That would be an interesting option on the Excalibur. I wonder if OBN has played with that idea?
Is that true on both the Sword and the Blues?
I use a pin pointer to recover items that fall through the scoop holes. You can also get a Stealth Hybrid scoop that has smaller holes in the bottom section to help capture those tiny items.
BigScoop, TH, and Cuda,
I get it, you all have techniques that work for you on the locations that you hunt and you can ID an earring backing that is almost 2 feet deep. But the real question that is begging to be asked is.....What type of scoop are you using to recover an item that small? The holes in the scoops I am about to buy are way too big to keep an item that small in the scoop. It may seem like a silly question, but I am serious. If I am going to invest time in trying to recover items, I want to do it as efficiently as possible (lol, don't we all).
To each his own, In the 3 years I have hunted in reverse discrimination, I am constantly digging targets that all metal sees but discrimination never sees till I remove a couple scoops of sand. I trust what I personally experience and see, what is said in books I take with a grain of salt, primary point and purpose of books is sales, I have read many on detecting and see many statements in several that are completely wrong.
Sent from my P008 using Tapatalk
I think most of us relate our experience within our own environments, thus the reason why there are so many differences of opinion. When I was on the beaches in Florida everyday I would have no problem being in total agreement with you, however, having experienced a radical change in environment I can now fully appreciate a lot of those other opinions and experiences. Truth is simply this, there are no blanket settings or techniques for every environment/condition encountered and in fact what might work well in one environment might not work so well at all in others, just as I'm experiencing this very thing for myself. So blanket statements should, as you say, be taken with a grain of salt conditional to where and what environment they come from.