WATER SCOOP

[Northern Lights]

From time to time I read inquires or recommendations on water scoops, so just thought I would mention what I am using, which has stood the test of time as I purchased it 15 years ago. It has a large open mouthed stainless steel bucket and the handle is of light weight aluminum and with the flat mouth, it easily scoops up the surface signals, as opposed to the pointed nose scoops which have a tendency to just move the surface stuff along. It may look big and bulky but it looses weight in the water and I just drag it behind me and I don't even know it's there. By dragging it, it leaves a marker, so when you do the return pass, you can see where you have been and keep your grid straight. I gave up on wooden handled scoops after breaking a number of them. I can just rare back on this one, take out a big pile of sand, it's really a pleasure to work with. I sold detectors here for 20 years ( retired now ) and many of the newbies started with cheaper scoops but the seasoned hunters graduated to the double handled ones and I sold a lot of them. I found the rubber foam insulation that comes with them to be a pain and not at all necessary, as it only got in the way when you rolled the scoop back when digging. The original scoop I bought was made by Miller who retired, but Dayln makes a good similar one, not all dealers carry them as they do tend to be more expensive, but in the long run they are worth it.

 

[Sandman]

I had one of these Miller scoops years ago and liked it. It was stolen and I never replaced it with another Miller.

 

[lowtones]

daylen makes a good sccop. i have a piece of metal between the 2 rods right after the bucket. it gives more support for the welds that are attched to the bucket. I learned that after the welds broke. i had it fixed and bought another one from i think it was riellys. I don't remember but the place i bought it from went out of business recently.
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