I just recently bought an Excalibur II with an 8 inch coil. I have an E-Trac and usually hang out on that forum. I was so impressed with the E-Trac for how deep it goes and the accuracy, I figured the Excal would be a good investment. I went out for the second time today with it to the Boise river. The only thing I found was a few pull tabs (like always) and four pair of very slimy sunglasses. I did watch a guy catch a 24 inch steelhead right behind the BSU stadium. Even though I didn't find anything good it was still nice to get outside. Idaho has a lot of lakes and rivers so I am excited about having new places to find pull tabs and bottle caps. I am going to have a lot of questions about the care and use of this detector. Hopefully it don't take long to get up to speed.