Minelab Explorer Forum

Ok guys I went to a old fair ground that also had baseball fields and I am guessing that it was first use around the turn of the last century from the coins I have found in the past. This placed has been pounded over the years by other md'ers and me. I decide to take my Explorer into a section were there are many junk item to see how good this machine is. On my first pass though this area I got an silver warble sound just like I have heard on the videos, but it was some what broken up. I was able to get the silver sound from each angle I tried with the crosshair staying in the top right corner in the smartfind screen, so I decide to dig. When I open up the I saw an beaver tail from a pulltab in the hole and I was thinking that this could not be making the silver sound, So I took the beaver tail out and ran the coil over the hole again and the silver signal was still in the hole. At 8 inches a pull out an 1944 Merc. After that I was thinking man this is a great machine to find a merc with a pulltab above it. I don't think my Quattro would have found that coin. HH

John

Nice save ! And congrats on your first silver ... that is just the beginning !!

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2013 digs :
Mercury Dime - 3
Silver Roosevelt Dime - 1
Wheats - 31
Buffalo Nickel - 1
Liberty Head Nickel - 1
Rings - 1 silver coin ring

Northern Minnesota
Minelab Explorer SE Pro
Garrett AT Pro
White's Coinmaster 5H/DM G.E.B.

Can't tell you how many times an "iffy" signal has yielded a
nice silver very close to some iron or a pull tab. Congrats on
the Merc dime.... Gold Nuggets

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Minelab Explorer SE with Pro coil and X-1 probe,
Minelab Excal 2 (1000)

Congrats on the Merc. More time on the machine will only lead to more silver. JJ

Nice going on your first silver with your SE. Your going to love that SE Pro.

Eddie

WTG john. Im sure you will find many more with your new machine. Congrats.

You have a great machine john. Good job.

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Minelab Explorer SE and ctx3030

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congrats on the silver, those explorer's are known as the silver killer's

Thanks guys I have to admit I like the tones better on the Explorer then the Quatto and it make it easier to find coins in the junk. The place I detected yesterday has given up a few silvers halves in the past and I am hoping I can find one mix in with the junk. That area where I found the merc has a high concentration of iron and nails with the high concentration of pulltabs and other junk items. It has been a while since I found a half and maybe I could find that elusive silver dollar. I am looking forward to using it in others places that I could not hunt before because of the iron junk. HH


John

Nice one John! Congrats! There will only be more!

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Nice dig!

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Detecting since 1979
Findmall Member since 2000
Started out with a 840 VLF/TR. Then I have owned a 5900, 6000Di, 6000Di Pro, XLT and a DFX, CZ6 CZ6a, CZ7.
Started using in 2000 with a XS . Then I have used and owned the XS-S, SE.
I currently still swing my XS-II I bought in 2003 and have a SE-Pro as a back-up. I also have some coils and use the Sun-Ray X1 probe and DetectorPro "Grey Ghost Originals"

Favorite find ever a 1834 Half Dime (14 years ago)
Oldest coin ever found a 1734 Real (10 years ago)

A yard that produced Seated, Two Center, SLQ and more.
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Oldest coin of 2012 hunting season a 1786 Real.
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An amazing day that scratched one of the bucket list with an 1857 Flying Eagle Cent.
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That's superb, John...didn't take you long to hear that "silver warble!"

Steve

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Minelab Explorer SE Pro, Fisher Gold Bug Pro (DP)
Garrett ProPointer
Lesche 38D "King of Spades"

Norman, OK

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sgoss66
That's superb, John...didn't take you long to hear that "silver warble!"

Steve

Thanks Steve. The past couple of days I went back to that old school where I first took my Explorer. There are actually two schools there one is a old elementry school the other was an old high school that had an old football field behind it. I have pulled many silver coins from there including three silver halves and countless wheat cents. A few years ago they the added on to the elementry school and took the upper part of the football field and they dug up the rest football and spread the dirt around and made it into a soccer field with a walking track. .When they did that they brought up some older coins to the surface and some of the newer clad coins are deep. I hit the soccer field looking for shallow ring signals and coin signals and was I pleasantly surprised to find 3 more wheats there and a small coin spill. I was also able to find my first nickle which is important to me. I am going back to the old fairground this week and see if I can pull a few silvers up.

John

Sounds like you are doing great with your new machine -- really "clicking" with it. Great to hear!

Good luck at the fairgrounds, and congrats on the nickel. If you are digging low conductors already, as well as high ones, you are doing a great job learning the "language" of the Explorer.

Congrats!

Steve

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Minelab Explorer SE Pro, Fisher Gold Bug Pro (DP)
Garrett ProPointer
Lesche 38D "King of Spades"

Norman, OK

Hi John, this must be the silver you told me about in the PM, your first with the SE. You didn't tell me it was below a beaver tail, though; that makes it an even better fine. Glad to know your doing well with your new machine.

HH, Don

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CTX-3030, SE Pro, ProPointer