I use an Ace 250 for land hunting, but I have an Excalibur 800 for lake hunting. I was wondering had anyone compared the Excalibur and the AT Pro & if so what your results were? I'm considering getting rid of the Excalibur, even though I like it, & try something with number identification. I'm thinking that I might dig less trash. Please help if you have experience with both machines. As always, thanks a lot! HH!!
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Excalibur Vs. AT Pro
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Wow, tough call. I water and land hunt with the AT-Pro and want an Excal for salt water hunting. The AT is OK but in the salt the Excal is better. But it's what I have so I use it!
In fresh water though that's a tougher call. You can dive with the Excal but if you don't dive that might tip the scales for me. If you do get an AT-Pro though you might find you like it for land work better than your 250. It's a really great machine and a hot seller these days.
I have found I like the 5x8 DD coil better in the water. Smaller footprint but much easier for me to swing. Also seems a little quieter in salt water. It also will struggle in large amounts of black sand but if it's light to moderate no problem. The Pro Audio and Iron Audio features are nice features to have on a trashy area. It can mean digging fewer bottle caps and iron trash. Still get busted by some aluminum but the combination of audio, VID and experience can mean less trash digging. Just watch out, sometimes those scratchy, iffy signals are still good targets.....
In fresh water though that's a tougher call. You can dive with the Excal but if you don't dive that might tip the scales for me. If you do get an AT-Pro though you might find you like it for land work better than your 250. It's a really great machine and a hot seller these days.
I have found I like the 5x8 DD coil better in the water. Smaller footprint but much easier for me to swing. Also seems a little quieter in salt water. It also will struggle in large amounts of black sand but if it's light to moderate no problem. The Pro Audio and Iron Audio features are nice features to have on a trashy area. It can mean digging fewer bottle caps and iron trash. Still get busted by some aluminum but the combination of audio, VID and experience can mean less trash digging. Just watch out, sometimes those scratchy, iffy signals are still good targets.....
BigCatDaddy
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I have both and they both have their place in my arsenal. One can never have too many detectors!! Get a ATP, keep the Excal. I never go on a hunt, water or land, with less than 3 machines.
I have 3 AT-Pro's and love them. I hunt freshwater beaches and lakes. In the dry sand the AT-Pro is a killer machine. In the water is another story. The Excal 2 has alot more depth. I never run an Excal myself but have compared targets in the water with my AT-Pro and plenty of targets my AT-Pro did not even see. I think you will love an AT-Pro, but I would not sell the Excal for one. Right now I'm in the opposite dilemma...I have the AT already and trying to decide between the Excal 2 and CTX-3030. I will NOT be replacing the AT's...just adding to the variety of machines.
I have an AT Gold and an older Excall 1000. I have used both in the water at one particular beach that I hunt. I'm really impressed with the AT Gold so far and it has done quite well at this beach. I would say I really hanen't dug tons of trash and the disc is quite good. Still getting used to the tones that is the rejected targets but all in all if it sounds good and you dig it it will be a good target. I was really looking for a machine to ID bottle caps and iron trash and the ATG can do this quite well. I still dig a few borderline targets every hunt just to confirm what the machine is telling me.
One of my reasons for trying the ATG is in heavy iron trash the Excall nulls out as it is supposed to do but I was worried that I might be missing some targets in these more iron littered areas. The ATG has good seperation and can sniff out the gold in these areas. Two hunts ago I found a 14K earing that weighs 1 gm (see pic). It ID's at about 40 on the ATG I'm not sure how I even dug it as I almost passed it up but it was one of those borderline cases.
I will be keeping both machines and use the one best suited for the location I'm at. The ATG is optimized for gold and is hot on gold items!
One of my reasons for trying the ATG is in heavy iron trash the Excall nulls out as it is supposed to do but I was worried that I might be missing some targets in these more iron littered areas. The ATG has good seperation and can sniff out the gold in these areas. Two hunts ago I found a 14K earing that weighs 1 gm (see pic). It ID's at about 40 on the ATG I'm not sure how I even dug it as I almost passed it up but it was one of those borderline cases.
I will be keeping both machines and use the one best suited for the location I'm at. The ATG is optimized for gold and is hot on gold items!
Captain PopTop
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I have an excal 800 on the way to me should get it saturday, but I did not sell my AT pro to buy it, I really love my AT pro before I bought my AT Pro I had used only PI's. Once I started using the pro I no longer carried a bag on my hip for the trash. I dont want to put down PI's cause the ones I had were great. B.cat daddy is right keep it for your aresanal I know I am
TheDualFieldBandit
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Both have there place. If you decide to sell Excal 800 PM me!
Black Davy
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Metal,
My bro has an excal and likes it, but since purchase of the AT Gold he has been cleaning up in a swimming beach that he has used his excal in for years. Some of his comments are the excal nulls out when it hits discriminated iron, with that good stuff is lurking near and missed, the iron audio and fast recovery of the AT has him on one of his longest jewelry streaks at this hole. He will not knock his excal he likes it, but the AT has some advantages that he likes and that would go the same with the excal over the AT.
Davy
My bro has an excal and likes it, but since purchase of the AT Gold he has been cleaning up in a swimming beach that he has used his excal in for years. Some of his comments are the excal nulls out when it hits discriminated iron, with that good stuff is lurking near and missed, the iron audio and fast recovery of the AT has him on one of his longest jewelry streaks at this hole. He will not knock his excal he likes it, but the AT has some advantages that he likes and that would go the same with the excal over the AT.
Davy