Comparison: Excal 1000, Tiger Shark, Whites BH, Detector Pro Wader, or old CZ20

[Visceral]

Mostly for fresh water hunting, but will be used in saltwater vacation trips. Wont be diving, mostly wading in waist high water. I don't want a PI unit because I want descrimination. I think in terms of preference I think most people like the
Excal + CZ20 then
TigerShark + BH-ID then
DetectorPro Wader last I think because of depth issues

Any thoughts?

 

[Bobbie]

n/t

 

[TXPIRATE]

Well I just bought a HEADHUNTER Diver for the fact you can go deeper in water than the wader if you want to. had a CZ20 3 years ago liked it a lot but then I tore some ligments n my shoulder so that was a big reason for picking the diver. If you are going to buy one buy new for the warrenty Gary is a great guy so is Mr bill. I wish I could afford the exca. but I LIKE THE DIVER A LOT MAINLY JUST played around so far got it in Jan 07 and my work has been crazy along with the weather. There all good machine the Whites coil is not weighted so that will work you some.Good luck. Also the Diver/wader is a great land hunter also. Don't let the fact there is not many post for the Detector pro line worry you there is a lot of people that have them

 

[Dennis(WI)]

Hey Visceral I got both the Excal & a backup Tiger Shark. Both are good machines. The excal has a few minor faults.
The excal is fairly heavy & out of balance. The florida straight shaft solves the balance problem. The knob centers easily fall off the excal so going to radio shack solves that problem. The headset on the excal comes apart easily and is a nuisance(a better headset is available through Minelab). The excal eats batteries pretty quick & charge time is long. Going to alkaline battery pack solves the long charge time. For all the little faults I haven't used the Shark much as I think the excal is still the best for water. The shark does have a very long battery life(it seems at least 30 hr) but ya gotta take it apart to change the batteries and some of the controls are adjusted from inside which is kind of a pain(lubing the gasket seal and getting it back together straight). Have never had either one in salt water. I have run into a couple of guys that have the detector pro diver and the cz20 and they seemed happy with them. It's really what you get used to. Happy Hunting.

 

[Visceral]

Ok, so far Excal leads the way, with TigerShark 2nd. Any other insights are greatly appreciated.

 

[Visceral]

Anyone ever heard of the Garrett Infinium, Pi w/discrimination?

http://www.garrett.com/hobby/products/infiniumls.htm

 

[BEACH HUNTER]

you have visual and tone id...chest mount it let the box float in front of your face you can see id lights easy! flip switch in to all metal and use the lights to id your target...its not like other detectors in all metal you can id iron!!!it will find small gold and chains!!!! I have used one for years got tons of loot with mine..I hunt just out to neck deep!!

 

[Visceral]

Ok, narrowed it down to the Excalibur 1000 and Tesoro TigerShark. I hear the Excal has great iron discrimation and the tigershark is sensitive to small gold. Any other variables someone can mention. Thanks Dennis(WI) for your input, you were very helpful.

 

[Gulf Hunter]

Brilliant deduction in my opinion. If your gunna fresh water hunt prdominantly then the Tiger Shark, but Excal better choice for salt water.

 

[Visceral]

Cross chatting in forums. Might be helpful for others.

Link below will take you directly to my post

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,71662.msg531398.html#msg531398