A friend and I were musing over whether there are still parts of the USA (like certain states, areas, etc...) where the Explorer hasn't caught on yet. Since the Explorer, in general, is still fairly new in the USA, and only still catching on in some zones, it stands to reason that some states are still primarily Whites, Garretts, Tesoros, or whatever.
7 or so years ago here in CA, you never saw an Explorer in the old park turf. But once the secret got out, they sold like wild-fire. Now when you go to a group hunt, most are swinging Explorers. The first experienced guys to use them in a "non-Explorerized" park, invariably got some deeper missed silver, and word spread.
This was true of the Portland/Vancouver area, where a friend tells that a newbie walked into the club meeting with silver, he claimed to have found in such & such park. Some of the veterans doubted him, because this park had been so hammered by their XLTs and such. But one guy got curious, and agreed to meet the newbie at the park. After about the 5th signal comparison, the XLT guy, trying every which setting, had to admit that the Explorer simply sang them out better (deep silver) than his XLT. He broke down and forced himself to learn the tooty flooty sounds. For the next year, he had a field day going to all the "worked out" parks and getting silver that had been missed.
A friend of mine is in parts of Iowa and Nebraska right now, on a family reunion trip, He's simply amazed at the barbers and IHs that are popping up in the parks. Oddly, mostly teens and earlier, as if the top 4 or 5" has been worked by other machines. He bumped into an Explorer guy in this town, who said he is the first, to his knowledge, in the area, with an Explorer. But he had no probe, and had his settings all screwed up (tried to black out the screen and then edit back in exact coin coordinates on the grid, etc...). No doubt, w/my friends tutoring, that guy will soon be harvesting the same type results, and word will spread there.
The reason I bring this up, is I wonder if there's areas of the USA, that, still to this day, don't have high Explorer sales, use, etc... If no proficient Explorer users have hit some older geographic areas, it stands to reason that they'd be worth a trip to dedicate a week to touring the parks, eh?
Are there any grand old parks of the eastern state not getting worked by Explorers? Upper midwest? NE? etc...
7 or so years ago here in CA, you never saw an Explorer in the old park turf. But once the secret got out, they sold like wild-fire. Now when you go to a group hunt, most are swinging Explorers. The first experienced guys to use them in a "non-Explorerized" park, invariably got some deeper missed silver, and word spread.
This was true of the Portland/Vancouver area, where a friend tells that a newbie walked into the club meeting with silver, he claimed to have found in such & such park. Some of the veterans doubted him, because this park had been so hammered by their XLTs and such. But one guy got curious, and agreed to meet the newbie at the park. After about the 5th signal comparison, the XLT guy, trying every which setting, had to admit that the Explorer simply sang them out better (deep silver) than his XLT. He broke down and forced himself to learn the tooty flooty sounds. For the next year, he had a field day going to all the "worked out" parks and getting silver that had been missed.
A friend of mine is in parts of Iowa and Nebraska right now, on a family reunion trip, He's simply amazed at the barbers and IHs that are popping up in the parks. Oddly, mostly teens and earlier, as if the top 4 or 5" has been worked by other machines. He bumped into an Explorer guy in this town, who said he is the first, to his knowledge, in the area, with an Explorer. But he had no probe, and had his settings all screwed up (tried to black out the screen and then edit back in exact coin coordinates on the grid, etc...). No doubt, w/my friends tutoring, that guy will soon be harvesting the same type results, and word will spread there.
The reason I bring this up, is I wonder if there's areas of the USA, that, still to this day, don't have high Explorer sales, use, etc... If no proficient Explorer users have hit some older geographic areas, it stands to reason that they'd be worth a trip to dedicate a week to touring the parks, eh?
Are there any grand old parks of the eastern state not getting worked by Explorers? Upper midwest? NE? etc...
