New to this forum Question Sea Hunter Mark II or Infinium LS?

[EasySwing]

Hello Guys/Gals.

This is my first post on this forum. I am looking for a good beach surf detector as I live in Florida on the east coast. I will not be looking for gold nuggets, but want to find gold and silver in the surf and wet sand. I have an MXT 300 and have found a lot of rings but in the wet sand and especially in the surf at waist high I cannot take the MXT. My questions are:

1. Is the Infinium a better surf machine than the Sea Hunter?

I can handle the price for either machine.

2. Secondly, did Garrett fix the lower wobbly shaft on the Inf. for 2010?

Thanks HH

 

[therover]

I can only voice my opinion and have to say I have used several other PI units besides the Infinium, but not the Mark II.

If you can afford the Infinium, along with a straight shaft and 10x14 mono coil, then go for it and don't look back. Learn the Infinium, how to tune it, and you will be more than satisfied.

One thing I love about the Infinium as opposed to the other water PI's I have used, is that the hi/lo and lo/hi sounds can actually help in determining deeper or smaller targets that may sound as falses or faint warbles in the threshold of other machines without the tone ID.

I have found very deep nickels and small pieces of fishing swivels, as well as very small grommets and such, that repeated as hi/lo or lo/high tones that I probably would not have recognized if they had been very soft changes in a mono tone unit. If the Infinium repeats the hi/lo or lo/hi as the coil is swept from different angles, instead of reverting back to the monotone threshold, dig it.

Just so you know...I have not had my Infinium more than a few months, and it has found me 3 pieces of gold, one being my very best find which you can see in my previous post.

JC

 

[erikk]

I have both and IMHO either is a good machine. If U have patience & the $ go 4 the LS I fill the noodle lower shafts with epoxy-wobble solved

 

[John-Edmonton]

I have owned both. They are very deep. The Infinium is the better of the two. It has some discrimination characteristics not found on the Sea Hunter. Besides the high-low sounds, it is a gold machine, and sometimes you have to turn up the discrimination to tune out the salt. A lot of other detectors are preset to disc out the salt, and sometimes tune out small gold rings. Not the Infinium....just by barely tuning out the salt allows you to still get those tiny rings. And, because it is a gold machine, designed to find gold in some of the most highly mineralized soil in the world, it is tweaked for gold, which makes it very sensitive to deep gold. Once you put in the time and learn what the machine is telling you, you can leave a lot of the bobby pins, tinfoil and some rusty nails behind.

 

[therover]

Erikk..you hit the nail on the head by stating the word PATIENCE. One does need that and learn how to tune the unit. I have not been to any beach so far where I could not tune the Infinium for smooth running...just takes a little time to set it right. Good thing is, it will tell you when it has to be tuned....either via threshold adjustment, discrim setting, re-grounding or frequency adjustment.

 

[Digger 45]

I first started out with the sea hunter but on the west coast some soils are highly mineralized and it kept getting false signals, i talked to brad and he was able to get me a demo unit, an infinium and it works GREAT, in six months this year i have found 10 rings, it runs very deep with the deepest being a fishing weight about the size of a dime at 18" . Just love swinging it on the beach