Hunting with two detectors

[h.m.scoop]

I have an Excalibur II and a Sea Hunter Mark II and for the past 6 months I have been carrying both while hunting, one swinging and the other strapped to my back with a camalbak with straps.

I can switch units in the middle of my hunt without having to go back to the car to switch units due to hunting conditions, a unit malfunction, and I don't feel comfortable leaving a unit in the car and risking someone breaking into my vehicle and stealing it, which happened to a friend of mines. There has been many situations that has made it convenient to carry two units. I might be hunting a new beach and start off using the excalibur and find that the beach is pretty clean so I will switch to the sea hunter for the extra depth and sensitivity for better odds of finding deep rings and gold chains, or I may start off with the sea hunter and find that there is a lot of trash and switch to the excalibur. There has even been incidences were I was hunting with my partner and he had a malfunction in his unit or his batteries died so he would just unstrap my back up unit and strap his in its place. It doesn't get in the way of hunting at all with a unit strapped to my back and it gives me a peace of mind knowing that what ever the conditions are i can switch units within 2 minutes. The only negative thing about carrying two units, or that much gear is that it draws attention from beach goers even from the other hunters...

I would love to hear if anyone else carries two units while hunting or have thought about it?

 

[Terry Soloman]

I think you are completely out of your mind. You go boy! - Terry

 

[Deep Digger]

I have a hard time sometimes with just one detector!
I'd really like to see you swing them both at the same time,,,, imagine the
looks you'd get then.
Might be a great way to double your finds, might have to finnagle both sets of headphones onto the
head, but that would be cool to make it happen.
Seriously though, if it works for you then have at- it and who cares about what others think.
Deep Digger

 

[OldBeechnut]

At one time I considered that, 2 detectors..a PI and the excal, but now I see a new type of hunting strategy coming with so many new hunters, and the seasoned pros's the Beach's are going to be hopping with detectors...So the new hunting strategy is ..."Coverage", "locating targets", "discriminating them", and "target recovery time"..(which can be time consuming).......hence a Excalibur, Doc's treasure amp, PP'Almetal mode, remote discrimination switch, Light weight scoop, and Maybe? brake the back WOT.......





As close as I can get too having two detectors at a time, I Use almetal/PP on the Excalibur with a Doc's treasure amp and the Excalibur will hit deeper then the Sea hunter on the larger Rings. coins..by a few inch's.but the smaller ring will go to the Sea hunter for sure...the small gold chains are nice but most of the time don't weight enough to be worth much? Well it use to be like that, but now that gold has climbed. I did a line up of all of my detectors.......Garret Infinium was the deepest 10x14 mono but the Excalibur with the Amp was as deep on a larger gold ring, but the Sea Hunter nailed the small gold ring by a few inch's on all...now this is in the wet sand, and OC..it maybe different other locations ..but the treasure amp, and hot settings are a dual combo...combined with the discriminate of the Excalibur.....

Old post of mine
Just got back from Oc, took the gang down to see how each would compare to each other, strengths, weaknesses...............this is what I got

Size 13 Mans 14k, 7.5 grams ............16 inch's........none.......................14 inchs.... Garrett Infinium PI, Amped excal..........rest came in between 10 & 12 inch's
Size 6 1.5 gram 10k women's ring......14 inch's....... none.........................6 inch's......Garrett Sea Hunter PI, rest of the pack started hitting at 4 inch's

So the Ls has the depth on the larger rings (10x14), the SeaHunter does better on the smaller ladies ring, small (8 inch) coil hit mans ring at 10 inchs

 

[Crenman]

If i were to carry 2 i would carry one broke down in a backpack along with my camel back.
To much attention is not good.

OBN is right about all the competition. Its coming down to fine tuning our skills now.

At one time I considered that, 2 detectors..a PI and the excal, but now I see a new type of hunting strategy coming with so many new hunters, and the seasoned pros's the Beach's are going to be hopping with detectors...So the new hunting strategy is ..."Coverage", "locating targets", "discriminating them", and "target recovery time"..(which can be time consuming).......hence a Excalibur, Doc's treasure amp, PP'Almetal mode, remote discrimination switch, Light weight scoop, and Maybe? brake the back WOT.......


I have a rigirous schedule for hunting my areas and with all the competition it has all come down to who can find the good targets,waist the least amount of time & cover the most ground. I think a back up detector is a great idea and as soon as i find a few more rings i am buying a used excall to do OBNs mods on.

 

[JMW]

I'd be interested in seeing your setup, maybe a picture or two. Doubt I ever would, I get enough strange looks, but I've toyed with the same idea. There's been times where I started out using my PI only to realize the beach was too trashy and had to walk back to the car to switch to the CZ. Of course, probably wouldn't work in the rough surf but then again it's usually clean enough for the PI there.

 

[f75usr]

Yes, a picture would be good.

 

[John(Tx)]

but leave one in my truck. Like you, it depends on the site on which machine I will use. The area of the beach I have been working is only about 50-60 yards long where the sand has been eroded so keeping an eye on my truck is no problem. HH

 

[seeker41]

i like the idea

 

[jyt2017]

No, I don't but it has crossed my mind lmao. HH -Joe

I have an Excalibur II and a Sea Hunter Mark II and for the past 6 months I have been carrying both while hunting, one swinging and the other strapped to my back with a camalbak with straps.

I can switch units in the middle of my hunt without having to go back to the car to switch units due to hunting conditions, a unit malfunction, and I don't feel comfortable leaving a unit in the car and risking someone breaking into my vehicle and stealing it, which happened to a friend of mines. There has been many situations that has made it convenient to carry two units. I might be hunting a new beach and start off using the excalibur and find that the beach is pretty clean so I will switch to the sea hunter for the extra depth and sensitivity for better odds of finding deep rings and gold chains, or I may start off with the sea hunter and find that there is a lot of trash and switch to the excalibur. There has even been incidences were I was hunting with my partner and he had a malfunction in his unit or his batteries died so he would just unstrap my back up unit and strap his in its place. It doesn't get in the way of hunting at all with a unit strapped to my back and it gives me a peace of mind knowing that what ever the conditions are i can switch units within 2 minutes. The only negative thing about carrying two units, or that much gear is that it draws attention from beach goers even from the other hunters...

I would love to hear if anyone else carries two units while hunting or have thought about it?

 

[h.m.scoop]

I have straps on both sides of my camelbak so that I can strap both unitsi on my back to free up my hands to carry something else like a cooler, or other gear.

 

[psyvad]

That's a nice setup.

How much more depth do you get with the Sea Hunter over the Excal?

Bart

 

[h.m.scoop]

I have done a lot of comparisons between pinpoint and discriminate and found that in most beaches that I hunt, discriminate is more stable so I am able to hear deeper targets in discriminate with the excalibur with the 10" coil and I'm sure that there will be a few of the excalibur users on this forum will disagree with me on that. The sea hunter with the 8" coil goes a couple inches deeper because it is real stable with the right setting so it is ease to notice the whispers or a drop in the threshold. My hunter partner uses an infinium and he loves his unit but notices that the sea hunter goes a little deeper than the infinium.

 

[OldBeechnut]

Nice looking setup Herb, I would disagree with you on the AM/PP being less stable, but anything is possible I have found at different locations..I just may have to take a trip there to test it out... Honolulu Hawaii...Wow... Great place to live and hunt...

How much more depth do you get with the Sea Hunter over the Excal?

If you notice the picture of the detectors their is a Bone stock Excalibur II ..the Sea Hunter was 3-4 inchs deeper in discriminate, and 2 inch's deeper in AM/PP...(ON this Beach here, wetsand) Over the years, the excaliburs have been detuned for stability, My opinion owning 3 generations of excaliburs.