Minelab Excalibur 1000
Street Price $1000 - Beach, water
Number of Reviews: 51
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JG in Fl -
I have both a Fisher Coinstrike & the Excal 1000.<br /> <br /> The Fisher loves rings which I use on dry land and the Excal is good in the water. They both do well against other detectors in similiar conditions.<br /> <br /> So I take both to the beach in Fl.<br /> <br /> It is important to get the correct settings for both to respond properly. Depending on ground or sand conditions, and settings they will provide good depth...and there is a tremendous amount of trash everywhere so you have to dig around it...
Aug 21, 2010
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South fl excal
Matt in S. FL -I just got my excal 2 days ago I used it today on land and in ocean. I found a few coins a piece of junk earing and a matchbox car in the water. It seems to run smooth in water and on the sand, with minimal discrimination it toned out many bottle caps and foil, I dug a few up just to make sure it wasn't anything good and it wasn't.
I have only used it 1 day and there definitely are many tones to learn. It scares me to hear 2 outta 10 don't have problems, I think and hope mine is ok. I look forward to waking up early and going to use it 1st thing. I purchased it from kelly co, they were very nice. I also have a fisher f5, it always says a nickel when its a bottle cap. It doest seem like I have this problem with the excal. I hope.
I found alotta coins with the fisher and even a 14 k gold ring the 1st month I used it but it seemed very erratic and I almost didn't even dig the ring I found that day. I called fisher any they said the way it acts is normal, I don't know. I'd like to keep the fisher for an extra but if the excal holds up and keeps working good, I'll probably sell the fisher, any way I hope I got a good build on my excal and look foward to hopefully finding some nice jewelry to pay for it.
Thanks and happy hunting.
Aug 12, 2010
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Excalibur user for 4 years now
Joe/Oldebeechnut in Baltimore Maryland -I own both the 800 & 1000 excaliburs, older models. Both have servered me well during this time, no problems. They do have there weird tones but in time you will learn and master them, if the treasure is there, the excal will give you the best chance to find it....The new excal II's seem to have issues at about 2 bads per 10 sold, mostly coil problems. I am going to buy excal II but I'm waiting for them to clear up there Quality control problems...I'm guessing 1 year plus. Here is the excal in action, few of my vid's on the excal<br /> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLGLzSfsEi4<br /> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQay_zerS1U<br /> these will give ideas of what to expect using the excals, and the new excal II<br /> Good Luck.....................Joe/Obn<br /> <br />
Jul 31, 2010
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Extremely Fun and Versatile All-Terrain Metal Detector
Jesse in Spokane, WA USA -I purchased a Minelab Excalibur II about a year ago and although I'm not a "pro" and I haven't had a chance to use it near the ocean yet, I can tell you it is the most fun I've had in a long time.
I caught onto the different tones it makes early on and how to manually configure the different settings to read deeper into the ground. What I did was setup a "garden" like you've probably read elsewhere and spent a few hours learning the tones and beeps. If you use jewelry in your garden make sure to tie a string around it to a piece of wood or something just in case.
You could probably find it again with the detector but you'd hate to lose your wedding ring or something. Not that I used my wedding ring...
Anyways, I have used this on fresh water lake beaches, sand, dirt, gravel and other terrain and it seems to just work everywhere. I love it. At this point my most interesting find was an old wheat back penny that had a bullet hole through it, probably shot with a .22 rifle or something. I used a magnify glass to read the date and what not.
Happy detecting!
Jul 21, 2010
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MINELAB IS MAKING CHANGES
Brian K Fletcher in In The Sticks Pennsylvania -Hello
Lee Ivester in Mooresville NC
I am by no means making any excuses for minelab
I found out they have had all there old techs
quit because they were not relocating to Detroit
in minelabs relocation move.
They are training new techs right now, I wanted to send my 800 in and have it tested and gone over.
But I decided to wait until this winter.
Try contacting your attorney general office of consumer complaints they may be able to help you.
Jun 06, 2010
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Lemon
Lee Ivester in Mooresville NC -
Bought my detector for around $1000 (new) 5 years ago. It has never worked properly. Background tone is so erratic that you can't distinguish a good signal from noise. High pitch whine to low hum every time you swing the detector. Sent to factory twice for repairs but it was never fixed and cost me a lot! I probably have put less than 10 hours total on this machine over 5 years.Wrote a letter to Minelab describing my experience a few weeks ago but they didn't even pay me the courtesy of a reply. My next detector will not be a Minelab!!
May 01, 2010
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A + machine
M Barrett in Invercargill new zealand -I bought my minelab excalibur second hand over a year ago. I have used it for about 3-5 hours a day 5 days a week. Yea it was a bit heavy for the first couple of days but that wears off. This detector will detect everywhere in southland new zealand where we have some of the worst ground conditions in the world with no problems at all.It Can find small objects 15+ " where other detectors will not in field tests I have done. I use mine everywhere, beach, park,s woods, rivers, sea, ect. with amazing results.
Oct 03, 2009
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Thoroughly convinced by the results
GoldDiggerAtLast! in Minneapolis -I purchased my Excalibur II with 10-inch coil earlier this year. I bought a second one for my wife who shares my enthusiasm.
I hunted a local beaches that have been hunted before by others. I pulled coins up to 16" down - heavily corroded indicating they had been there quite some time.
I then moved into the water with it and within 30 minutes had a solid gold identification bracelet.
There is a learning curve with the Excalibur II. Go to Youtube and search for excalibur metal detector. There are several beach hunting videos that will give you a great start for free. Understand that AM = All Metal which is the "Pinpoint" setting on the excalibur.
Clive Clynick has written a number of helpful books. I purchased "Finding Gold, Silver and Coins with the Minelab Sovereign and Excalibur; Advanced Methods for Finding Gold in the water with the Minelab Excalibur; and his latest - Advanced Field Methods for the Minelab Excalibur. You will not fully understand them on the first read. Don't get frustrated - go use the machine and then re-read them. It will fall into place and you will be finding things others missed.
I have taken over $20.00 in change plus silver rings, chains, gold charms and the Gold braclet over the summer. In my humble opinion, the ability to hunt land and water, the discrimination capability provided by this instrument and the deep penetration achieved make this unit well worth the cost.
Sep 16, 2009
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Three year owner
Bob B in Gainesville, FL -I bought the Excalibur 1000 3 years ago when I had some extra bucks. Was expensive but the reviews I read justified. The first year I was dissapointed. Dug up 100s of pop tops. I live in the springs area of Florida and after three years of hitting the springs and beachs found lots of coins, a gold ring, bullet casings, charms and a musket ball. Getting to know the tones is important. It has hit things 9-12" deep in sand on the beach and thing deeper that I gave up digging on. The pinpoint feature is truely that. X over a spot and it is within 2 inches. One or two hand sholves down and you will scope up the target. Charge hold for a good 4-5 hours of hunting.
good hunting
So would I do it again. Yes.
Sep 12, 2009
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The best!!
Leon in Switzerland -I have been using metal detectors for a good 30 odd years now. I've had a series of different detectors, land and underwater and admittedly many were a lot easier to "get a hang of" but I must say that the excalibour 1000 can't be beat. It took me the best portion of two seasons till I was really "in tune" with how this detector was designed. The initial "Orchestral" sounds have to be understood till they settle down after their analysis of the metal/ground. You will have to experiment and be patient at first but once you have understood the sounds and "snaps" etc you find things as if it's going out of style, of course the goodies have to be present if you are to find anything! These days I just have to go into the water with my "baby" and I find coins everywhere, gold, silver, bronze.... you name it!!! This machine will satisfy you with out a doubt but you will need to practice patience. I have the first of the series which were fitted with blue head phones which would fall off with the slightest of water resistence, they will be refitted with the second yellow series one of these days, and the knobs I needed to replace with some screw-on type that would not fall off. O. Barns from Madagascar basically mentioned everything that you need to know concerning the "negative" things this detector has but I love my 1000 and would recommend it to anybody! Practice makes you perfect and don't forget to recharge the batteries over night! Happy hunting. Leon
Aug 29, 2009
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