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vernt

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I'm looking for a detector that is excellent for hunting jewelry in the dry and wet salt beach sand, the waters edge , and in the ocean/surf, not diving but maybe wadding or up to chest high, waves permitting. I figure many people will have their pet detectors, but impartially as you can which detector(s) would you recommend. Thank You
 
The Minelab Excalibur 800 with a aftermarket straight shaft!!! In my limmited knowledge it is the best all around machine.

Dean from mass
 
I picked one up 2 years back and found that our local beaches here in southern California were to highly mineralized. I couldn
 
how did you run the beach hunter when you had it? I run mine on wet sand with the thresh hold loud sens as far as poss till it falses a little and in all metal just use the visual id.I get great depth it seems to do as well as my buddies EXPL AND EXPL II Sometimes better.
 
I'm thinking the 3 top machines for the job descibed are;
1 Minelab Excalibur
2 Fisher CZ-20
3 Whites PI pro
There are plenty others out there as well.But if you check around I think you'll find these 3 to be the most used.There is a reason for that!They work!
 
East and West Coast detecting is like night and day! I can develop a program that works on the beach that I am hunting and if I move 4 miles north it becomes useless. As for my BHID setting I can
 
up and down our coast go a couple miles north or south and get totally different sand/hot rocks/rocky base /muddy base ect!! my buddies use EXPLORER'S AND EXP II THEY ARE GREAT DETECTORS!!! I HAVE BEEN USING WHITES FOR 22 YEARS ON AND OFF KINDA MY FAVORITE BUT MAY ADD A MINELAB TO MY BATTERY SOON!! NICE TALKING W/YA HH AND GOOD LUCK!!
 
Hi Vernt,

I have been using an Explorer II for about fifteen months with great success regardless of sand conditions, However it's only waterproof up to the control box and if you put an X1 probe on it, as I have it's waterproof up to the coil switch (about half way down the top shaft), if you really want to get everything wet go for the Minelab Excalibur 1000 and get the best of all the completely waterproof detectors, I don't think you will be sorry.

Hope this helps....All the best....Boony
 
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