Explorer SE Pulled A Few Good Ones Today!

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

It was a great day for a hunt...sunny and warm. Went to a huge farm field with Darren and his dad and beat it up for several hours. We all bagged a few goodies...especially Darren who got an 1864 Two Cent Piece with his CZ-70...SWEET!

Here are a few pics:

Was hunting an area filled with iron...the site of an old barn or stable...nails and rusted stuff everywhere. I had the SE in a coin pattern because the noise in All Metal was getting to me. From the middle of nulls everywhere, it gets the killer signal with a sweet high pitch sound. I KNEW it was something good!
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Dug a nice big plug and what do I see? An LC!
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Oh yeah...1851!
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Thought I had another coin here but was actually a button with a silver gilded design...shank on the back.
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Then dug a nice 1897 Injun...all of this out of a VERY iron-infested area...I'm liking the SE.
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Final tally of good targets for me included 3 decent coin finds, 3 buttons, a musket ball, and the shank of a silver spoon. Also had some other bullets and some "relic" type stuff...nothing worth posting.
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[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

This is smack in the middle of the field...
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Check this...
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My Buffalo...
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Rough...no date.
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Hunt buddy Darren...
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Darren's dad Tom, the LC vacuum!
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[jimb]

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[Hotcz70]

Hi Mike.
My SE will be shipping the middle of next week...I can't wait! I noticed you had the sens cranked up to 24. What did you have the other settings at? Gain?...IM?...Ferrous tones? or conductive?...Fast on?...Deep on?...and any other settings you had....IF you don't mind sharing. I want all the heads up I can get so I don't end up frustrated. I am going to take it slowwwww!
Thanks

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Actually, that's the highest I had it set at all day. There was so much iron there that it was getting cleaner signals and better depth at 18 to 20. But I was playing around with it a lot to see what my best sens would be. It was a little too "busy" at 24, so I dropped it shortly after.

As for the rest, most of the time I had fast off and deep on. I tried it with fast on and deep off but didn't make too much difference on the nulling from the iron and the recovery time was already good, so I went back to fast off deep on. I run ferrous tones, max variability, max tone limits, gain on 6 today. I sometimes run 7 or 8 but do believe I prefer 6 most of the time.

 

[tomtowns]

KILLER STUFF!!! Nice hunt Mike...I had a little success myself today...Tom

 

[Hotcz70]

in the digital screen all the time or do you ever swich to the smartfind screen to verify signals etc?
-Bryce

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

I run in Digital to hunt because I am very in touch with the numbers. It may be a throwback to my DFX days or it may be from when I had my Sovereign Elite with the Sunray meter, but when I have numbers to go by I tend to favor them. HOWEVER...I frequently switch to Smartscreen (it's just a quick touch on the "Detect" button and you're there) so I can compare the behavior of the signal in both modes. I feel I can comfortably hunt in either.

 

[Tinfoil]

The sen. up to 32 and watch the depth you get and how well it will sort thru the trash. I was dead in the iron yesterday and pulled a nice 1867 Shield nickle out of the iron and trash. I had all kinds of iron targets in the hole with the nickle. One iron nail about 6"s long. The pinpoint ID got this one. Separated it Right out from all that iron trash. Man, that pinpoint ID works just great. Great finds Mike. Congrats : : Later Jerry aka Tinfoil.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Thanks Jerry. So you can run the sens at 32 with that coil, even in tough ground? Wow. And what kind of depth are we talking with it, on average?

 

[diggingfix]

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[Tony N (Michigan)]

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[Tinfoil]

I get good ID solid numbers at 8" to 10"s. Gets iffy at 11" but the Pinpoint ID will ID the Conduct number correct and the Ferrous number will read a few numbers higher when I get over 10"s. No deeper but hell that is great for such a small coil. Beats the hell out of my Joey coil. Pinpoint Id will ID deeper (even with other coils) then it will running normal .Just pinpoint the target dead on and you will be OK. Don't know what kind of depth you guys get up there. The ground down here has a salt salinity and sulphur content and corrodes the heck out of the copper and silver war ,buffs Shields and V nickles. HH : : Later Jerry aka Tinfoil

 

[Hotcz70]

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[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Cool...sounds great. I can't wait to get it. They are supposed to ship some more by the end of the month. Hopefully mine will make it by my birthday...the 28th.

Our soil is horrible for copper stuff too. That LC today is the is like the 2nd one out of the 6 or 7 that I've found that looks worth a damn. Most of them are toast.

 

[SNOWY]

What a great day Mike,
terrific pics,I love the look of those old coppers.
When hunting in all metal that iron rumble does get a bit much in junky sites.

I set my IM from all metal to I M 28 and found things got a lot quieter when I was at an old property recently.

HH

Snowy

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Thanks Tony...I was too. Can't wait to get out with it again.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Yeah, I imagine that would quiet it down about 90%. I think the way I had it set I would have gotten just about everything I wanted though...coins, buttons, lead. But I DO usually like running it wide open as much as possible. I'll try 28 next time. I'm playing around with the setting a lot right now, to see what works best for what situation. HH!