Hi everyone,
1st post here. I spent a lot of time on this forum researching which hybrid detector to purchase. I settled on the excalibur 2 1000 due to its versatility and the general consensus that it is the premier land/sea machine. I am moving to FL in October and look forward to hitting the coast( I currently live in Michigan). I spent the past 4 days getting acquainted with the excal 2. I visited the local swimming hole with its 300ft. beach, a park with a volleyball court, and my grandparents back yard with hopes of finding some misplaced jewelry. After 4 days running the machine I have found 3 buffalo nickles, 6 wheat pennies, 2 jefferson nickels, 2 Roosevelt dimes, modern Lincoln's, some Canadian pennies, 9mm spent shell casing and a bucket full of miscellaneous non-ferrous trash. The park has produced over 20 old pull tabs thus far and very few coins.
I would like any advice you can give me on fine tuning the excal 2 in my quest for finding jewelry. I have been hunting with the discrimination set at 1-3, sens. in auto, volume at max. and threshold loud enough to hear the high or low discrimination feedback. The depth at which the excal will pick up even the smallest non ferrous really surprised me at first. I ran an air test to see at what level of discrimination would eliminate pull tabs and large aluminum out of the equation but they sing out every time. It is just too hard for me to walk away from a high pitched signal like that, even though I am getting pretty good at predicting (based on pitch of return) when it is a pull tab or aluminum.
Is it really a quantity=quality game when dealing with non-ferrous returns? I must dig them or risk missing that gold or silver ring...right?
Thanks for your time & happy hunting.
Ryan
1st post here. I spent a lot of time on this forum researching which hybrid detector to purchase. I settled on the excalibur 2 1000 due to its versatility and the general consensus that it is the premier land/sea machine. I am moving to FL in October and look forward to hitting the coast( I currently live in Michigan). I spent the past 4 days getting acquainted with the excal 2. I visited the local swimming hole with its 300ft. beach, a park with a volleyball court, and my grandparents back yard with hopes of finding some misplaced jewelry. After 4 days running the machine I have found 3 buffalo nickles, 6 wheat pennies, 2 jefferson nickels, 2 Roosevelt dimes, modern Lincoln's, some Canadian pennies, 9mm spent shell casing and a bucket full of miscellaneous non-ferrous trash. The park has produced over 20 old pull tabs thus far and very few coins.
I would like any advice you can give me on fine tuning the excal 2 in my quest for finding jewelry. I have been hunting with the discrimination set at 1-3, sens. in auto, volume at max. and threshold loud enough to hear the high or low discrimination feedback. The depth at which the excal will pick up even the smallest non ferrous really surprised me at first. I ran an air test to see at what level of discrimination would eliminate pull tabs and large aluminum out of the equation but they sing out every time. It is just too hard for me to walk away from a high pitched signal like that, even though I am getting pretty good at predicting (based on pitch of return) when it is a pull tab or aluminum.
Is it really a quantity=quality game when dealing with non-ferrous returns? I must dig them or risk missing that gold or silver ring...right?
Thanks for your time & happy hunting.
Ryan
