CoilToTheSoil
Hero Member
- Mar 14, 2015
- 700
- 914
- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus
Minelab Sovereign xs2a Pro
Minelab Sovereign GT
Minelab X-Terra 705
Minelab Explorer SE
Minelab e-trac
Tesoro compadre
Whites v3i
AT Pro
Teknetics Gamma 6000
Bounty Hunter Camo LS
Bounty Hunt
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I know each person has their own preferences. Mine for a land machine has been my deus and it has performed superb in the time I've had it. Various other machines I have are an xterra 705 with small coil assortments to assist in Uber trashy areas that the deus 11" coil has a hard time with. I have an atpro with an assortment of coils purchased to water hunt primarily with. I have a sov xs2pro for beaches but it only has an 8" coil and needs to stay dry, though it does have a meter on it.
My recent problems with my atp presumably leaking during only its third water hunt and going dead has left me questioning the necessity for at least 2 of these detectors and whether or not they can be consolidated efficiently.
The ATP struggles with wet sand for the most part unless you are on a mild lucky beach with relatively low salinity. The sov does wonders but it's small coil and inability to get wet make it useful for only a very specific purpose. Between my sov setup and at pro and coils I could likely come out most of the way to a new warrantied excalibur. I have the deus waterproof kit so my dips in local rivers can be accomplished using the lite setup with waterproof gear. My 705 will stay for high high trash areas, the ATP and sov would go and be replaced by the excalibur for freshwater lakes and wet/dry saltwater beaches and brackish hunts. Given I've never used an excalibur but love the sovs ability to go deep on wet sand while maintaining the ability to discrim targets and love (at least the published claim) that the atpro is waterproof, would I not be able to seamlessly consolidate these 2 detectors into a single more powerful dedicated water machine, primarily for beach trips?
Thanks in advance!
My recent problems with my atp presumably leaking during only its third water hunt and going dead has left me questioning the necessity for at least 2 of these detectors and whether or not they can be consolidated efficiently.
The ATP struggles with wet sand for the most part unless you are on a mild lucky beach with relatively low salinity. The sov does wonders but it's small coil and inability to get wet make it useful for only a very specific purpose. Between my sov setup and at pro and coils I could likely come out most of the way to a new warrantied excalibur. I have the deus waterproof kit so my dips in local rivers can be accomplished using the lite setup with waterproof gear. My 705 will stay for high high trash areas, the ATP and sov would go and be replaced by the excalibur for freshwater lakes and wet/dry saltwater beaches and brackish hunts. Given I've never used an excalibur but love the sovs ability to go deep on wet sand while maintaining the ability to discrim targets and love (at least the published claim) that the atpro is waterproof, would I not be able to seamlessly consolidate these 2 detectors into a single more powerful dedicated water machine, primarily for beach trips?
Thanks in advance!
