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[CEF]

I just purchased an SE Pro, a huge move from an old bounty hunter. The problem I'm having is working an old park with lots of trash and I can't seem to get a good solid signal. The bounty hunter was easy, either signal or no signal and dig everything. The SE has lots of blips and pops. I've had several hits in clean areas that come across as solid. I have been using the conductivity/ferrous readout to identify targets and even practiced on a variety of things (penny, nickel, quarter, silver dollar, foil) and thought I had a good feel for sound and readout. When I get out in the field there is so much noise it seems almost constant and so I keep waiting for that good strong signal rather than digging every chirp I hear. How do I determine what's a good signal through all this? Just dig everything until I get used to it? Advice requested...

 

[big-ears]

some of these guys know the SE very well and the Explorer also. Do you have a test garden yet? I use 4 or 5 silver dimes, nothing else. It is one of the smaller coins you will dig and as I bury it deeper I want the same coin buried so the depth change is what I want to hear nothing else. I don't bury a dime at 6 inches and a quarter at 7. I bury all silver dimes at 6, 8, 10, etc. or whatever depth you feel you need to start at. I cover them in a piece of "duck" tape and pack the dirt an inch at a time. You will quickly learn what they sound like at depth. I know one thing you have got one of the best detectors period! Look at the finds, depths, etc that machine is capable of on this forum. It just takes some time...........

 

[DukeOBass]

You could start off by using a little bit of Iron Mask. It's a selection button to the left and below the screen. Push that and use your arrows to add or take away from it. I would start by adding around 10 to it. Once you've set it. Make sure you have it set to on. You will now have less chirping and beeping to contend with. Swing slowly and give the machine a chance to recover from any signals that it nulls out. This will enable you to find good targets that might be close to iron. Watch for numbers in the 00 - 10 or 12 range on the Ferrous Side and 24 - 31 on the Conductive side. DIG!
Let me know how this works for you.

 

[grumpy]

CEF;
My two cents worth since your new to the SE. A very kind gentleman told me a few years ago when I started on the SE a way the machine is made simple and easy.
All the do this and that : out the window. Go to the beginner lever and start; out the window.
Take the book and machine and read and learn how to program the machine to accept what you want, it is real easy once you read the book on how to program the machine.
Now with this knowledge program the machine to accept a dime, nickel, quater, half and maybe your wed. ring but only one or two rings. Now all total the coins and all you have maybe half dozen items in your first program.
Put on your muffs at your favorite school or park playground or and go hunt. Hunt that program till you get real comfortable with it and find some treasures and get the hang of the machine. make sure IM is off
When the machine is real comfortable there then build you a program with everything you want that you have access to; gold rings, gold coins, silver rings, all the coins you can find but only items like those. This is program two. You will get lots of overlap and even some trash here but go hunt with program two till you get where you are used to it and used to the program. IM is still off
Be sure you dont get hooked on EXACT numbers. Like James will tell you numbers are not carved in stone they can lie to you go by sounds and if you get numbers close dig if in doubt DIG. If the left number is off but the right number is saying a coin, dig it the left number will lie to you regularly. If in doubt DIG.
ALso if you get over whelmed with program two when you hit a trashy park its ok to go back to one and hunt ITS SUPPOSED to be FUN not a job.
Then when you got one and two; turn that little button on that says Iron Mask On to on and set it about 21 or a third of the screen left side 1/3 black and hunt in IM . This will hit all the targets to the right of the black and open up a whole new world. When you get used to that IM playing with your head you will be officially Brain washed like the rest of us and ready to hunt the days away. Never looking at the sky again. Seeing every place you pass as a place to go hunt.
The bounty hunter (hunted with a lady with one) will find stuff and your right dig everything. The SE will find more, deeper, and easier with less trash to dig once you learn it it will be worth it.
Good Luck and happy hunting; Hope the 2 cents is worth it.
Grumpy

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I too couldn't understand all the hype about how good the explorer was. When I first tried it, it sounded like a flock of sick geese. Like a tooty-fluty orchestra. Everything sounded the same. The only answer I can give you, is there is NO way someone can answer the question in print. It simply has to be heard and shown. Printed text can not describe a sound, a swing speed, a repeatability or bounce thing, etc... It would be like asking someone "please describe the note of C-minor in print" It can't be done. Best to hook up with someone who's proficient with the Explorer in your area. Find someone who's consistently coming in with deep oldies, not a sand box hunter. Ask them to flag some deep coin signals, watch them swing, hear what they're hearing, you try over it, and the lights will go on! That's the way it was with me: an Explorer ace took me to an old-town park & flagged a few 8 or 9" deep whispers (deep wheaties, silver, etc...). Once he did that, and I heard what he was hearing, all of the sudden those signals "stuck out", and sounded different than the orchestra I'd been trying to sort out.

 

[CEF]

Thanks for all the advice. Will try a little bit of the above and take it slow and see if I can't find someone local that can help with the testing. Another question though...was out this morning and had several signals that were just single slight hits that I can't reproduce when I swing back over the target. When I go to pinpoint mode though I can hear the signal just fine. Why is this? People don't actually just run in pinpoint mode do they?

 

[JAB/Oregon]

CEF--
Have you checked your private Messages?

 

[Charles (Sabre)(Tx)]

Slow way down when using an Explorer...allow the unit to reset to threshold on every target if you can. You may want to start out in the factory preset smartscreen. But go slow.

Charles

 

[Tom_in_CA]

CEF, you're still coming back and asking questions that can't be answered in print. Even Charles advice to "slow" down is all relative. Someone told me that too, when I first picked up an Explorer. But coming from having used a fast swing Whites, for someone to say "slow down" had no meaning at all. It simply had to be shown. I litterally had to watch and listen as an ace did it, even to the point of using a headphone splitter. I mean, it's like trying to learn to drive by reading a book in a classroom. You can read all the instructions, rules of the road, etc... but until you actually go on that first "driver's ed" driving attempt, all the printed text in the world will not hit home or mean much.

 

[king-ghidorah]

CEF, you're still coming back and asking questions that can't be answered in print. Even Charles advice to "slow" down is all relative. Someone told me that too, when I first picked up an Explorer. But coming from having used a fast swing Whites, for someone to say "slow down" had no meaning at all. It simply had to be shown. I litterally had to watch and listen as an ace did it, even to the point of using a headphone splitter. I mean, it's like trying to learn to drive by reading a book in a classroom. You can read all the instructions, rules of the road, etc... but until you actually go on that first "driver's ed" driving attempt, all the printed text in the world will not hit home or mean much.

Yeah, that's good practical advice. CEF is learning quickly though. Fortunately he has had prior experience working with MD. I think the best way which usually doen't happen is have an ace swing it and explain, hands on with something like this is a really good learning tool.