Anyone else not use a sandscoop and 2014 strategy

[oliver]

Scoop for me but i do spend half my life down on the sands if just a casual beach searcher then a spade will fine.

[norfolksquit]

See my plastic shovel scoop here

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or check out my post:

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[courty]

I use a cut off 5l plastic petrol can with holes drilled in it, works a treat and totally plastic. I saw the idea somewhere else.
Budgets are fine, they stoke the imagination.


Courty

[iDetect]

I use one of these from Pets At Home. http://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/-p3384--1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I took a 7mm drill to it and the result is a VERY rigid, non Metalic sand scoop that will allow you to dig without it twisting or flexing.

A bargain at £3 and easy to buy off the shelf

[onlyonegazza]

My first post for ages, so hello everyone.
But regarding 2014, I have used a long handled scoop for years now and it is easier, but I broke my scoop the other day and used a large spade instead. Surprisingly it wasn't too bad.
When digging in the wet sand, you could dig around three or four scoops out before the sides fell in and nine out of eight out of ten times I had the find quicker.
Pinpoint, dig like hell, check the heap
I will make another scoop, but you don't need too.

[leeparks]

I too am from the dinosaur age when beach detecting meant a lot of exercise with a garden spade. I have tried a borrowed scoop recently but it did not impress me. You cant beat a garden spade, ground to a point with a piece of angle iron welded across the top to save the wellies splitting.
Good hunting

[ROCK HOPPER]

I never use a sand scoop. I use a stainless!!(not) steel border fork which you can drag behind you as a marker as to where you have detected and also as a walking stick to steady yourself on slippy areas.
I also use a plastic garden scoop 2*£1 in the pound shop in the spring, they soon sell out so I buy about 4 and they last the year, the other item I use is a large kitchen mixing spoon which is all plastic from any of the charity shops, which is handy in the large rock pools, they cost between 50p and a £1.
As I detect on beaches where the sand can be as little as 6in deep in places I find this set up ideal.