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Sea Hunter Mark II questions please:smile:

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Habanero

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I'm looking into PI units some and came across the Garrett Sea Hunter mark II as a consideration. I noticed that it has regular as well as discreet elimination to help with trash targets. The discreet seems to be just the thing if I read the description correctly....able to knock out certain trash targets depending on setting and it seems to be a non threshold search mode, in other words beep and dig. Does this sound right? I would rather not have a PI unit that sounds like the all metal mode on a vlf machine as I dislike using that mode and prefer silent search with beeps to indicate a target. Is the Sea Hunter that machine or are all PI machines just like the vlf all metal mode with threshold?:shrug:

Also, I would appreciate straight up, honest, non-biased answers related to the discrimination. Does it actually work or is it a gimmick and cannot discriminate just like any other PI? If it works, then how well? I am mainly just interested in losing iron targets, everything else I would rather keep. Thank you in advance for the honest answers and feed-back!
 
From the land of the Bluenose.....reading too much into a PI machine. Just run wide open and dig it all. Works for this bouy and PI machines are super for wet sand. Good luck.
 
I have not run one myself but the folks who do say the disc doesn't really work. Like other PI's you dig it all. I'd still like one of these units though myself.
 
I have always used VLF but I got a Sea Hunter and it is great at picking up deep targets . I have only used it a short time so I am still learning . What I have found is when you cut out bottle caps you still pick up most everything else . If you try to cut out pull tabs you still get coins but lose the rings unless they are big . As far as I have found there is no way to cut out iron . So like the other folks said ... dig it all . Larry
 
Thank you all, I really just wanted to be able to cut out the iron but if that's not an option then it's just another PI then. What about the tone? Does it operate like a vlf in the all metal mode with the loud threshold and buzzing on targets or does it have silent search with a beep to indicate a target?
 
Threshold is adjustable. I just got one a week or so ago and have only played with it a few times. The elimination does seem to work to a point. I noticed when I kicked the elimination up a bit that smaller iron targets would make the threshold drop out. I like to have a bit of threshold hum, and I am in fresh water.

John
 
I'm not sure if I understand your question but there is only one sound it makes , a beep and it is louder the closer it is to the surface . Almost to loud if you come across a quarter on top of the sand . I really like mine because of the ability to get in the water but my bounty hunter kicks its butt as far as info , and half the money . But don't try to take it to the beach . It hates wet sand . ( Bounty Hunter ) I found a dime yesterday with my Sea Hunter that was 14 inches deep at the waters edge . That was after I found 20 pull tabs . LOL
 
De said:
I'm not sure if I understand your question but there is only one sound it makes , a beep and it is louder the closer it is to the surface . Almost to loud if you come across a quarter on top of the sand . I really like mine because of the ability to get in the water but my bounty hunter kicks its butt as far as info , and half the money . But don't try to take it to the beach . It hates wet sand . ( Bounty Hunter ) I found a dime yesterday with my Sea Hunter that was 14 inches deep at the waters edge . That was after I found 20 pull tabs . LOL
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I'm also looking at this issue on the Beach/Water hunting forum. Best way to describe it is I have a tesoro tiger shark with all metal mode and discrimination mode as a waterproof vlf detector. All metal mode I hear an adjustable threshold and targets sound like a buzzing or a "waa waa" sound. Discrimination mode is completely silent until I find a target and then it makes a beep sound. I'm interested in a PI that does not have the threshold tone or able to get rid of it but instead has the beeping sound, not your typical all metal mode sound. Hope that makes sense a little better.
 
Yes, The sea hunter lets you listen to the tone if you want to but you can turn it to 0 ...or till the sound drops off . ( 1-2) . I don't like the tone so I keep mine off . I haven't played much with discrimination mode yet . Yesterday I switched over to it and on 3-4 in regular mode it will not detect bottle caps but 7 in disc. it still hit on caps ??? I thought it was supposed to get better not worse . I just looked at a chart on all beach detectors and the only place it said GOOD ( top rating ) was in the sea water . POOR in lakes and land due to all the iron . But I have found rings, ear rings, coins etc...in a creek near my house .
 
Thanks De, it sounds like the sea hunter may be the detector to have as far as a PI goes but the discrimination adjustments don't sound right to me either; I would think it would get better as well.
 
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