Help treasure hunters, need to make decision

[newtohunting]

I own a Garret Sea Hunter Mark II water detector. Was thinking about buying a Minelab Excalibur. Has anybody out there owned a Garret Sea Hunter and would recommend an Excalibur and why? Or does anybody out there have any preference between them and why. Anybody's help and suggestions and reasons would greatly greatly be appreciated. Is the depth better on one not the other


Thanks,


Gary

 

[alsway]

Hi Gary,I have had both and did use them in 4ft. of water.I can say this for the sea hunter.It is a little slower on the swing,covers less area,it is lot lighter,dicrimimation was keep to just miss nails.never did i jack it up. IT got lots of gold for me.I used it in Fla. and ma.DEPT wise the sea hunter will go deeper,and pin point a little harder.The sea hunter will do what the excalibur will do,only some what slower.they are both great,machine.these fact were in water andwet sand,Any Ques ask me will try to ansew. AL.

 

[Gulf Hunter]

If you can afford both, go that way. There are many times where a PI is good to have around. You can hear deep whispers, that are more difficult to discern with the Excal, unless of course you run in pinpoint, which is the same as running a PI. The Excal rules in trashy, iron infested areas, where you can switch over to disc to check for ferrous null and keep hunting. Or if the area is extemely trashy you can hunt in the disc mode and do quite well also. I would not recommend running the Excal exclusively in disc though. I don't trust that you are getting it all. I would not recommend having the Excal only. You need a PI, but I'm sure others would agree/disagree, but this is America. We are all entitled to our own opinion. If you could only have 1 water detector, buy the Excal as it is the most versatile overall. GH

 

[newtohunting]

Thanks for the message and the great info. So the Excal will not go as deep as the Garret?

 

[bdahunter]

A mate of mine recently bought an Infinium and we ran a hunt together on my beach which has been stripped out using an Excalibur 1000. I could search that beach all day and find almost no targets with my Excalibur, so it made a perfect testing ground to see if the Garrett Infinium had extra punch to get down to greater depths and find the targets the Excalibur supposedly couldn't reach.
The result of our 3 hour test. The Excalibur picked up an equal amount of targets compared to the Infinium and there was no appreciable difference in depth penetration that we could measure between the two machines. The Excalibur did dig a little less trash though due to the nulling effect of a BBS machine.
There is virtually no mineralization here in Bermuda so I get maximum penetration with the Excal which minimizes any advantage that a PI machine would normally have over BBS. There is no black sand here and no hot rocks to block depth, the conditions and therefore the results of a similar test in your hunting area could vary.
I will say that the fit and finish on the Infinium was very good compared to my Excalibur. However, I found pinpointing and interpreting the tones of the Infinium difficult and confusing compared to my Excalibur, though it could be that I am just used to my Excal.
In a trashy area I believe the Excalibur would outshine the Infinium as it would drive me crazy with all of the trash feedback in my headphones. If I had to work an area with high mineralization or black sand I would go with the Infinium (also any place with radio transmission or high voltage towers).

Cheers,

BDA

 

[newtohunting]

Great feedback BDA, thanks



Gary