best priced beach/sand/land/underwater detector

[peter-d]

who makes a good budget ($1500) salt water detector ? the unit will mostly will be used in about 1-3ft of water, but will get an occasional dunking...? other times, it will be used on the beach and Sandy loam dune country.

thanks guys n gals in advance...

 

[Mirco]

who makes a good budget ($1500) salt water detector ? the unit will mostly will be used in about 1-3ft of water, but will get an occasional dunking...? other times, it will be used on the beach and Sandy loam dune country.

thanks guys n gals in advance...

All known to me good salt water detectors are cheaper than $1 500 unfortunatelly, sorry!

 

[peter-d]

not sure i understand what you are saying micro....?

 

[Cupajo]

Hi Peter-D,

Check out the past posts and you will find the information you are seeking!!!

Gl Friend,

Cupajo

 

[Mirco]

not sure i understand what you are saying micro....?

I could recommend Dual Field, but being priced only $750 it may be considered as an offense.

 

[peter-d]

well, i was going to ask for something in the 700 price range, but i thought waterproof/salt water mods would be more expensive...? seems not..who makes 'dual field'?

 

[Mirco]

well, i was going to ask for something in the 700 price range, but i thought waterproof/salt water mods would be more expensive...? seems not..who makes 'dual field'?

Whites. Absolute hit and knock-out.

Surf PI PRO can be bought even cheaper ($600) as it is considered "discontinued" but the only argomatical difference is a bit bigger coil. Otherwise - the same machine. Well proven and excellent. Second to none.

 

[peter-d]

thanks micro...i'll look them up..

 

[Beachcomber]

if they are loaded with iron you don't' want a PI like the Dual Field or PI Pro or any other PI or you will spend your days digging iron. However if your beaches are fairly devoid of iron than a PI is the way to go. Just like anything you need the right tool for the job/location. If there is a lot of iron where you will be hunting then a multifrequency detector like the Minelab Excalibur or the Whites newest Beachunter 300 (BH300). JMHO

HH

Beachcomber

 

[Mirco]

if they are loaded with iron you don't' want a PI like the Dual Field or PI Pro or any other PI or you will spend your days digging iron. However if your beaches are fairly devoid of iron than a PI is the way to go. Just like anything you need the right tool for the job/location. If there is a lot of iron where you will be hunting then a multifrequency detector like the Minelab Excalibur or the Whites newest Beachunter 300 (BH300). JMHO

HH

Beachcomber

100% adree. Just a little side note.
Platinum and iron give exactly the same signal on any machine. To disk-out iron = risk of missing platinum.

 

[BEACH HUNTER]

n/t

 

[Mirco]

n/t

Thank you for the valuable clarification!

 

[Beachcomber]

But they were totally incorrect! Just like gold Platinum rings can read anywhere from Foil all the way up to about Zinc Penny on a TID Detector. I would agree that there maybe some really tiny Platinum rings that may read in the high iron area of a detector Discrimination range and thus be missed when using iron level rejection. But if your statement were correct there would be 6 more Platinum rings still out on the Beach this year that I would have missed. I always hunt with iron discrimination as I hunt with a Minelab Sov GT which is the land version of the Excalibur. In Disc Mode it always rejects iron and I have no problem finding Platinum rings with it.

HH

Beachcomber