the ocean I didn't always gear up to get wet and when I did I often wore hip or chest waders and used the gutt bucket in the rocky and shell infested areas and a heavy duty screen scoop for the sandy areas. Near shore or on shore when without wading gear I dumped the sand on the beach and fanned it with my foot. (you sometimes had to be quick at the waters edge) A shovel actually worked better for this method. If I was at the water line or in the shallow water I would just take a few steps and dump on the beach. The water is cold where I was and not really a lot of the usual good stuff you can find along warm water beaches. Good targets are far and few, not really worth suiting up for. Also, we have much more tide and the water line drops further so you have more area to hunt at low water, but you still try to find a trough to work. There are many old town sites, but a lot of trash. Too much for a pi unless you want to have a lot of exercise. It was better to work the areas you could with a vlf. I did manage to make some good finds, but the swimming lakes were better for trash/keeper ratio. Lakes in that area are also pretty cold and and not as many swimmers and sunbathers as the warm water beaches have. It was a tough hunt. You had to make your recovery very quickly, dump into the sifter and move on. It wasn't always easy and you really had to work to get your prize, but if you kept at it you would eventually hit on something good.

 

[kaptainkosmic]

treasure_hunter i hunt lake michigan with plenty of wave action,

Sifter works great in lakes, but wont work good at all in the surf on east coast of Fla, west coast would work at times.

the sifter can be a problem when the waves start getting past the 2 1/2 to 3 ft range but thats all the wave i care to deal with anyway. the only other area that i have problems is near shore where the waves are actually breaking. generally that area only extends out 20 to 30 ft. except when the waves are getting larget than 2 1/2 to 3 ft.

from alot of pictures that i see the wave break zone on the oceans seems to be further out, but i kind of thought that it was probably due to sand bars.

i've never hunted the ocean, but if and when i do i will be taking my sifter. because if i can use it, it really makes hunting alot easier.

hh steve

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Most times down here on East coast of Florida surf will not allow you to use a sifter. Waves break at sandbar and then usually again 10 to 20 feet before shore. If it is a gentle surf and a negative low tide then sandbar will cause water between shore and sandbar to be like glass, but that is a RARE ocassion. Most of the time I have waves of 2 to 4 ft breaking through. You can hunt them, but not with a sifter.

 

[SilverDog]

Hi Treasure Hunter I am up here in Cresent City FL and I was thinking of buying a scoop for the beach. What would you suggest for the east coast? The scoop with a long handle would be better for me to save my back

David

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

SilverDog,

Welcome to TN.

I am only an addicted newbie (16 months), all 3 mentioned in thread are good choices for Fla beaches, I have the original beach brute I got used off of EBay for $100, and I would jump on any of the other 2 if I found them used anywhere, or buy new if I needed it right away.

Sunspot Stealth
Pro/Scoop
Beach Brute II

I have a good sand scoop, but I am too lazy to carry it to the beach with me since I take my beach scoop. I use the sand scoop mostly for volley ball courts and seeded beach hunts.

I bought a $50 cheapie when I first started hunting, and broke it with in the first month. I then bought a "Zeke Scoop", custom made by a member on TN, but I don't think he makes them any longer. It is my back up scoop for my Beach Brute. It is a good scoop, but not as big as the others. When I am hunting in the surf I prefer a scoop that is a "backhoe", the quicker I can recover the target the more targets I can hunt, plus I am less likely to drown in the surf trying to recover one chest deep.

Good luck and good hunting!

 

[SilverDog]

Treasure Hunter

Thanks for the Great reply. Ill start looking for one. I will be getting a Whites Beach Hunter ID as I am taking my other Detector back in a couple days. Would be nice to have a decent scoop.

Thanks Again, David

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

David,

Maybe we can meet up for a hunt on my way to Daytona some time if your interested.

 

[SilverDog]

Treasure Hunter, Yes I am interested, I have allot of free time and I haven’t been to Daytona yet I don’t have much experience hope you don’t mind. I was thinking of going that direction sometime this week. When were you thinking of going?

David