The basic beach problems of newcomer...

[magoman]

I went to the beach about 7 times now - and have a lot's of questions:
1. When it is the right time to go hunting on the beach? In the good weather it overcrowded
and there is no room for hunting... When you are go to the beach- at evenings? In the rainy days? When also?
2.How to choose the right beach? I bout the seasonal pass to the state beaches and went to some of them. And was disappointed:
- too many people who go to this beaches speak Mexican or polish... And unlike Americans they loosing on the beach mostly what they have - one penny coins and a lot of pulltabs.
If there is more reason to go to privet or city beach for better finds?
3. There is an ugly enemies of metaldetectoriests is on the state beach - the jerks on bulldozers. Looks like they cleaning this beaches every day (or may be at nights?). Once
I met one on the beach, where film crew shooting movie - with about 200 actors was involved. I come to this place next morning and see how the rest of the crew pick up their
accessories in the small area of the beach, and the guy on bulldozer already turn the sand
everywere around them. I ask him - when he going to clean the rest and he said:As soon as they move out. So I just go with my detector beetwin this crew members until it's not
too late, find few movie accessories and give it to them, and get just few coins for myself.
Should I try to find the beach without bulldozers?
4. What is the perfect beach is look like? Thanks.

 

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[rjnail]

1. i hunted beaches when the people are there, that way your get fresh finds, i alway find room to hunt, also i go year around hunted in the rain, snow when i lived up north, as long as there was no lighting i hunted.

2. two places i hunted in new york was hispanic beaches, one was orange beach, there i found they wear more gold items then and other places i hunted, alway did goo there, best day was 21 gold pieces.

3. the dozer only clean the first few inch of sand and pick up the larger items like paper and cans, so the smaller items will remain.

4. to me the perfect beach would be one that no one else hunted before.

 

[Sandman]

Welcome to the world of beach hunting! You should go as often as you can and very early too. If you show up when the crowds are already there, your to late in my book. Other hunters were there at daylight or before. You must study all the beaches for where the people gather on a regular basis. Visit thegoldenolde.com/ for knowledge on beach hunting from a master.

Good Luck............

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I like to start my hunt 2 to 3 hours before the low tide and work till an hour or more after low tide, and I prefer the evenings or early in the mornings after people have left or before they show up because I like to hunt patterns and its hard to do when the beaches are crowded.... You also beat the day hunters that way

I hunt year round, but I also live in Florida and weather is not a problem really....I wear a full wet suit in winter to hunt in the atlantic ocean....In the supper a farmer john or shortie wetsuit, mainly just to help with the jelly fish.

I work in front of the high dollar hotels and time shares because the people staying there usually have the more expensive jewelry.

If you go during or right after a sudden shower it's good because people rush to pick their things up and forget about items on the blankets or towels and they are lost.

The perfect beach for me would be one where there is a Tropic suntan lotion bikini contest and a drunken beach party full of millionaires trying out new sun screens at the same time.

 

[magoman]

Thank you, rjnail, I like your idea about Spanish beaches - will try to keep going...
But when I tryed to go after dozer- I was not able to find almost nothing ...
Once in the good wether I go with my wife and my metal detector on the beach.
it was a lot of people there, so we just sit there and enjoyed. But suddenly the black
sky with sprinkles come - and all people left the beach. I took my detector and hunting
for few hours, and find only one quoter! And I notice the traces of dozer, that most
likely worked there at morning before people come...
And thank you for your post, Sandman!

 

[teklord]

I go at all different times. In the AM just after dawn while it is still cool, during the day while people are there, ( made $120.00 so far this year when people asked me to find their lost items ) and I especially like late afternoon as people are leaving. Search where the newlyweds are, when they diet before a wedding the rings don't fit anymore ! Generally I find the stuff is where the people are. The best stuff is where the girls are.

Tek

 

[TheSleeper]

On alot of beach`s u have two types of hunting: (not counting the water aspect)
1.Dry sand area where everyone lays out
2. Wet sand area

#1 it is best to hit it later in the day after the sunbathers have left and before the beach sweepers, tractor pulled sweeping machines used to clean the beach`s. Most beach sweepers start out approx 11pm to 2 am. They pickup the top couple inch. of sand sift it depending on the sifter size everything except sand is tossed into trash. These areas u have to hit before the beach sweepers OR search deep for the items below the sweepers range. If the beach does not have sweepers then the same principal as #2 applies.

#2 it is best to hunt early in the morning before other hunters beat u to it. This area is not swept by the sweepers, so it is the other metal detectorest u are competing against.

 

[magoman]

Thanks everybody for responds!
I think, it should be about the same amount of competitors on the swapped and not sweep ed beaches... And in CT I did not see too many of them - besides city beach in New
London, where once I saw 5 of them in the same time...So, I just ignore this beach.
But I'm really new to it, so I'm not sure - may be the season is not just starts yet in CT?
Here was not many sunny days yet, and water still cold... May be the competitors come later?
And what is the best time of the year for beach metal detecting? The middle of season?
The end? The days after the storm?
Here is also a lot of historical places around... So when it is better to go on the beach
instead hunting for old coins?
P.S. Yesterday I wend to not sweeping beach for 4 hours and find silver ring, "golden"
dollar coin and about $9 change. Does that means that non-sweeped beach is much better-
or it was just coincident?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

It means you had a good day.....

It depends on how deep the sweepers go. if they are only going a few inches then the potential for good targets is still there as most of what I find on the beach is deeper the 2-3 inches usually. A possible good thing about the sweepers is you have less trash if it is picking up the bottle caps, tin foil and beer cans buried 2 inches deep.............

Pet peeve of mine, take you d**n beer cans to the trash!!! Lazy slobs!!!!

I would hit any beach I could.......

Good luck and keep trying.....Never know when your only find of the day will be a diamond ring!

 

[magoman]

Thank you, Treasure_Hunter. But here is about 50 beaches around of all kinds...
I need to make my choice... Please, help.

 

[Sandman]

With so many beaches around choosing is difficult. It's more like luck to pick the right one at the right time. Mainly you should try to hunt the beaches with the most affluent guests as the targets will be better. If the beach doesn't have a concession stand, the coins will generally be less too.

I've got a board with the names of the local beaches on it on a dial. It has a pointer that I can spin an when it stops on a beach, that's the one I hunt. Sometimes I've cheated and spun the dial again because I didn't like the first pick. Sort of let the force be with you kinda thing...............

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

50 beaches ..... I would keep a notebook and make notes and start hitting all to see what each produce, record what you find and see if a pattern forms.

I use an online mapping program at work and my job involves driving all over greater Orlando area every day, I tag every park, playground I pass and I return to hunt them.

 

[magoman]

I mean about 50 beaches of all kinds: Ocean beaches from Newport in RI to the New Haven in CT (in little more then 1 hour distance). It included 10 State beaches, about 20
cityes ocean beaches, about the same privet beaches on the ocean. And there is uncounted amount of the Lake beaches also.
Well, some of this beaches have more black sand then others - so I will try to choose
cleaner sand beach. Some of them (state beaches) have dozer's - and I was not very happy
with them. But I have free parking on them with seasonal pass - so will try again.
I also use the detector, that not very popular on this forum: CZ-3D. I use it on the beach with 10 inch coil in enhanced mode. I find that in this mode when I discriminate iron the modern pennies, that made from junk metal, is discriminated also. Usually when I get 3 way
signal - it often the penny, I checked it. So I dig only 4 way signals - and it give me high
persent of quoter's and dimes relatively to pennies. And all other good targets produce 4 way signal.
And of course some of this beaches in the area where rich people live (like Narragansett)
and others in depressed area - (like New Haven).
And for this 7 times of hunting of the beach I did not even visit all state parks yet...

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Mago,

What ever works best for you, I would not be concerned on the popularity of your detector if it's working for you. If and when you decide to up grade then ask for opinions or options..

Good luck