info on excalibur please

[linda]

Hi can anyone tell me if the excalibur will work good on dry land to. would it work good in Alaska? I can only afford to buy one detector so i was trying to buy one that i could use in the deep waters and in the rivers and dry land. Would it be good for gold hunting? There is so much info out there on metal detectors i get confused reading it all. confused here in Colorado help please.

 

[Aaron]

Linda,
there is a bunch posts regarding the Excal. for dry land use at the bottom of this page.

 

[Grubstake]

The Excallibur is a Soverine, in a water proof package, the answer to all ofyou questions is yes, It will work good on dry land, and yes it will find gold nuggets, if they are big enough. I have test my Soverine and Excallibur out on the nuggets I find with my 2200sd and if they are a gram or bigger it will pick them up. But will not get the subgram size, unless your rubbing the coil right on them. Grubstake

 

[galarzd]

There is only one machine that can do it all "The Excalibur", none better.

 

[alaskaseeker]

You might want to find one of the older models with the smaller horseshoe coil or get a Sunray 5" coil and use the watertight beach connections so you can change back and forth on the coils. The Excal is a great machine, there is a learning curve but if your hearing is good it is amazingly short...I took the GP bungy knuckles and mounted the pods under the forearm....

 

[Grubstake]

I have 3 coils with mine, the stock 10.5 inch and the coiltek wot 15, and a Sunray 5 inch, with all the conectors, so I can switch back and forth.Grubstake

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

like everyone else said the excaliber will work great

glad to hear that info. from grubstake on the nugget comparrisons

thanks

max

 

[Grubstake]

Yep, it will get the bigger stuff, but not thereal little ones like the gold detectors will, but being water proof and a good coin/ring machine, is a trade off. I have a Soverine, an excallibur and a 2200sd. Found lots of jewlry and coins,and lots of nuggets withe 2200. Grubstake

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

i was out their in aug. and spent some time in golden with bob at his store............goldndetectors i think

they favor the whites gold machine.............what is your take

i was thinking about one of the minelab ones,but did not get much favorable feed back on them

if was either the whites or your 2200 and for the extra bucks the 3500

let me know
thanks
max

i want to back in aug or july again this year

 

[Grubstake]

Well you are going to get a gold detector, I wouldgo with a 2200, they still make them in the V2 version, just a different shaft, It really depend on how offten your going to use it, For the extra money, the 3500 has a few more bells and wistles, but I will put my 2200 up against a 3500 any day, I don't think they will find anymore gold than I do, and I have ounds a couple of punds with mine. The whites are ok, but for a few extra you can get a good used 2200. A PI gold detector will walk all over a VLF detector in the gold fields. I have owned Whites, and Fisher and Tesoro, If I was going for a VLF detector to hunt for gold instead of a Minelab PI, I would take a tesoro Lobo ST any time. My opion. Grubstake

 

[linda]

Hi, thank you ever one for the info, more questions for you on this.can you change the coils on this? can you put that platypus lithium system and the coiltek coils on this for use on dry land? it would not be water tight with this on right? I read that someone used this on there 2200sd and where getting good results with it. I think it might if been you Grubstake? and how deep will this excal reach down. thanks again ever one

 

[Grubstake]

Well I din't know about puting the Platypus on an Excallibur, and yse I'm the one finding all the gold I have been posting on the Yank Assie forum, for minelab PI's. You can buy a waterproof connector kit, I have one and can change coils on mine, But they do not come with them, they come hard wired, headphones and coil deppening on what you buy, an 8 inch or the 10 inch coil. The lithim packs only apply to the minelab PI gold detectors, they are sold by DOC and only for the SD2000-3500's. The Excallibur comes with a rechargeable Nihb Pack, and run on 12 volts, as the PI's run on 6-7.5 volts. If you bought a new excallibur, I would go with the 10 inch coil, more coverage and when the waranty is up, you could think about puting a different coil on with the waterproof adapters. Until then the 10 inch will do you just fine, great depth and not to heavy. Grubstake