Trying to discriminate coins out with an Excal II

[Philandlil]

Hello, all, I just got through getting my new Excal II wet for the first time at a freshwater swimming hole and am very pleased with it. I was picking up pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, every few feet. I did get one ring (looks like an old class ring, but not sure what it's made of. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy picking up that money to help pay for my gas to get there, but I was trying to discriminate the coins out cause I was spending so much time digging them up and wanted to try for another ring or two. Well I set the discrimination to max and was still picking up coins. Just wanted to know if that's how the excal is suppose to work, thanks for any replies.

 

[Chi Town Bruce]

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[Bling]

dis out coins and you will disc out rings! run 0 disc and dig by the tones.get used to the tone of Gold and pass over the other tones.just rember you will loose silver rings if you only dig Gold tone.with my Excal,GT and CZ20 i only dig the gold tone,that allowes me to cover more beach.

 

[DukeOBass]

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[Beachcomber]

even at it's highest discrimination you can not reject coins with an Excalibur. As other have said....set your Discrimination to "0" as the Excal will still reject iron even at the zero discrimination setting. Dig all targets and listen to thier tones. In time you will be able to tell the difference between most coins and gold. The majority of coins and silver rings are going to give a higher tone. Nickels and most gold rings will give a low tone. Once you start getting used to the tones this will make more sense.

HH

Beachcomber

 

[Philandlil]

Appreciate the replies!, I fixin to go out in the yard and try to train my ears on some coins and the wife's jewlrey

 

[aussiedigger]

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[Chi Town Bruce]

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[Philandlil]

You're right Bruce, I'm getting greedy wanting to pay for this excal II on my first day, beleive me I enjoyed my first trip in the water with a MD, there are so many target in this swimming hole, I guess no one every dedeted it before, just practiced a little in the yard and I see what ya'll mean about the different tones on coins versus gold, thanks for ya'll help

 

[Dig]

Crap....I'd be happy if I found change instead of spenind ten minutes chasing some womans bobbypin.

 

[Crash620]

Maybe three.... found my first gold on the 2nd day w/ the excal. It will come.

 

[mattockman]

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