My beach finds

[Mackka]

Welcome home Paulmarr. Already back into it and getting some goodies, well done to both.
Mackka

 

[Sandta]

Welcome home mate , good to see the dynamic duo back together

 

[Paulmarr]

Thanks guys - good to be home and back into it! A little bit of culture shock though - it was 30 degrees over there versus 8 degrees here!

 

[Guest]

So can I ask you guys how do you detect a beach?

How do you know where to start?

 

[Paulmarr]

That is a good question Wolf! How do we know where to start? A combination of luck and local knowledge I guess ... I'm sure Bogan will chime in but our strategy changes from time to time, depending on beach condition and changes....

Because we aren't looking for recent drops at this time of year - what we look for is a change of the beach composition from the last visit - for example - if a beach shows exposed rocks where it was once sanded in - or erosion from a storm - or a large shell grit band appears, etc - then this is a good place to start looking. We also are very keen to get to the exposed area that low tide has revealed - because it is usually covered in water and also is the point where sand is constantly moving. Start gridding out the area until a pattern of targets are revealed by our finds. Like sized and weighted items are often found either in one area or spread out evenly along a line or plane - so after you found your fourth coin you can pretty much draw a line through the find holes to concentrate on the most likely ground.

Having said that the good targets are where you find them and sometimes don't appear to have a rhyme or reason they were found there. Why I like the "team" hunts is it allows us to go in different directions and alert the other team members when the concentration of targets are found thus reducing the amount of time you go without a good target and maximising the target retrieval process by double and triple gridding the productive patches to squeeze out all the goodies...

We have a totally different method of searching in the water but best keep that one close to the chest... - most targets I find are located in the drink and Bogan and I have a theory regarding the beach/sea bottom conditions that indicate where to look..

 

[Guest]

We have a totally different method of searching in the water but best keep that one close to the chest... - most targets I find are located in the drink and Bogan and I have a theory regarding the beach/sea bottom conditions that indicate where to look..

You want to keep this to yourself? I thought it was all about caring and sharing

Fair enough.

There is an actual way on how to detect the wet sands/shallow waters to find that magic spot though

 

[Sa_bogan]

If you read it again paulmarr has given you the starting point on the beach as requested.

We started out knowing little to nothing and the information wasn't easy to get for free so we ended up spending over $100 on books and many hours watching YouTube,reading other websites and many hours on the beach.

Edited after seeing that you had changed what you had written wolf

 

[Goldpick]

Well done guys, have been missing the regular updates, been damned cold lately, not to mention the rain - not that it stops you guys . Paul, did you end up getting another ctx in the US, or still got the Sov?

Regarding where to start is always hard considering the ever changing conditions on the beach. Sometimes you get finds in the most unlikely places, groupings of coins from water and sand movement at high tide etc etc.

Good thing about your ctx is that you have gps, so you can log where you have previously detected, but of course things can change quickly overnight on the beach.

 

[Guest]

Well done guys, have been missing the regular updates, been damned cold lately, not to mention the rain - not that it stops you guys . Paul, did you end up getting another ctx in the US, or still got the Sov?

Been cold? You have to be really keen crazy to be out and about in this weather

 

[Guest]

I think if anyone is replying to anyone in particular an idea is to quote what was written.

No great changes were made from my end. You can check the times when posts were made and edited.

Now its time to head out and pick up my mixed grill..

 

[Sa_bogan]

I think if anyone is replying to anyone in particular an idea is to quote what was written.

No great changes were made from my end. You can check the times when posts were made and edited.

Now its time to head out and pick up my mixed grill..

When I saw your post it came across as we were in the wrong not sharing every thing we were doing.

In your original post you mentioned you had be taught but an actual treasure hunter which I read as it didn't matter what we had written as you already had the knowledge.

Please correct me if I have read your original post incorrectly, reading can come across differently to how it was meant to be taken

 

[Goldpick]

Depsite the good bogan brigade finds from offshore, I'm sticking to dry/wet sand and low tide flats, I don't want my crown jewels permanently retracting into my groin from the cold!

What bogan has provided is a great start, the rest is purely down to having a go for yourself to see what you can come up with. When you grid up a section of beach, it doesn't take too long to figure out whether you should persist in the one spot, or move onto another area, or a completely different beach altogether if deemed to be sanded in. Gridding is the only way to see whether an area is going to produce, other than looking for more obvious signs like cutaways, drains, ripple strips and sand hill erosion.

Where do I usually start detecting, at the entrance to the beach of course, looking for recent drops, then i move down the beach and start gridding. The recommended way to grid with a vlf is to run perpendicular to the beach so that you aren't having sudden changes in mineralisation from dry to damp to wet (PI doesn't care). I tend to to run from top to bottom of the beach covering all exposed horizons in the sand to find where the targets are at. I tend to drag my foot a bit to see where I've been, overlapping each run by a foot or so.

Sometimes if you are a regular to a certain beach, you can pretty just walk down and visually check the conditions, and know straight away whether you have a chance of finding something. For me, when conditions were good, the beach is scalloped out and low in mounded sand, at low tide the ripple strips and drains have exposed rocks in them trapping the heavies. Bad conditions (like at present), usually show very high sand levels, mounded sand at the top of the beach, shallow drains with little or no rocks exposed, plus the added pain of thick buried seaweed covering any good targets. Most targets at this time are only recently deposited lightweight junk like bottle caps, foil, sparklers, bobby pins, aluminium cans etc, with the odd 5c or 10c coin.

I was quite amazed at the amount of erosion lately at areas like Henley beach here in Adelaide, there's like 6-8m of sand hills completely washed away, and you could see someone had gridded up the eroded area looking for targets washed out of the sandhills.

Once agan though, the way I detect and look for prospective areas will probably differ from the bogan brigade, I don't tend to hit the water, so most of my finds are more recent, first hand experience is really the key. Sorry for the hijack. :8

 

[Guest]

SA_Bogan,

Never suggested anyone was in the wrong with whatever they were doing or what info they wanted to share.

What I wanted to post has been posted and I was not taught by anyone. The only learning I have done is
by reading and watching videos and by going out there and detecting.

 

[silver]

Yeah, no schools or anything as great as this when I picked up my first detector and waved it at the beach. No one to offer a word of advice or encouragement to start my passion, just a machine swinging in my hand and a few coin finds, and I was away.

 

[Paulmarr]

Another beach hunt ... Here are the finds...

Only one pre dec and no silver coins!

Bogan did get a silver dolphin ring

And an array of junk....

Til next time ...

 

[Paulmarr]

. Paul, did you end up getting another ctx in the US, or still got the Sov?.

Hi Goldpick - still got the Sov as the price in the US was only $250 cheaper - not enough pennies yet

 

[Goldpick]

. Paul, did you end up getting another ctx in the US, or still got the Sov?.

Hi Goldpick - still got the Sov as the price in the US was only $250 cheaper - not enough pennies yet

Not much of a saving really is it, plus better off with a local warranty anyway with such an expensive purchase.

 

[slipped disc]

. Paul, did you end up getting another ctx in the US, or still got the Sov?.

Hi Goldpick - still got the Sov as the price in the US was only $250 cheaper - not enough pennies yet

Not much of a saving really is it, plus better off with a local warranty anyway with such an expensive purchase.

PLUS import duty on items over $1000.

 

[Guest]

. Paul, did you end up getting another ctx in the US, or still got the Sov?.

Hi Goldpick - still got the Sov as the price in the US was only $250 cheaper - not enough pennies yet

Not much of a saving really is it, plus better off with a local warranty anyway with such an expensive purchase.

PLUS import duty on items over $1000.

There is a way around everything

 

[slipped disc]

HEHEHEHEHEH :lol: