Does anyone find it challenging.....

[Bill_S]

I have several areas that I really like to metal detect. They usually produce a couple good finds every time I go there. I know other people metal detect these sites and most of the shallow targets are long gone. I wish I had them all to myself....Oh well. I find it a challenge to try and find stuff the others are missing. I am starting to learn the explorer better and have found that if I just creep along real slow and listen for those targets that sound pretty good but also are showing as deep on the meter I can usually do pretty good. It almost puts a smile on your face when you dig one of those deep, iffy signals and out pops a silver coin or some other valuable item. You know most likely others have been over that spot and did not even get a signal (Didn't have an explorer) or just passed it off as trash.

 

[therick]

n/t

 

[Nick A]

Agree with you 100%. This is exactly the kind of hunting I find myself doing most of the time.

I've been digging in someone else's holes lately... I see the plug or the patch of dead grass. I guess they don't have a pinpointer and lose the target or give up on it. It's a cinch to find with the Sunray probe. I remember one "abandoned" plug I pulled up a few years ago... there was a buffalo nickel in the bottom of the hole.

I dug a 1926 mercury dime yesterday. The signal sounded terrible. I was in that area below penny to the right of the center and would bounce a bit to the upper left, off the top, just to the left of center. With a dime at any depth at all, it's easy to see how it could be missed, especially if the signal is bad. You need to hit it just right.

Of course in these old places, sometimes all that's left are iffy signals. Just did anything deep that isn't iron. With the Explorer, I really prefer these sites with all the clad removed and I can focus on those iffy deep signals. I've been hitting the same places for years and they keep producing. I think going slow with the Explorer really helps, and the coil design really gives good coverage.

 

[Bill_S]

With the Explorer, I really prefer these sites with all the clad removed and I can focus on those iffy deep signals.

I do too....

I've been digging in someone else's holes lately... I see the plug or the patch of dead grass. I guess they don't have a pinpointer and lose the target or give up on it

Now that you mention it I have came across signals and when I started to dig I would see that someone else had already dug in that spot. I would go ahead and dig again sometimes to find a shallow coin.

 

[DrBobinMO]

Hi Bill.

I love going to parks that are old and have deep signals since I have been using the explorer. I have so much confidence in the explorer that I can, and will find things others have missed because of depth.

Not only that, in really trashy sites, by going really slow, it is amazing what the explorer will pick out between the trash.


Bob Kononiuk
Springfield, MO

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Well, all I can say is that I thought I was a pretty good park/turf ace with my Whites Eagle. I'd been using Whites since the 1980s, and had done pretty good in the worked out turf, IMHO. Then along came a few guys in CA talking about this "Explorer" and claiming pretty good totals from parks I knew were stingy. At the time, I'd been using the Excaliber for the wet beach storms, so I knew that I could get a penny/dime down to 9 to 10" on the wet sand, while still having a reliable idea of conductive verses non-conductive. This was depth that the Whites was in no way giving, so I was intrigued when I read claims of this "Explorer" getting down to 9 and 10" in the turf. I went out a few times with a proficient Explorer user to compare signals. I distinctly recall him flagging one particular signal, that he estimated was a "deep silver". I kid you not, that when I went over it with my whites, NO MATTER WHAT THE SETTINGS, that I just couldn't get it to come in clearly. I tried all different settings, swing speeds, re-ground balancing, etc.. All to no avail. In fact, I even had to ask him "where did you say that signal was?" Turned out to be yet another wheatie or silver from this turf belt, at beyond 8"

That was all I could stand! I got myself an Explorer and forced myself to learn the tooty-fluty tones. Good thing I'd had a mentor to let me listen in on the signals he was isolating out, the way he swung ("wiggled") etc... as it is nothing like the Whites faster swing machines.