Minelab Excalibur settings ????

I have a new minelab excalibur and a friend of mine told me today that he was told a few yrs ago how to startup the minelab excalibur.  He said first put it in pinpoint...2 turn the sensitivity fully off (clockwise) 3 turn on threshold and adjust for a faint hum.
4- return sensitivity to Auto Position 5- then turn from PP to discriminate.

Can anyone agree or does it matter.  is their a special way for hunting the beach water or wet sand. ???

I never use PP, I just leave it in Disc.  I have as high a sens as the beach or surf will allow.  Threshhold is set at just a tiny hum, like a mosquito, but you want to hear it..  Disc at 1, if possible, you dont want to disc out anything, as gold jewelry is the first thing you loose.  You really dont have to go through any set up.  Volume is high enough to hear the threshhold, at a tiny hum, and to hear the very deep stuff.  If you cant hear the threshold change, you are missing deep stuff.  Sometimes you dont hear a wail, just a tiny change in the threshhold.  Dig it.

Hey that very good information  I can easily deal with that. I will try it. thanks.  do you start out with your coil on the ground then turn it on and adjust  or do you raise your coil first before you adjust  ?? 

Never heard of his procedure. I set the threshold till it sounds like a tiny mosquito in my ear, volume is maxed, discrimination set to 0, sensitivity is adjusted till unit is stable...