Is it worth buying an Excal to go with the GS5?

[pastyman]

Hi all,

Bought a GS5 just last week, getting on pretty well with it, pulling coins from some very impressive depths.
It can't go up on the dry sand due to the iron and rubbish ( buried bbq's ) etc, so I was wondering if it's worth getting an excalibur to compliment the GS5 when I want to do the wet and dry

Does anyone know what sort of depth reduction I would get on the wet sand using the Excal over the GS5.
The thing is the beaches I hunt are 1/2 mile down cliffs to get to, carrying 2 machines and leaving one on the beach is a no no and returning to swap machines when going from wet to dry will bw a real pain in the neck.

Thanks for your thoughts

Dazzer

 

[alton]

... when I was on the beach in Florida with the Excal. In mineralized ground around here (East Tennessee) I don't get that much depth, but still about as deep as I want to dig.

The Excal is hot on gold!

HH Alton

 

[David from Suffolk]

n/t

 

[shaunyboy]

Daz,
i'm in the UK too.
imho you could do a lot worse than a fisher CZ-20.
i found 14 gold with mine last year,it's just such an easy machine to use.
you'll have to find a second hand one now but i hear fisher are updating it and calling it the CZ-21.i'll be first in the queue to get one,can't wait.
i've also found hammered coins with it on the fields,totally waterproof so the rain we've had over the last month doesn't do any harm to it.

shaun.

 

[pastyman]

Thanks for the input, I'll look into the fisher, not tried one before, used an elite for years on the beach and clean pasture, xp power on plough and dfx for parks and modern fair sites.

Would be nice to flop into the surf if i felt like it, and still be able to do the dry sand on the way back up the beach, which is why i got a hankering for the Excalibur, i guess it will be like putting on a comfy pair of slippers ( just waterproof ones , as it's probably not too different than the Elite or the GT.

I know where there's a mint unused one going for about

 

[Mr.Bill]

You do mean Goldscan 5, am I correct ? If so most on here are not familiar with a GS5.

First off you should not be having problems ID'ing iron with that unit. Of course, one first has to put it into the ID mode. You do that if your in the ground balance mode. It will not ID in the standard PI mode.

Once you have the ID'ing part of it mastered for iron, you should have no trouble ID'ing tin, coins, lead, gold, brass.

Depth wise I would say the GS5 will be about 50% deeper than the Excalibur in the salt environment. You must understand the GS5 has 10 times the power output. It's also set up to maximize gold location. It was designed as a nugget hunter. For a good ID test, take a US nickel, it should hit on it around 18" on the bench. You won't find a loss going into the ground with that PI, it will perhaps be a tad more in the salt ground. I know you in the UK, but you might be able to find a US nickel to test with. It's about equal with a gold men's wedding band.

Were talking depths here that are just too deep to dig in a wet beach. Generally one needs to cut back on the depth gain control until you have learned the machine. You just purchased the unit from what you said on another forum, and it's going to take you quite a few months with it, to completely learn it well.

Mr. Bill

P.S. Did you phone up Eric to get your questions answered ?? Sounds like something is out of whack with your unit. Who knows what happened to it by the pre. owner ???

 

[pastyman]

Mr.Bill, sent the Goldscan to Eric, it needed an IC replacing, and some adjustments doing on the audio board.

Things are a hell of a lot easier now, pulling deep coins on whisper targets, getting bouble blips on hairpins etc.

Really starting to get to grips with it now, the threshold is now doing what it should, instead of belting out full all the time, I can now hear the faint dips in threshold tone telling me to get ready to dig a deep hole!!!!

Thanks for all the input

Darrin