SAND SHARK Question

[bcoop]

How does the Sand Shark compare with other PI units as far as depth on coins and jewelry on salt water beaches? I know all PI's are not the same but I have never used a PI unit of any manufacture.

 

[DewGuru]

I use the Shark regularly, not used another PI so cant compare, but I dig as deep as I want, and then some.

 

[Smudge]

I have owned and used:

Tesoro Sand Shark
White's Dual Field
Detectorpro PI Pulse
Garrett Sea Hunter

Of the four, my first pick is the Detectorpro because it is a deep, lightweight pulse detector. The only downside was it burns through batteries very quickly.

My second favorite was the Tesoro Sand Shark. It had great depth but the control box was very heavy and had to be hip mounted for prolonged use.

 

[tvr]

I can't do comparing yet either. Picked up a DetectorPro Head Hunter PI this past December and am hoping to hunt with it real soon.

The Sand Shark has done well for me. With the 10 inch coil I've dug bottle caps and hair pins as deep as about a foot, but not deeper (they get beyond detecting range or where I can hear a threshold change). Shallower hair pins give a distinctive double blip that is a no-dig, but deeper ones are harder to tell. Similar depth on nickles, a little less on dimes, a little deeper on quarters. Depth varies and depends on metal mass, ambient noise both audible and electromagnetic interference and in a few cases I've hit, ground conditions. Windy days, hard breaking waves and certain EMI sources affect how well I can discern the threshold changes due to metal under the coil.

The box can be mounted in a couple of different places on the stock shaft. I like it behind the arm rest. For me, with it positioned behind the arm rest, the Sand Shark is balanced where I can swing it comfortably all day. One of the best balanced set ups on a factory shaft that I have tried.
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[bcoop]

n/t

 

[calibil]

sand shark not the deepest PI but it will find chains other PI's miss

 

[DewGuru]

I've dug 2 foot targets with my Sand Shark -- don't know that I want to go much deeper than that.