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Excalibur 2 users to the rescue
- Thread starter stevew
- Start date
Discrimination all the way down. Just block iron.
Threshold just a hum. But you need to hear it change tones and listen for the deep ones breaking the threshold.
Sensitivity should be set as high as you can but retain stability.
I would stick with discrimination for a while. Some guys hunt in Pinpoint and swith to discrimination to confirm the target is not iron. It will wear out your pot switching back and forth. If you want to reverse discrimination hunt get a switch mod put on your grip.
The Excal is real easy. After you set it up the only knob you really need to mess with is the sensitivity knob. Keep the Excal hot and stable. Auto sensitivity should be used a last resort.
The stock rod is bad. The stock headphone pads are bad. And I won't even get into the coil cover debate.
If your detector starts acting goofy check for crap in your coil cover. This condition is worse on salt beaches with black sand.
If your Excal threshold changes tone find out why. Slow and steady
Threshold just a hum. But you need to hear it change tones and listen for the deep ones breaking the threshold.
Sensitivity should be set as high as you can but retain stability.
I would stick with discrimination for a while. Some guys hunt in Pinpoint and swith to discrimination to confirm the target is not iron. It will wear out your pot switching back and forth. If you want to reverse discrimination hunt get a switch mod put on your grip.
The Excal is real easy. After you set it up the only knob you really need to mess with is the sensitivity knob. Keep the Excal hot and stable. Auto sensitivity should be used a last resort.
The stock rod is bad. The stock headphone pads are bad. And I won't even get into the coil cover debate.
If your detector starts acting goofy check for crap in your coil cover. This condition is worse on salt beaches with black sand.
If your Excal threshold changes tone find out why. Slow and steady
MHirschmann
Member
I would add something here but goodmore nailed it all. There is not too much to say about the Excal. It is my favorite machine out there, yet it is simple enough to explain it all with the short post above. Well done goodmore and good luck with using it Steve!
Post your finds from lake hopefully its never been hunted. Good luck. Make sure to rinse off everytimw...remove coil cover too and disconnect shaft. Rinse. Get silicone spray too...treat once a week or more if you hunt more. My machine is 3.5 years old...in good shape. Hh an gl -Joe
dewcon4414
Well-known member
Be aware .... the Xcal uses PITCH HOLD. Its where the threshold will change to the tone of the target you just passed over and not change again until another target is hit. Nulls (iron) will give you that low iron threshold..... coins a high threshold. People first learning has a tendancey to run their coil over their scoop to get it back to a lower threshold...... after awhile you just dont notice it and targets do break the louder threholds unlike what you have been used to. Learn what a shallow bottle cap sounds like .... because you dig everything that changes a threshold except iron and that bottle cap.
Dew
Dew