Keith Southern
Active member
if someone could get a 5 inch coil to work on a excel it would be great in dense iron.you can get a pinpointer from sunray for the machine I believe. I know some places I could just strap it to the end of the pole and hunt with the 1 inch pinpointer might have to try that.
The excel is not as powerful as an Edge or does not have the audio qualities either but its a fine detector in some dense iron it may even out perform the Edge 8 inch coil to 8 inch coil in super dense iron
Dont under estimate the excel it was a real eye opener. In a hunted hard house site.The house site had been hit by everything imaginable for years and the excel went in there on my maiden voyage with her and pulled enough small brass and lead civil war targets to fill up a small Mc Donalds cup in just a few hours of hunting.Im talking about buttons bullets a super nice rosette lots of pistol bullets like tear drop colts suspender clips toe taps man you name it it was there hiding. me not knowing how to run the new machine I dug alot of the negative numbers like -5 to -7 and thats were the most of it was hiding.targets like that are real eye openers to let you know what a detector calls iron that really isnt be it ground mineral or masking from iron you can loose alot of targets that even the most high dollar detectors in the world will say is iron.
At the end of the day I dont care what machine you use if you cant get low enough on your disc and at least try to dig some iffy signals your leaving stuff for the next guy to come along and dig targets behind you.
The next time some of ya'll are in dense iron or cruddy ground in a spot where you know good targets have come from do a test and dig ever little hit you get for a couple of hours . You'll dig some bent nails and flat iron and such but stay with it and you might be surprised at whats lurking.Heck thats what I do alot of times at least digging a bent nail is better than just swinging on some dead ground.You dont have nothing to loose and a lot to gain some of my best finds have sounded like nails
Keith
The excel is not as powerful as an Edge or does not have the audio qualities either but its a fine detector in some dense iron it may even out perform the Edge 8 inch coil to 8 inch coil in super dense iron
Dont under estimate the excel it was a real eye opener. In a hunted hard house site.The house site had been hit by everything imaginable for years and the excel went in there on my maiden voyage with her and pulled enough small brass and lead civil war targets to fill up a small Mc Donalds cup in just a few hours of hunting.Im talking about buttons bullets a super nice rosette lots of pistol bullets like tear drop colts suspender clips toe taps man you name it it was there hiding. me not knowing how to run the new machine I dug alot of the negative numbers like -5 to -7 and thats were the most of it was hiding.targets like that are real eye openers to let you know what a detector calls iron that really isnt be it ground mineral or masking from iron you can loose alot of targets that even the most high dollar detectors in the world will say is iron.
At the end of the day I dont care what machine you use if you cant get low enough on your disc and at least try to dig some iffy signals your leaving stuff for the next guy to come along and dig targets behind you.
The next time some of ya'll are in dense iron or cruddy ground in a spot where you know good targets have come from do a test and dig ever little hit you get for a couple of hours . You'll dig some bent nails and flat iron and such but stay with it and you might be surprised at whats lurking.Heck thats what I do alot of times at least digging a bent nail is better than just swinging on some dead ground.You dont have nothing to loose and a lot to gain some of my best finds have sounded like nails
Keith