Detecting in South Africa

jbaymike, I live here in Florida and I've got lots of beach experience with a 250. Unfortunately the salt scrambles its brains; not that it doesn't work in salt just that its range is limited and a bit tricky to use. My suggestion is to stay out of the water and in wet sand bury some coins and pull tabs at various depths to see what sensitivity setting you can get away with before the falseing gets out of hand. Keep in mind dry sand wet sand and saturated sand will give different results. I used the lowest sensitivity setting in the jewelry mode for wet sand. This limits the depth to 2 " for a US dime but is tolerable for hunting. If you have to go in the water you will have to scrub the bottom to find anything. The pinpoint function is the saving grace of the 250. It seems to be less reactive to the salt than the discrimination mode. Good luck Gambol 

Posted on: February 23, 2012, 09:53:40 AM

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Viking, I guess we all should look closely at what we find as soon as we find it. Every so often I've had surprises. Here is a charm that I thought was melted lead until I cleaned it up.

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Pgill, Howdy, One more (true) cow story. When I was living in Texas in the 1970s we rented a house on the Goodnight Ranch out in the central "hill country" of Texas. This was cow and goat country.  Well one night , Just as I was settling down in my bed for a long summers sleep, I was just drifting off, I heard a terrific CRASH! It sounded like a car had run into the house. I jumped out of bed and ran outside in my underwear, walked around the house. Saw no car and no evidence of the crash. It was a very dark night as I recall, I went back to bed wondering what it was. The next day when I got home from work I looked again. The asbestos shingles on the side of the house, just beside where my bed stead was were cracked and there was animal hair in the cracks. This was the site of impact. A few days later when I was talking to the rancher he said his bull got out and wandered down on the road and  a car ran into him, didn't knock him down but scared him badly enough he made a bee-line up to my house and wham!

Posted on: February 23, 2012, 10:28:38 AM

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Pgill, If it was I'd never tell you because you would claim it!! 

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You are so full of it Mate    Gold has gone to your head Now let me tell my new pall jbaymike a thing about water detecting what you really need is a PI detector it takes no crap from sea water at all, and guess what? I build them and no I do not want you to buy one I just want you to try mine out have a good time with it then buy two  just joking there mate no really jokes apart PM me your details and when I come down to J-Bay we will go out and do some serious detecting together How about that?

See guys I can be serious when I want to 

Got a new calf today that brings me to 92 head of cattle not bad when you think that we started with 25 1 1/2 years ago but we did buy some. We did the sheep vaccination today now that was fun I got kicked in the you know where and one of my boys was flung into a feeding tyre. Then I did a small Op on one of them (No not one of my guys just a sheep) but that was quite ugly so want go into the details of it.And as for my Oscilloscope well I'm hoping to get it tomorrow.

OK that's it for now have a good one for me
All the best you know who 

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  %*(&$ now you're pushing it mate WHAT having it for lunch on Sunday? you're nuts I'm busy getting the hair out of my teeth as we speak  Loved that sheep no really do you think that I would slaughter a sheep just because it kicked me? Hell the poor chap errrr I mean girl thought that I was going to harm her and she only did what she did by self defence hell that is still legal aint it? How would you like someone throwing you on your back then spraying you with Dead line and then injecting a vaccination in your....Not nice hey mate 

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Hey guys!  X, congrats on the new calf!  Fun times!

Speaking of psycho,  I don't know which one of you is the most psycho, you guys for what you write to each other...  or me for reading it all the time!  And enjoying it!                        

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