A good beach and land detector for beginner

I don't care what anyone else says but the used Fisher coinstrike is an amazing detector and works very well on the beach it ignores hot rocks and black sand just picks up the target and is a much better detector than the minelab, esp when you can buy a used one for around $250-$300 range, the minelabs are over rated I have owned a few and have never liked the way they work other people may feel differently, I noticed someone mentioned a Pioneer 505 it does work pretty well I have owned one for about 8 years without a problem and found a smashed cadillac hubcap at almost 3 feet deep in black sand in the all metal mode.....My Whites TDI picked it up but the batteries died so I borrowed the 505 from my grandson to find the target it picked it up in the all metal mode, actually I have found some pretty deep targets with the 505.

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I used my Eureka Gold on the Columbia river and it hit so many hot rocks it became unusable, but so did all of my VLF units, minelabs are over priced you can get better preformance for less money, my Fisher Gold$trike outpreforms my Eureka gold very easly it picks up smaller gold targets and deeper in the ground, it will also pickup targets that the Eureka or the exterra 70 do not even respond to, don't worry I know how to use a detector I have been repairing them for 25 years, the first unit I worked on was more sophitcated than anything you can buy today at $10,000 a industrial food service stationary detector, I was a field service technician and would travel around the U.S. repairing them and other sophisticated optical inspection equipment, minelab is still over rated  and ther service is not on par with Whites or Garrett!!

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