Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.
How you move your coil makes a difference. It is easy to move too quickly. When you look out over a beach you can see hundreds of yards of sand to cover. There is more ground than you can possibly cover. The tendency is to get in a hurry and move too quickly.
You might think that you move your coil in nice straight slightly overlapping parallel lines something like the way you mow the lawn if you have a rectangular lot without trees or obstacles. If you are in a hurry or just not being careful to cover every inch, your coil might move more like the pattern shown immediately below.
 |
| Common Sweep Pattern |
This pattern is so nice and neat as the ideal one you might imagine. As you continually move forward so does your coil. And the sweeps do not typically move in a straight line across your body.
If you think about all the beach you can see, your target might be in one square inch. The trick is to put your coil over that very small area that contains the target. Hitting that one square inch isn't all that easy. If there is a concentration of targets, your chances of hitting something is much better.
I remember way back shortly after I began detecting, a fellow hid his watch under the sand and asked if I could find it. A watch should be easier to find than a coin, but I made a pass and was surprised that I missed the buried target. That showed me that I wasn't covering very well.
When you move quickly, whether it is too quickly or not, you can get false signals at the end of each sweep where the change of direction is abrupt. That is especially true when there are variations in ground mineralization. It is also common to slightly, though perhaps imperceptibly, raise the coil at the end of a sweep too, which can also add to false signals unless your sensitivity is low.
One little trip that I've found helpful is to think about moving your coil in a small loop at the end of each sweep. You do not need to actually move the coil in a perceptible loop to get the effect. Just the slightest amount will make the change in direction smoother.
 |
| Imagined Loops at End of Sweeps. |
Pay attention to your coil movement. Try this technique and see if it does anything for you. I always recommend testing things. I personally do a lot of testing and experimenting with my detector and even if I read something in a manual, I test it out for myself. I recommend that you do the same thing.
I've had coils that were supposed to be the same that showed significant differences. I found that out through testing.
-----
The Sons of the American Revolution Museum is deaccessing artifacts. Some will be claimed, but unclaimed artifacts will be auctioned off.
Here is a web site where you can check out the artifacts to be deaccessed.
https://sar.org/deaccession-artifacts
I've heard from people in the past who have donated items to museums and then were disappointed by how those items were used or not used. Some were never on display and some were lost. I don't want to discourage you from lending or donating artifacts, but you might want to make sure how they will be handled before doing that.
---
Of course the big news yesterday was about the shooting in Broward County. As you'd expect the shooter had problems and there were warning signs.
Here is a link about that.
http://blog.spiritdaily.com/news/shooter-had-troubled-past
There are a lot of hurting broken people out there and they tend to spread the hurt.
What beautiful weather for enjoying nature.
On the Treasure Coast we've had something like a two to four foot surf for a while, and that will continue.
Not much to talk about there.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
