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UPDATED: Hunted with "Swamp Thing" and got my first good silver of 2010
I have been extremely busy doing field tests of Sunray coils so my personal hunt time has been limited.
UPDATE: I wanted to let some of you know who were interested...that I was just informed the field test reports will now be in the May and June issues...which will be available in March and April. This is TWO MONTHS LATER than I was originally told.
The first issue will contain the X-5 field test and the second issue will contain the X-12 field test.
I also want to apologize to many hunters here who's posts I have just truthfully not had the time to keep up with....view...and respond to.
Because of the extensive and in depth field testing I did though...I learned some amazing things about the Sunray coils and what they are capable of
....so I hope you'll all enjoy the reports in the upcoming issues of Western & Eastern Treasures magazine. 
FINALLY though...I had a little personal time to hunt before the ground froze on me again so I took advantage of the 45 degree temps over the weekend and hit a pounded park a friend and I hit a few times last year.
I took hunting buddy "Swamp Thing" (Darrell aka "Heavy D") with me and he brought all 3 machines EX2...SE...and the E-Trac.
He usually ends up using one of my coils on his EX2 because he prefers that machine so I have probably put 40 hours on his E-Trac in the last few months.
While I like the E-trac and feel it's a great machine...I still prefer my explorer at pounded parks. That's just my personal preference.
Anyway...I am 100% an Explorer user. Always have been...and always WILL be. That "AIN'T" gonna change.
I do feel though that I can use his E-Trac as another weapon to find walked over coins at some of these pummeled sites...much like I use different coils for different situations.
He's on the road a lot so I have access to his E-trac anytime I want.
Well anyway we hunted around the pond area of this park and I decided to put a couple of hours on his E-trac.
I did okay with it but couldn't get the depth I needed running semi auto +3 sensitivity. After I went to manual 24 on his E-Trac...I hit a couple of 9" wheaties.
"Heavy D" then decided he would put some hours on his E-Trac so I got out the EX2 I bought off of my friend and popped on the X-12 coil.
I'm surprised after my buddy owned it that there wasn't some kind of jinx on it
...but after an hour or so I had a wheatie and a roosey from the deep mud.
I then went back to my main machine...the SE. It was already set up with the 10 x 12 SEF coil...so that's how I left it.
I spent my time wading through 10 to 15 second long dead nulls with the SE...but that's where I'm comfortable. At any site I'm familiar with I go to the worst area of trash or deep iron. If I'm not familiar with the park...I will go right where a fellow hunter has told me not to go because of adverse conditions. 8)
An hour or so later I got a screamer through the nulls which startled me.
I was beginning to null myself to sleep but this signal woke me up. It was just a one angle hit ...but it did repeat on the return sweep. Even though it only hit in that one spot...the sweet "warble" tone was there so I kneeled down in the muck.
Before long I had popped out the 1892-O Barber Quarter and there was a 4" piece of rusty iron nearly on top of it.
Dang...missed the seated by one year ...but at least this is the higher $$ O mintmark. 
It was nice to be able to hunt in THAWED ground towards the end of January. I don't remember that ever happening in all my years of hunting.
Heavy D ended up with 2 old wheaties on the day... and I ended up with 3 wheaties...a roosey...and the Barber Quarter. We did well considering how heavily this park has been explorerd and E-tracked over the last 8 years....so much so that I can't even get my buddy to drive here and hunt with me anymore.
I hope you all got some hunting in during the warm spell. It's back to 20 degree temps here now...so I'm sure the ground will be frozen up for the next few months. I don't care though cause' who'd a "thunk" I would get to hunt in mid 40 temps and thawed ground in late January
I have been extremely busy doing field tests of Sunray coils so my personal hunt time has been limited.
UPDATE: I wanted to let some of you know who were interested...that I was just informed the field test reports will now be in the May and June issues...which will be available in March and April. This is TWO MONTHS LATER than I was originally told.
The first issue will contain the X-5 field test and the second issue will contain the X-12 field test.
I also want to apologize to many hunters here who's posts I have just truthfully not had the time to keep up with....view...and respond to.
Because of the extensive and in depth field testing I did though...I learned some amazing things about the Sunray coils and what they are capable of
....so I hope you'll all enjoy the reports in the upcoming issues of Western & Eastern Treasures magazine. FINALLY though...I had a little personal time to hunt before the ground froze on me again so I took advantage of the 45 degree temps over the weekend and hit a pounded park a friend and I hit a few times last year.
I took hunting buddy "Swamp Thing" (Darrell aka "Heavy D") with me and he brought all 3 machines EX2...SE...and the E-Trac.
He usually ends up using one of my coils on his EX2 because he prefers that machine so I have probably put 40 hours on his E-Trac in the last few months.
While I like the E-trac and feel it's a great machine...I still prefer my explorer at pounded parks. That's just my personal preference.
Anyway...I am 100% an Explorer user. Always have been...and always WILL be. That "AIN'T" gonna change.
I do feel though that I can use his E-Trac as another weapon to find walked over coins at some of these pummeled sites...much like I use different coils for different situations.
He's on the road a lot so I have access to his E-trac anytime I want.
Well anyway we hunted around the pond area of this park and I decided to put a couple of hours on his E-trac.
I did okay with it but couldn't get the depth I needed running semi auto +3 sensitivity. After I went to manual 24 on his E-Trac...I hit a couple of 9" wheaties.
"Heavy D" then decided he would put some hours on his E-Trac so I got out the EX2 I bought off of my friend and popped on the X-12 coil.
I'm surprised after my buddy owned it that there wasn't some kind of jinx on it
...but after an hour or so I had a wheatie and a roosey from the deep mud. I then went back to my main machine...the SE. It was already set up with the 10 x 12 SEF coil...so that's how I left it.
I spent my time wading through 10 to 15 second long dead nulls with the SE...but that's where I'm comfortable.
At any site I'm familiar with I go to the worst area of trash or deep iron. If I'm not familiar with the park...I will go right where a fellow hunter has told me not to go because of adverse conditions. 8)An hour or so later I got a screamer through the nulls which startled me.
I was beginning to null myself to sleep but this signal woke me up. It was just a one angle hit ...but it did repeat on the return sweep. Even though it only hit in that one spot...the sweet "warble" tone was there so I kneeled down in the muck.Before long I had popped out the 1892-O Barber Quarter and there was a 4" piece of rusty iron nearly on top of it.
Dang...missed the seated by one year ...but at least this is the higher $$ O mintmark. It was nice to be able to hunt in THAWED ground towards the end of January. I don't remember that ever happening in all my years of hunting.
Heavy D ended up with 2 old wheaties on the day... and I ended up with 3 wheaties...a roosey...and the Barber Quarter. We did well considering how heavily this park has been explorerd and E-tracked over the last 8 years....so much so that I can't even get my buddy to drive here and hunt with me anymore.
I hope you all got some hunting in during the warm spell. It's back to 20 degree temps here now...so I'm sure the ground will be frozen up for the next few months. I don't care though cause' who'd a "thunk"
I would get to hunt in mid 40 temps and thawed ground in late January 
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