Reverse Hunting with Excal II?

[Tampa44]

I was just wondering if anyone has had good luck reverse hunting? I am new to the Excal and was thinking of giving this a shot.
Thanks!

 

[Barry NY]

Only way to fly - picks up deeper signals. Slight slowdown in your hunt (stop, switch to DISC, swing) but well worth it IMHO.

 

[plymouthian12]

what is reverse hunting?

 

[Barry NY]

using allmetal (pinpoint in excal) to initially find the target, then switch over to disc to see if it nulls out on iron or not.

 

[ToniSteve]

Hi,
Will it null out on 3 or 4" nails? I am trying to decide whether to get a BHID 300 or Excal here for the Northwest. I have heard it is to mineralised here for the Whites. But am not sure.

Kind Regards,
Steve

 

[JOHNMARKHAM]

well my experince in doing so has netted me more
trash from beach !!no gold or clad just junk, but when
I'm swinging on beach I'll switch to all metal just to see what happens
I can only say as far as I'm concerned I've done allot
better in disc mode on my Excalibur 2,but I'm only
a newbie too..
Good luck to all
John

 

[kered]

The deeper targets are what most are looking for(usually good stuff) in all metal the excalibur is deeper, quite regularly i hit targets in all metal that in disc mode just don't register at all and untill a few inches have been taken off you can't check in disc, these would of been passed by if used soley in disc mode.
Once disc mode starts to register you can then decide to dig it out or not, no need to dig any more trash than in pure disc mode, also with a bit of practice you can tell by the shape and sound in all metal if its crap or not.

In one of the videos posted recently one of the targets doesn't register in disc mode till a few boot scrapes have been removed

 

[Cupajo]

Slow really means "SLOW" too!!

 

[pbrods]

I thought that you could swing a little faster in all metal? It's in Disc you need to slow down because the detector has to sort through everything

 

[kered]

I find you can slightly but you need real good coil control as raising or lowering the coil an inch will cause a slight alteration in the steady threshold, also too much will cause what i call a wuwuwuw(oscillation) as it struggles to compensate for ground change, you end up rechecking the zone anyway just in case, so no forward advance is achieved.
In the water your limited to you strength so too much speed is more difficult anyway and you'll soon slow down with fatigue

Nothing beats a good steady methodical swing, figure S type rather than side to side

 

[Lake Hunter]

Reverse disc is great for deeper targets. It works the best for me. But if i'm hunting freshwater sand that has a hard bottom and is only 6-7" deep, I hunt in disc only. Also, coil control is the key.

 

[Willee - Texas]

I was just wondering if anyone has had good luck reverse hunting? I am new to the Excal and was thinking of giving this a shot.
Thanks!

I would check it out with a buried coin in your test garden before I tried it in the field.

It has been my experience with my two Excalibur II detectors that the Disc mode will usually detect targets deeper than the pinpoint mode.
Others say just the opposite but that is what I have experienced with my machines here on the Gulf coast.

Another tip ... dont run your sensitivity in AUTO or at the MAX ... if you hear any falsing or chatter cut it back.
Try setting it to around 12 O'clock.
Again this can be tested in your test garden.

Willee

 

[Willee - Texas]

I thought that you could swing a little faster in all metal? It's in Disc you need to slow down because the detector has to sort through everything

In the water you are not going to be able to swing very fast due to water resistance.

 

[pbrods]

What's better for finding more jewelry? Searching the water at low tide or at low tide, searching the wet sand. You can search more area of wet sand then the water and the wet sand IS under the water at times but the water at low tide is reserved for only detectorists that have water machines, but limits the amount of time and area you can cover

 

[windhunt]

I have found more rings in the water then in wet sand at low tide and I cannot explain why.

 

[Pritch]

Just to clarify. When you hunt in pinpoint and get a signal, you switch to discriminate. Are you then listening for the threshold to disappear if it is an iron target as opposed to staying steady meaning it is a deep target outside the discrimination range?

 

[kered]

Just to clarify. When you hunt in pinpoint and get a signal, you switch to discriminate. Are you then listening for the threshold to disappear if it is an iron target as opposed to staying steady meaning it is a deep target outside the discrimination range?

when you switch to disc mode you will get either

1. iron null
2. normal target sound
3. nothing but a stable threashold, this is a deep target and you will need to take of a few inches of sand and try again till the disc mode gives you a signal strong enough for you to decide wheather to dig or not

 

[Barry NY]

yes - BUT - make sure you switch to Disc and if it immediately nulls out switch it back to PPoint then back again to Disc - sometimes the Excal "remembers" the last tone you had in Disc so it needs the reset done (disc to ppoint to disc will reset the disc sound)...

 

[Pritch]

Very helpful. I'll try using those techniques in Cocoa Beach!

 

[OldBeechnut]

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