Lets kick this one around...

[Dan-Pa.]

Most including myself feel a moderately slower swing works best for depth...One young fellow club member( anyone under 40 is young to me) swings faster than most XLT users and gets as much depth amd keepers as anyone while covering a lot more area..Anyone care to comment...

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Dan,

This one has been discussed over on the classroom many times. It's easy to try yourself. Move a coin over the coil both fast and slow; you will get better depth at faster speeds, this effect is more noticeable in Auto sensitivity.

But, in most trashy areas the machine cannot recover from signals quickly enough for this to be useful. So it is a trade off, cover more area and miss some coins or go slow and probably get more coins per area searched.

I think this comes down to the typical explorer conundrum: Any time you do something different, whether settings, coil size, sweep speed/angle, chewing gum flavor, etc. you will find more coins. What finds the most goodies most of the time for the most people? We are still debating this after 5-6 years now. Pretty much everyone agrees that turning the machine on is helpful, After that, less of a consensus.

Chris

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

I have seen many a target that the Explorer will go right by if you're swinging too fast. Slow it down and it locks on. That's why when we go for the deep ones we set Deep=On and Fast=Off and go S-L-O-W. Works best for me. I like the point Chris made about everybody agreeing that we need to turn on the machine but everybody does their own thing after that. Bottom line is, whatever works for YOU.

 

[jimb]

From what I have learned so far is the faster I swing it the more people stay away. The slower I swing it the more they come up and want to know more about it. And if the Mom is cute of the kid bugging me. That kid gets a whole lesson of how the metal detector works and a couple of the coins I dig up. I seem to find more when I don't spaz out with it and run aimlessly across a Field.

jimb

 

[au4greg]

Dan,

I know a Man with your level of experience with the different makes and models knows....

The Explorer/Sovereign Circuits have a longer than average shut off time which requires a slower than average sweep. The smart hunters sweep carefully and take the time to listen to those distant signals.

The Explorer/Quattro just makes it a bit easier because of their overall circuit and smooth operation.

 

[Ocean7]

the response of EX is slow compared to other machines, and if you are swinging fast by the time it sounds off on good signal - it is moving over bad signal and trying to combine the two. If your ears can pick these signals out - more power to you. But this is not a detector you want to swing like a White's IMO.