Land hunting with excal II

[Critterhunter]

Now that I am back in Ohio, I do lots of land hunting with my Excalibur II. On land it depends on where I hunt if I use all metal or discriminate. If it is really trashy, then I use discriminate. If trashy, I use the 10 inch coil instead of the WOT as the WOT covers so much ground and detects almost everything.

In schoolyards, I use the WOT almost always as covering the area with the WOT is so fast.

I had an E-trac but found at least for me, the Excalibur was a better machine for the areas that I detect. Here in northern Ohio, there was a lot of backfill put in during the early to mid late part of the 20th century...1900---1970, from the steel mills of Cleveland. The backfill has tons of iron in it and causes lesser machines to go bonkers. The Excalibur nulls out iron just fine. But it also will detect any good targets in with that iron. It takes some practice listening to the signals but it does work.

The Excalibur II is a very capable machine for land and it is the only machine for me. Plus by using it every time, it makes me better with it when in the water or at the beach.

Hey, you must live near me. I'm near Hopkins Airport. For me my Explorers didn't penetrate the type of soil we have (mostly limestone clay) as well as my GT does. I'm digging coins much deeper with it. Not all our soil is clay or mineralized but a lot of it is. Then there is Hunington Beach...it must be full of microsopic iron because I've got to run the sensitivity real low there. That is the only place I've found where PP or All Metal mode was hitting targets better than discriminate for me.

If you caught my other thread about hunting dry sand then here's a heads up for you...Edgewater Park's beach has been scraped. It was trashy before they took the top layer of sand off and it's just as trashy now. I'm thinking that with the top layer off since gold tends to sink faster it may have put a lot of older gold rings in range. I don't mind tipping others off to this beach since it could use some ethical hunters who will carry out their trash. Plenty of trash for everybody.

If you'd like to hook up for a hunt there or to hunt elsewhere with me and a friend or two then shoot me a PM with a phone number. A couple of the guys I hunt with have Excaliburs and I do some water hunting with them using my GT, but they also have land machines and we hit old parks and such. You're welcome to join us.