Best beach machine.

[Irishgoldhound]

Donj, If I was gonna do park to wet sand I would get a nice FBS machine. Then you have a machine that is great for both. Plus you can still search along the shoreline. Check out one of the treasure line detectors from Minelab. The Safari is awesome on beaches and great for parks. It won't hit hard on your tiny stud sized earring backs, and smaller chains but it will find your gold and silver rings, and DEEP too. Safari loves to play in the park and wet sand beaches.

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

The thing is I only go to the beach about 2 weeks a year and cant see putting $1,000+ in a machine to only be used a few times a year. I have had some cz machines and although they were deep....I did not like their ergonomics. Thought they were heavy, awkward and unbalanced. Is their no lightweight machines that well run smooth in wet sand at a reasonable price?

Digger, if I was you I would seriously consider the Fors CoRe by Nokta, it is a single freq detector that has a beach program that works very well, I tested it on salt water sand , moving from shallow water to wet sand and back and found it very stable and it can discriminate out iron on the beach.. It has auto balance, manual balance and tracking.

 

[treasuresalvor]

For the money a new Sand Shark is almost a no brainer, I would like to get one myself. I love my Excalibur and Sovereign's but they are not too lite.

 

[goldkey]

The thing is I only go to the beach about 2 weeks a year and cant see putting $1,000+ in a machine to only be used a few times a year. I have had some cz machines and although they were deep....I did not like their ergonomics. Thought they were heavy, awkward and unbalanced. Is their no lightweight machines that well run smooth in wet sand at a reasonable price?

I agree TH.....
the Nokta Fors CoRe.......it has a beach mode and works well in the wet sand.
Plenty of videos on youtube about it. Kellyco has it for 595.00
It also works well in highly minerialzed soil as a gold hunter. Has great depth......

 

[SouthFLdigger]

Digger, if I was you I would seriously consider the Fors CoRe by Nokta, it is a single freq detector that has a beach program that works very well, I tested it on salt water sand , moving from shallow water to wet sand and back and found it very stable and it can discriminate out iron on the beach.. It has auto balance, manual balance and tracking.

Any idea how deep it can go (Nokta)in the wet sand where the waves crash and tends to be the saltiest portion of the beach? My G2 cant take it in Miami beach, i even hear plenty of chatter on my CZ-20.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

If your going into the water it isn't what you want, it isn't waterproof, only the coil is..

The one I was testing with had no issue. I manually ground balanced it and had no falsing in the wet sand or shallow water....

 

[SouthFLdigger]

Thanks for the reply, Treasurehunter i know its not water proof but i do enjoy wet sand hunting. I only get in the water with my CZ-20, would love to see the day when a single frequency VLF machine can hit a dime at 10" in wet salty very high salinity sand down here.

 

[Mr.T]

'Get you a Tesero Sand Shark' Ron Lord. !

 

[sponge]

I have used the sand shark for a couple years. If it beeps you dig. Real easy to swing with the eight '' disk. Very rugged and durable machine. I have to send mine in due to one side of the headphones will go out. It will be my first time using the lifetime warranty aspect of it. I will report on that when all said and done. The shark finds all.

 

[donj]

Donj, If I was gonna do park to wet sand I would get a nice FBS machine. Then you have a machine that is great for both. Plus you can still search along the shoreline. Check out one of the treasure line detectors from Minelab. The Safari is awesome on beaches and great for parks. It won't hit hard on your tiny stud sized earring backs, and smaller chains but it will find your gold and silver rings, and DEEP too. Safari loves to play in the park and wet sand beaches.

Thanks for the input irishgoldhound i'll look into the safari.

 

[skeeter86]

I,m interested in finding jewelry at the beach and on sleding hills here in ohio . I'm wondering what detector might increase my finds. I' currently using a delta 4000. with not much luck any machines out there that will improve my luck. Thank you . Frezzing the old fingers out there.

 

[Irishgoldhound]

If your looking for a good jewelry detector. The At pro is great. At 15khz It's more sensitive on smaller gold items than your 7.8 kHz Delta which is more less a coin detector, geared more for higher conductors

 

[frogmaster-riviera]

CTX 3030 is not that bad... especially underwater

 

[SouthFLdigger]

While the delta will go 11" down in the dry sand (at 12 sens) to find a gold ring, it will be useless in the salt water. I have one i know, if your are planning on detecting on the beach consider a multi-frequency machine that goes down at least 10-12" in wet and salty sand on a coin sized object, depth is everything on the beach. The Delta like most single frequency VLF machines, will only go 5-6" under the sand in A2 mode at 5 sens. There are of course exceptions, new DSP are allowing some single frequency VLF machines to go down deep in the salty sand. The Delta works great in the dry sand, it will even disc out bottle caps very very well, but on wet it sucks. The AT-Pro is a bit better and goes a bit deeper on the wet sand, but will still suffer significantly compared to dry.

 

[Kevin in IN]

I,m interested in finding jewelry at the beach and on sleding hills here in ohio . I'm wondering what detector might increase my finds. I' currently using a delta 4000. with not much luck any machines out there that will improve my luck. Thank you . Frezzing the old fingers out there.

Skeeter. You might consider a soverign GT if your hunting freshwater beaches. They are very good seeing through the iron junk on freshwater beaches, and do execellant in parks and fields.