my experience with the sand shark

[donlor]

since nobody has written anything about the sand shark i will - though this is my first year of detecting. Even though i got my sand shark at the end of April 07 i never really started to use it until 9/25/07 because i was doing the easy work of dry sand detecting with my cibola. Since i did not find hardly anything of real value with my cibola in dry sand i finally started water detecting.
As i detect in ny + nj the real water detecting period is from June through the beginning of sept. yet, despite starting my salt water detecting on 9/25 i have done fairly good during this “off season.” my experience with the sand shark is all positive. It has fine depth, is easy enough to pinpoint with, and has very good battery life.
4/28/07 - 2.2g silver earing (lake) cibola
5/7/07 - 6.5g 14k ring - 15point diamond (salt) cibola
7/9/07 - .9g 14k ring (dry beach sand) cibola
7/27/07 - 1.1g 10k ring zircon - 2tiny diamonds (dry beach sand) cibola
9/25/07 - 6.5g 14k ring - 6small diamonds (salt) shark
9/26/07 - 18.4g 14k bracelet (salt) shark
9/26/07 - 3.2g silver ring (salt) shark
9/26/07 - .9g 14k earing (salt) shark
10/6/07 - 1.7g 14k ring (salt) shark
10/6/07 - .7g 10k earing (lake) shark
10/7/07 - 1.6g silver earing (lake) shark
10/7/07 - 1.7g silver earing (lake) shark
10/14/07 - 7.3g stainless ring (salt) shark
10/15/07 - 2.3g 10k ring (salt) shark
10/19/07 - 7.6g 10k ring 10diamonds-3points each=30points (salt) shark
10/21/07 - 17g little guy silver (salt) shark
10/29/07 - 10.6g silver spinner ring (salt) shark
11/4 /07 - 2.1g 14 k ½ ct diamond ring (salt) shark
11/23/07 - 15.6g silver + gold ring (salt) shark
donald

[Buster]

That's some good hunting for sure..Congrats....Buster....

[Arkwater]

I need a new pi machine before next summer, sounds like one I need to look at. Thanks for the info.

[EPC Guy]

Thanks for the review...I hope to do some water hunting this year - I'll look into the Sandshark.

[EBCIII]

Those ae some awesome finds, congrats to you, an continuied good luck, Beale.

[KellycoChick]

Wow Donlor! Thanks so much for the detailed info!! I always appreciate a good review, and cataloging your finds so well certainly helps! Keep it up!!

[Dugday]

Great finds with that machine. Keep up the good work.

[gordiesgirl]

Great to hear your doing so well. I would love to have one maybe some day!!!! WTG on super finds.

[donlor]

my first 5 months of detecting were with my cibola. i used the 3x18" coil on it + loved it for dry sand detecting. it also worked somewhat in wet sand.

i also bought the 3x18" coil for the sand shark - did not like the air test results with it so i never used it in the water. when i do some serious testing with it i will post the results.
donald

['E']

Some great finds definitely, I might have to look into one of those for beach hunting here, thanks for the info.