Two excal II questions.

[Florida Keys Pirate]

One. ) Other than iron being next to a good target , does a null ever turn out to be a good target with the Excall II ?

Two. ) Can the coiled up wire going to the coil be straightened out on the Excal II. , for instance , if I should decide to change shafts , can I uncoil the stock wire , or am I stuck with it being coiled around the shaft?
Thanks, HH

 

[Finderskeeper]

Your first question......nulls......not likely.....but how would you know unless you dig absolutely everything. I've never found that a null resulted in a good target....ever. Because I know that steel and iron are nulled. If I want to find steel or iron, I use the pin point which is all metal. Try pin pointing a null and you will see that it is right every time. I can tell when pin pointing, if it is a good target with the sound it makes. Most times a double beep will tell me that it is iron or steel when in pin point mode. I say usually as there may be times that it does not. I then just dig and find out for sure. But so far, a double beep has always resulted in a steel or iron target in pin point. Same with can slaw. Usually a double beep for me in pin point.

Second question. You can do anything you like with the length of the coil wire. I recommend keeping it coiled around the shaft but whatever floats your boat.

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

As far as the Nulls goes quite often a null can be a great target. It depends on YOU, your settings and experience level. That being said too high a sensitivity setting will cause falsing all day depended on you coil control. The BBS machines are slow motion machines.
If you are a rather fast pasted hunter you'll need to tone it down (sensitivity)so as not to over run or get falsing.You will also be amazed at such a low setting these machines will produce great targets. If you tend to move fast then stop and check the nulls and make sure its not from coil speed. Some nulls can actually be from a target just out of range, depends on what happens after the null. Tkaes little effort to scrape some sand and check again. you might just be surprised Its a true eye opening experience to slow down and see whats actually there to be found. Too many did I say too many hunters feel that more ground cover results in more targets. Not so true reading the beach and hunting in the right spots will find by far, more and better quality targets! Give it a try hunt at your normal pace spot after find you first target, work that area at a snails pace and see what comes up. Can't begin to tell you how many rings have come out of a 3 scoop deep quarter. Things of the same weight tend to stick together! HINT HINT! Do you think these hunters posting great finds found them just because there coil went over it before yours. No they took the time to learn how to use their detectors and were not afraid to try different things!

 

[Florida Keys Pirate]

Thanks for the tip guys ! I did work very slowly today, and it resulted in my first gold find ! Finderskeeper , I remembered your all metal double beep theory , and tried it out. Every null that I checked in all metal, that gave a double beep, was trash. A couple of single beep checks had both a piece of trash and a penny. Deff a learning curve. But , I appreciate the help !

 

[Jack Flynn]

If I get what I call a chirp and a null all around it. I switch to PP and dig it. The machine will amaze you at the slightest amount of accepted material, not discriminated out material it will detect. You are missing great targets if you do not dig the chirps in the middle of a null. Dug 4 good targets this afternoon that were just a chirp. Not deep either, 3 or 4 inches. When the target was out of the hole the hole just nulled, no chirp.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

nulls usually are junk...however many a deep or oddly shaped target have on first sweep nulled,,i always sweep over nulls several times.....sometimes you can get a repeatable signal from a target which on first sweep nulled...ive even had coins null on first sweep....ive also had some horrible sounding chirps and pops some of which turned out to be oddly shaped gold charms....ive even had small gold pendents which only gave the tiniest signal in disc mode but when turning to all metal to pinpoint it would null or give no signal at all which i found strange .....inland ive found deep large cents which started as a null but i was able to get a faint repeatable signal off of.....like one of the previous posts mentioned when you get into a spot where you find a really good target it is advisable that you dig every signal surounding that good target as they may have come out of the same pocket....this method got me back to back 14k rings at a fresh water beach which had been heavly hunted be myself and others previously.....you never know for sure till you dig it.........

 

[Florida Keys Pirate]

Gonna hit another lake tomorrow. Thanks again for all the tips guys !