MD on the Beach - What's Happening?

[GoldDigger]

Today was my first day detecting on the beach.

I know my detector is not a "beach machine" but I thought that it was strange that anytime I go near where the tide comes in at night my detector goes off like Davey Jones' treasure it buried everywhere.

When I head back to the dry part of the same I can hunt with no problem.

I typically will be hunting on dry land (until I move to a beach community) are the false signals due to mineralization from the water, or just the conductivity of wet sand?

[creekrat]

i think it is both of what you said.i dont use the kind of detector you use,cant help you with the settings for salt water.i use a fisher cz pro it has a salt water setting on it.send us some warmer weather north..good luck to ya creek

[leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose.....some machines just can't dig in the mineralized wet sand. hae that problem with my Freedom # so when the odd tiume I do a beach hae to use the water machine. Check your manual and maybe it can be notched out to balance for that! Good luck.