Open it up more and you will find more, sure

[Arturo de Zorro]

I have been having a great time with the E-trac and I am not looking back at the Explorer II I sold even though it found me 16 silver dollars one day and 3 the next day. But I have been reading a few post about setting the quickmask ferrous number in the 20's to get those coins that are deeper. Well I set it a 22 and started hunting and after one silver dime and five wheat's we moved to another location and after about my 19th coin I got a solid repeat about 5 inches down so I waited for my partner to come over and then a second high tone eight feet away same depth. These two high tones were not the tone you get with conduct 50 that is solid without any modulation sound. When my partner got there he checked both signals with his M-6 and called them iron. On the E-Trac I got the high signal at 45 and 90 degrees so the bet was lunch, and I was surprise when both came up a two inch long 1/4 bolt with a nut connected. After my partner had Bar-B-Q on me we went out to one more spot and again I came up with a lag bolt with a round head, well that did it I move the ferrous up to 14 and it didn't do it any more for the next two hours. I guess the Minelab people knew what they were doing when they set the factory coin program at ferrous 12. I have hunted with this same unit all this year without digging one piece of iron until this past weekend. My last two hunts I have dug 6 silvers dimes with one a 1917 another 1918 and a pocket full of wheat's, the E-trac is hot on dimes both clad and silver...happy trails 2 U...

 

[jbow]

You need to try hunting with less disc but use ferrous/2 tone. Try it. You'll like it. I hunt a lot of places using the relic pattern with those settings. Also fast on/deep on. I hunt coins and relics with the 2 tone ferrous and it works very well at telling what is in the ground... the ferrous number may be off but the conductive number will lock on. I don't pay much attention to the ferrous number unless it is 30+ then it's usually iron. Even 25+ is maybe iron but sometimes not according to the depth and what else is in the hole

J

 

[Arturo de Zorro]

amount of coins and jewelry I am finding and I love the conduct mode. When I got my first Explorer xs Jan. 2000 I hunted in ferrous -16 for three years and when I got the Explorer II again I used ferrous mode wide open then a year later in 2004 I switch to conduct after seeing Mike M. from Missouri find so much silver every weekend and using -10 ferrous which is alot of discrimination. My silver finds doubled after switching to conduct so when the E-Trac came out with high tone in conduct only, that was fine with me since I had been using conduct for three years already. I did try ferrous for a couple of hours on the E-Trac but got tired of looking down at the screen every couple of seconds to check the digital numbers, I dig only coin and nickle tones. I am not one that has to find every coin and jewelry in the ground, it's really a hobby with me and I enjoy seeing others dig coins and guessing the denomination. At sixty years old Just wakeing up in the morning is a trill and being able to walk around swing a detector without aches and pains, forgetting all the daily ups and down for a few hours is why I hunt and thank God for it.

 

[Silverbackbob]

with a positive attitude like that, you can't go wrong. Keep it up and HH. Bob.