twistidd
Bronze Member
- Nov 11, 2007
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- Detector(s) used
- White's Matrix M6 w/ Sun-Ray DX-1, 950 coil and 6x10 DD, Minelab Excalibur II, Garrett Ace 250, Garmin Etrex GPS
So it's official- the detector works fine, the problems I had experienced before were caused by the low battery. I headed out to the lake EARLY this morning with the girlfriend, was in the water at daybreak. After about thirty minutes in the water, she tells me she was just informed the lake was deemed not safe due to the deluge we just had. I guess the city opened up the drains and a lot of raw runoff was released into the lake to alleviate the sewer system or whatever. So I detected the dry sand for awhile, trying to learn the subtle difference in tone between a beer cap and a copper coin.
A few things I learned today: Water detecting is HARD WORK. I think strapping the brains of the Excal to a belt would help decrease drag, because after 30 minutes in the water, I felt like I had been detecting all day.
The deeper I went, the less targets I found. This may be because the season is still somewhat early, but nearly all the targets came from knee-high water.
The Excal goes DEEP- maybe too deep, lol. While trying to recover a target in deeper water, the sand would come in and fill the hole within seconds of my scooping sand out. I had to abandon some targets that I assumed were cans or large trash. My left wrist was killing me.
The pinpoint mode on the Excal is not the best. I stayed in DISC mode nearly the entire time, even when trying to pinpoint and recover a target.
Though the finds weren't great, I had a blast! Got barked and growled at by two dogs at different times, that's a first. Must have been Garrett fans. I tried to tell them that I was not biased and in fact owned a Garrett, but they opted to chase some seagulls instead. My first official find with the Excal, at the beach, was a pulltab.
Have fun this weekend!
Joe
A few things I learned today: Water detecting is HARD WORK. I think strapping the brains of the Excal to a belt would help decrease drag, because after 30 minutes in the water, I felt like I had been detecting all day.
The deeper I went, the less targets I found. This may be because the season is still somewhat early, but nearly all the targets came from knee-high water.
The Excal goes DEEP- maybe too deep, lol. While trying to recover a target in deeper water, the sand would come in and fill the hole within seconds of my scooping sand out. I had to abandon some targets that I assumed were cans or large trash. My left wrist was killing me.
The pinpoint mode on the Excal is not the best. I stayed in DISC mode nearly the entire time, even when trying to pinpoint and recover a target.
Though the finds weren't great, I had a blast! Got barked and growled at by two dogs at different times, that's a first. Must have been Garrett fans. I tried to tell them that I was not biased and in fact owned a Garrett, but they opted to chase some seagulls instead. My first official find with the Excal, at the beach, was a pulltab.
Have fun this weekend!
Joe
