Minelab E-TRAC Forum

Ordered for a fathers day present, just got in. Supposed to rain all weekend!



Will let you know what I think in a little while.

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Garrett AT-Pro, Minelab E-Trac, 2 Pro Pointers and a probe rod.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~ Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

Looking forward to your report. That is one nice looking coil.

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HH

Steve - Northern Virginia

Detectors: Minelab Excalibur II w/ Plugger Two Piece Travel Shaft and Knob Guard
Minelab E-Trac w/ Sun Ray Probe, Pro-Tector Rain Jacket, Pro-Tector Padded E-Trac Cover, Swingy Thingy Harness
Garrett Infinium LS w/ Plugger Two Piece Travel Shaft

Accessories: Predator Tools Model 75 Digging Tool, Predator Tools Model 85 Digging Tool, Predator Tools Raven Model 25 Shovel, Sunspot Stealth 6.5 Classic Beach Scoop, RTG Beachmaster Water Scoop, Pro Beach & Water Hunting Pouch, Sun Ray Deluxe Treasure Pouch, Sun Ray Pro Gold Headphones, Garrett Waterproof Headphones, Garrett Pro-Pointer, Sun Ray Coin Popper, Minelab Detector Carry Bag

Excal II Coils: Stock 10"

E-Trac Coils: 6" DD EXcelerator EQ 2 Pro, Sun Ray Stealth X-8, 12x10" SEF (Butterfly), 15x12" SEF (Butterfly)

Infinium Coils: Garrett 10 x 14 DD, Garrett 8" Mono

Oldest Coins Found - 1816 Coronet Large One Cent (Matron Head), 1834 Bust Dime, 1847 Seated Half Dime

Let us know!

Bunker

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Bunker
CTX 3030 / Etrac / T2se
Pistol Probe / Pro Pointer / Vib580
"Lost Recovered....History Discovered"

SWEEET...

Following this topic because my friend has a X-12 and I have been thinking about getting one till I saw the Ultimate and now I am leaning that direction. Keep us posted on what you think and how it compares with the Pro Coil on separation, depth, etc. Congrats on your new coil, I'm envious.

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XP Deus w/WS5 and WS4 phones, Technetics Eurotek Pro w/11" DD coil. Propointer. Lesche Groundshark and hand digger.
Oldest coin 1700's Chinese coin, Oldest US Coin 1892 Barber Quarter, Dime and V nickel

Well, in between the rain today I got in four hours in a modern park and fresh water beach. Now, my impressions are subjective. I'm not patient enough to stand there swapping coils and experimenting before digging and I don't have a video camera and editing software. I have been putting in two days a week with mostly the Pro Coil for about eight months. Also have used the X-5 a bit as well. So I'm pretty used to how the Pro works for me.

The Ultimate 13" seems better in moderate trash like I had today. It seemed to do a better job of isolating and ID'ing close targets. For instance today I had two pull tabs, a penny, a dime and a base metal ring all in about a eight inch circle. They were shallow with the ring being deepest at around 4" and the pull tabs up just under the surface. By working around the area from different angles I was pretty darn sure of the penny, dime and pull tabs and some odd ball number that turned out to be the ring. Now I might have done that with the Pro Coil but with the Ultimate it just seemed a whole lot easier. Now will it separate like my X-5? No but for it's size I was pretty impressed.

Deepest targets today were fishing weights at about 8". These were various numbers depending on shape and alloy but came in strong and I don't doubt it will run as deep as or deeper then the Pro Coil especially when you factor in the sensitivity.

On the issue of sensitivity you can definitely run the Ultimate hotter and keep it smooth and reasonably quiet. I hunted the beach area last week with the Pro Coil and since this lake is mineral spring fed the wet send makes you cut the sensitivity down. In Auto +3 with the Pro it ran at 17 with the same settings today and still in auto +3 it ran at 21. In manual 25 was the ragged edge of tolerable. Interesting that it ran higher in auto in the same area.

The forecast is still for hot, humid and rain but if I can get out tomorrow I'll be hunting dry lake bed most likely and I'll let y'all know how it goes. Right now I'm favorably impressed!

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Garrett AT-Pro, Minelab E-Trac, 2 Pro Pointers and a probe rod.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~ Thomas J. Watson, Jr.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2012 02:04PM by Sailorman.

I should also add that it pinpoints much better then the stock coil using pinpoint mode. Pinpointing via the wiggle method was the same but seemed to have a crisper drop off.

One other thing I noticed was when in pinpoint mode with the Pro Coil ID that stayed good was usually a good target. If you got a good number then went to pinpoint mode and things headed for the bottom right it was almost always trash. Now with the Ultimate Coil I had several targets with rock solid numbers and good tone but when I went into pinpoint mode the cursor headed for the basement. Each one of these was just what I thought though and a good target. Something to get used to.

Depths were very accurate as well.

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Garrett AT-Pro, Minelab E-Trac, 2 Pro Pointers and a probe rod.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~ Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

Thanks for the report. I have the 12 x 10 SEF and was thinking about selling that to get the Ultimate. May have to pull the tigger.

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HH

Steve - Northern Virginia

Detectors: Minelab Excalibur II w/ Plugger Two Piece Travel Shaft and Knob Guard
Minelab E-Trac w/ Sun Ray Probe, Pro-Tector Rain Jacket, Pro-Tector Padded E-Trac Cover, Swingy Thingy Harness
Garrett Infinium LS w/ Plugger Two Piece Travel Shaft

Accessories: Predator Tools Model 75 Digging Tool, Predator Tools Model 85 Digging Tool, Predator Tools Raven Model 25 Shovel, Sunspot Stealth 6.5 Classic Beach Scoop, RTG Beachmaster Water Scoop, Pro Beach & Water Hunting Pouch, Sun Ray Deluxe Treasure Pouch, Sun Ray Pro Gold Headphones, Garrett Waterproof Headphones, Garrett Pro-Pointer, Sun Ray Coin Popper, Minelab Detector Carry Bag

Excal II Coils: Stock 10"

E-Trac Coils: 6" DD EXcelerator EQ 2 Pro, Sun Ray Stealth X-8, 12x10" SEF (Butterfly), 15x12" SEF (Butterfly)

Infinium Coils: Garrett 10 x 14 DD, Garrett 8" Mono

Oldest Coins Found - 1816 Coronet Large One Cent (Matron Head), 1834 Bust Dime, 1847 Seated Half Dime

good honest report

I hope to take mine for the first hunt today.
I might even do a short video if I find a deeper, good sounding target.