excal II in parks

[djbutch]

Hello just wondering if anyone here has any thoughts on using the excal II in a park rather then the beach and water and if so any info will definitely appreciated

 

[dewcon4414]

Its awfully slow to recover so you would have to be using the 8" coil. Park hunting is selective hunting..... better suited to a TID machine where you can disc with better accuracy than with a tone machine. You really have to know this machines tones.... not like on the beach where you are more concerned about just eliminating iron. Every time it nulls you are going into coil shut down.... meaning the foot print swrinks like a sponge and you loose depth..... or near targets. If its what you have then use it..... but there are far cheaper machines better designed for park hunting. Its also pretty fragile and because of its balance (even on a straight shaft) it gets heavy fast out of the water. To me it would be like using a PI on a trashy beach.... you'd be digging all sorts of trash. Dirt digging and beach hunting is just a different mind set as well. On a beach you have to get away from the desire to disc a lot of targets..... dirt digging often there are so many targets its to your advantage to be able to trust a TID screen and eliminate much of the junk. Hey..... but its a detector....it does what it does beach or dirt.

Dew

 

[djbutch]

Thank for the impute sounds like a lot of digging for a lot of nothing oh just thought i would ask.

 

[Rick(ND)]

Dew is correct that it is heavier and without being able to use a meter to go along with the tones you will be doing much more digging of trash or miss SO many good targets. If you could find a used Sovereign XS or XS2 reasonable would be the way I would go with a good 180 meter like Ron's makes it will be a great detector for old parks and feel you will see who the Sovereign makes many worked to death parks come alive again with those older and deeper coin and those that are close to trash more. The Excalibur will work, but for land hunting the Sovereigns work so much better and easier to swing so you can detect longer and digging better finds and less trash.

Rick

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I use the Sovereign Gt in the parks. Last winter is was detecting a local park and 95+ percent of what I was finding was 4 or more inches deep. I was puzzled as to why I was finding very few shallow coins. About my second or third trip to the park a gentleman that I had see there on my previous trips approached me and said "I am surprised at the number of coins you are finding as a guy was here a couple of months ago and dug all kinds of coins" . That is when the light came on and I knew that I was using a detector that could detect coins at a much greater depth than what the guy had been using. The Sovereign is a great machine on the beach also but do not get the control box wet as it will be ruined.