Wednesday there was a nice cut at the beach and I was able to practice on a lot of targets in the wet sand. Friday the beach was sanded back in so I hunted a little on the dry sand as well. I learned quite a bit more about the machine.
In the wet sand, the first thing I noticed was that the detector was very stable. Moving from the wet sand into the water and back to the wet sand was "seamless". I was also impressed with the depth of the Excal II. It may not be as deep as my DF but I didn't notice too much of a drop off. Although I was hunting in "Pinpoint" mode, I switched to "Disc" to spot-check check some signals. As someone said, "the detector doesn't lie" and I now have enough confidence to skip over some signals.
I hunted the dry sand in "Disc" and was surprised to learn how much fun it was to get those high-tones that you know, most likely, are going to be coins. I also got a couple of mid-tones and correctly guessed that they would be nickles. The other nice thing about hunting in "Disc" was that the target signals seemed very wide. This gave me a wider search pattern and made me think that I wasn't missing too much. Even the dimes sounded huge when hunting in this mode.
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Even though I didn't find any gold at the beach this week, I was very encouraged with these results. It's nice to have a detector that will perform well in the water, wet sand or dry sand. HH!
In the wet sand, the first thing I noticed was that the detector was very stable. Moving from the wet sand into the water and back to the wet sand was "seamless". I was also impressed with the depth of the Excal II. It may not be as deep as my DF but I didn't notice too much of a drop off. Although I was hunting in "Pinpoint" mode, I switched to "Disc" to spot-check check some signals. As someone said, "the detector doesn't lie" and I now have enough confidence to skip over some signals.
I hunted the dry sand in "Disc" and was surprised to learn how much fun it was to get those high-tones that you know, most likely, are going to be coins. I also got a couple of mid-tones and correctly guessed that they would be nickles. The other nice thing about hunting in "Disc" was that the target signals seemed very wide. This gave me a wider search pattern and made me think that I wasn't missing too much. Even the dimes sounded huge when hunting in this mode.
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Even though I didn't find any gold at the beach this week, I was very encouraged with these results. It's nice to have a detector that will perform well in the water, wet sand or dry sand. HH!
