:garrett: Sea Hunter Mark II

[Mat in MA]

[size=medium]Hi All,

I just bought a new Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II water detector this morning. I'm just looking to see how many users of this unit there are out there and if you have any tips on using this detector both in fresh and salt water environments.

Thanks for your help. Happy Hunting!!!

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[John-Edmonton]

Hi Mat! I had the Mark II last year and bought an Infinium this year. Both detectors go very deep. If you get to hunt a freshwater or saltwater body of water that's been hunted out with single frequency machines, you will hear all sorts of new signals. In fact it will sound like a never hunted before body of water. I would suggest you hunt in the water beginning at waste deep, or the sand in areas that have been hunted real hard. because PI's are so sensitive and love iron, you will get all sorts of signals. Best if you hunt places with known less targets. Both the above Garrett machines give some hints as to what is under the coil. Bobby pins usually give a double bleep. Large targets maintain a longer audio duration signal. The Infinium has an iron check, which works pretty good. it also has top be ground balanced. The mark II does not, and is simpler to use. You probably will dig all smooth single sounding signals, and will dig a lot of them too. but you will also get the deeper gold that other machines couldn't get. Both PI's are far from being a do all metal detector, yet are a real asset in areas with a minimal amount of junk, and known deep targets such as coins and jewelry.

I found lots of coins with my Mark II. Below are my finds from using my Infiniim earlier this year at a heavily mineralized salt water beach.

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[Leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose.....not a bad machine but do find it tends to chatter a lot. Run mine on no discrimination and haven't tried the "fancy" modes. Good swishing!

 

[justsittingonarock]

Hi Mat,

I've had my SeaHunter for almost two years and I love it. I live in Hawaii and the machine does a great job here. I've found 38 gold rings, 61 silver rings and 4 platinum rings in 2006 and I will pass those #s this year.
it is a very reliable machine and it is built like a tank(i know because I fell on the contols ontop of rocks. unfortunatly I'm not build like a tank because I got really hert and the seahunter just got a little scratch). It does pick up the wave action on the beaches but I got use to it. I just stop swnging when the wave passes over the coil which is about a 1 second pause and then start swinging again once the machine self balances.
The seaHunter has a discriminate mode that I spent many hours doodling around with and I came to the conclusion that it is usless. I watched the video that came with it and I never could get it to discriminate pull tabs without discriminating the gold rings.
I hope that you will enjoy your new Seahuntwr and HH Mat.

 

[DavHut]

Nothing will ever discriminate pulltabs while keeping gold. They are the same conductivity - get rid of one, you get rid of the other.