I think I may have introduced myself in the past in this forum, but a quick intro again I think is is order 
. My name is Alan and I live in Southern NH and have living here for almost a year now. I have a DFX and have been sucessful with the machine in the UK where I was living before I moved to NH. I have mates over there and about half use the DFX and the other Half use Explorers. We have all had our fair share of goodies, but one of our group has far surpassed us all in finds...he uses the original XS. For a long time I have been think about getting an explorer and after the last hunt with him in a trip back in April and seeing he had double the targets I had, I decided to take the leap of faith.
My e bay SE came last Friday and I managed a hunt out on Saturday on a brand new field. I had high hopes for this field because it is in a very old area and the field in question was directly across from a colonial farm. Just one problem....it turned out to be the trashiest field I have EVER hunted in
Between myself and my hunting bud (also XSII) user we took out two white plastic shopping bags full of chopped up tin cans and pull tabs! So much for a quiet field to get to know the new machine 
I think that they is def still loads of potential in there...it would just take forever to dig out all the crap and there are more productive sites on the hit list this year. For the DFX users that were like me and have been wondering about depth on the explorers....it's true..I picked out the Zippo lighter deeper than I would have with the DFX standard coil no probs. I am hunting in all metal with Conduct but I think I am going to try out ferrous sounds next time round. Even with all that garbage I still manged a few buttons...can't wait till I find that first silllvar!!!
HH
Alan
. My name is Alan and I live in Southern NH and have living here for almost a year now. I have a DFX and have been sucessful with the machine in the UK where I was living before I moved to NH. I have mates over there and about half use the DFX and the other Half use Explorers. We have all had our fair share of goodies, but one of our group has far surpassed us all in finds...he uses the original XS. For a long time I have been think about getting an explorer and after the last hunt with him in a trip back in April and seeing he had double the targets I had, I decided to take the leap of faith. My e bay SE came last Friday and I managed a hunt out on Saturday on a brand new field. I had high hopes for this field because it is in a very old area and the field in question was directly across from a colonial farm. Just one problem....it turned out to be the trashiest field I have EVER hunted in
Between myself and my hunting bud (also XSII) user we took out two white plastic shopping bags full of chopped up tin cans and pull tabs! So much for a quiet field to get to know the new machine I think that they is def still loads of potential in there...it would just take forever to dig out all the crap and there are more productive sites on the hit list this year. For the DFX users that were like me and have been wondering about depth on the explorers....it's true..I picked out the Zippo lighter deeper than I would have with the DFX standard coil no probs. I am hunting in all metal with Conduct but I think I am going to try out ferrous sounds next time round. Even with all that garbage I still manged a few buttons...can't wait till I find that first silllvar!!!
HH
Alan
I won't be a threat to anyone for a while yet until I can learn this machine 