Beach hit by Coin Strike

Until I get my water detector, I needed something to
hunt with and wanted something different from the beep and
dig P.I. machine I had been using. Something with a visual display and
challenging enough to force me to learn at least a bit about
discrimination, sensitivity and all that.

I purchased a new boxed Fisher Coinstrike from a closeout sale online.
The "classic" impressed me with its sturdiness and well put
together appearance right out of the box. I was loving it already.



Took it out to the yard last night just to turn it on. I've read it
is sensitive to power lines and that could have been what
happened last night. It was playing the tonal scale up and down with
numbers jumping. I played with the discr and sens a bit but turned it
off and waited for today.

This morning took it to the beach. It's first hunt. Turned it on on the
wet sand with the settings I left it on. All Metal, Sens 6 Threshold 20.
It was quiet as a mouse. I didn't want to touch the settings. I noticed
that nickles were discriminated out and eliminated that, though,, and funny
I found a nickel right afterward.



As long as I stayed between the shell line and
the high tide mark, perfect sailing. It falsed with +14-15 numbers
if I came close to the water. Those numbers also display for pull tabs.
I read that the thing loves bottle caps and how true. On my P.I. they
give a popping tone. So, I dug quite a few today. I read that you
can lift the coil and numbers on bottle caps will drop but I
forgot to try that today.

I had trouble pinpointing at first but getting it down. The "shadow" of
the target for want of a better or appropriate term puzzled me at
first. The machine would faintly beep in the hole for a moment even though
the target had been removed. That never happened with my P.I.

Didn't find much, it started to drizzle and I had to leave. I really like
how this swings and the light on the display is bright for my pre-dawn
beach raids and those night hunts with JBEXPRESS. (he won a probe
from Garrett, lucky dog!) I can't wait to play with the settings next
time.


Some clad, a battery thingy, fishing gear(I always like finding
this stuff because I can share it with the surf fishermen and women).

There was lots of fruit on the sand for some reason. A banana boat
capsize, perhaps?

I present this apple to my teacher. I'm liking Mr. Fisher!