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Excalibur Fresh Water Fla Settings Issue

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mtpockets

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Hey Peps,

Yesterday I got out and Hunted this fresh water lake again in Central Florida.. I usually Hit the Dry sandy area's first before Everyone
gets to laying on the beach..
This time i took a 10k ring that I had found a couple of weeks ago with me to get used to the tones of Gold....

So I dug a small hole with my scoop maybe 6" deep and placed the ring inside the Hole ..Filled it back with sand and Stepped on the area to
Compact it some...

I then ran my coil over the hole and I barley got a signal... I tried changing my settings and still barely a tone... "Well very Faint" When I found this ring it was in the water waist deep in Saltwater... With the setting as shown in the photo.... Disc 1 sens @11:00 ....

Now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm missing out on finds!!!!

I also tried setting Threshold very low.. Barely Aud Then a touch lower for No Tone "Silent" but I was amazed that when I swung the coil next to my Scoop I didn't get any Tone at all... didn't even pick up my scoop..

Can someone in Fla offer a better h Water setting...
 
you know Bobbie... I think I did have it turned slightly on its side.. But Why such a Faint Signal... I mean at only 6"
The Signal was only "Whisper Like"
 
It has to do with the surface area on a single plane. If the ring is perpendicular to the coil, your surface area is small.......when the ring is parallel to your coil you surface area is much greater. Give it another try with the ring at different angles in the sand.
 
Got a few thoughts. First the ring is whites gold. It makes it harder to hit. You will find the same in yellow gols at twice the depth. Also is the ring fully soldered or is it just over lapping on the top? This will also cause loss in depth. Another thing that ring is small ! I do agree with Bobbie on the way the ring is angled to the coil. It make a big difference. If you have any minerals that will slow the preformance down a little. And yes there is some area in Florida that has some mineral in the ground.Also was the area clean of any other metals?. If you have iron near the test area it may take a lttle of the depth away! Last thing is a fresh buried target is like a air test. It take a small amount of time for the ground and target to get a halo effect. If the same target left in the ground will give you more depth as it sits longer and longer. I would also try your sensitive all the way up the auto but not into auto. As long as the machine is stable run it high unless there is a lot of trash.Hope this helps and good hunting,Joe
 
OK.....Now what a minute here, You just confused me.....why would putting the sens. lower be deeper? If he is stable and no falsing then it should be fine I would think????? The Excal is killing me.....I am not sure it is ever doing its job.....love hate relationship....:shrug:....I was slaying targets when I first got it.....now it seems to be a silent mute way too much....maybe it needs a fixing at the laboratory
 
I was reading Clives book last night.. and from what I gather... It seems as if in Fresh Water its better to be in All Metal Mode..

What are your thoughts on this..
 
If you set your senitivity to high in salt water you will lose target. I live in Naples FL. Everyone in this area hunts like this .I dig a lot target 12 to 18 in.at this setting.If you set it high you will get a lot of false signals.
 
When the goround had been recently mooved, it's almost as if you tryed air testing your machine. Finds that lay down for a while tends to create some sort of magnetif field around them and that's maybe why they sound better. I personally hunt with disc set at noon.
 
Mtpockets, I posted some finds today from fresh water river here in Central Fl. I ran my Excal. in Disc. ( but I still dig some times when it nulls.) Disc. set at 1, volume 3/4 and threshold silent,( you know when you think you can hear it hum, but not sure) Sensitivity I ran in auto.The small pieces of sinkers were screaming at me. I am sure if there had been any Gold ran under my coil today it would have been mine. I was in the water not on wet sand, and little to no mineralized sand in this River. Where are you hunting here in Fl. maybe we will run into each other some day. HH
 
I'm going to give it a try in Auto All Metal Mode.. and see how that goes.. I like my Disc set to 1 just because I don't want to miss out on any small thin targets.. I'm sure that played a big part in me finding that White gold ring..
 
[quote PaPa-Joe-Fla.]. Where are you hunting here in Fl. maybe we will run into each other some day. HH[/quote]

Sorry PaPa-Joe I overlooked that portion... At the Moment I'm mainly hunting in the Saint Cloud/Narcoosse area Then I head out to Melbourne Bchs- Wabbasso Bchs.. However at times I hunt the West Coast aswell Hernando Bch- Clearwater bch.. "I have family over that way"
 
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