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Just a little quote from Charles Up State NY. The site I feel is as close to THE WORD as you can get.
- Thread starter NH Bob
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Charles (Upstate NY)
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You know its winter and half the country is snowed in when a bunch of guys who all own the same/best detector on the market still find reasons to argue! LMAO
GAIN: Lets see now, first the gain is adjustable for a reason. I use 7 most places I hunt but I have hunted a park near Phili where you can run 10 and the machine is as stable as concrete. Try to run 7 at some sites in the Pacific Northwest and the machine will go nuts. When I dig in the dirt I'm often hunting for older targets which are deeper, and there is ample amounts of shallow trash which I want to ignore. I use a gain of 7 not so much because I can't run it hotter but because it helps me tell the difference between the 1 deep old coin among 80 shallow clad targets. Just adjust the gain for the site conditions and the type of hunting you are doing. By the way listen to Mattockman, did you catch that tip about the machine going unstable when the backlight is turned on at some sites? I have seen that before, its rare but does happen.
SE Coil: Minelab has acknowledged they had some problems with some SE coils so if your SE coil falses like crazy have them swap it out for a new one.
SE Gain: The SE gain is the same as the Explorer II, if anything is different its the SE coil which may be wound a tad hotter. I have been running an Explorer II coil on my SE for about 2,500 targets and I dont see any difference between the SE and II in terms of sensitivity to small targets or depth and trust me I dig some tiny targets beach hunting. That said the SE does have some new features I really like so I'm glad I upgraded.
Depth: This notion that the Explorer (any model) will go 10 inches deep on a penny or dime anywhere in the US is incorrect. It may have gone 10 inches deep everywhere you have detected but it won't get 10 inches everywhere. Feel free to come on down to Ocean City, NJ and I will take you to a section of beach loaded with black sand and you will be lucky to get 4 inches and thats on a silver dime in sand. Mineralization effects depth, as does the moisture content in the soil, and the amount of rusty nails. Another depth killing condition is sopping wet soil with lots of rusty nails, that combination will mask lots of targets, go back when the soil is bone dry and you will be amazed what you find. I know some spots in the Pacific Northwest where you cannot even use the stock coil, attempt to place the coil down and the machine will squeal like a pig. The Minelab 8 was barely workable there.
There that should be enough to get all you cabin fever guys all riled up again! (running and ducking)
Charles
PS: Got me a 1956 Washington Quarter beach hunting today! And this past week I got the diamond ring back from the police dept, I had turned it in when I found it 6 months ago and it went unclaimed. 1.09 carat!!!
GAIN: Lets see now, first the gain is adjustable for a reason. I use 7 most places I hunt but I have hunted a park near Phili where you can run 10 and the machine is as stable as concrete. Try to run 7 at some sites in the Pacific Northwest and the machine will go nuts. When I dig in the dirt I'm often hunting for older targets which are deeper, and there is ample amounts of shallow trash which I want to ignore. I use a gain of 7 not so much because I can't run it hotter but because it helps me tell the difference between the 1 deep old coin among 80 shallow clad targets. Just adjust the gain for the site conditions and the type of hunting you are doing. By the way listen to Mattockman, did you catch that tip about the machine going unstable when the backlight is turned on at some sites? I have seen that before, its rare but does happen.
SE Coil: Minelab has acknowledged they had some problems with some SE coils so if your SE coil falses like crazy have them swap it out for a new one.
SE Gain: The SE gain is the same as the Explorer II, if anything is different its the SE coil which may be wound a tad hotter. I have been running an Explorer II coil on my SE for about 2,500 targets and I dont see any difference between the SE and II in terms of sensitivity to small targets or depth and trust me I dig some tiny targets beach hunting. That said the SE does have some new features I really like so I'm glad I upgraded.
Depth: This notion that the Explorer (any model) will go 10 inches deep on a penny or dime anywhere in the US is incorrect. It may have gone 10 inches deep everywhere you have detected but it won't get 10 inches everywhere. Feel free to come on down to Ocean City, NJ and I will take you to a section of beach loaded with black sand and you will be lucky to get 4 inches and thats on a silver dime in sand. Mineralization effects depth, as does the moisture content in the soil, and the amount of rusty nails. Another depth killing condition is sopping wet soil with lots of rusty nails, that combination will mask lots of targets, go back when the soil is bone dry and you will be amazed what you find. I know some spots in the Pacific Northwest where you cannot even use the stock coil, attempt to place the coil down and the machine will squeal like a pig. The Minelab 8 was barely workable there.
There that should be enough to get all you cabin fever guys all riled up again! (running and ducking)
Charles
PS: Got me a 1956 Washington Quarter beach hunting today! And this past week I got the diamond ring back from the police dept, I had turned it in when I found it 6 months ago and it went unclaimed. 1.09 carat!!!