Nickels

[sandnut]

May be a dumb question but he it goes. How far down in beach sand can a Excalibur find a nickle? The deepest one I have found is about 6 to 8 inches. Is that about it? no deeper???
I am new to the Excalibur so help with settings would be nice if I can do better. I have a Excalibur 1000 not the 2. I run my settings at disc 0, sens 1o'clock, vol full, thres 1 o'clock, pin point and just check in disc. Let me know what I may be doing wrong or if thats ok.

 

[chuck ky]

i have only used the sovereign but i would think 1o'clock to be too low on sensitivity. i have checked targets on the sovererign and lose them at 3o'clock sensitivity. good luck.

 

[OBX Franz]

I haven't used my xcal enough to compare findings, but have noticed a lot of different depths with my GT. Honestly, I think a lot of how deep it picks them up has to do with the sand composition. I've found some deep coins, like 10", in disc iron mask on. Very weak/breaking signal, but good enough to investigate. I think I've found some a tiny bit past that mark, but I can't rule out that I probably just dug them off the side of the hole because my pinpointing wasn't exact. One day I'd like to do a real test, and remove the sand an inch at a time on real targets in a real hunt (unlike a test garden) to find out for sure.

 

[sandnut]

Thank you OBX Franz an Chuck for your help.....

 

[dewcon4414]

Your sensitivity you should be able to almost run full on in PP because its not affected like Disc. I run mine at 9 just because if i have to flip over to disc at 10 there can be to much fallsing in the water. You should be able to get a nickel 8 to maybe 10 inches..... its a low conductor and as mentioned a lot will depend on the mineralization, how its laying, near targets, and how long its been down there. On some beaches surface targets dont get down that deep either. Dont get hung up on depth, the Xcal is as good or better than most machines on the beach. Response is always better than depth. What i mean by that is you are looking for RINGS on the beach that happen to fall in the nickel range..... but the response to a gold ring will be different than a nickel because of various mixed metals. You might only get 7" on a nice sized 14K gold ring and 10 on a nickel.

Dew

 

[sandnut]

Your sensitivity you should be able to almost run full on in PP because its not affected like Disc. I run mine at 9 just because if i have to flip over to disc at 10 there can be to much fallsing in the water. You should be able to get a nickel 8 to maybe 10 inches..... its a low conductor and as mentioned a lot will depend on the mineralization, how its laying, near targets, and how long its been down there. On some beaches surface targets dont get down that deep either. Dont get hung up on depth, the Xcal is as good or better than most machines on the beach. Response is always better than depth. What i mean by that is you are looking for RINGS on the beach that happen to fall in the nickel range..... but the response to a gold ring will be different than a nickel because of various mixed metals. You might only get 7" on a nice sized 14K gold ring and 10 on a nickel.

Dew

Thanks Dew very much that hepls me out alot.

 

[OldBeechnut]

I run mine at 9

I agree with dew, find a deep faint target on the beach in PP, then adjust too where it comes in best, like adjusting the old am stations years ago..you have to play with it..

Thanks Sandnut for the reply on the speakers

 

[sandnut]

I run mine at 9

I agree with dew, find a deep faint target on the beach in PP, then adjust too where it comes in best, like adjusting the old am stations years ago..you have to play with it..

Thanks Sandnut for the reply on the speakers

I was there for those days I think I was just can't remember..
Thanks for the help and anytime hh to you OldBeechnut....