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Well the season has started , for my beach outings on the beaches of Porthcawl,and I have to say it,s been pretty disappointing,first outing to coney ,and just 3 coins,trecco next day, and one solitary 5p bit,whats happening here. I console myself with the fact it,s just a build up of sand,maybe people are not carrying the loose change they used to. Any body doing better along the south wales coast.

im sorry to say this but beach tectin for a newbie is hard ,,i mean changing ground conditions,loads of rubbish,sand,salt etc....best advice i could give is get some land inland learn your machine ,get  a good beach machine then have another go. 

Was the highest Tide of the year today as well , which in turns means the lowest low tide.  Thought we mat have seen a few things turn up on site... maybe the weather put people off.

Hey Paul, youre not joking. I went out yesterday. Eventually found a really hot spot but was totally confussed by the number of signals I got in a very small area. According to my M6 there must have been a fortune under my feet but as they were so deep I tried a couple and then had to ignore the rest. How do you even try to separate so many signals??? :-[

Ever hopeful,    Val

seperation dosent happen so much on fields {unless you are really lucky ;D}the rewards of a beach can be plentifull but for anybody new to the hobby they can be a bit daunting

I've just thought of the answer. It's called a JCB ;D

jcb would be handy for beach or inland ;D,,, i could never be a farmer, iwouldent grow nothing,just spend my time plouging ;D ;D

        Sorry mate but IM  no newbie,been at it since 1986, owned over 20 different detectors,and had probably 1000s of coins ,and quite a few rings,current detector is an explorer 2 ,just wanted some serious intelligent answers ,p.s. I know my macine quite well

Well dont have much experience to pass pn but i do a lot of beach detecting with my little garrett  but my setting is always all metal low sensitivity , and  try not to complete a marathon in the beach but pass over and over again  zig zag . had few ring this year both gold and silver and a bit of gold jewellery bracelet , bands , pendant , start have a good little collection .

this week going to a very interesting beach , few old goodies been find there from old ship wreck .

they have been days where i find  nothing at all and the following day same place same spot and a ring so the sand move and u never know what will be there one day to the other.

you may have been new to beach tectin sorry buddy ,if your griping or asking for advice ,take the rough with the smooth

Ive been detecting beach,s for 10 years and only relatively recently detected inland then i Joined RARE.
Any multi frequency machine like the Explorer will do well on any type of sand including the wet stuff.
But many single frequency machines can do just as well with a bit of tweeking.
They say the Fisher F75 is the worst machine you can buy for wet sand and that isn't strictly true.
If you manually Ground balance to around 1 or 2 and lower the sence and run in in Default process its a very usefull beach detector.

One tip i picked up off an old timer
If your gridding a beach IE left to right  drag your spade behind you so you know where you've been.
With low sens this isn't a problem your detector shouldn't pick it up.

Happy beach combing ;0)

 Jondav, was it you down chasing the tide out yesterday, then go around the point,??
 i was up the top of the beach, i went down late morning, a last minute disistion, not a lot there though either, just a couple of quid and a hand full of coppers,  not much though, but from my past experience there is a couple of locals that do it early in the mornings, and sometimes daytime, one i know hammers the top beach,

Val,  your machine could be senstive to the salt and minerals,  not all machines work good in the wet sand,   many many false signals it gives you a headache and is confusing,
 i get the same on the wet sand so don't stay there long,  but usually you'll know when you get something nice,  its a lot stronger the signal if you can stick through the constant chattering,
 the most i got out yesterday was a new packet of small lead fishing weights still sealed in the plastic packet and this,
Alan

ohh yeah,  i did start  turning mine down Phil,  but that's as far as it got, i forgot to keep up with it and try it down further,  better go back today me finks and try it again, lol

i was intrigued with this bit

"""Sorry mate but IM  no newbie,been at it since 1986, owned over 20 different detectors,and had probably 1000s of coins ,and quite a few rings,current detector is an explorer 2 ,just wanted some serious intelligent answers ,p.s. I know my macine quite well"""

so in 24years you've had 20 detectors? why change every year?

i am having difficulty in understanding the rationale!

Hi Alan

As you know there always a trade off when wet sand detecting with single frequency machines.
In an idea world you should be able to Wack up the sensitivity and find everthing. but there always a trade off with sens and depth this is the same inland and its even more apparent on Wet sand.
I think the key is not to be so greedy and lower the sens so you dont end up with an headache at the end of the day lol.

Atb
Phil

 ha ha PHil    i meant to turn it down in stages as i went along, but then i  wandered back and forgot lol,
 i used to turn it down on my old one, it helped a bit, but cuts out the depth,  another day may be,

 :(if its any consolation bud i have only had a couple of quid and 6 fishing weights on my latest beach hunting outing,too much sand deposited i guess.keep on swingin.on a positive note i am getting stronger shoulders.lol .mike :D

Last time I done a beach was in Barry, went along with my daughter. There was so much rubbish about on the beach, i;e drinks cans silver foil etc etc.
As it was I was having no no luck at all, but my daughter had found a total of £1.22p.
At the end of the day we were standing near the wall on the beach, where my daughter was bragging about her finds, (rubbing it in)......... :(
I then looked around our general area at all the rubbish, when I noticed a white carrier bag with the remains of some left over rubbish inside (lazy b****rds could not be bothered to place in recepticals provided) when I noticed a small piece of blue paper that looked remarkably like a £5 note, so I proceeded to remove it from the bag and wave it in front of my daughters face........................... ;D ;D ;D
It shut her up for the rest of the day............. ;D ;D ;D