Garrett Seahunter Mark II
We
bought the newest "Garrett Seahunter Mark II" early last summer. We were attracted
to it because of the easy "change the batteries and go" feature which is very
convenient.
A lot of times when we go water hunting we don't have any place to plug in
a detector to recharge it.
We were surprised to see that it has 2 modes, a "Standard Elimination" and
a "Discreet Elimination," (which you can use with the Discrimination knob).
And we're still not sure what the difference is between the two. We have been
detecting in the salt water and normally pull everything that "beeps" anyway.
We started out by using the "Standard Elimination" and found that it does
not maintain a steady threshold in salt water. It kind of fades in and out,
or sways. Because of this, you're unable to hear the "whisper" of a deep target
(which is normally gold). And when the tide comes in, the swaying gets worse.
Plus when you find a signal, and remove the first scoop and rescan it, the
target produces a loud blast to your ears, even if it is a tiny target. We
talked to the company we bought it from, and all they could recommend was
"moving the headphones" away from your ears. Who wants to do this?
We tested the "Discreet Elimination" mode by finding a target in "Standard
Elimination" and then switching it to Discreet. When we did this, the target
became a whisper and we could hardly find it, couldn't tell if it was tiny,
or deep. It seemed to be easier to pinpoint in "Discreet" for larger targets,
but we're not sure yet how deep it is finding things.
We tested the "Discrimination" by putting it all the way to "9" to see what
it would detect, and we were still pulling nails and wires. We took the Seahunter
Mark II to a freshwater beach, and didn't seem to have any problem with maintaining
a threshold in Standard mode, yet your ears still get blasted.
Garrett needs to do something about the audio, or put volume controls on their
waterproof headphones. The company that we bought it from says, "You can't
beat it for the money." But it was costing us in "missing" deep gold. Recommended
for someone who wants to find recent losses. We sold this detector 2 months
after we bought it.
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