Etrac Testimonial

[RL OH]

I have owned every Explorer model since they came out and have had great success with all of them. When the Etrac came out a year or so ago, I was swinging a SE pro and I hesitated buying an Etrac because the Se was as "good as they get" in my mind. I always am buying and trading detectors and last winter I was on the phone with the dealer I do business with and he raved about the Etrac. I was buying a coil for one of my backup detectors and out of the blue, he talked me into buying an Etrac. I traded my Se pro and one other detector for the Etrac. Being December, I had a new toy and no weather to try it. I read the book and played with the menu in the house, but still no weather to try it. Finally we got two days of rain and some high 30's weather. The ground was thawed so I took it to my favorite park. I can scare up a wheatie or two and maybe a silver coin, but after five years of hard hunting by myself, good finds are scarce. Long story short. In a short hour and a half hunt I found two silver dimes and four wheaties in spots I have hunted very hard. I was amazed since I was hunting in the stock coin mode. I have never used any program but the iron mask mode with all of my previous Explorers. The coins squeaked through the null in this very trashy spot. I had was thrilled, but I had to wait four long months for winter to break. I knew I had something special with the Etrac and it has not let me down this spring. I no longer have any spots remotely resembling "virgin" and to make matters worse, I am surrounded by two big clubs with many members proficient with Explorers. When I hunt the local parks, schools, and fairgrounds, they have been pounded for years. I have found over 1000 silver coins in the last 9 years from these spots and that is a testament to what an Explorer can do. The last two years I have been retired so I can hunt almost every day, but my hunting spots are about dried out. I have been discourgaged and have actually thought about giving up the hobby, but that has changed since I got the Etrac. I don't find many coins, but what I am finding is as old of coins as the areas I hunt can give up. I have found 15 barber coins this spring with most coming from spots that has not produced silver in four or five years. Today was the icing on the cake so to speak. I drove over to a park in Pa. that has not given me one silver in three years. I used to hunt this park at least once a week and have found many coins from the late 1800's and early 1900's, but with lack of finds, I have all but stopped hunting it. I was hoping to dig deep,questionable signals with hopes of finding just one silver coin. I went to the area of the park that I have had the greatest success. I gridded a twenty foot by 40 foot area and went super slow. There was dew on the ground so I could see my path. I overlapped my sweeps and after 45 minutes I had one newer nickle. I was believing I had it pretty well hunted out. But, from 9 inches I got a silver roosie that was surrounded by three rusty nails. Withing ten feet, I got a null, a grunt, and a one way warble. I knew it was another silver coin that was close to trash. I could not use the pinpoint button with all of the trash so I worked the signal in the only direction it would hit. I slowly backed the coil towards me as I barely swept it. When the signal dropped off, I knew it was right under the front of the coil. I dug a deep(8 inch plug) and checked it with my pinpointer. I found a three inch long rusty nail at the bottom left of the hole. After I got it out, I rechecked the hole with the pinpointer and got a signal on the right bottom, but deeper. I got my digger behind the spot where I though the coin was and got a chunk of wet clay soil out. The coin was in this two inch by two inch piece of dirt. Now this is where detecting gets fun. Sort of like opening a christmas present in May. In the middle of this hunk of clay was a big silver coin and it was almost vertical as I could piece together how the chunk came out. It was a standing liberty half dollar. Now I have found twenty silver halves in my time with most being from the early 40's. This one was a 1917 s , worn but a very readable date and mint mark. Nothing spectacular, but another nice coin from a spot I had all but quit hunting. People talk of the lightning fast response of some of the new detectors, but I really don't know of any detector that will pull deep coins with trash on top or or next to them like an Etrac. Any detector can find a deep coin with no trash within a yard of it, but almost all of my older coins are dug with rusty iron in the plug with the coin. This is an AMAZING detector that is really very easy to learn. Sorry for the ramble, but I thought I would give credit where credit is due. R.L.

 

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[halfstep]

Minelab needs to make a sign that states " This area has been hunted with an E-trac" That way you can install the sign after you have cleaned the area so other people know that they will be wasting their time hunting it.

 

[Iron Patch]

Sounds like you made a great choice, only the problem is if you're not checking those signals with an Explorer you can't say it wouldn't have got them, and I bet it would have. I have had times where my coil was just hot and I could go almost anywhere and seem to hit targets, and maybe even find something good. It had nothing to do with the detector, and everything to do with a whole lot of other stuff. I think your added confidence is probably doing more for you then the E-trac is. Also, it could very well be that the E-trac is more suited to your style. People who don't move at a slow pace, and don't use the wiggle, are much more likely to have success by changing to a faster recovering detector especially when dealing with heavy trash. I wish I could believe there was something better than my old explorer at my field sites, but sadly I'm not a believer. All that said, the bottom line is everyone should use what works best for them.

 

[Gonehunting]

Minelab needs to make a sign that states " This area has been hunted with an E-trac" That way you can install the sign after you have cleaned the area so other people know that they will be wasting their time hunting it.