bigscoop
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Well, today was my first day on the beach with my newly created “Skull Digger” by OBN Custom Detectors, (I’ve lovely come to name my new Excal hybrid, Skull Digger.) First, the beach conditions today were very sanded in, and while this was entirely expected the seeing is believing was still quite disappointing. I had been silently hoping for a fantasy cut but so much for that notion. But back to the machine.
I gotta tell ya, that remote switch is the best thing since chocolate, and I absolutely love chocolate. No more reaching around and then back again, all it takes is a finger now and suddenly PP mode has become my best friend. You hardly have to break stride to check a target in both modes and the quick and convenient switch is the cat’s meow when investigating those nulls, faints, whispers, and when rooting out those deep uncertainties. I can’t believe this isn’t standard feature of every Excal. If you’ve never used one you don’t know what you’re missing.
As for the “Skullies”, took about an hour to adjust the threshold & volume to where I wanted them, the first couple of targets blasting through like trumpets but a little tweaking took care of this rather easily. And speaking of blasting in, the first thing I noticed right away was that the usual tics were now thumps, a lot crisper and cleaner to the ear, even the very tiny ones. And those threshold whisper breaks, nearly impossible to miss now, the edges at both ends being much sharper and cleaner. Which brings me to depth.
Today I got a very slight threshold break and so I took a scoop of sand off the top of the target, switched to disc and stuck the coil in the hole but got no response, so back to PP and the threshold break was still there. Again I removed another scoop of sand, a full scoop this time, and again I stuck the coil into the hole and shook it a bit, now just the faintest of tics so I switched to Disc but got nothing. One more scoop removed and now I’m getting a slight broken null/tone thing going on so I switch to PP and there it is, a very small but sharp tone. At this point I’m guessing something really large, like a huge chunk of iron or a very large piece of chromed or steel & copper mixed something? One more full scoop which was now becoming a bear and I nearly decided to give up on the piece of crap, but new machine so why not keep going, and so I did. A few more scoops and a couple of wrestling matches later and I was looking at a small sterling cuff bracelet. There is no doubt in my mind that I would have completely missed this extremely deep target prior to the Skullies and remote switch. And this same act was repeated at least another half-dozen times today, the ability to here those really deep faints and slight threshold breaks now dramatically improved, and it was even quite windy today. I must say I couldn’t happier with the machine and I can honestly say today was first time I’ve felt that I actually had a profession machine in my hand. I actually walked away from the beach today with a great deal of confidence in spite of the mounting sand that was already on the beach and with little fear of the sand yet to come. I simply can’t believe the difference in the before and after. Very impressive! Thanks OBN!
I gotta tell ya, that remote switch is the best thing since chocolate, and I absolutely love chocolate. No more reaching around and then back again, all it takes is a finger now and suddenly PP mode has become my best friend. You hardly have to break stride to check a target in both modes and the quick and convenient switch is the cat’s meow when investigating those nulls, faints, whispers, and when rooting out those deep uncertainties. I can’t believe this isn’t standard feature of every Excal. If you’ve never used one you don’t know what you’re missing.
As for the “Skullies”, took about an hour to adjust the threshold & volume to where I wanted them, the first couple of targets blasting through like trumpets but a little tweaking took care of this rather easily. And speaking of blasting in, the first thing I noticed right away was that the usual tics were now thumps, a lot crisper and cleaner to the ear, even the very tiny ones. And those threshold whisper breaks, nearly impossible to miss now, the edges at both ends being much sharper and cleaner. Which brings me to depth.
Today I got a very slight threshold break and so I took a scoop of sand off the top of the target, switched to disc and stuck the coil in the hole but got no response, so back to PP and the threshold break was still there. Again I removed another scoop of sand, a full scoop this time, and again I stuck the coil into the hole and shook it a bit, now just the faintest of tics so I switched to Disc but got nothing. One more scoop removed and now I’m getting a slight broken null/tone thing going on so I switch to PP and there it is, a very small but sharp tone. At this point I’m guessing something really large, like a huge chunk of iron or a very large piece of chromed or steel & copper mixed something? One more full scoop which was now becoming a bear and I nearly decided to give up on the piece of crap, but new machine so why not keep going, and so I did. A few more scoops and a couple of wrestling matches later and I was looking at a small sterling cuff bracelet. There is no doubt in my mind that I would have completely missed this extremely deep target prior to the Skullies and remote switch. And this same act was repeated at least another half-dozen times today, the ability to here those really deep faints and slight threshold breaks now dramatically improved, and it was even quite windy today. I must say I couldn’t happier with the machine and I can honestly say today was first time I’ve felt that I actually had a profession machine in my hand. I actually walked away from the beach today with a great deal of confidence in spite of the mounting sand that was already on the beach and with little fear of the sand yet to come. I simply can’t believe the difference in the before and after. Very impressive! Thanks OBN!
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A lot of deep stuff. Note the pyramid sinker that's all crusted over, that was a really deep hit. 
