new guy learning to drive this forum

[boneyfingers]

DUH. Hope I am doing this right, as I just found this forum. Anyway, I started detecting about 1975 with a Detex beat frequency, graduated to a Garrett Deepseeker Master Hunter, to a Garrett Coin Master, to a Fisher Quicksilver CZ 6A in the early 1990's. The CZ 6A is the best detector that I ever used although I haven't hunted much in the last 10 years or so. I mostly hunt for coins and rings.
A few weeks ago I pulled my CZ 6A out of the closet and started digging again, now that I,m retired.
The 6A is still very good machine, fast swinging, deep machine. I find coins from 4 to 10 inches deep regularly although lately I'm not finding much silver (due mainly to the areas I'm having to hunt).

Do any of you Etrac users have experience with CZ 6A's.

I am considering ordering a new Etrac and maybe a Sunray probe.

Will a Etrac outperform my CZ 6a, and if so by how much. A lot of my hunting areas are littered but still have coins worth digging although I have to dig a lot of memorial pennies.

Any opinions or comparisons would be appreicated.
Thanks,
Kenneth

 

[CONDUCTOR7E]

Welcome Ken.No experience with the CZ but the E-Trac is my choice for a top of the line machine.In my opinion there is nothing out there that can touch it.Other noteworthy machines are the Minelab Explorer series,The Fisher F75 LTD and Whites V3.I still will take the E-Trac any day over the others.Many people on this forum,including myself have made some incredible finds to back up this statement.Not trying to boast,only stating the truth.If you can find one and can swing the $1500.00 for one,you will not regret it in any way whatsoever.The E-Trac owners on this forum are very proud to swing the best and for good reason.THEY WORK! Good luck at whatever you decide to do.
Jason Sevene

 

[boneyfingers]

Jason,
Thanks for the reply. I'm new at this forum so I am trying to learn how to drive it. It will take me a while to figure out how to get and send information back and forth to everyone but I'll get it down soon. I thank you for the info on the Etrac as what I have read about it and videos I've watched on Utube have really impressed me. I am also wondering about the Sunray pinpointer (I don't know the model number) and if it works ok. I just bought a new PistolProbe but I'm not impressed with it. I makes all kind of noise even when you just swing it in open air and reads too far up the shaft. This makes it hard if the signal is in the side or bottom of hole.. I hope the Sunray is more accurate and works well with the Etrac.
I will probably be buying an Etrac soon, and maybe a Sunray pinpointer, do you have a favorite store to buy from?

Thanks again and I'll get better at this forum with experience
Kenneth

 

[CONDUCTOR7E]

Ken,take your time and take things in nice and easy.Everybody learns differently.If you have questions,just ask and many will assist you.The Sunray model that you are refering to is called the X-1 and is an indespensible part of my equipment for some time now.There are many videos with it in action,including my own that I have posted on this forum.I buy most if not all of my detecting supplies from George Streeter of Streeters Electronics here in Keene NH.I'm sure there are many good dealers here,but George treats me right.Please feel free to ask me any more questions.
Jason

 

[bruce01364]

Hi Kenneth
I am using the pistol probe and it goes deep because it is has pulse circuitry. It has adjustments (frequency and threshold) that should be able to get rid of the noise you hear. But it detects all metal objects in the hole and only gives one tone for all of them. Also the pulse circuitry interferes with the mulit frequencies of the etrac. I have to put my etrac a couple feet away to use the probe. Even then I sometimes have to make adjustments for the probe to work correctly. I had the Sunray inline probe with my last detector and it worked great. It will give you different tones so can pinpoint the object you are digging for. It also needs no batteries as it runs on the batteries of the detector. The only reason I don't have the Sunray probe now is because you need to send your upper shaft to Sunray to have it installed and I don't want to lose detecting time. But I will definitely be getting one this winter. If you decide to get an etrac I think the Sunray probe would be a good investment. The pistol probe is good in certain situations but with the etrac I think the Sunray probe works better IMO. Hope this helps.

 

[bruce01364]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that some dealers (I believe) will sell the etrac with the Sunray probe already istalled.

 

[stevew]

your old machine is like driving your car with four flats to the etrac floating on air. or counting beans to a calculator digging a cellar hole with a spoon to a bucket loader

I think your picking up what I'm throwing down


Good luck I hope you get your etrac soon

Steve

 

[boneyfingers]

Thanks, Jason, Bruce and Steve for your opinions. This all sounds like what I was hoping to hear. Has anyone of you (or maybe someone else) used the Cz6a Fisher Quicksilver before? It has been a Great machine but I'm just in the mood for an UPGRADE.
All opinions are welcomed by me.
Talk to you all later.

Thanks,
Kenneth (in Texas)

 

[boneyfingers]

Hello Y'all (that's Texan for you guys),
I got my E-trac yesterday from Chuck at Indian Nation Detectors (a very nice guy) and am waiting a few more days to receive my X1 probe from him.
I took it to the front yard with only a few minutes to test it out before dark. I used it in the factory setting and was able to pull a clad quarter, 2 memorials, and a half dozen pull tabs out in about 15 minutes. The coins were only about 2 inches deep in a gravel driveway and the volumn of these was rather weak (earphones are Gray Ghost NDT with volumn wide open) so I suppose I will have to increase the volumn settings on the machine. Tone was multitone, I think I will like 4 tones better. The E-trac responds a lot slower to signals than the CZ6A does and pinpointing is slower but I will get familar with it after more experience using it.

Also, in my front is a test garden that I planted agout 17 years ago. The garden has 40 coins, ( 10 pennies, 10 nickels, 10 dimes and 10 quarters, all are clad coins, I wish now that I would also used some silver ). These were all buried to a measured 6 inches and laid flat in the bottom of the hole. Over the years I have added dirt on top of dirt several times and resodded the yard with centipede squares about 3 inches thick. The coins are now about 12 inches deep or maybe more. I can no longer hear them with the CZ6A (using factory 8 inch spider coil) and I'm hoping the E-Trac will hear them. Any suggestion as how to program the E=Trac to hear these coins?

Thanks in advance for any advise
Kenneth

 

[boneyfingers]

Hello Y'all (that's Texan for "you guys"),
I got my E-trac yesterday from Chuck at Indian Nation Detectors (a very nice guy) and am waiting a few more days to receive my X1 probe from him.
I took it to the front yard with only a few minutes to test it out before dark. I used it in the factory setting and was able to pull a clad quarter, 2 memorials, and a half dozen pull tabs out in about 15 minutes. The coins were only about 2 inches deep in a gravel driveway and the volumn of these was rather weak (earphones are Gray Ghost NDT with volumn wide open) so I suppose I will have to increase the volumn settings on the machine. Tone was multitone, I think I will like 4 tones better. The E-trac responds a lot slower to signals than the CZ6A does and pinpointing is slower but I will get familar with it after more experience using it.

Also, in my front is a test garden that I planted agout 17 years ago. The garden has 40 coins, ( 10 pennies, 10 nickels, 10 dimes and 10 quarters, all are clad coins, I wish now that I would also used some silver ). These were all buried to a measured 6 inches and laid flat in the bottom of the hole. Over the years I have added dirt on top of dirt several times and resodded the yard with centipede squares about 3 inches thick. The coins are now about 12 inches deep or maybe more. I can no longer hear them with the CZ6A (using factory 8 inch spider coil) and I'm hoping the E-Trac will hear them. Any suggestion as how to program the E=Trac to hear these coins?

Thanks in advance for any advise
Kenneth