Tiger Shark ?

[kevino1960]

Today was the first day I got to the beach w/ my Tiger Shark. It is one awesome machine and I am sure that as I learn it I will find alot of stuff. One question I have is should it constantly 'humm'? Is it normal for the tone to stop completely when the middle of the coil is over the target? What kind of tone does gold/ silver give? As I said today was my first and I have ALOT to learn!
Thanks, Kevin O

 

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[Sandman]

When you ground balance the Tiger Shark you do it in all metal mode and set the threshold volume to a low hum. If you switch to Disc. the tone goes away till you get the coil over metal. If you stop moving the coil, the sound nulls out. The coil has to be slowly moving.

It is very hard to describe the tone for gold and silver. It is not so much a change in the tone as the pitch. Best way to learn this is to find a clean piece of ground and lay down different targers and listen to them.

HH,
Sandman

 

[MikeH]

Sandman:
Thanks for your, and others, recent reply about the tiger shark regarding my question about whether adding visual ID would add much to the cost. I can't seem to locate the original thread I posted. In any event any info on this unit is much appreciated. I want a machine that can work reasonably well on both beaches and land, and at this point can only consider buying one machine. Anyway, thanks again to you and everyone.
MikeH

 

[dahut]

THe Tiger SHark CAN be run on land or in the water. I recall a review of the Stingray II from some years back and one of the things they did was to take the unit to a CW site. Of course they found stuff, as it is a good metal detector that happens to be waterproof!

Ditto the Tiger Shark. For land detecting it is a bit awkward/heavy, IMHO, but I dont see why you couldnt do it. I would rather have a Vaquero, as its lighter and you can adjust the SENS and THRESH at will. Something I do often enough, depending on the moment. My one complaint about the TS is that the SENS and THRESH cannot be adjusted from outside the housing - which was done for water hunting, where you dont need to do it much.

But if you can live with the SENS and THRESH as fixed parameters, Im sure you could hunt the land with the TS very well. Ive treid it and it works just fine.