Got My Excalibur and found trash! Suggestions Needed.

[LIDigger]

Hello All,

Very pleased to announce that I got myself a Minelab Excalibur on Friday for beach and in-water hunting. I live on Long Island and although land detecting is okay, I prefer the beach. My Minelab is the original Excalibur, the one with the horseshoe-shaped coil.

Yesterday I went out to two beaches. At the first I found $.55 cents of modern coins, (two quarters and a nickel). At the second beach I only found rusty trash. I was pleased that I was finding stuff, and thrilled that I was getting it off the beach before someone got hurt, but a bit down that I didn't find anything interesting.

I have the Mode set to discrimination, the Threshold at a low but regular/steady volume, the Sensitivity set on auto and the Disc set to 1. I am trying to learn the Excalibur's nuances and have been watching videos on YouTube from OldBeachnut to see how they react. Any suggestions here?

Does anyone know where I can get a coil cover for the older Excalibur?

And can anyone recommend a carry bag so that I can carry two detectors around with me? My second detector is a White's Prizm iV.

Thank you all in advance,

Chris Jett / LI Digger

 

[EZrider]

The best places to hunt are the ones with the most cosintrations of people. Are you simply walking a shore line or hitting public beaches? Jones beach is a good place. Also this time of year they tend to fill the public beaches with sand. It seems you have everything set right for now. It's just going to take time to learn what it's telling you. Foil, pull tabs and nickles is the range of tone your looking for.

 

[Dan in SJ]

The old horseshoe Excals are great machines. However, if you are finding "rusty trash" then you are either hunting in All Metal Pinpoint mode, or you're not in Discriminate. Pass your machine over a rusty nail - if the threshold disapears then you are OK - that's what its supposed to do, ignore rusty iron. If it beeps, however, then you need to switch to Discriminate. Maybe the switch isn't working - does it make a different threshold sound when you rotate it back and forth?

Find someone in your area that knows the beaches and learn from them. You'll soon be finding the good stuff.

Dan in SJ

 

[Micheal_R]

n/t

 

[lostinfla]

Great choice on the Excalibur. I had the original horse shoe shaped coil just like yours when they first came out. They work great!!! Well if your watching Oldbeachnuts videos he hunts in pinpoint mode. Then switches to disc to check the target. He also doesn't hunt in auto but manually sets the gain. If you watch the videos he give more details on what he is doing and how to set your detector up. He also has a amp on his head phones and a ear mounted camera. If you are hunting in a trashy area pinpoint mode will hit on a lot of undesirable targets and you will be switching to disc mode a lot. But with pratice you will soon learn from the tones what to expect.

HH
LostinFla

 

[Dig]

Spray your coil with truck bed liner

 

[OldBeechnut]

Congrad's on your new Excalibur, you have one of the best made of this series.............Sounds like your doing fine, Learning by exploring, research, and getting out and swinging................. just take your machine out of Auto on the sensitivity, and set it at 12 o'clock, use Auto only if it stars acting crazy. Best to tune into surf diggers face book page, what he gets in storms on the Jersey Shores you will get also, He always gives you a heads up on the conditions and what to look for.............
He also has some great tips, and he is a die-hard excal hunter


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http://www.youtube.com/user/surfdigger

There are many NY beaches, there are miles and miles everywhere. All types of socio economic levels based on location. Rockaway Beach, Jones Beach , Robert Moses, Fire Island, Hampton's, Montauk Point.

Plus lots of smaller local beaches on the Sound side of Long Island vs. the ocean side.

Think you will need a $40 NYS Beach Metal Detector permit, may want to check into that...


I know this time of year in OC, and LI could be the same, not much to be found unless there is a good storm or a strong windy front pass thur sturing up some summer gold. I do know Li has a lot of history, you may want to go thur and see if you can dig up some old maps of the area..these will give you a idea what Beach's were used the most and which have since gone with history. These are the Beach's that will give you the old silver & gold when the Big storms pass thur. When Spring comes hook up with one of the locals, best to get yourself a beach chair and watch these guys that hunt, you can learn alot just by watching, and talking to these guys. Watch the tides, they will be out early, and mostly a few hours before low tide. Give yourself a few weeks of watching, even video them so you can study where they hunt, there patterns, and where they are finding the good stuff. Every beach is different in how you can hunt it, these guys are Old Pro's and several have been hunting these Beach's since we were kids. By next summer you should be a Pro with the excal and how to use it...that's when the Fun starts..............recent drops....the season in Oc starts around July 4, yours will start to hit around then I'm sure, water warmer, people get crazy with the suntan lotion, watch the tides, and go dig some Gold..................Good Luck..............email sent.....Joe

 

[cjc]

Hi Chet
Listen for complete sounds--ones that start and finish at threshold. Also, listen for tones that are more or less even all the way through--this will knock out some of the alloyed targets--caps etc. Also, check your responses in all metal to get a better idea of the shape and size.
Hope this helps.
cjc [clivesgoldpage.com]

 

[LIDigger]

Thank you all so much for your advice. I just wanted to pop in here and say this before I let too much time go by. Please do not stop the advice as I read everything and love learning. It's been a hard week for me and I did not get a chance to touch my Excalibur and work on some of the advice you have passed along, but I intend to. Thank you all again so much!