Looking for dry sand!!??

[myjolie04]

Hello all.. ..ive found out that my garrett ace 250 that ive bought is no good on wet sand!!..i just didnt realise..gutted really as it was the beach that i wanted to detect the most.. ..can anyone tell me the best beaches with the most dry sand in merseyside area??..ive been trying to think as i have been to most of the beaches but just cant think which has the most dry sand.. .....Thanxx all ......Jan

[GREGGOWREX]

turn your sensitivity down until it becomes stable ....and make sure water hasnt got inside the coil

[Slow & Low]

Hello Jan

Turning the Sensitivity down which I did with the Euro Ace (very similar to the 250) may work on other beaches other than arround Llandudno but no guarentee.

I have been detecting now for nearly 5 weeks and in the same circumstances. Going of the advice of Regton Ltd and blackadder43 (Forum Administrator) a PI detector (Pulse ?) is what is needed. It seems to me a number of people have a beach detector and a Land detector though expensive to have to buy a PI detector a CSP4 or something is a model for the job.

I don't think you will have any problems asking for permission to detect on farm land. Have a sift through the Metal Detecting Permission resources on the left hand side pane on this page which is full of good stuff.

Steven.

[phil]

Where in merseyside are you? you could try formby beach, but not the dunes,or on the wirral,west kirby,new brighton by where the old pier once stood.Good luck.

[cport80]

Have a look at this Youtube clip and see if it's just the settings that need changing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PaIANfaO1A

[Slow & Low]

I also watched the video. Are US beaches different mineralisation contents though to UK ?
But its worth trying the the idea t obe sure. When I was on Llandudno Beach & Conway Morfa I tried the usual sensitivity trick and ended up totally turning it down to 0 with no change. But I havent tried or though about the descrimination adjustment. Would be interesting to try this out.

Cheers Steven.

[Harry Digger]

Where in merseyside are you? you could try formby beach, but not the dunes,or on the wirral,west kirby,new brighton by where the old pier once stood.Good luck.

Formby beach is National Trust land all the way down to the low water mark.
Ainsdale beach, by Pontins, is huge and has lots of dry sand B-)

[craghopper]

I also watched the video. Are US beaches different mineralisation contents though to UK ?
But its worth trying the the idea t obe sure. When I was on Llandudno Beach & Conway Morfa I tried the usual sensitivity trick and ended up totally turning it down to 0 with no change. But I havent tried or though about the descrimination adjustment. Would be interesting to try this out.

Cheers Steven.

Been on north and west shore at llandudno and had no problem in wet sand except everything I have found is so badly corroded by salt water [no gold yet ]I bought a Viking 6 which was recommended for wet sand basically a switch on and go detector just apply a small amount of discrimination and its fine ---Chris

[HalfPint]

I have a Garrett Ace 250 and have no problems with wet sand as long as I turn the sensitivity down. It's a bit of trial and error as each beach reacts differently and settings that work on one beach don't always work another beach.

[Dave15]

Most metal detectors struggle with wet sand on beaches, it's nothing new. When I was detecting back in the 1970s I used a pulse induction detector which was great and it even completely ignored "black sand". The pulse frequency was a very low 66 pulses per second.

The Minelab multi-frequency machines work well on wet sand and will discriminate. Pulse induction machines mostly don't discriminate, but digging is easy so it mostly doesn't matter much.

Dave