I've done very little beach detecting - I think my total finds come to 25 pence - a couple of times at Ogmore - where I only seemed to dig up ring pulls and once at Barry where I found a bit of aluminium tubing. Most of those times were with my E-TRAC, and once with a T2.
On the day I was at Barry, someone was getting Viccy silvers near the Prom.
I've been tempted by Swansea beach a couple of times (I did like the videos that used to be posted here) - as I'm technically a student at Swansea Uni, so go there every so often.
Usual problem is that I have my children with me, and so my time - and attention are taken up making sure that I take them home again at the end of the day.
On land I've had very much fewer ring pulls and cow tubes until recently, when I've gone back to 'old' fields to detect more properly after 12 years of learning
- and have dug a lot more up again - what always amazes me is how much shrapnel I'm still digging up after all these years!