Excalibur on land. A good fit?

[glory-days]

Has anyone used their Excalibur on land? I love my Excal 1000 in the water but am having a tough time with it on land. Any pointers such as settings? Is all metal the way to go on land? Thank you in advance, Glory-Days

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I have used my excal on land, it worked good. I just felt it was too heavy for the land hunting, and bought a light land unit to use on the occassions that I land hunt. On the beach I can cool off in the water.

 

[Sandman]

Like Treasure_Hunter I too have found the Excal a little on the heavy side on land, but the Sov GT is the same detector designed for land hunting. I've used the Sov. on land and it is a good machine since I never use LCD screens anyway. You can use all metal, but the disc. works fine since both ignore iron anyway and only report on more conductive metals like gold, silver, foil, pull tabs. With practice you can tell pretty good what the target is by the tone and the ramp up or ramp down sound. Neilo or Jeff could describe it better.

 

[gold-digger]

The excal withthe straight shaft isnt too bad on the sand. I have a Quattro too, its much heavier with that 10" coil.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

The excal works good on land, just heavy to carry all day, even with the strap. One thing nice though, you don't have to run to the car when a quick shower surprises you.

 

[EDDE]

yup a weather proof or water proof detector is great for those unexpected tickle showers

 

[neilo]

Using the Excalibur on land the first thing is to mount it on a good balanced shaft. Settings on land depend on what you are after and where.On the beach I would set the discrimination to minimum this activates the iron mask feature and blanks out most iron objects apart from large ones. Because of the ease of digging I would dig all targets which do not discriminate out. A small gold ring or chain will sound the same as a small piece of alfoil,I would sooner dig a bit more rubbish than lose out on a nice ring or piece of jewelry.I would set the sensitivity to the maximum manual setting allowable before it starts giving false signals.A good indication is if you get signals as you raise and lower your coil it is set too high.On a park where it is harder digging and you would get a lot of rubbish I would set the disc setting to about 5, this setting will still allow you to find larger gold rings and coins whilst discriminating out a lot of your small rubbish items.The sensitivity set the same as the beach. I do not like using auto for sensitivity because if you are in an area of high mineralisation the machine over compensates and turns its own sensitivity down too low.If relic hunting use all metal and once again max senitivity manual setting, you can always turn your disc on if you want to identify whether your target is non ferrous.Here is something which most people dont realise if you are running in all metal a gold item has a completely different tone. Try it and you will see, with practice you will be able to recognise the difference. well good hunting seeya Neilo