Excalibur shallow water setting Advise

[braich77]

HI all

I need a professional advise please on a best Excalibur 1000 setting (older model with a yellow headphone) for a underwater shallow ocean water up to 5 feet. my settings are inpoint, theohold is to silence, volume up, sensitivity is 1 clock.
with this setting i am finding targets but mostly not too deep, oi know i can get deeper with this great machine

Any help?? thank you in advance

 

[Barry NY]

if you are in Pinpoint mode you need more threshold sound or you won't hear anything but the loudest (shallow) targets.
I believe that the volume control is for target sound when in Disc.
if you hunt in Disc you can keep threshold silent and get signals when you hit a target...

 

[kered]

As barryny says you need to hear a faint threshold in pinpoint(all metal) as targets only alter the sound of threshold by a rise in volume, the deeper ones very slightly, also to tell how the machine is coping sensitivity wise, if its wavering its too much, it needs to be stable.

 

[smkunder]

I too am new to the Excalibur, I have great difficulty using the all metal mode, seems I always switch back to discriminate mode. Is there something I am missing, I have read a lot that says all metal is the way to go, but I hear so much in that mode I can not tell what is diggable and what is not. Maybe an answer to this will help us both, not trying to hi jack thread, just also trying to find the right settings.

Steve

 

[Barry NY]

the question is where are you hunting and what do you mean by "always switch back"?
forget using pinpoint in dry sand.
in wet sand or water - we all always switch back to Disc to make the decision to dig or not..that's why we use an excal vs. a White's DF...
if you are getting way too many signals in the wet sand and in the water and are literally switching back and forth every step or two, then you have an area with either too much trash or way too many goodies (and then you wouldn't be complaining).
i hit a hot zone the other day and every 2-3 feet i had a signal that proved to be a keeper with very little trash - under those conditions i decided to keep it in Disc and not bother to switch back and forth. when i believed that I had totally completed searching that area in Disc after recovering the 40+ coins and two 925 rings, I moved on further down the beach. when i came back to that same area on my way out, i switched to pinpoint and did a quick (but thorough) grid to see if i had missed anything earlier while in Disc. picked up 20+ more coins and an additional 925 ring on the way out.
hope this clarifies for you.
Barry

 

[blaughn]

Take a look at this video and the other 2 he has placed on You Tube. The may be helpful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lm7eU5VzJE

 

[smkunder]

I was in an area that was pretty full of trash and modern coins, it just seemed easier to use discriminate as the all metal was way too noisy. I guess my question goes along with the original poster, what are optimum settings in fresh water beach with soft sand to gravel bottom. I have read both of Clive's, books and it seems that he really uses the all metal mode as the preferred choice, I just have trouble with that at this point in my training, but I am trying to learn it. Thanks for the info.

Steve

 

[Barry NY]

Hi Steve - i only hunt salt water beach but i don't think the pinpoint vs Disc matters based on salinity - that would be more of a Sens issue..there are much more experienced hunters here to confirm my understanding of it....
As you said there was lots of trash and coins - Disc would have been the way to go - unless you wanted to rid the area of the trash along the way.

You really need to listen in trashy areas for multiple signals that are very close to eachother while checking a target in Disc. Sometimes a neat reward awaits after eliminating a trash item that's very close by...
You need to hit the target with a wiggle from different angels and try to see if there is a medium or high tone mixed in but not giving you a good repeat in both directions - that's because the trash null is eliminating the repeat signal from the good target - try it - you'll be amazed what the other guys walk by because they were working too fast and just heard the null...