Retired from beach hunting a few years ago now. The sand got to be too much for my hip and back. Plus the treasures were running out. Back in the day, when us hunters 1st hit the sand with decent detectors we had a 100 years of stuff piled up. Now mostly new losses, many more hunters, not quite the fun. Wish I lived closer to gold country, wouldn't mind hunting for natural gold. Have done that before, that can still be fun.