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Sea Hunter and Salt Water

If so review my posts on the beach & water hunting forum. Have been hunting Galveston surf areas since 07/04 with excellent results. The unit does great. Gold & silver finding machine! No discrimination though, so get ready to find it all, including but not limited to fishhooks, nails, bobby pins, globs of ferrous iron and then of course pulltabs (gold reads similarly), bottle caps which you would always want to dig anyway. Don't bother with an aluminum scoop, get the stainless. You will be putting enormous force on it when scooping the surf sands. Good luck and message me if I can help you further.
 
Any time pull tabs are taken out of the equation you WILL miss some gold targets as their conductivity with this unit are similar. I run 0 on Elimination, Threshold to a barely audible sound and Standard Trash Elimination and it works. Been using the unit since jul '04 and just calculated gold finds tonight at $1800. Silver was around $150. I know Andy has worlds more experience than me, but I have been using this unit exclusively about 3 times a week in the surf and I know the unit.
 
Sounds like you know your machine well and it pays off. The standard equation is 90% operator-10% machine. Would like to see some of your finds here.

Bill
 
Uncle Willy, I have a hard enough time gettin' 'em posted up on the beach & water hunting forum. Ya'll can just lurk around over there to see 'em.
 
I also have a Sea Hunter Mark 2 and I believe that it is more of knowing the beach, combined with a little luck. I bought the sea hunter because I didnt know if I would really get into the water hunting, however I love the water. As far as the sea hunter goes, If I was making a decision today it would not be my detector of choice. After taking the 3 hour trip to the beach today to give my new explorer a test run, I would go with a minelab excalibur. I will probably sell the sea hunter and do that in the near future. Anyway, after seeing the performance of the Explorer 2 twice on spots I hammered and also at the beach, minelab knows how to do it. Plus they seem to hold their value fairly decently. Look at the resale of a garrett and look at the resale of any minelab unit, there is a big difference on resale value. I was simply amazed with the explorer in the wet sand plucking coins out from 14-18". I not trying to sell minelab and I am fairly new to this hobby, so if you want a newby thoughts, there you go!!
 
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