Iron falsing on Excalibur II

[tippyhound]

I purchased a new Excalibur II this past spring and really haven't had a lot of chances to use it as places to hunt in central Illinois are not to plentiful. We planned a camping trip to northern Illinois to hunt lake Michigan but storms up there over the 4th of July closed all the camp grounds on the lake.

I have been hunting a local lake beach area that has a lot of iron, nails, and wire in it. I have been turning the sensitivity down but can't seem to get away from the iron falsing. Get a lot of grunts, bangs, squawks and one sided responses that won't repeat. Hit areas that the threshold goes dead in and will stay that way over fairly large areas. I fear I am missing targets in these areas as I'm not sure the machine will respond to targets when it nulls like that.

Is there a way to work around this problem , and am I missing targets when it nulls like that? Your answer to these questions would be much appreciated. Rick IL

 

[goodmore]

Sounds likea real bad area to me. Slow your swing. If the threshold doesn't come back then you just have too much iron. I would put the sensitivity in auto also.

 

[dewcon4414]

Auto sensitivity might just be the ticket since you get coil shut down over iron.... no since in causing more by hitting deeper iron targets.

Dew

 

[tomcatpl]

my xcal2 does the same thing in black sand .. when there is a target under the black sand it gives a broken signal i dig them and there is some thing there 70% of the time

 

[tippyhound]

Thanks for the come backs. I will give the Auto Sinsitivity a try.

I have hunted other Lakes with out this problem. It seems to be just this lake.

Thanks again to everyone. Rick IL

 

[dewcon4414]

Also if the Xcals are like the Explorers they hate black sand between the coil and cover. If it starts doing it ... clean it and see what happens. Really changes the GB.

Dew