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Just ordered an SE :jump:

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dsw08

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Hi,

My first real post here. Just bought an SE from a fellow forum member. Should be a nice upgrade from the BH Discovery 1100. Tomorrow I order 16 1/2" coil :crazy:

I'll be hunting Cape Cod for awhile and plan to hit south eastern Florida after Thanksgiving. Will post my finds. I'm shooting for GOLD, FOIL, & PULL TABS. I'm ok with skipping clad. If I were to also hunt for rare platinum would that greatly increase the amount of trash and silver/coin that I'd have to dig? Would it be worth it? I'm ok with gold only.

Thanks,

James
 
If you are going to use a coil that large at the beach with the SE, You had better bring a long shovel, I was getting 16-18 inch depth out of the stock ten when I used my SE at the beach. Good luck to you. If you are not familiar with the SE, you may want to try a smaller coil with it inland first to get used to it, because they false alot in the wet sand, just about every time you bump the ground. It takes quite a bit of getting used to, but once you do, you'll be able to tell the difference between the falses and a targets. The falses don't repeat and their tones are real choppy instead of smooth or round.:detecting:
 
The plan is to search beaches, parks, soccer fields, old paths maybe (old coins). I ordered the large coil and will practice with the stock coil also. As long as I'm not bumping the ground at the beach it hopefully won't false much? This detector handles wet sand ok if the coil isn't defective?
 
Yes you are going to have to dig tons of foil if you want to find thin platinum rings. Always look for those small sharp pinpoint signals these kind of signals are what super thin rings will sound like. Foil has a distinctive sound but you need to know first what foil sounds like so that you can walk over it (without missing a ring).unlucky me:cry: has I have never been lucky enough to find a thin platinum ring with stone in as yet although i have found some thinnish gold rings (without stones in :angry: ) that hit just slightly above the foil range. I have a small collection of rings that i intend to program into a custom pattern and see how it goes on a few coin shooting /ring hunting sites. Digging foil out for more than 30 minute sessions can drive you mad and make you a little frustrated so keep foil digging sessions to a round 30 minutes. Go for signals in the medium to large foil range and concentrate on these signals. The other week i had a nickel program loaded and was lucky to get a nice gold ring that hit in the nickel window i had opened! The SE is pure magic on trashy sites honestly, If a ring is there your explorer SE will blow your ear drums out once its clever electronic brain sees it !. It will let you know the ring is there dont you worry! Its the worlds best ring hunting detector ever made. Like i say though don't spend to much time digging foil out or you will get feeling down pretty fast. Spend half an hour or so digging foil out then move up to digging the tabs out. When you start digging nickels out then you know you are in the great gold ring range. Recently i cleared a site out all foil signals but unlucky for me i didn;t get a single ring with a stone in:angry:. I did find a ring when i was walking down the street the other day - right in the middle of the road! a nice one too and with eyes only.
 
Sweet! I wasn't aware of a new explorer. I thought foils had to be dug for gold. Maybe it was nickels or both. I'd rather skip platinum because it's so rare than dig a thousand holes for 1 platinum or whatever it works out to.
 
I was joking when i said i had ordered the explorer 4 , Forgive me i don't want to get any ones hopes up of the new explorer model. I am saving though for the new model whenever it comes out. My se will be part exchanged in for the latest model , it could be here within 2 years hopefully.
 
I have been thinking the same thing. I just bought an SE a few weeks ago and I figure since I just bought it, Minelab is just about to announce the new Explorer LW, (light weight).
It will weigh 2.2 lbs with the coil, the new 3" coil that cover's as much area as the current 10" coil and correctly ID's a dime at Two feet in bad ground. The recovery will be both fast and deep with improved TID and target seperation second to none. It will also have the revolutionary new aluminum rejection that ignore's all aluminum, as if it is not there, while still detecting all other metals. Fully waterproof and run's 100 hours on 2 AA batteries.


I can't wait... but I guess I will... for a long time. I'm sure it will make production just after I am too old and feeble to hunt.

Julien
 
My Explorer SE is better than I thought it'd be. Very happy with it. Now I just got to get to a good spot to hunt besides heavily hunted beaches.

There is an ancient train station somewhere near me that was popular with tourists in the 1880s.
 
[quote dsw08] There is an ancient train station somewhere near me that was popular with tourists in the 1880s.[/quote]

Hey dsw08 now that sounds like a place worth detecting, hope you are happy with your new SE mate...

HH

Snowy:twodetecting:
 
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