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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2781 Posts |
is there a hot zone when detecting on public beaches?
high tide line? low tide line? everything in between?
advice appreciated, thanks
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Moderator
 United States
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 near concessions, changing areas, or where someone is pulling keys out of a pocket would be my guess? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1391 Posts |
You want to go out after storms, and the points around the high tide marks. Some areas have 'higher' high tides at certain times of the year, those are good times to check. Is your metal detector able to be used in a salt water environment? Some of them have problems with the salt.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In six years of detecting, I've never found anything on the beach. However, on the grassy turf of the beach I've found silver coins, rings, clad, and even a Matron head large cent, and beautiful 1865 Two Cent Piece, both about 5 inches down. When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
477 Posts |
Also might be an idea to see how long a beach has been active for so too speak, if it's a beach that has been used for ages and ages-should be good. But if it's a beach that is more recently used because of some popularity thing happening, maybe not as good-never-the-less there will be something too find. I'm no expert, but this is one of the things I'd do. I remember in Normandy a shop that had so many finds from them beaches-I guess they were finds given the condition etc, you could smell the past in the shop.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
477 Posts |
Oh yeah and to add, I agree with what fistfulladirt said, when I lived in Normandy the tide was immense where I was. We would dig holes deep into the sand, just for fun-but water would filter in and then fill the hole back up. I guess like a filter system, the grassy or harder grounded embankments would act like a net.
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New Member
United States
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I primarily metal detect on beaches.
A lot depends on the metal detector you have and the time of year. Depending on your detector you will be able to detect the dry sand and/or wet sand.
If you are interested in the dry sand stick to the "towel line", volleyball courts, and as close as your detector can get to the wet sand.
If you are interested in the wet sand, try to work the area between the low tide and high tide line. You need to move slowly as to not miss deep targets.
This time of year you want to wait for a good winter storm to move the sand levels, uncovering old targets. This past week I went out after a winter storm and dug many old coins and got a tarnished silver ring.
Good luck!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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back around 1955 I worked at a concession stand in Corpus Christi, the place known as North Beach. After storms I would roam the Tide-line and pick up large amounts of coins ranging from pennies to halves. Once even found a silver ring with a 2 Peso coin on top! there was a huge vacant bath house there from the early 20's that was then closed, it had slotted board flooring to allow water to escape from wet bathing suits. Always wanted to search under there but couldn't. Now there is a huge hotel on the site and the original tideline has been covered with sand extending the beach by about 30-40 yards. I know there is still boo-koo coins under that but impossible to get to. Shucky-darn!
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Valued Member
United States
301 Posts |
Im here in Michigan, so big freshwater lakes. We have great luck in water between 1 and 4 feet of water. Rings, braclets, some coins. Assuming you havea water detector.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3486 Posts |
For what it is worth:
As erosion and major storms have altered the coastlines
perhaps studying the history of a given area may be useful.
For example, if a major hurricane was accompanied by storm surges
during a high tide then the area far away from the high water line may have had objects deposited by the waves. Conversely, if major beach erosion has occurred then what was
once beach could now be permanently under water, even at low tide.
Shipwreck salvagers study historical weather records, if available, to help pinpoint
the location of a ship. Beach hunters might do the same.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I know of a location where a hurricane obliterated a town, where it used to be is now 4 to 8 ft of water. What type of detector would I need to search this area and how should I go about it (this happened in the 1800's and at least one person found a gold eagle on the beach about 1/2 mile inland). There was a bank in this town that has never been located.....wow!
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