I took the Infinium to one of the salt water beaches I hunt here in NJ for it's maiden voyage. Had the 10x14 mono coil on it and ran it most of the time in 0 discrimination...low tide.
It ran very well in the wet sand, but I did have to raise the discrim up to about 1.5 when I was actually in the water. The surf was pretty high with pretty big waves ( I guess due to Igor ) breaking far out and the white water rushing in made the unit a tad noisy.
I will say this....EVERY target I could tell was a target, even over the faint, noise that occurred every so often. I did not dig one false target. Every thing the unit sounded off, there was metal dug. I learned pretty fast to just slow the sweep down when the unit may be possibly falsing a bit and slowly sweep it over the spot where the unit sounded off. If it then went back to the smooth threshold sound without any hi/lo or lo/hi, I knew it was a false. Every time time the unit continued to make a repeatable sound ( either hi/lo or lo/hi) as I slowing swept from multiple angles, I dug and it was a metal object. It is VERY easy to distinguish false signals from real ones. Even some of the falses sounded 'hollow' and you could tell it wasn't a target, but I still swept slow and at different angles to be sure.
Dug LOTS of iron at first since I was learning the sounds and digging everything. After awhile, I was guessing nails, bobbie pins, even a shrimp fork, due to the double sound and how wide the sound was. Targets like coins, small zippers, tabs, deep batteries, sinkers, etc. sounded small and sharp. Can't remember what targets were hi/lo or lo/hi, but most of the time the targets were hi/lo.
The small 14K heart locket sounded great. It wasn't a wide, warbled or washed out sound...sounded very sharp and small. Probably about 6-7 inches deep. First gold in awhile so I give the Infinium an A+ today !
Needless to say it was well worth waiting for the new set of headphones and mono coil. I think I am going to like learning this machine and will be using it a lot during my Fall and Winter beach hunting.
JC
It ran very well in the wet sand, but I did have to raise the discrim up to about 1.5 when I was actually in the water. The surf was pretty high with pretty big waves ( I guess due to Igor ) breaking far out and the white water rushing in made the unit a tad noisy.
I will say this....EVERY target I could tell was a target, even over the faint, noise that occurred every so often. I did not dig one false target. Every thing the unit sounded off, there was metal dug. I learned pretty fast to just slow the sweep down when the unit may be possibly falsing a bit and slowly sweep it over the spot where the unit sounded off. If it then went back to the smooth threshold sound without any hi/lo or lo/hi, I knew it was a false. Every time time the unit continued to make a repeatable sound ( either hi/lo or lo/hi) as I slowing swept from multiple angles, I dug and it was a metal object. It is VERY easy to distinguish false signals from real ones. Even some of the falses sounded 'hollow' and you could tell it wasn't a target, but I still swept slow and at different angles to be sure.
Dug LOTS of iron at first since I was learning the sounds and digging everything. After awhile, I was guessing nails, bobbie pins, even a shrimp fork, due to the double sound and how wide the sound was. Targets like coins, small zippers, tabs, deep batteries, sinkers, etc. sounded small and sharp. Can't remember what targets were hi/lo or lo/hi, but most of the time the targets were hi/lo.
The small 14K heart locket sounded great. It wasn't a wide, warbled or washed out sound...sounded very sharp and small. Probably about 6-7 inches deep. First gold in awhile so I give the Infinium an A+ today !
Needless to say it was well worth waiting for the new set of headphones and mono coil. I think I am going to like learning this machine and will be using it a lot during my Fall and Winter beach hunting.
JC
