:usaflag: A Few Hours At A "Worked Out" Beach!!:detecting:

[Cupajo]

A few afternoon hours of wading and I brought home three fishing sinkers, six pennies, three dimes (clad), several nails and a couple of pieces of aluminum from snap tops. (In all fairness to the Excal the water was getting a bit rough!!)

I'm learning more each time out about how the Excal works, but I don't recognize the nuances of sound that Clive mentions in his books as being the indicator of deep gold!

Maybe next time!!

I did learn today (actually I remembered a post about it) that when the battery pack is low the machine will let you know by becomming a pain in the backside!

The freshly charged spare settled things down to "normal"!

GL&HH Friends,

CJ

 

[Gulf Hunter]

Hey CJ, how did you find several nails, you running in all-metal? You should not even be getting a siganl on nails, maybe a chirp?

 

[Cupajo]

Hey GH,

I'm still trying to get a handle on the Excal.

The signal was strong, but irregular, not steady, kinda coarse sounding.

The knob positions are as directed and set in descrimination with a faint threshold hum.

I played with the sensitivity knob a bit too, to compensate for varying conditions.

It was kept mostly at 10 oclock to 2 oclock.

I can hear the machine nulling over what I presume to be iron.

Pennies and clad dimes blast out a strong signal and fishing sinkers almost sing to ya.

I had to cover a lot of ground very slowly to retrieve the few finds I did get.

Almost all of it was deep and worn from being there for a long while.

Still lookin for the deep, old gold!

GL&HH Friend,

CJ