Beach Hunter ID
After the first couple runs with the BH, I found working it in AM mode was the more productive in water. Disc out of the water. Another way is AM in water and toggle to disc for a tone id. The AM will reach about 50% deeper than disc, so at times you will get an AM read, and toggleing to disc will produce nothing in the way of sound, but may show a light. Solid reds are generally ferrous metals, yellows may be anything, you have to dig them, even if there is a occasional red light mixed in. The possibility of multiple targets being an inch or two apart will do that. Solid unbroken golds (I prefer using the word gold, instead of yellow cause that's where gold shows up at) is the $$ maker. dig them all, even though some zinc pennies and split shot sneak in there. Blues are usually coins, but can be other items as well. You will be amazed at the number of nickles you will find in the "gold" color. When you begin to scarf them up, the gold will follow. Intermittant chirping, crackling, unsteady unreliable in both directions should never be passed up. Those, are itty bitty fishooks, tiny bits of metal, or GOLD CHAINS. If it keeps going through the holes in your scoop and moving around on the bottom, chances are it's not a chain, and not worth the time. Split shot sinkers and earing backs are a pain. I might add as caviot that a small diamond earing can slip through the holes
just as easily as split shot. As far as pinpointing with the BH, you really need to own a good scoop, preferably the size of a gallon can. Most of the time, you get it first try, so PP need not be an exact science. The difference between a hand scoop and a water scoop is like compareing a bee-bee gun to a ten guage shotgun. You only have to be reasonably close to hit the target. Balancing is not difficult, if you read the instructions. When you raise and lower the coil from the ground, there MAY be an increase or decrease in background noise you hear. I live in a mineral neutral area and have little problem getting it close to perfect. If you are in a highly mineralized area, iron rich, or salt, or black sand beaches, you will notice a major change in tones when you pump the coil. If there is a lot, you may want to err on the side of tone increasing while going up, but, the closest you can come to no change the better.
Land hunting. The machine works fairly well on land, but will become a burden cause of the weight. The biggest complaint by BH owners is the floaty coil. It is only semi weighted, and is so so in fresh water, but way to bouyant in ocean water. A coil weight compromise resulted in, a coil to light for water, and too heavy for land. Your BH came with a yellow hip mount rig. Learn to love it........Gil