Beach hunter 300 ID or Excalibur?

[zeemang]

I'm really giving a new water machine some serious thought, my beaches have ALOT of rusty metal in the sand, pull tabs galore also. The new machine needs to be waterproof, so the sov gt is out unfortunately.
I'm kind of torn right now, i've been watching videos on youtube for the excal and it looks awesome, but the diff in sounds between a pull tab and a coin don't seem so obvious to me...I'd hate to get one to find out i can't tell the difference.
On the other hand we have the beach hunter 300 ID, but am wondering how accurate the machine is in ID'ing different targets.
Depth wise how do they compare?
I'm trying to compare apples to apples, price wise they are close, i just need some honest opinions.
Thanks!

[roob47]

well i was gonna start a similar thread but i also want to know this but i want to go with either a bh300 id or the dual field pi , i really like the fact that the 300 id has the lights to kinda help in determining what im about to dig. Any advice would also be very helpful ,
PS. I also looked at the minelab but quickly figured it was out of my price range-
PS#2 hey zeemang hope you dont mind but we seem to be asking the same question

hey zeemang i see you already have the seahunter , is that one not working out?

[zeemang]

Sea hunter hits on EVERYTHING, no disc at all. I'm kind of tired of digging iron, so looking for a non-pi than is good in the water, good depth, and great discrimination. I think i'm leaning alot more towards the excalibur....

[roob47]

ahhhhhhh so that's what a P.I. does.... gotta do some more

[zeemang]

That's what a pi does, and deep too! BUT....many here swear they can hear the difference between iron and better finds, i can not. I must be tone deaf or something....Everyone is different.

[BrownBear]

I own the 300 ID, it's a beach monster. I have tons of coins and some gold rings.

The good: it hits deep and fast.
The bad: pinpointing sucks and the coil floats.
The trick: all metal, ground at 12 o clock, sen preset, don't dig any red

Anything else you wanta know just pm

[roob47]

Hey brownbear thanks for the input i was also wondering how deep it could go , that's cool im really leaning toward the 300id.

[roob47]

hey zeemang i ended up going with the BHID 300 it should be here by next week i look forward to posting finds as i have with my previous detectors , ill let you know how i like it im sure i will.
PS. The whites website has a page dedicated to this detector many good post there to research, good luck on your decision and let us know how it goes!

[BrownBear]

Hey, you can also supertune the 300 Id. It's a trick I found on the forum finds mall.com the 300 id goes very very deep


Brownbear

[roob47]

Sweet! as long as it doesn't mean modification or warranty void im all in!