Anyone own both AT pro and Excalibur II?

[Irishgoldhound]

I have an AT pro and Im just wondering if adding an excalibur to my arsenal will improve my finds in the gold department or is my at pro a sufficient enough water machine against the excalibur and maybe I should go with a better land machine like a safari or etrac or one of the whites. ?? I'm in fresh water lakes if this helps.

 

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[firemac]

I tried my at pro on the salt beach and shallow water, but I didnt think it was my best choice for the situation. On a couple trips to the beach I let a friend use the at pro on the dry and wet sand and on the next trip I let him use my etrac on the beach, he bought an etrac, he said the etrac was much better on the beach for him. As for myself I use my excal ll in the surf and usually on the beach. Hope this helped, HH

 

[firemac]

also, my cousin uses the at pro on fresh water lakes here around DFW and has good luck with it, HH

 

[Irishgoldhound]

Thanks! Would you say your finds are more with the excalibur than your AT?

 

[cudamark]

The AT Pro should be fine for fresh water unless: you need the absolute max depth in which case I would get a PI machine, or you need to hunt in water deeper than 10 feet and want discrimination, which is where the Excalibur will shine. The Excal should give you a little more depth than the AT also....not a lot but sometimes just and inch is the difference between a gold ring in your pouch and nothing. All the Minelab's are great on the beach or real shallow water.....Sov, Explorer, E-trac, CTX3030. I don't use the AT Pro here on my salt water beaches because to get them stable, you lose too much depth.

 

[Irishgoldhound]

Ok so it's just depth that will more less be the factor against the two and anything in my path that the excal will pick up, the AT pro will also? As long as its in depth reading of the AT? Or is the multi frequency of the excal going to sniff out more gold where the AT may skip over being a single frequency. ??

 

[Fletch88]

I had an atp but sold it. If your just in freshwater the pro is a good machine. Excal excels in salt and freshwater. My favorite land machine is the Etrac.

 

[cudamark]

Ok so it's just depth that will more less be the factor against the two and anything in my path that the excal will pick up, the AT pro will also? As long as its in depth reading of the AT? Or is the multi frequency of the excal going to sniff out more gold where the AT may skip over being a single frequency. ??

In bad ground, that would probably factor in too. At the bottom of a lake where you just have some silt or mud, not so much unless there is a lot of mineralization in that muck. It's mainly depth and stablization that make the Excal slightly better in fresh water. That and the ability to dive deeper.

 

[Irishgoldhound]

Lots of great info thanks.