Excalibur help

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Tenderfoot
Sep 13, 2013
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ocean city maryland
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currently looking to buy one
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Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
New to this site and this hobby and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Recently purchased a Minelab Excalibur and use it at the beach. Having success finding coins (no gold yet) but when I take it down into the water every time the wash from the wave passes over the coil, it signals as if it "hit" on something and I know it's just the water rushing over the coil. Is this normal or do I need to adjust my settings. I'm hunting in the Discrimination mode not pinpoint, Sensitivity is set a 6, discrimination is 1 and volume is 3/4. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Steve
 

Relax this is normal on some beaches. You might be hitting some black sand too a long with the salt content. It won't do this in deeper water is my guess. You could back off the sens when in very shallow water too.
 

Yup, it's common and a minor annoyance. I run mine as hot as I can. Volume max, sensitivity max, discrimination all the way to the left at 1, Threshold loud enough to hear any variance in tone. If you hunt in all metal (pin point), you'll gain a couple of inches and you'll have a lot less trouble with EMI and "wave" sounds. It takes a little getting used to. At first I couldn't stand hunting in pin point, but now I like it a lot better. About the only time I don't, is around a fire ring....just too many sounds!
 

Thanks to everyone for the help. Being new to this it's hard to know if I'm doing things correctly but I'm having a blast walking the beach. Can't wait to find my piece of gold.......
 

Let me know if you would like to meet up...I am down on the weekends.. Friday to Mondays... OC has been good to me this summer...
 

would like to very much, in the process of moving down there this month and we are up on 123th street. Real new to this and would like to get some pointers. I'm not finding any gold items but always find coins. Just found my oldest to date a 1949 penny. How can I get in touch with you.

Thanks - Steve
 

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