Morning, folks. Pretty cold here right now but at least it's dry
Can't speak for all Minelabs but I've taken my X-Terra to three beaches - Rhyl, Prestayn and Talacre and I'd honestly have been better with divining rods . . . I've never had any trouble with it finding coke (unlike the Maplin one) but it did give me a bit of a run-around at Talacre. It was giving a reading in the 20s (on the dry sand) so I started digging. Couldn't find anything but the target kept shifting . . . In the end I discovered it was a bit of reed which had been burned and the carbonised end was showing on the detector.
That's why I'm busy building a couple of PI machines for me and my friend. It got to where it was a bit of an obsession so I shelved it for a while and concentrated on something else for a couple of weeks - I'm all done with that now so I'll re-start the PIs again soon. I know that I'll end up digging everything with a PI but at least it won't be falsing due to the wet sand. Probably give Talacre a miss though, as it seems so trashy.
The Whites Spectrum and its descendants seem to have a bit of a cult following - must be a reason other than nostalgia?
