Gobyman
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Hey All,
I'm just a noobie that got lucky through perserverence and good old luck,
Here's some background history on me:
Started MD'ing middle of last month, bought a used Viper for $200 and just started hitting all 4 beaches here in SW florida for 2 weeks straight, found about $10 in clad ($5 of it was in one day all in quarters in a 2 meter area) and some costume jewelry, but no luck on finding anything worth posting. So I decided to sell an 18K mens bracelet @ 39 grams I had (paid $300 back in 2000 for it ,when I was deployed in the sand box) and was able to get $780 as scrap for it. So then I was on the hunt for a used minelab excaliber ( did alot of research on these on-line, and they seem to be the best for beach MD'ing). So my first streak of luck was finding an Excaliber 1000 (2005 model) for $725 from a guy up in Orlando this last Tuesday. It came with the straight shaft upgrade with stainless steel arm wrap, extra alkaline battery pod and a coil cover. It definitely showed some use and the guy said the rechargeble pod was the original, so he wasn't sure how much time it would hold. Well on wed I let the batteries charge overnight and used the alkaline pod to due some practice in my backyard using clad and some gold and silver rings to try and get use to the different tones. So today thursday on my first outing to try my new (used) Excaliber heres what I found after 3 hours of MD'ing at one beach (2 hours chest high wading, 1 hr surfs edge) the ring was found at the surfs edge at approx 15 inches wet sand (took me 5 full scoops to get to it). Hope you like it (sorry for the pics, still getting used to my "macro" lenses for my camera)
I'm just a noobie that got lucky through perserverence and good old luck,
Here's some background history on me:
Started MD'ing middle of last month, bought a used Viper for $200 and just started hitting all 4 beaches here in SW florida for 2 weeks straight, found about $10 in clad ($5 of it was in one day all in quarters in a 2 meter area) and some costume jewelry, but no luck on finding anything worth posting. So I decided to sell an 18K mens bracelet @ 39 grams I had (paid $300 back in 2000 for it ,when I was deployed in the sand box) and was able to get $780 as scrap for it. So then I was on the hunt for a used minelab excaliber ( did alot of research on these on-line, and they seem to be the best for beach MD'ing). So my first streak of luck was finding an Excaliber 1000 (2005 model) for $725 from a guy up in Orlando this last Tuesday. It came with the straight shaft upgrade with stainless steel arm wrap, extra alkaline battery pod and a coil cover. It definitely showed some use and the guy said the rechargeble pod was the original, so he wasn't sure how much time it would hold. Well on wed I let the batteries charge overnight and used the alkaline pod to due some practice in my backyard using clad and some gold and silver rings to try and get use to the different tones. So today thursday on my first outing to try my new (used) Excaliber heres what I found after 3 hours of MD'ing at one beach (2 hours chest high wading, 1 hr surfs edge) the ring was found at the surfs edge at approx 15 inches wet sand (took me 5 full scoops to get to it). Hope you like it (sorry for the pics, still getting used to my "macro" lenses for my camera)
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. Also if you noticed in the pic's it also has a fourth diamond (small) on the inside of the band, it's part of the letters i guess, thought that was kinda unusual, but hey I'm not complaining. So I'm going down to Ft Myers to see my brother-in-law who is a jeweler to get it appraised (hoping the diamonds are real 
) I'll post an update on what I find out. I must admit I was a little skeptical about all the hype over Minelab's Excaliber's, but now you can count me as a true believer 
