:help:Feed back needed on tiger shark vs.sand shark

[C.J.M.]

Any feedback sand shark vs. tiger shark need to make a choiceKeep hearing sand shark is more stable in salt water than the tiger shark and better on wet sand?Would appreciate any kind of feed back.cjm

 

[tvr]

Same topic fairly recently covered in this thread:
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?17,2259777

 

[Bleaver]

It is really difficult to compare these two detectors.
The TigerShark is a VLF machine. It is has discrimination and can double as a land machine and is a very good fresh water detector. At a salt water beach it would be good is dry sand, and have poor performance and really struggle with with wet sand and in the water.

The SandShark is a Pulse machine. It has no discrimination and while a rare detectorist may use it on land that is not the norm. I use it as a dedicated salt water machine in dry sand, wet sand, and in the water.

I personally use the TigerShark as a dedicated salt water machine, and the Fisher CZ-20 or CZ-21 for both fresh and salt water.

 

[Oldguy]

I use the Tiger Shark mostly in fresh water and only occasionally in salt water. It will ground balance in wet salt using the salt setting, but it looses about 20% of its effectiveness in that setting. It's still a decent salt water hunter though. Discrimination is over rated in water as iron targets quickly rust and read high. I still like the Tiger Shark in fresh water though, as it will hit on smaller targets like gold chains that pi machines ignore. If you want a dedicated salt water machine consider a pi machine, if you hunt in fresh water the Tiger Shark won't let you down.

 

[Furious T]

My own experiences with the Tiger Shark at salt water beaches were very good. I have not owned one for some years now, but I found that using the 10" coil I got very good depth in the wet sand and in the surf. However ( and in my view there is always a "however" when talking about vlf machines and saltwater beaches), not all saltwater beaches are kind to vlf machines. Some people say that their machine works well in black sand: the problem with generalising in these types of assessments is that there are different types of black sand. If the beaches you are going to detect have magnetic black sand, then the sand, combined with the salt water will make things very difficult for you and your detector if it is a vlf. A PI machine may have to be adjusted very carefully to cope with the conditions of some salt water beaches if you want even reasonable depth, so a vlf machine has little or no hope of coping in these places.

I would suggest that as well as researching prospective detectors, you also research the beaches you are most likely to hunt, even if some of them are 100 or 200 miles away.

I have not owned or operated a Sand Shark. HH