I have read several posts complaining about digging ghost signals using the pro coil on both the E-Trac and the Explorers and it always makes me laugh.I have used the pro coils for many hundreds of hours with great success and have yet to dig up any ghosts
I have dug a number of great sounding signals that were showing good depth on the gauge and good IDs but were not in the hole or the bottom of the plug where I thought they would be.Some were coins on edge a few inches off center of where they pinpointed and several were very tiny items very shallow and were located near the top of said plug.I must confess that early on a few were very shallow coins that I detected off the edge of the DD coil by mistake and were several inches from pinpoint location.
I actually might have been a believer of the ghost theory if I had only been using a in-line pin pointer instead of the much more sensitive and powerfull detector pro pocket uni-probe that was able to pinpoint a number of very tiny pieces of metal that had seemed to disappear after opening the recovery hole.
Perhaps I got an exceptional pro coil but I highly doubt it as I had 2 for a good long while and their performance was identical.I am not saying the pro coil is better or worse than say the 10x12 sef which I am very happy with as well.I am not even comparing the pro coil to other coils although I could with a considerable amount of infield experience with several.All I am saying is I think the vast majority of so called ghost signals that have any quality attributes before digging are indeed caused by your machine detecting metal and not ghosts of any kind
I know their are other very experienced hunters who will claim differently and I say more power to them as while they are digging "ghosts" I will be digging desirable targets.
This is only my personal experience and perhaps yours will be different,Ray.
PS What type of finds pouch do you use to contain the ghosts once you recover them
I have dug a number of great sounding signals that were showing good depth on the gauge and good IDs but were not in the hole or the bottom of the plug where I thought they would be.Some were coins on edge a few inches off center of where they pinpointed and several were very tiny items very shallow and were located near the top of said plug.I must confess that early on a few were very shallow coins that I detected off the edge of the DD coil by mistake and were several inches from pinpoint location.I actually might have been a believer of the ghost theory if I had only been using a in-line pin pointer instead of the much more sensitive and powerfull detector pro pocket uni-probe that was able to pinpoint a number of very tiny pieces of metal that had seemed to disappear after opening the recovery hole.
Perhaps I got an exceptional pro coil but I highly doubt it as I had 2 for a good long while and their performance was identical.I am not saying the pro coil is better or worse than say the 10x12 sef which I am very happy with as well.I am not even comparing the pro coil to other coils although I could with a considerable amount of infield experience with several.All I am saying is I think the vast majority of so called ghost signals that have any quality attributes before digging are indeed caused by your machine detecting metal and not ghosts of any kind
I know their are other very experienced hunters who will claim differently and I say more power to them as while they are digging "ghosts" I will be digging desirable targets.
This is only my personal experience and perhaps yours will be different,Ray.
PS What type of finds pouch do you use to contain the ghosts once you recover them