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explorer user kicked my butt today at old fairground!

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Goes4ever

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after today I am thinking my etrac doesn't work.....lol

hunted an old fairground today with several guys, 3 other guys besides me had minelabs, 2 explorers, and one SE pro
one guy found 5 indians, 8 wheats, merc, and barber quarter, silver pin, few buttons

another guy guy got 3 indians, 3 rings, several wheats

third one got indian and few wheats (he was only there a couple hrs)

I was never more than 50 yrds away, we all hunted same area about size of a football field, but no matter what I tried I could not get anything, went super slow n low, even tried 2 tone ferrous, it literally made me feel like my etrac was broke!

any ideas?
 
Could it be that you just never swung the coil over any goodies? :shrug: From what I've gathered from reading your earlier posts, the machine has been working fine. Maybe you were just nervous or felt intimidated....lol!
 
were you in manual or auto sensitivity?
 
Bet there is more stuff there,funny how the changing weather and ground conditions can change the
amount of finds.
I have been in your shoes more than once.
There's always next time.

LabradorBob
 
people are always sad after a spanking.Just wasn't your day and Explorers in seasoned hands are no slouches
 
I have an idea you have not spent a lot of time at very heavily hammered public sites with your E-Trac .Did you get a chance to compare signals with some of the other hunters?When you hit those really hammered sites you have to crank it up to near max in manual sensitivety and learn what those very iffy signals are saying.Both the extra deep and on edge ones along with the one way hits in iron.It can be very tough sometimes and I dare say the Explorer guys were very experienced users.
And let us not rule out the hand of fate,luck or whatever people want to call it.Also never let one sorry hunt get you down.Now if you have 3 or more similar hunts you have good reason to question more than one reason for getting the proverbial "whippings".
 
yes the guys who stomped me have yrs experience on their explorers. I was digging everything over iron regardless of numbers, so it wasn't that I was missing stuff because I was cherry picking or waiting for good signals....lol

And you are correct, I rarely hunt parks or fairgrounds, I hunt farm houses 95% of the time and school about the other 5%. fairgrounds are just so trashy, they drive me insane. I thought my fairground in my town was bad. this place was way worse. And yes when they got signals they called me over and I could hear them no problem. maybe it was just luck of the draw.

I guess there are days when I think, man I got the best old coin detector on the market, I should be able to find stuff anywhere :thumbup:
 
My concern with the E-Trac is depth compared to an Explorer. It seems to me that after airtesting several E-Tracs since they came out-performance varied...one machine would ID a copper pre-1982 penny at 12 inches, two hit about 14.5 inches and one 19 inches at 30 manual sensitivity! I know, I know airtesting isn't the of all of end all but I haven't seen such variability with Explorers for the most part-the airtesting just seems more consistent with them-XS, II, and SE/SE Pro. I do agree that it would have been nice to have you compare signals with the Explorers. Do you have any idea how deep they were finding the coins? Just a thought and my two zincs on the matter...HH
 
"I guess there are days when I think, man I got the best old coin detector on the market, I should be able to find stuff anywhere"


The good thing is..........the machine can!
 
christopher-ohio said:
My concern with the E-Trac is depth compared to an Explorer. It seems to me that after airtesting several E-Tracs since they came out-performance varied...one machine would ID a copper pre-1982 penny at 12 inches, two hit about 14.5 inches and one 19 inches at 30 manual sensitivity! I know, I know airtesting isn't the of all of end all but I haven't seen such variability with Explorers for the most part-the airtesting just seems more consistent with them-XS, II, and SE/SE Pro. I do agree that it would have been nice to have you compare signals with the Explorers. Do you have any idea how deep they were finding the coins? Just a thought and my two zincs on the matter...HH
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the barber quarter was 3" deep, most wheats 4-5" indians were 5-6" so that had nothing to do with anything. I have found a lot of indians 7-8" at old farms
 
christopher-ohio said:
My concern with the E-Trac is depth compared to an Explorer. It seems to me that after airtesting several E-Tracs since they came out-performance varied...one machine would ID a copper pre-1982 penny at 12 inches, two hit about 14.5 inches and one 19 inches at 30 manual sensitivity! I know, I know airtesting isn't the of all of end all but I haven't seen such variability with Explorers for the most part-the airtesting just seems more consistent with them-XS, II, and SE/SE Pro. I do agree that it would have been nice to have you compare signals with the Explorers. Do you have any idea how deep they were finding the coins? Just a thought and my two zincs on the matter...HH
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A seven inch spread is quite a difference.
 
n/t
 
Relax my friend
 
Yes, so far my local fair grounds has been a disappointment. I might try it a few more time though. I just can't give up that easily. :minelab: :rofl:
 
Some days you get the bear and some days he gets you!! No biggie, you'll just get em next time out!
 
It aint no thang podnah. You just gotta put your coil over the target at the right angle when your in trash that bad. I have hunted with Dave many times, where he has beat me bad on silver then there are other days when I am get a few more than him. Trashy sites are tough and the goodies are masked alot. Dont worry about it, the worst thing you can do is second guess your machine. TMAN...
 
Terry were you using 2 tone ferrous? I have used it the last several hunts....beep and dig. My ears got used to it. I switched back to multi tone today at, you guessed it, an old fairground and a couple of parks. My ears did not cooperate as they were very used to....beep and dig. It took me a while, hours actually to tune into what my detector was telling me again in multi. Got about twenty or so coins. My diggin partners got probably 50 or sixty together. I was very happy right at the end of todays hunt though. Wheats and silver are very hard to come by down here in the south. My last target I called as a wheatie. Bout six inches on the scale. I dug and it was a wheatie at a 12 42. My buddy looked as I dug it out and said I just came across there. I put the coil back over the freshly dug hole and it was solid null:minelab::clapping:
 
I have had a few of those days when nothing seemed to work.Either that or you had some sort of glitch with the function of your machine.After reading all the posts it is quite obvious you just had a bad run of luck if you believe in luck.Remember finding old coins at public sites is often kinda like finding a needle in a hay stack.
When you stop to consider the many millions of square inches of area at the fair grounds and the fact that only a very few of those inches contain a old coin with many times that total containing trash it is a miracle that as many coins were found as were.The odds just caught up with you on that day is all,Ray.:nerd:
 
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