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E Trac's Maiden Voyage

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herbajones

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Well after receiving my E Trac about a week ago and reading and practicing at home I decided to go to an old church site that I pretty much cleaned out personally back in the 70's and 80's with a Whites 4db tr and later a Whites 6000D. About 3 months ago a bought a Whites Eagle Spectrum which was good but didn't find any good deep coins. This was at the same church that I cleaned out years ago...so I thought. Just to see if this E Trac would perform any different I returned to the same place and checked the same locations. My 1st sound showed 12 - 43 at 8" which I plunged my Lesch digger into and then entered my Garrett Pro Pointer and picked up the beeps at 8" and located my 1st find...a 1937 Wheatie. After wearing myself out 2 hours later I called it quits and ended up with 4 more wheats , 1 mercury dime and and a 1944 silver quarter along with a few clad. After finding so much in the earlier years at much shallower depths I'm not used to digging 8 to 10 inch holes. At least now I have a machine that will enable me to do that. The reason I splurged on an E Trac was if I was going to do this I was going to do it all the way and know if it's down there the E Trac will tell me exactly where and how deep. very impressed 1st time out to an overly searched location.
NOT DISAPPOINTED AT ALL....
 
Excellent post! This is what we like to hear. Thanks for the great picture and congratulations on the finds.

NebTrac
 
way to test that Trac! With gas nearing 5 bucks a gallon, all my old parks, in walking distance are NEW parks again! And it will take me years to hunt them all over again......NGE
 
Your off to a great start - good luck with your new E-Trac - hope you have a fantastic season !
 
i made a similar transition and found the same thing as you. i cant beleive how much stuff i missed with my 6000. Now I love it to death and always will (tons of sentimental value) but the e-trac is clearly a superior detector. I missed a lot of stuff tha wasnt really that deep either. I think the e-trac must be able to see through junk more clearly. But at the same time, gives you better ground coverage, and lastly, better depth. Unfotunately for old "blue" i havent touched her since the e-trac arrived.

Congratulations on your silver!
 
It is one powerful machine and glad to hear your off to a fantastic start with it.
 
For some real fun do what I did and put in COINS PATTERN CO MODE make your other menu adjustments and go hunt all your OLD POUNDED areas again, they are now NEW. Then put it in TWO TONE FERROUS MODE in the quickmask screen and go do it all over yet again and the areas once again become NEW areas. I was amazed at some of the items I either missed or were really, really masked that I missed in the COINS CO MODE.
I got a 25 CO reading in TWO-TONE with the HIGH tone dig me up sound so dug and was a silver dime and a silver war nickel in the same hole so that is why in the COINS CO pattern mode I skipped it thinking it was a pulltab. Mostly lots of nickels in this one small park I've been pounding only a block from my house. I did find probably 9 mercs and 6 rosie silver dimes and a masked only hit from one direction standing liberty quarter with no date lying against a piece of iron there and can't count how many deep wheaties with some nickels too. Great fun to be able to start at my homes yard and then slowly branch outwards without having to drive miles to find a hunting spot as they are all NEW again now with lots of goodies waiting to be found..
 
Very nice first outing, and from a place that you worked over for years to beat. thx for sharing,

Moose
 
man what is it with the ET and silver on it's maiden voyage.... myself and several others along with you in the same HAPPY boat with silver on first hunt!! thanks for the story and pic!!!
 
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