anyone use their Excal on land

[kneedet]

since I just purchased the Excal and only used it at the beach, I was wondering how good they are on land for example at parks and such. thanks.

 

[paul23]

I use mine on UK farm land. It works well. Nice to know that the British weather wont harm it

Paul...

 

[kneedet]

I'm not concerned about the weight since I have it on a straight shaft but am concerned about how good it will preform on land

 

[Gulf Hunter]

It works fine, but the 8" is preferred to the 10", as land sights are trashy...especially parks. Gulf Huntress and I have taken them to parks....no worries.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

they are great in farm field old homesites....never used mine in a park other than beach ....pinpointing isnt acurate enough for me to park hunt with it...

 

[fredo]

problem is there is no meter

 

[Waterdog]

Headphones make you too hot

 

[boog]

I let my son use the e-trac and I use my excal when hunting dirt. I have found a 1809 1/2 cent and an 1816 large cent along with a 1945-s war nickel. Would rather use the e-trac but once you get used to it--no problem. I use the 11" stock coil and I feel that pinpointing is not really an issue. Definitely not for trashy areas.

 

[roger duron]

I am told, but don't know for sure, that it is basically the same machine as the Sovereign. If it is basically the same machine it will do great on land. I have used the Sovereign for years on land and really like it. Hope this helps.

 

[Critterhunter]

The guy I bought my GT from said he was a land hunter for coins. He prefered his Xcal for that being waterproof and I would assume also water hunts, so that's why he sold me his lightly used GT. I remember a big honker of a platnum ring he emailed me a picture of that he got on land (if memory serves) with his Xcal. I seem to remember him also swearing that he could often tell when he was about to dig a gold ring by the sound of it, or something along those lines.

 

[kneedet]

sounds like it will do just fine

 

[Tin Fin]

I use my excal on land = no problems at all. Pin pointing is a little different, but a hand held pinpointer helps with that too. I'm a little less accurate pinpointing with the excal, but not by a lot most of the time. Coins on edge, or nearly so give me more trouble with it than anything else. Other than that, it does just fine on land.

 

[Old California]

The Excalibur is the same as a Sovereign with no meter, many of us detected for years using a Sovereign with no meter at old parks and school play grounds.

In time, you can tell a deep coin signal from the audio. Plant a test garden using copper pennies at different depths, with practice you'll hear the differences on deeper coins compared to the shallow coins.

It takes about a year and then some to really master the Sovereign or Excalibur for different types of hunting. This includes deep turf detecting for old coins, gold jewelry hunting, hunting old sites full of trash and beach hunting which the learning curve is much quicker.

Start with a test garden, learn the audio especially the differences with same like targets at different depths.

We've all been there, very painful learning curve

Paul (Ca)

 

[Critterhunter]

The guy I bought my GT from said he was a land hunter for coins. He prefered his Xcal for that being waterproof and I would assume also water hunts, so that's why he sold me his lightly used GT. I remember a big honker of a platnum ring he emailed me a picture of that he got on land (if memory serves) with his Xcal. I seem to remember him also swearing that he could often tell when he was about to dig a gold ring by the sound of it, or something along those lines.

Meant to say he was a land hunter for RINGS.