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  1. BeachBunnyTRHunter-PA

    Prospecting / Miners pick information and questions

    A prospecting pick made of titanium is unnecessary and is way more expensive than you can imagine and difficult to produce . Instead I would recommend you purchase and have shipped to you one of the prospector pics that I bought from Keene Engineering in California. Www.keeneeng.com...
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    Minelab Equinox 800 tips and questions

    Hello, everyone, I would really like some help with this. Trying to decide whether the Equinox 800 is a good choice for the beach? I have had other VLF detectors on the beach and it's a joke the saltwater and the mineralization kills them. It just goes unstable and becomes worthless. Question...
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    The Coastal, winter storms are a constant force here shredding the beaches and pulling out to sea it's sand. Here's an example from last winter, in December. :pickshovel:
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    Cool sand scoop for beach hunting

    No metal in the scoop - quick and elegant method of sifting the sand and quickly finding the target(s). Originally seen on the Michael Oliver, Australian beach detector YouTube channel. The work took about two hours: jigsaw, edge grinder, drill, and final sanding. Questions? Let me know...
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    Tell me about what detector and coil you use? :)
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    It's a Garret Sea Hunter II, not the Infinium, so there is no high low tone. I do notch out the low tones as best I can. Frankly, I didn't but it for the beach but for treasure diving. I am working on some flavor of a White's TDI/ HI-Q/ PRO, and then the magic begins for onshore work. I would...
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    I pulled a ladies bracelet from 30 cm. It was sitting on the "wall" of my digging hole. I looped it around my toe and pulled it out. I think it's costume jewelry but it is a testimony to the Garrett Sea Hunter II (with larger, optional mono coil). The item was in wet sand above the surf line...
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    I work those cuts every time I see them. We have strong, perpendicular winds hitting the beach from offshore. Those dumb blokes that manage the beach have no clue on how to conserve that sand during storms so the beach self-destructs and then sometimes rebuilds itself or they spend a few hundred...
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    I always wanted to detect in the gold fields in the golden triangle, near Melbourne, or maybe somewhere else less hunted. At least you stay out of the water, though the box jellies are farther north the sharks are everywhere. I I have on my radar the purchase of a White's TDI SL and I would...
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    NOV 2019: The same beach as above, a year earlier. Here's where the water was washing in 25-30 meters inland. The parking lot to the west of the beach flooded with 15 cm of water. This was before my current detector, as I used to have a White's V3i and that was ghastly at the beach in saltwater...
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    Gidday from Yeppoon

    "whale oil beef hooked" Gaelic isn't it? OMG. :fire:
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    Hello Mike 678 , thanks again for replying, I forgot to say so. When I was there the following week the sand loss was 0,9 meters at the berm protecting the beach. The beaches in South Florida see a lot of chaos. If you don't like the way the beach looks, just wait a day because it's going to...
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    I agree but I was with friends and you can't just leave so sometimes it's just hard luck. It's a good bitch for me because I have seen it in all different manner of condition I'm looking forward to going into the water and scuba diving with my metal detector in the summer. :pickshovel:
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    Gidday from Yeppoon

    My name is Brittany and I live and detect on the East coast of Florida. Fort Lauderdale and Miami. A few hundred KM north is the treasure coast full of Spanish treasure from 300 years ago and more. I hunt on the beach and in the water using a Garrett Sea Hunter II. I like PI units and I am...
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    Storm Erosion and taking advantage of that sand loss

    I have shown two photos to illustrate how a beach can change in just a week - for that matter, overnight. I was will friends and minus my detector when I saw all these cutouts on the beach and what an opportunity that would have been. :playful:
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