I was fresh water beach hunting the other day and found a few clad with my tejon and a ton of trash having fun bright and early. The only time I can get out is real early before the kids get up. I met a guy in waders and an excal 2 we got to talking and I know some is war stories but I was really impressed. He pulled out a large silver chain and said he finds 40 plus gold rings a year. So I started to read about different detectors and narrowed it down to the cz21 and excal 2 so after thinking about it awhile I bought the excal 2 new. It comes with a long handle scoop and hip mount and I have a wet suit so I'm going to try waist high water first at the local lakes. I had a nice trex scoop but dold it because I never went in the water ill get a better one if I get into it. I hope to find some cool stuff.
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scubadetector
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Good luck out there and BE SAFE. None of your gear is worth your life. Depends on where you are IF it's possible to find 40 gold rings a year. My highest year was 76. HOWEVER, I am not a normal water.
hunter.
Also remember gold just doesn't jump into ones scoop. You have to put in a LOT of time to find that much gold. I am out there at least 5 days a week. He might be also.
hunter.
Also remember gold just doesn't jump into ones scoop. You have to put in a LOT of time to find that much gold. I am out there at least 5 days a week. He might be also.
He had a custom one it had d handle shape on the handle. It looked to ss but I'm not positive. It was 6-7 inches wide maybe 9-10 inches deep but wider at the mouth and looked heavy duty and had mesh in the bottom of the scoop the d handle made it real easy to shake out the sand. Way different from my trex that I had. Again very nice guy and I hope run into him again.. I don't know how many of his finds are local he didn't say he said he travels. But I hope to find atleast one LOL. Ill do my best to be safe nothing is worth getting hurt or worse. So I'll keep to the beachs I know for now.
I bought it from Vance. I have owned a CTX 3030 and an AT Pro thinking I would get in the water but never went over a foot just getting the coils wet from the sand line. So after talking to the guy with the excalibur 2 I knew I wanted a water detector. Seemed to be the one everyone suggested when I googled excalibur 2 vs cz21. The dealers also swayed me more to minelab and I liked my past minelabs so thats how I decided. LOL I almost quit detecting this year because I don't have a lot of time to go but I hope to get up early and back before the wife and kids even know I left.
Nothing succeeds like success, if you can learn from someone who is producing- do so! Find all you can from them and watch what and how they do things. Think! An amazing amount of getting better results is thinking about where good things are lost and how. Excal is a great machine, a bit heavy and has a learning curve to get what it is saying straight, but it is the gold standard for salt water beach hunting. Working tides and locations help, no substitute for working to get the skill set where it needs to be. Hang in there!
Thats how I roll, up super early (4am) check the Forums, and get in a couple hrs. hunting and home and at work before the wife even knows I'm gone!..
You should try to develop a relationship with that guy you met...40+ gold rings per yr puts him in the top .005 bracket as far as detectorists go...so he's either really really good, or a bullcrapper of the highest magnitude. Nothing wrong with that, in fact, under different circumstances, you may have met ME!
Either way, you can learn something from a guy like that! some super successful gold hunters are friendly and readily share info, Like Scubadee and others here on the Forum, so you may have met such a person who would mentor you to the secrets of hunting mega gold...
Seems like he has the right gear to not be a bullcrapper, but any old guy with a CC can buy that gear and look the part...40+ is a red flag regarding that, maybe once in a lifetime super year, if a guy is unemployed, dedicated, spry, financially independent, right place, single, etc..but 40+ consistently is another thing...especially without tanks!
You'd be in the top 3% if you can find 10 gold items per year, just once in your life, and some guys that post here do, year after year, and never get in the water, which is amazing, lots of successful traits to pattern your hunting style after if a fellow reads as many posts as possible, yes water and beach hunting is where the majority of gold is found, so now you are all set up for success......work your local beaches/water as much as you can and figure them out, theres gold there someplace! You have the right gear, now its just getting that coil over it and scooping it up! Good Luck!
Mud...
You should try to develop a relationship with that guy you met...40+ gold rings per yr puts him in the top .005 bracket as far as detectorists go...so he's either really really good, or a bullcrapper of the highest magnitude. Nothing wrong with that, in fact, under different circumstances, you may have met ME!
Either way, you can learn something from a guy like that! some super successful gold hunters are friendly and readily share info, Like Scubadee and others here on the Forum, so you may have met such a person who would mentor you to the secrets of hunting mega gold...Seems like he has the right gear to not be a bullcrapper, but any old guy with a CC can buy that gear and look the part...40+ is a red flag regarding that, maybe once in a lifetime super year, if a guy is unemployed, dedicated, spry, financially independent, right place, single, etc..but 40+ consistently is another thing...especially without tanks!
You'd be in the top 3% if you can find 10 gold items per year, just once in your life, and some guys that post here do, year after year, and never get in the water, which is amazing, lots of successful traits to pattern your hunting style after if a fellow reads as many posts as possible, yes water and beach hunting is where the majority of gold is found, so now you are all set up for success......work your local beaches/water as much as you can and figure them out, theres gold there someplace! You have the right gear, now its just getting that coil over it and scooping it up! Good Luck!
Mud...
triplehooked
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I got into water hunting a couple of years ago the same way. I was dry sand hunting and ran into a fella who happened to be taking a lunch break. He asked how i was doing and i showed him a handful of coins, i asked him the same and he held up his hand with four rings on it...that made me an instant water hunter...lol. I only hunted one summer, but ended up with a couple of gold rings, a half dozen silver rings, and a couple of bracelets, most of which my wife and two girls claimed.... I ended up selling my cz20 to help fund a land detector. In hindsight i wished i would have kept that detector, it was a hot one. Anyways, i also recently picked up a water detector, this time a Beach Hunter 300. I like the CZ better, but hey, I'm in the water! I also got a T rex scoop, i like it much better than the stealth scoop so far. Best of luck, and we look forward to seeing what you find! The guys on here are top notch and know their stuff.