Chuck@TreasureHut
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One of my good customers recently purchased his Infinium, and took it to Texas with him to do some fresh water lake hunting. Here are his results:
Chuck
We are back from our trip to TX. Due to seeing relatives and other activities I only got to hunt one of the two lakes that I had planned to hunt. It was a private lake in the gated community where my wife's sister and brother in law live. As a result it does not have the people traffic of a public lake and beach.
I used the Garrett Infinium LS PI Detector with the 8" mono coil. I worked the swimming beach and in the water to a depth up to my chin. I had the detector clipped to a harness so I could let the detector go without it sinking to the bottom of the lake. This allowed me to use both hands to recover targets with my long handle scoop.
The detector ground balanced beautifully. I ran it in the Lock Mode with no discrimination. It ran very smooth without any falsing. The sensitivity with the 8" Mono coil is fantastic. I found a couple small metal beads that were smaller than a BB and several tiny silver split rings off of jewelry, all were several inches deep. The Infinium LS with the 8" Mono also has excellent depth on coin and jewelry size targets as well. I had to did clear through the sand to the mud and clay bottom on several occasions and that was between 10 and 12 inches down. I always fill all my holes and I had to do the same in the water to keep someone from stepping into one and going over their head. Filling holes under water is no easy task, especially that deep. The Infinium LS control housing has slight positive buoyancy. While it doesn't float, it does allow the detector to stand up vertically with the coil resting on the bottom. This is handy, especially when wading in deep water up to your neck.
I found 3 rings, 1 gold and 2 silver, a silver ankle bracelet, a silver charm, 11 Quarters, 14 Dimes, 15 Nickels and 42 Pennies. The (low conductive) Low/High/Low and (high conductive) High/Low/High target ID tones worked very well on most targets. There were a few exceptions as expected. Long this Iron targets like wire, nails and bobby pins typically gave a double target signal. I dug all targets but the double signal of nails, wire and bobby pins was never wrong.
Well, that is my report on the Garrett Infinium LS under fresh water hunting conditions. It performs as advertised and I was well very impressed with it's performance.
Have a great day and God Bless,
Cyril
One of my good customers recently purchased his Infinium, and took it to Texas with him to do some fresh water lake hunting. Here are his results:
Chuck
We are back from our trip to TX. Due to seeing relatives and other activities I only got to hunt one of the two lakes that I had planned to hunt. It was a private lake in the gated community where my wife's sister and brother in law live. As a result it does not have the people traffic of a public lake and beach.
I used the Garrett Infinium LS PI Detector with the 8" mono coil. I worked the swimming beach and in the water to a depth up to my chin. I had the detector clipped to a harness so I could let the detector go without it sinking to the bottom of the lake. This allowed me to use both hands to recover targets with my long handle scoop.
The detector ground balanced beautifully. I ran it in the Lock Mode with no discrimination. It ran very smooth without any falsing. The sensitivity with the 8" Mono coil is fantastic. I found a couple small metal beads that were smaller than a BB and several tiny silver split rings off of jewelry, all were several inches deep. The Infinium LS with the 8" Mono also has excellent depth on coin and jewelry size targets as well. I had to did clear through the sand to the mud and clay bottom on several occasions and that was between 10 and 12 inches down. I always fill all my holes and I had to do the same in the water to keep someone from stepping into one and going over their head. Filling holes under water is no easy task, especially that deep. The Infinium LS control housing has slight positive buoyancy. While it doesn't float, it does allow the detector to stand up vertically with the coil resting on the bottom. This is handy, especially when wading in deep water up to your neck.
I found 3 rings, 1 gold and 2 silver, a silver ankle bracelet, a silver charm, 11 Quarters, 14 Dimes, 15 Nickels and 42 Pennies. The (low conductive) Low/High/Low and (high conductive) High/Low/High target ID tones worked very well on most targets. There were a few exceptions as expected. Long this Iron targets like wire, nails and bobby pins typically gave a double target signal. I dug all targets but the double signal of nails, wire and bobby pins was never wrong.
Well, that is my report on the Garrett Infinium LS under fresh water hunting conditions. It performs as advertised and I was well very impressed with it's performance.
Have a great day and God Bless,
Cyril