The beach sand is not acting in a manner that would help my searches, so I have been hunting the dry sand areas with my Garret Ace 250.
The 250 is the perfect machine for my type of detecting. It is able to discriminate out iron and lets me know if a target is trash or treasure (most of the time). It is very good for searching the first 6 inches of sand, and quite good on deeper targets. As most of my targets are recent drops they are in that first 6 inches.
I have also been hitting the wet sand at lower tides but targets are few and far between.
This one is my favorite...15.8g 14k nugget ring found in the dry sand with the 250.