New to the forum and want to get into detecting

[bdemutis]

I'm new here and I want to get into detecting. I'm an avid outdoorsman hunting, fishing, camping so on. I'm looking to get started in beach detecting since I'm going to OBX this year.

[del]

hello , welcome to the forum bdemutis . what part of the country are you in ??

Dan

[bdemutis]

hello , welcome to the forum bdemutis . what part of the country are you in ??

Dan
I'm In PA.

[Skamaniac]

Welcome from Washington state, it's good to have you on board.

[del]

I'm In PA.

Pennsylvania is a great part of the country loaded with interesting old history . Effective beach machines have either multi-frequencies or are pulse induction types . Single frequency machines tend to false or act erratic on the wet beaches due to the wet salt (which the machines detects as a mineral) and the black sand (a type of iron ferrite a magnetic mineral) . Duel or multi frequency machines can use one frequency to cancel one out and negotiates the other pretty effectively to allow the machine to run pretty smoothly unlike single frequency machines. Pulse Induction detectors are affected very little by minerals because of their different nature (they pulse a signals at a rapid pace and sample the return signal before the ground minerals adversely affect it. But the draw back is pulse machines have very little or no discrimination and pick up all metals (junk metal , iron and good stuff ) so if your beach is littered with iron scrap and trashy metal , your wasting a lot of time digging garbage .

[Digger_O'Dell]

Welcome to the forum from Wisconsin!

[leslie(nova scotia)]

Welcome aboard. Good lot of detectorists herre so any question ask...none are off the wall. Look forward to reading your posts!

[chief5709]

Welcome to the forum!

[GA1dad]

Welcome aboard bdemutis,,, look forward to reading about your finds!!!

[badgers325]

welcome to the forum.