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2 Hour Excal Hunt after work! All I can say is WOW!

DukeOBass

DukeOBass

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When I got home from work this evening, I decided to visit the swimming beach since it was a bit cool today and I knew the crowd wouldn't be there. I pretty much had the place to myself except for a few hardy people. I was greatly rewarded as you will see....

[size=large]The Total Hunt (minus the nail clippers)[/size]
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[size=large]The Rings![/size]
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[size=large].925 Silver![/size]
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[size=large]14K Gold with ICE![/size]
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[size=x-large]I Love this Machine!EXCAL ALL THE WAY![/size]
 
The one without "PEACE" on it is Silver. It was black when I got it.
 
See what I mean? It's a bad mofo, no?

How you liking that LOW gold tone? :)

You are READY for VB my friend. :thumbup:
 
I'm not quite sure I'm hearing a low gold tone. I'm using the settings you told me to. I'll have to have you slip the headphones on see what you think.

Also, when I was in the shallow water, it kept sounding off and I'd go back to hear nothing. I'm wondering if there are little, light flecks of something that get brushed when the water between the coil and the sand gets moved. I do find foil buried in the deeper water.

Do you notice when you pick your coil up out of the water or when it first goes in that it sounds off for a while?
 
It's normal for it to act up in the water a little due to the action of the current, waves, etc. It requires a little less sensitivity usually to get it to settle down. Also, if you're using a coil cover in the water that will cause problems for sure. In the wet sand too, as a matter of fact. The Excal does not like salty sand and water trapped in the coil cover AT ALL. So you can either run it with no coil cover or do like I did and use some black RTV and seal it on there. If you do that however, you need to do it REAL well. If you don't, it will get in there anyway and then you won't be able to get it out. I was doing some in-water hunting last summer and having a lot of problems and when I took off the coil cover it was like night and day...whole different machine. And when I sealed it up it was the same way.
 
...that there should be a HUGE difference in the tones between, say, that 14K w/ice ring and that 925 ring. The gold ring (and being that thin) should be WAY lower in tone. It gets to the point where you KNOW the gold tone when you hear it.

In your other post to me you said you "weren't sure if you were hearing the low gold tone". Maybe you should run them over the coil again, because the difference should be pronounced. If not I would suspect one of two things.

1) You're tone deaf

2) You have the Excal in "Pinpoint" mode and not "Disc" mode. Maybe it's not fully clicked into "Disc"? Because in Pinpoint mode everything sounds the same. In Disc mode you have variable tones. You DO hear differences in the tones from target to target, right? If not, check that setting. You wouldn't be the first one to do that. Anyway, thought I should mention it. The variable tone system on the Excal is what makes it so great.
 
n/t
 
Actually, a few people had told me they've see other people out there in the past. Maybe they gave it up and I am now the only detectorist. That would be OK!
 
Hi Mike,

I just took a couple gold and a couple silver ring outside and ran the coil past them. Gold was a low honk and Silver was a shrill high pitch. I got it! I'm hoping to hear a lot of Low Honking over the next couple of week!
 
See, the thing about that is, especially when you're working the surf...it let's you know up front just HOW HARD you want to work for a target. For example, with experience you will KNOW the sound of a penny. And you'll probably dig it anyway. But if you're fighting incoming surf and the hole is getting deeper and deeper and it's tough, you'll let it go. If it's a low gold "growl" you will fight to the death to get it. :) Likewise, with experience you will KNOW a bottlecap, a nickel, and most times foil. Though on the foil sounds, could be a fine ladies ring or a chain so it's best to dig that. Things I let go usually are when I'm like 99% sure it's a penny or a bottlecap. Most everything else, I dig.
 
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