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excal 2 with 8" coil - opinion needed

My honest opinion is an easy one. Unless you are diving the Equinox 600 is a better choice. It is lighter. It offers you dirt hunting if you choose to do it. The Excal had it's day.
 
Its really only 7 1/4". Good combo if you are in a lot of trash or iron that makes it null. Also lighter for us older guys to swing. BUT you loose a lot of coverage from the standard coil. You may gain a little sensitivity to smaller targets and you can run higher sensitivity. BUT.... if you have the standard coil and run in PP mode you are going to get the larger gold deeper. Stopped making them a couple of years back......most found the standard coil to be the better coil for overall use. That said if you are asking to purchase..... you can always put a larger coil on..... lots of coils since it uses the same as the Sov...... and there is not difference in machine just because it has the small coil.
 
I like the Excal with the 800 coil for edge work at the first drop off in the water at a salt water beach, where all the trash is hiding good targets. The simple, analog signal from the Excal is pleasing to the ear, and with practice, hunting by ear is easy compared to decoding the processed sound of a CTX or an Equinox.
 
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