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1942 Merc

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cintitomcat

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At the local football field, trying to get a couple of hunts in before everything starts growing. Got a 11-44 signal about 7'' down around a some junk targets. Out comes a 1942 Merc. Was running 2/3 open screen with manual 30 sens, runs a little noisy but nowhere near my F75 with sens cranked up. Love the E-TRAC
 
never heard of anybody running it wide open ... congrats
 
Love those Merc's - congrats !
 
One less merc lost to history! Nice job!

I run manual sens. 30 in low EMI areas with known deep coins, with a smaller coil, in good soil conditions, closely cropped turf and sometimes with an open pattern.
Takes a while before you can separate the wheat from the chaff with all that squaking going on.
Otherwise i'll crank up the manual sense til i get a false every couple or so sweeps. Thats my sweet spot for most sites.
 
There are spots I have to run auto but if I can run man 30 I know I get pretty DEEP. If Minelab would redesign the E-trac using the same tech but fixed the weight issue I think they would have a hard time keeping these in stock. Every negative issue is with swinging this for very long. It seems adjusting the arm cup more forward takes away a lot of the arm pain I was getting.
 
Try a swing support. You can make one for fairly cheap out of paracord.. it won't mildew or deteriorate and if it's knotted right can be really comfortable
 
Congratulations on the Merc. First one I ever found was a '42 also! Thanks for the pictures.

NebTrac
 
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