Metal Detecting on the Beach: 5 Tips for a Successful Hunt

Metal detecting on the beach may be the most popular place to take your metal detector. With a steady stream of people, there are constantly new treasures to find in the shifting sands. With so many people taking their metal detectors to the beach, however, you will want to know some tips that will give you the advantage over the crowd and enable you to become a metal detecting success!

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1. Find the Unbeaten Path

Since it is becoming popular to metal detect, you may find the beach has been combed over and you are not having much luck. The good thing is, usually there are areas of the beach that are not as popular as others. These tend to be areas where there is traffic by fisherman and joggers or areas where swimmers don’t frequent, like those lifeguard free zones.

These areas are great because there are still people who frequent the area, but they are less popular to people with metal detectors. The thought process for most people who metal detect is the more people that are around, the more things to find. This may be true, but there are also more people searching! Finding the places where there are people, but not a lot of detectors are the places you should be.

2. Best Time to Hit the Beach

Knowing the best times to hit the beach for metal detecting can reap big rewards. The best time to search the beach with your metal detector is on Friday nights or Sunday nights. The reasoning for this is because the most popular time to metal detect is Saturday morning. If you go on Friday night, you are able to get the treasures left throughout the week.

If you go on Sunday night, you have the advantage of getting those items left over from busy weekends, when the beach is the most popular.

3. Trash can be Treasure

Metal detectors on the beach will often find trash. It is a known fact that just because your metal detector picks something up, it doesn’t mean it is worth anything. It is also a known fact that just because something looks like trash, doesn’t mean it isn’t worth anything. Your job as a metal detector is to sort through this trash and decide if it is possibly something that has some worth!

You may want to keep everything you find and go through it all when you get home. By looking more closely at the items you have found, you may find something that you originally saw as trash is actually worth some cash!

4. Take Your Time

Though you may want to zip through the whole beach in one visit, this is not the most effective way to use your metal detector at the beach. Setting a target area for the day and exploring this area thoroughly is the best way to find treasure. You may want to adjust the settings on your detector several times to make sure you are getting all the treasure you can in a particular area.

5. Use the Correct Settings

The most important tip you should know when going to the beach is to actually know how to use your metal detector! So many people buy metal detectors and don’t know how to actually use them correctly. Only those people who know the way to use the detector and the settings you should use will be successful in a hunt on the beach.