Minelab Excal - Underwater Pulltabs

[Deleted member 12200]

My Excal makes solid passes at Pull Tabs, especially when I'm in Salt Water. I have the threshold at about half, sensitivity about half, discrimination 3 and I'm in Disc Mode. Is this something I'll have to live with while trying to get at the good stuff? Can I change my settings? Will my ears eventually learn what a Pull Tab sounds like?

 

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[XT18000]

Better to use NO disc. and get the gold along with the pull tabs than to use any disc. and miss it.

 

[txkickergirl]

Zero discm in the water and dig all the pull tabs. I have noticed that pull tabs sound different from time to time, but every gold I have pulled has sounded like a pull tab in the water. I will tell you a trick though. When you hit on it turn your discm to half way if it does not beep then theres a good chance its a gold ring DIG IT, another 1-2 notches up and if it beeps still then its a pull tab but could be large gold. After that it should cut out, if it doesn't then its a coin. Like I said in the water I dig it all and keep my discm on zero, but on dry sand I can go crazy with pull tabs so I will use this trick.

 

[Sandman]

The settings I use are Sens. set as high as conditions allow, sometimes 9 o'clock and sometimes only 3. Disc at Zero or 1. Volume all the way up, put tape over the drain holes in the earcups. Threshold where you can barely hear it.

You can lay down some pull tabs on the dry sand with out any other metals near by and then some gold rings of white and yellow gold of different sizes. Sweep the coil over each target to listen to the sounds. This will tell you that you are just going to have to scoop all the sounds you will hear since there won't be as many pull tabs out in the water compared to dry sand and you don't want to take a chance of missing one good ring because you were lazy to dig what you thought was a pull tab.

Good Luck,
Sandman

 

[txkickergirl]

Sandman, why tape over the drain holes?
Is it to cut out the noise from the wind and surf?

 

[TheSleeper]

The drain holes are there to help the headphones equalize during diving. For wading they are not needed and sealing them allows you to hear just a lil touch better those faint signals when using a low threshold. Its amazing how much outside noise comes in though those lil holes.
For someone that is 1000% positive they will never get hit by a rouge wave or step in a hole and get dunked having minelab switch the stock plastic headphones out with even just the ur-30`s results in a dramantic sound difference, only drawback one dunking and there toast.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I set thresh to where it sounds like a tiny mosquito near my ear, volume is max, I set sense to where it becomes stable then back off just a hair. (usually between 9-3). It will depend on the amount of black sand in the water and interference. I NEVER EVER set my disc above 1, usually set it at 0. If you set it at half you are going to miss a lot of goodies.

Sweep North to South, turn 180 degrees sweep East to West, if you have a solid signal both directions, no matter how faint it is dig it. The excal will null on the iron, dig every thing else..................

Pull tabs are made with different base metals along with the aluminum, there are so many different sounds to them, some you will recognize every time, but many you want. The only way to skip digging pull tabs at the beach is to put the detector down and grab a frisbee.

Good luck and good hunting..................

 

[Dixie Digger]

I set thresh to where it sounds like a tiny mosquito near my ear, volume is max, I set sense to where it becomes stable then back off just a hair. (usually between 9-3). It will depend on the amount of black sand in the water and interference. I NEVER EVER set my disc above 1, usually set it at 0. If you set it at half you are going to miss a lot of goodies.

Sweep North to South, turn 180 degrees sweep East to West, if you have a solid signal both directions, no matter how faint it is dig it. The excal will null on the iron, dig every thing else..................

Pull tabs are made with different base metals along with the aluminum, there are so many different sounds to them, some you will recognize every time, but many you want. The only way to skip digging pull tabs at the beach is to put the detector down and grab a frisbee.

Good luck and good hunting..................

YEP this is exactally how i run mine !!!!!!!!!!

 

[lou423]

If you are digging in the sand, use as little discrimination as possible....

 

[lowtones]

Just dig those lowtones. Nickles pulltabs and GOLD will always come.
LT