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Question about the Tiger Shark

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I just bought a Tiger Shark while my Pirate was being fixed(messed up on 4th trip). How well does the Tiger work on wet salt beaches? I primarily hunt fresh, but may do a little salt soon. I also own a White's MXT, which has a salt mode, also. Of the two, which one would you grab before heading out? Thanks..........
 
The Tiger does fine on the salt, I marked my sens pot with a sharpie and turned down the sens about 1/16. Some machines come a little high from the factory. It will false a little but what "single" VLF machine doesnt. You will know what a good signal is when you hear it. Its not a depth demon but i seem to find just as much as anyone else useing high doller machines. Dry sand balance and use normal mode, wet sand balance and use salt. Balance on the wet sand before useing it in the water.
 
Thanks, EZ. I'll remember that. Now, if I can just get motivated to go............:thumbup:
 
I found .33 cents, no jewelry, and no trash ??? with mine in a week of detecting in Destin last year. I was NOT impressed with it in salt water. It is an AWESOME machine in fresh water, but my experience with it in salt wasn't impressive at all. I had the sensitivity adjusted to just a hair below falsing in the water ( it would still false when a wave flowed over the coil so I don't think I "dumbed" it down too much ), a low threshold, volume full up, salt mode, and hunted both in AM Fast and Discriminate - set no higher than 2, with the 8" AND 10" coils... Yes, I ground balanced it! Nothing I did would make it perform in the salt. At the end of the trip I did an "underwater air test" and found it wouldn't hit on a quarter 4" off of the coil, or a dime at 3", re-adjusting the sensitivity didn't help, it just made it false constantly. It WILL regularly hit on a single stud earring in fresh water, but seems to be blind in the salt. I am heading back to Destin the 23rd of this month, with my new Excal II... I will hopefully enjoy my vacation in the water this year using a proven salt machine, without all the frustration of trying to use a machine that is out of its element. I still have the Tiger Shark, because it WILL find very small gold that doesn't even register in air tests on the Excal II, but for me it is a fresh water machine only. Kudos to those who can make them work in salt water, I have seen the posts, and know there are a <very> few of them out there, but mine wasn't up to it. By the way, I had NO problems with it up in the dry sand, found plenty of junk up there!! HH Joe
 
JoeinMemphis said:
I found .33 cents, no jewelry, and no trash ??? with mine in a week of detecting in Destin last year. I was NOT impressed with it in salt water. It is an AWESOME machine in fresh water, but my experience with it in salt wasn't impressive at all. I had the sensitivity adjusted to just a hair below falsing in the water ( it would still false when a wave flowed over the coil so I don't think I "dumbed" it down too much ), a low threshold, volume full up, salt mode, and hunted both in AM Fast and Discriminate - set no higher than 2, with the 8" AND 10" coils... Yes, I ground balanced it! Nothing I did would make it perform in the salt. At the end of the trip I did an "underwater air test" and found it wouldn't hit on a quarter 4" off of the coil, or a dime at 3", re-adjusting the sensitivity didn't help, it just made it false constantly. It WILL regularly hit on a single stud earring in fresh water, but seems to be blind in the salt. I am heading back to Destin the 23rd of this month, with my new Excal II... I will hopefully enjoy my vacation in the water this year using a proven salt machine, without all the frustration of trying to use a machine that is out of its element. I still have the Tiger Shark, because it WILL find very small gold that doesn't even register in air tests on the Excal II, but for me it is a fresh water machine only. Kudos to those who can make them work in salt water, I have seen the posts, and know there are a <very> few of them out there, but mine wasn't up to it. By the way, I had NO problems with it up in the dry sand, found plenty of junk up there!! HH Joe
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I agree that it takes a helluva machine to function properly in salt. I think Minelab probably is the best for that. But I'm mainly freshwater, and may never swing a coil at the ocean again(can't seem to get to the beach):unsure:
 
I hear ya, unfortunately I only get there once a year... NOT NEARLY ENOUGH!!! HH Joe
 
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