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I upgraded to an SE Pro
- Thread starter john4840
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I know it might sound lame but I enjoyed the Minelab SE emulator from the Minelab owners site. It was good for me to hear those high tones. Make sure you get the American coins add on too. I found stuff the first hunt with the SE. It is a great treasure hunter that you will begin to understand better and better. Good luck. Please post your finds.
Don
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Don
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MNCoinhunter
Active member
Andy's book is priceless ... have fun and be patient. She will reward you tremendously .. 
I'v had mine for about 6 weeks and the first few times I went out I was totally amazed!! Went to a grove that has been hammered,and I mean hammered,in an area that had lots of trash (about 30 feet by 30 feet) I found 10 indians,24 wheats and 5 silver dimes,one being a barber.About half of those keepers had trash in the same hole with them.Some how this machine over looks the trash and zeros in on the good stuff. My advice is to keep it in the factory settings(when you turn it on hold the power button for a few seconds)and swing real slow and listen for those high pitched sounds,sometimes they are not repeatable all the time but I found on the older coins that is what it does most of the time,especially when trash is in the hole with a good target.But you will get to know it once you hear it.I wish you luck and be sure not to give up because you WILL be rewarded.It just takes time to learn it. I never used a machine like this before,its an animal!
what kind of trash are you talking about? i seem to still find the trash unless you're talking about iron. if its iron i guess i got most of the coins with my sovereign. when i get what i think might be an indian head it always turns out to be a screw cap. i can't even find the wheats that everybody else seems to get. i'll keep trying though.
sgoss66
Well-known member
chuck -- sounds like you are having a hard time...
A couple of questions...how do you have your machine set up, what settings?
Also, with time, you will be able to dig less trash -- such that your trash-to-keeper ratio improves. Screw caps almost always hit 06-27 or 07-27 -- whereas an Indian Head will hit quite a bit lower, usually with a CO value of 24 or thereabouts. You may be hunting the smartfind screen, not sure, but I prefer the numbers. I know it's "heresy" on this forum, to not use the smartfind screen,
but that's what works for me -- I feel I can really ignore most of the trash by learning the numbers, and how the numbers behave. It's very analogous to watching for unique "cursor movements," except that I watch how the numbers behave. It's just whatever works best for you -- but numerically, screw caps ring up just a little different than either wheaties OR IH pennies, most of the time...you will learn the subtleties with time, as you get more experienced with the unit.
Steve
A couple of questions...how do you have your machine set up, what settings?
Also, with time, you will be able to dig less trash -- such that your trash-to-keeper ratio improves. Screw caps almost always hit 06-27 or 07-27 -- whereas an Indian Head will hit quite a bit lower, usually with a CO value of 24 or thereabouts. You may be hunting the smartfind screen, not sure, but I prefer the numbers. I know it's "heresy" on this forum, to not use the smartfind screen,
but that's what works for me -- I feel I can really ignore most of the trash by learning the numbers, and how the numbers behave. It's very analogous to watching for unique "cursor movements," except that I watch how the numbers behave. It's just whatever works best for you -- but numerically, screw caps ring up just a little different than either wheaties OR IH pennies, most of the time...you will learn the subtleties with time, as you get more experienced with the unit.Steve
i use an explorer 2. i started with the numbers but dug a lot of what i would call trash that read 26-28 they were probably small brass junk. i now hunt in smartfind in iron mask. i guess what i was trying to learn was if the trash with the coins was something other than iron. don't see how you could really tell its a coin instead of a pulltab if they're together. thanks
sgoss66
Well-known member
chuck -- if you have a coin sitting close to a pull tab, then -- especially if you are moving REAL slow with your coil, and using a small coil, you can often "isolate" the two tones -- one for the coin, and the other for the pull tab, as you rotate around the targets doing the "wiggle." Often, you can "separate out" these two adjacent targets; if they are TOO close together, it is tough, but if there's enough distance there for the coil to resolve them as two distinct targets (and the smaller the coil, the better your chance to do that), then you can manage to dig the coin despite the presence of the tab.
Yes, many 26-28 numbers on the conductive side can be trash -- many screw caps hit right at "27" for instance. Copper washers, etc. will hit right up there, too...
Steve
Yes, many 26-28 numbers on the conductive side can be trash -- many screw caps hit right at "27" for instance. Copper washers, etc. will hit right up there, too...
Steve
MINELABMIKE
Member
you are going to enjoy hunting with the explorer se pro