Quote[Not trying to say Excal is better then Infinium, only saying an Excal with WOT coil is extremely deep and the combination will give any PI detector a run for the money, water or land....I used my Excal on land for well over a year and it was an excellent land detector....I have found tiny gold earrings with it as well as tiny gold rings. True, have found no tiny gold chains and could care less, very little gold in tiny chains, any chain that has a large clasp, or pendent will be found.]Quote
This might be true because you're hunting in FL. A pulse detector won't show its true potential depth wise in such clean sand........but come up N.E. and a PI will usually get deeper targets in bad black sand over most other detector types (each machine has its pros and cons)!
I also don't dig much iron and junk because I use the features and have learned the tones on the Infinium (ear training).
If you truly spend some time learning how to correctly use this detector, you'll dig much less junk over another PI detector.
I had a SOV and I'm not knocking it, it's a fine detector, I just didn't care for some of the nuances with it.
I've done much better with my Infinium, but hey, to each his own.
I also do relic hunting and the machine is a whip in this department
I'm not here to knock detectors, just stating the facts as I see them.
It also seems that some members on the various forums give opinions on machines that they've never owned, only read about or hearsay. To make an honest assessment about any detector, one should spend some time with it to fully evaluate the good and bad on that specific machine and come to their own conclusions!
A PI detector will shine in the depth dept as the mineralization and black sand increase.........I might not even use one if I lived and hunted in Florida.
Actually, now that I think about it, I would probably get one of the Eric Foster machines. If I were in FL or an area with clean sand, then there is one PI I would evaluate that some say ignores iron, and from what I've read is one of the deepest too, just doesn't work well in black sand (I would have to test this out for myself).
This is my last post for a awhile.......It's really tiring rehashing the same questions again and again when all the answers have already been posted on the forums.
Thanks and HAPPY HUNTING!
