I need a dual-purpose PI machine

[bigfish313]

Hello everyone,

I want to buy a PI machine for beach hunting & prospecting.
Are there any water-proof-changeable-coil beach detectors that could also double as a prospecting machine?
Under $700 would be nice too.

Thanks!
Bill

 

[Terry Soloman]

Dream on Bill! You can get a Tesoro Sand Shark for $600.00, but it is designed as a Saltwater machine. I have found nuggets with it, but nothing under 3-grams.

 

[bigfish313]

Dream on Bill! You can get a Tesoro Sand Shark for $600.00, but it is designed as a Saltwater machine. I have found nuggets with it, but nothing under 3-grams.

That's the machine I've been looking at.
I'm confused about the coil. Can you change the coil? I read on the Tesoro site that it's "fixed" but then I saw somewhere else that you could change it.

 

[tlane38003]

That's the machine I've been looking at.
I'm confused about the coil. Can you change the coil? I read on the Tesoro site that it's "fixed" but then I saw somewhere else that you could change it.

I think the earlier machines have a removable one

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[Treasure_Hunter]

That's the machine I've been looking at.
I'm confused about the coil. Can you change the coil? I read on the Tesoro site that it's "fixed" but then I saw somewhere else that you could change it.

Sand Sharks no longer come with changeable coils, you would have to find a used one that did. Your talking two different styles of hunting, saltwater beach and nugget prospecting, need 2 different detectors. to excel in both styles.

 

[cactusman]

They have been recently discontinued, but the Garrett Infinium sounds like what you are after.

 

[Carl-NC]

You need ground balance for prospecting, which most beach detectors don't have. And most prospecting PIs are not waterproof. I agree with the cactus, the Infinium, is the only one I can think of that has both. And you can swap coils on it, though selection is limited.