Metal Detecting

I've only been serous metal detecting for around 10 hours working time and been very frustrated by the way my holes getting bigger and bigger and the target getting deeper and deeper while moving away from the original position before the tide makes me abandon the target altogether. I'm using an Ace250 and have got the hang of using it correctly. On this beach my targets are very deep and im looking for coins to help date a structure of a canalized channel under the sand. I live in the Western Isles of Scotland so very little traffic on the beach and i was lucky to have already found one coin a Copper alloy late 17th-century Irish copper-alloy 'gun money shilling' of James II, Dublin or Limerick mint, dated January 1689 AD. This was in very poor shape but very deflated walking away last night i got to thinking why don't i bring my trench shovel next time. I'm Hoping i can quickly extract a deep plug from the beech and snatch the target out onto the surface. Any thoughts out there? Any help?

An ace 250 will give false signals off wet sand unless you turn the sensitivity right down to, say 2/3 bars at the most.
As you dig towards the false signal it may well appear to move as you get a different false signal.
Ace 250' are best on dry sand.

Sounds like you need a long handled sand scoop...very frustrating and tiring trying to dig deep waterlogged holes without one.

we all get false signals in wet sand,the minelabs tend not to do it so much as long as you noise cancel often.not sure about your detector, but i think you will have trouble falsing from what i've read about them.i tend to get false signals quite a bit right next to the waters edge, but if you move back a bit, you dont get it so bad.it's hard to decide what to dig as the sides fall in when you go deep,as the lad before said, if you get a long handled scoop it's eisier.i would tend to doubt the signals and if you do dig ,don't go to deep or you could end up in austrailia

hedingham wrote:falsing is a problem you`ll suffer with the ace on wetsand, as has been said, however a handy tip for digging deep in wet sand is, get yourself one of them big paint buckets, the 5 gallon ones I think, cut the bottom off so you have a big tube, then when u hit your target, dig a couple of shovels out til it starts to backfill, chuck in your bucket, and dig the sand away, as you go deeper the bucket can sometimes be pushed down as you go, hope this makes sense?

I like the sound of that idea using a big paint bucket pushed down into the sand. Ill try that on the weekend. Thanks

You shouldn't be digging "deep" on the wet sand with the ace mate, with the sensitivity down at 2 or 3 (where it should be) your targets really wont be deeper than 4" down.


just my thoughts.