I've had the e trac going on a few weeks and yet to find any coin deeper than 4 or so inches. I'm starting to think i have a faulty coil or something. I'm hunting 1900 homes in auto + 3 usually 18-20+3. I've yet to hear any good signal deeper than 4 inches, I've watched videos of others getting nice repeatable signals 6-8 inches. We've had a lot of rain the last few weeks and the ground isnt hard. Still have yet to see a silver with This thing.. and I've dug over 5 dollars worth of clad. very disappointed. I know my yard has silver in it, our house was built in 1906 and I've combed it over countless times, yet I cant get anything deep. Whats the deal? Any tips that can help me get deeper repeatable signals, should the sounds of a cladd dime sound like one that is 6+"? what sort of sound should I be listening for?
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Any tips for deep coins?
- Thread starter flashtone
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First slow way down. Listen for soft, repeatable high tones. Silver isint always deep. Most in 4 to 6 inch range.
flashtone,
I've had my E-trac for a two months now and found that the E-trac coin program works great, just change Recovery Deep to "on" and Ground to "difficult". I've found that I get a lot more falsing on +3 than 0. I agree with Bart and CT Todd; slow down and overlap. I'd also add make sure you are keeping your coil parallel to the surface. At the height of our heat wave and drought the E-trac had no problem finding a silver Washington Quarter at 7" with these settings. The other four silver coins I've found were 2-5" deep. Keep looking, the silver is out there.
John C.65,
lots of red clay here in central Oklahoma also. Doesn't seem to be a problem picking up coins 7-8" deep and aluminum cans and other assorted junk 12" deep (I hate it when that happens). I've been hunting areas developed in the 40s and 50s so far so I don't really expect to find anything super deep.
But tomorrow I'm going to try some public areas where the houses were built in the teens and early 20s to see what I've learned over the first two months of using the E-trac. Good luck to both of you.
I've had my E-trac for a two months now and found that the E-trac coin program works great, just change Recovery Deep to "on" and Ground to "difficult". I've found that I get a lot more falsing on +3 than 0. I agree with Bart and CT Todd; slow down and overlap. I'd also add make sure you are keeping your coil parallel to the surface. At the height of our heat wave and drought the E-trac had no problem finding a silver Washington Quarter at 7" with these settings. The other four silver coins I've found were 2-5" deep. Keep looking, the silver is out there.
John C.65,
lots of red clay here in central Oklahoma also. Doesn't seem to be a problem picking up coins 7-8" deep and aluminum cans and other assorted junk 12" deep (I hate it when that happens). I've been hunting areas developed in the 40s and 50s so far so I don't really expect to find anything super deep.
But tomorrow I'm going to try some public areas where the houses were built in the teens and early 20s to see what I've learned over the first two months of using the E-trac. Good luck to both of you.
If you want to find out if your E-Trac will find coins in your area deeper than 4" plant some and test for your self. That is the best way to test your machine and find out what settings works best in your area.Just because you have not found any coins over 4" or so means very little.
I realize that coins buried for many years will sound off at greater depths than freshly buried ones but only by a small margin.You can learn more about your machine in one hour spent testing different coins/targets at different depths in a test garden than a week in the field.Experiment and you will pick up some very good info that will help you for years to come.The other thing that will help a lot is to find an experienced E-Trac user close by that will help you learn your machine and also make sure it is operating as it should.
I realize that coins buried for many years will sound off at greater depths than freshly buried ones but only by a small margin.You can learn more about your machine in one hour spent testing different coins/targets at different depths in a test garden than a week in the field.Experiment and you will pick up some very good info that will help you for years to come.The other thing that will help a lot is to find an experienced E-Trac user close by that will help you learn your machine and also make sure it is operating as it should.
flashtone,
I'm in Oklahoma City.
coin gardens work great if you have a clean yard or one that can be easily cleaned of all trash in the garden area. My yard is so full of very small iron that I'd have to sift it with a window screen to get it clean enough to make a coin garden. My E-trac nulls (no audible threshold) in about 90-95% of my back yard. I do have two clad dimes buried -- one at 6" the other at 8". Because of the trash I can barely pick up the dime at 6" but can pick up the one at 8" just fine and they are only three feet apart.
What's the drive time between OKC and Bartlesville - 2.5 to 3 hours?
I'm in Oklahoma City.
coin gardens work great if you have a clean yard or one that can be easily cleaned of all trash in the garden area. My yard is so full of very small iron that I'd have to sift it with a window screen to get it clean enough to make a coin garden. My E-trac nulls (no audible threshold) in about 90-95% of my back yard. I do have two clad dimes buried -- one at 6" the other at 8". Because of the trash I can barely pick up the dime at 6" but can pick up the one at 8" just fine and they are only three feet apart.
What's the drive time between OKC and Bartlesville - 2.5 to 3 hours?
Cool! It took me six weeks to find my first nickle and haven't found a war nickle yet. I was hunting a park yesterday where the surrounding houses were built in the teens and twenties. Couldn't find anything earlier than 1940 -- 4 wheats only 1940, 1956, 1957, & 1958. Everything else was new & tons of aluminum twist caps reading anywhere from 12-38 to 12-44. But I think I'll give it more time in that area; only covered a very small section of the park.
Let me know if you'd like to get together sometime.
Let me know if you'd like to get together sometime.