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My buddy with DFX is convinced now he needs an Etrac :clapping:

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Goes4ever

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90% of yesterdays finds were found of the side of the yard my buddy with a WHITES DFX covered. He went over it last week north and south direction, then yesterday he went East and west across it. I said hey how about I come over to that side with my etrac now and see what u missed? he says sure go ahead. When the hunt was over and I showed him my finds, he says that is it, I have had it with this DFX, I am getting an etrac!

I think he was shocked to see all the stuff he walked right over and totally missed.

plus I brought along another buddy yesterday and he also uses an etrac, he helped me work that side of the yard as well that my DFX friend just hunted. He pulled a 1929 SLQ, 1950 rosie and 3 wheats as well :lol:
 
DFX is no comparison to the Etrac. The Etrac will run right over a DFX and dance circles around it! The DFX is a little toy, compared to the all mighty Etrac!

Weston
 
Great job on the finds.
but a lot of the success a lot of times is due to user experience.
I have found this out more than once,so please don't be offended.
Unless you hunt with an experienced detectorist,you will never know you are missing coins!
I use to think if i didn't find anything that there just wasn't anything there.
Boy,was i wrong! In parks and places that have been hunted hard for the past forty years
it is a whole different ballgame. you no longer get the solid signals and repeatable signals.
you have to learn that you will not find many silvers there unless you learn to find them in the trash.
I am forever greatful to have the opportunity to hunt with Ray-Mo.
If i hadn't i would still be leaving places thinking there was nothing there.
Like i said,i mean to offend no one,but don't make the mistake i did.
if you are in an area where old coins have been found,chances are,there are still some hiding
and lurking there.
Nothing is greater than to find old coins where you know they have been hunted hard for a lot of years.
Amazingly,sometimes they are only three or four inches deep,but in heavy trash.
Keep the passion high and never ever quit learning,
best of luck to all!

LabradorBob
 
I agree with you Goes... that is the beauty of the Etrac, I never even detected before I purchased mine and all I need is a spot that holds some goodies and the Etrac pretty much just sucks them out. I have found though that the sef coils are the way to go. They pull deeper with better separation and they also get those tiny bits and coins on edge that I was having trouble finding with the pro coil. But I also agree with Bob, I have the feeling that someone who has the experience in the trash like Raymo with the Etrac could go to that same spot and pull even a few more keepers out. No offense to you but I am in the same boat. I have been hunting a very old park with very little sucess. The park is 40 acres in the center of town and not terribly trashy, but has its spots. I have not one silver from this park yet but I know they are there. There is a 1740 homestead in the center of this park and the town took the property over in 1892. I also have no idea as to how many people have came before me. But I have spent about 15 hours there and only have 1 indian 2 buffalos, a super old buckle and a silver ring which was actually a surface find, and a whole slew of clad. Not to mention the countless pull-tabs. I wish I had someone nearby that was experienced with the Etrac in the trash that could show me what I am missing and show me the best ways to set the machine up in the situations I come across around my neck of the woods. Sorry to ramble on but this is why the videos that alot of you guys post are so priceless. HH

EtracJoe
 
The dfx if set up right is a killer coin hunter , set it wrong for the targets you are hunting for and it stands to reason it will lack punch.
My personal all time favourite metal detectors are the whites dfx and the minelab explorer 2.

I nearly bought an e trac but the cost put me off for the slight bit "extra" .

That little bit extra was going to cost many hundreds!

Will i ever own an e trac , the answer is probably yes , once the secondhand prices fall.
 
LABRADOR BOB
Can you or Raymo do some videoing of those signals that you speak of. You know the ones that aren't repeatable like you spoke of above. Would love to hear first hand what some of those signals produce. I have been doing yards and can't dig everything, so I am doing mostly the repeatable signals to limit lawn damage. Thanks.
 
That is one of the things that is so good about the E-TRAC... it is awesome right out of the box even for a beginner. No trying to figure out a bouncing cursor, no GB, just noise cancel, set it to auto+3, s couple of settings for your personal taste and start finding the stuff that the others miss!!!

J
 
I've taken my E-Trac back to all of the places I've hunted for years with my DFX. In our city park where coins are extremely deep I've pulled many coins that were out of my DFX's range but nowhere else. I've gone back to an old carnival site where I pulled lots of Indian Heads and silver and found nothing. I've gone back to many old schools where I pulled many old coins with my DFX and found nothing. What the E-Trac does do is make finding very deep high conductive coins easy to hear and know.

Most detectors can go pretty deep but it take experience with that detector before your lean to hear those deep ones. That is why most people say it's more the user that the detector, which is true to a point. The E-Trac makes it easy for a new user to hear those deep high conductive targets, that is it's real strength. Many detectors can go as deep but require years of experience to learn what to listen for.

The E-Trac has given me new respect for my DFX.
 
I do not have a video camera,but i do have a cell phone.
I will try it sometime soon to see how it does!

Labradorbob
 
Unfortunately (for your buddy) he may end up getting an E-TRAC and you will still outhunt him. Knowing the functionality of a detector is very important in finding success in the field. But knowing "how to hunt" is even more important. Coil control, sweep speed, hunt modes, masking, discrimination........How to apply all of those things, and more. You may not consider yourself experienced with the E-TRAC, yet. But you've proven time and time again that you understand what it takes to pull coins from old sites. A person may have used "brand X" for a long time. But hours at the controls only gives one experience if they are eager to learn something new each and everytime they turn it on! To me, it is the difference between arts and science. The technology of a detector is based on science. Properly operating it is an art. JMHO HH Randy
 
Digger said:
Unfortunately (for your buddy) he may end up getting an E-TRAC and you will still outhunt him. Knowing the functionality of a detector is very important in finding success in the field. But knowing "how to hunt" is even more important. Coil control, sweep speed, hunt modes, masking, discrimination........How to apply all of those things, and more. You may not consider yourself experienced with the E-TRAC, yet. But you've proven time and time again that you understand what it takes to pull coins from old sites. A person may have used "brand X" for a long time. But hours at the controls only gives one experience if they are eager to learn something new each and everytime they turn it on! To me, it is the difference between arts and science. The technology of a detector is based on science. Properly operating it is an art. JMHO HH Randy
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well thank you Randy, I take that as a compliment! :thumbup:
 
By being willing to learn something new everytime you turn on your detector (which ever one it may be), you've earned it. HH Randy
 
"you no longer get the solid signals and repeatable signals.
you have to learn that you will not find many silvers there unless you learn to find them in the trash."


Shhhhh.... you're givin' away the secret!!!

J
 
Hey Goes. Have you marked a signal for him to listen to? I just wonder if he's just going too fast and not listening or some other reason. I think it would be productive for him to be able to hear a "diggable" signal from the E-Trac and see how it sounds on his. I wouldn't want to get another detector if I couldn't find a fairly easy target with the one I am using. Just curious what the situation was.

NebTrac
 
NebTrac said:
Hey Goes. Have you marked a signal for him to listen to? I just wonder if he's just going too fast and not listening or some other reason. I think it would be productive for him to be able to hear a "diggable" signal from the E-Trac and see how it sounds on his. I wouldn't want to get another detector if I couldn't find a fairly easy target with the one I am using. Just curious what the situation was.

NebTrac
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yes all day I would find signals that the etrac said were 6-7 in range and I told him what etrac said it was, and told him if you can hear the signal and tell me what your DFX says it is, I will let you dig it! well almost everytime he could not get a clear signal with his machine. Majority of the targets I found for him to check were wheats
 
Had a wheat in that range give me a silver sound and numbers yesterday. I couldn't believe it wasn't silver....and nothing else in the hole and no trash. For my area the drier it gets to be, it seems the different the sounds get to be. Signed, Still Learnin'.

NebTrac
 
its funny that on some boards they get all bent out of shape when detector comparions are mentioned, but not here. We know and are confident that nothing touches an fbs detector no matter how hard they try.
 
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