Well got out for a couple hours today in an older park here that I have hunted heavy with my AP Pro in the past. Heres my thoughts on the 1st trip. The XP is really lite and well balanced and very user friendly. I started out in the basic 1 mode that the manual and everyone seemed to suggest and didn't change anything at first. Found a few shallow clad coins and the separation and speed of the machine was really good and not chatty like I am used to..... Once locked on a coin number is seems to stay there and not jump around alot on the vid and that was good. Tried a few coins that I took with me including a silver dime so I would have an idea what the numbers should be about. I thought the arm strap that comes with it was a little cheezy for that expensive of a unit but not a big deal as I can easily put something else on there. After an hour or so I bumped up the sensitivity and played with the different GB modes and that was easy enough. I guess at this point my only concern is it doesn't seem to be near as deep as my At pro was..... I haven't owned anything else so can't compare to the Etrac but I hunt mainly silver and not sure this unit will be deep enough. Hard to evaluate after only a couple hours and I only messed with a few settings so hopefully in time I will be able to get more depth. I like pretty much everything else about it. One thing I also noticed is that the VID number seems to go away with any sort of depth. All in all a nice machine just gonna take time to learn it's language. HH