Excalibur 2 Metal Detector Sounds and Settings

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Very informative thank u! I just purchased the Excalibur 2 after quite a bit of research. I hope I made a good decision as it was quite expensive. I almost bought the surfmaster dual. Hopefully I mad the right decision. I should receive my Excalibur by Tuesday February 3rd. Can anyone give me some insight into the Excalibur 2? Thank you! Jim

Excal II should pay for itself in no time, is it on the wet and water as much as possible,
 

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Very informative thank u! I just purchased the Excalibur 2 after quite a bit of research. I hope I made a good decision as it was quite expensive. I almost bought the surfmaster dual. Hopefully I mad the right decision. I should receive my Excalibur by Tuesday February 3rd. Can anyone give me some insight into the Excalibur 2? Thank you! Jim
Being a ex owner of a Dual field and a current owner of a excalibur 1000 I'll give my opinion to help ease your mind on weather you made the right choice or not. First off I feel you made a wise choice and spared yourself a lot of aggravation of the dual fields coil flipping up in the ruff surf and from digging the constant supply of iron targets the beach has to offer a beach hunter. There's nothing like not breaking your back anymore digging a target in a constantly collapsing hole in the wet sand just to find that you've just exhausted yourself to recover a iron target. Your choice rewards are your machine telling you "leave this one for the salty sea!".
 

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Very informative video about the sounds of different targets with the Excal II. Watched AND listened to the video over and over again and now ready for the beach!
 

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Very informative video about the sounds of different targets with the Excal II. Watched AND listened to the video over and over again and now ready for the beach!
Every time the excal nulls rotate 90° and re-sweep, if there is gold by the iron it will show it, that us when it is important to re-sweep nulls from different direction.

Volume is always maxed out and NO discrimination... If target doesn't null dig it......
 

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You can't beat an Excalibur, just dig everything. I bought the TRex sand scoop and made my digging easy. I found a 18K Tiffany ring my first two weeks in South Carolina. ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1451629796.020637.jpg
 

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WTG nice catch WTG
 

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nice ...One of my excal hunts. Cartier 18k
 

SBMatt

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Just ordered an Excal from Kellyco today (Thanks Scott!) so looking forward to trying these settings and recommendations out.
 

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LawrencetheMDer The Excalibur when running in All metals mode is a deep detecting machine and I find good targets in the 10 - 13" range that are missed by many other metal detectors.[/QUOTE said:
I found that out today, works great!!

Thanks!!
 

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Wish I would have seen that video along time ago. All my knobs fell off about 2 years ago anyway. Had to epoxy coil back in the shaft when it fell off one day. But I love that machine im not complaining. Its just a tool to me. Like a hammer there are many different brands but they all do the same thing, some a little better than others. My excaliber is my favorite hammer. !!!
 

bocaratonmatt78

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I'm just charging up my new Excalibur now. I look forward to trying out these settings. Great video :-) I'm really a newbie with metal detecting etc. so this has helped a lot.
 

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Good Luck and Safe Hunting...
I'm just charging up my new Excalibur now. I look forward to trying out these settings. Great video :-) I'm really a newbie with metal detecting etc. so this has helped a lot.
 

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I have been using the CTX for a few years and love it but have considered the Excal. Thanks for the video. It's a great help deciding.
 

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I have been using the CTX for a few years and love it but have considered the Excal. Thanks for the video. It's a great help deciding.

Drafter, you've been around 9 months with your 5th post! I'm responding to your post mostly because I began my 40 year career in engineering as a draftsman, and very obviously took your username as reference...

I'd advise you to continue considering the Excal. It is a proven force in the water, and I love my CTX. Watch the for sale forums here and you'll see them surface rather often for affordable bucks.

And, I'll throw this in. Get involved here and you'll find friends. You'll also learn more than you can imagine through personal interactions.

Keep the faith! There's wonders to be found.
 

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Drafter, you've been around 9 months with your 5th post! I'm responding to your post mostly because I began my 40 year career in engineering as a draftsman, and very obviously took your username as reference...

I'd advise you to continue considering the Excal. It is a proven force in the water, and I love my CTX. Watch the for sale forums here and you'll see them surface rather often for affordable bucks.

And, I'll throw this in. Get involved here and you'll find friends. You'll also learn more than you can imagine through personal interactions.

Keep the faith! There's wonders to be found.

Great advise! You really can find some good friends here [emoji3]



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Been a while since I've posted on this thread but now that Ive used the Excal for nearly 2 yrs I have to say it is my preferred machine. I like it even over my CTX. In the water it is a MUST! I use a PP toggle switch and can swap out coils with a quick disconnect. It's a simple machine. Hunt in PP. When you hear a target, switch to discrim. If it hits both ways DIG IT! If you hear faints in PP and nothing in Discrim. Dig a hole or two. Then check again. MANY times an initial tone will change. Also if you're digging a target and suddenly its "GONE" dig another time or two. It most likely will magically re-appear.
Air testing is VERY different than digging REAL targets that are 10+ inches down. Soil conditions, water action, direction of swing, speed of swing, and what you ate for breakfast can all play in how it "reads" to you. For the most part I've given up on trying to decipher tones other than obvious foil. To me aluminum and pennies and rings all sound the same. I run full volume, full sens, discrim 1 and threshold like an upset mosquito in my ear and hunt in PP and switch on a target to verify. Hope this helps.
 

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Keep if hunting in PP try turning threshold to where if you turn it any lower threshold with disappear, I have found a free many hours of testing by doing this I can hear even deeper targets that I can't hear if you turn the threshold up like the tiny mosquitoes your ear.

I have quarter buried at 18" in my test garden that I can hear with 10" coil this way and if I turn up threshold to like a mosquito I can't hear it, threshold drowns it out.

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Good info for the newby. But they need to know in the field it is going to be a learning process. Until you hear these sounds several times in and out of the water you will not remember the tones. Best thing is, if your new dig everything! I repeat dig everything! If I'm having a slow day I will confirm what I think the tone is by digging it anyway. Don't know if you don't dig. Happy hunting everyone.
 

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