Beach and Sand Scoops For Water, Beach, River and Soft Sand Metal Detecting

One thing for certain, if you are going to buy a Metal Detector with the aim of going coin or ring shooting on the beach sand or in the water, you will definitely need to invest in a good Metal Detecting Sand Beach Scoop

Having a Beach or Sand Scoop is going to save you alot of time when searching for a found target, there is nothing worse than finding something in the sand, you don’t have a scoop and then you have to try and find it with your bare hands.

You might have a shovel, but then you have to dig and flick away the sand.

Not only can digging around in the sand with your exposed hands bring you potential harm, but your hands and fingers will get sore.

When it comes to harming yourself, such examples are as follows:

• Possible Used Dirty Syringe Prick (I hate to bring that up, I have never encountered a Syringe on the beach, but you just never know, and please don’t let that turn you off metal detecting!
• Possible cuts from broken glass, rusty nails, fishing hooks, rusty metal, pieces of wire, alumin cans
• Sharp shells
• Poisonous animals, such as dead jelly fish, dead poisonous fish with spikes, and even dead stingrays (poisonous barbs)
• And much more

I will admit some of the above examples would unlikely happen, but you just never know, however I have cut my fingers a few times from glass and shells, nothing major, just little nicks. But when Metal Detecting, you have to expect a few cuts, bruises and blisters every now and then.

There is another good tool besides the Sand Scoop, and that is just a simple Plastic Garden Sieve which I sometimes use. Read my story on Metal Detecting Sieves.

But buying a good sand scoop was a great investment for my metal detecting adventures and jobs. With my Sand Scoop, 90% of the first scoop will result in me finding the detected target straight away.

Some Scoops are heavy and some are light, my Sunspot Scoop is quite heavy and it takes some getting used to when carrying the scoop in one hand and in my other hand swinging my Metal Detector and I will admit carrying both can get quite tiring, but I suppose thats just one small disadvantage that comes with the hobby. So don’t let that deter you, but you really need to find a scoop that will suit your needs.

I would not recommend you go  investing in a heavy long handled scoop when it may be for a small child or a person who is not physically strong.

So my best advice is to shop around and do a bit of research.

There are some inexpensive sand scoops and sand expensive sand scoops on the market, and if you want to save yourself money and your a handy person, then just make one yourself.

Some Hand Held Beach Scoops

Krylar Steel Sand Scoop

Compact Beach Scoop (I also use this Scoop)

Galvanised Sand Scoop

Kellyco Plastic Scoop

Some Long Handled Sand and Beach Scoops

Stealth Sun Spot Scoop (I use this one)

The Beach Master 16 Inche Scoop

Long Handled Sand Scoop

Ebay Australia
Ebay England
Ebay USA

Kelly Co Detectors (USA)

Detector Depot (USA)

Stealth Gold Scoop (USA) What I use