Posted by Rick Kempf
on 7/19/2009, 8:50 pm
72.218.87.132
Virginia Beach is full of folks donating treasure every day. It is also heavily sanded-in burying older stuff out of reach. Add to that a group of the most experienced and dedicated detectorists in the U.S. and you have what is currently a pretty target poor environment.
I suspect that since the ML Excalibur is the tool of choice of most of the gang, there are a lot of gold chains going "missing". I have a Whites V3 (and tomorrow hopefully a Bigfoot coil for it), a Whites TDI and a DP Pirate Pro. I have tested these against a thin gold chain in the air and I doubt that I could find it on the beach unless the V3's prospecting program will run there.
I'm wondering if something more "focused" would be better for shallow thin chains. I have (stored at home in AZ) a Tesoro Diablo Micromax. Maybe that with a Cleansweep coil would do?
I also tested a Compadre against the Diablo MM on thin gold once and it was nearly as good. Compadre modified to take the CS coil???
I have a big scoop and (if need be) a good pinpointer. Think 1000 acres of dry sand, recent drops and low target density overall.
What do you think?
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