Question for all the ETrac users here.

[Dan(NM)]

I've read a number of posts and emails from guys saying that the Etrac is pulling coins from hard hit areas. Have you noticed whether or not the coins are deeper or is it just getting better target separation in the trash. If it's depth, how much deeper are the targets. Thanks.

 

[DAN03USMC]

I am new to the Etrac, but to answer your question, I think it is both. I think you may pull that slightly deeper coin (that others miss) that is under or very near iron or some other trash. another detector may have nulled on that iron, but if the iron wasn't there, that detector would have had the depth to see that coin.

 

[Ray-Mo.]

I have not found it to be any deeper than the Explorers,F75s,cz3d I used in the past but it is a beast when it comes to pulling coins out of the heavy trash at moderate depths of 3"-6" for me.It is the best machine by far that I have ever used in the last 35 + years I have been serious about old coin hunting for unmasking good targets from co-located junk.It amazes me every time I go back to those hard hit spots and pull nice old stuff that was left behind because of the trash being so close by,Ray.

 

[bigjohn070]

What ray said

HH
BIG JOHN

 

[jimmyk]

n/t

 

[MT]

I think it's because of the tones.
HH,
MT

 

[Southwind]

For me its added depth without a doubt.

Our 125 year old city park has been hit hard over the years. I myself have pounded it for the last 20 years with everything from the Whites Eagle, Whites XLT, DFX, Minelab SE, Minelab Sovereign GT and now the E-Trac. All my prior detectors cleaned out to about 8" deep. You could still find the occasional wheat in the 8-10" range, but they were few and far between. You could spend 5 hours hunting a be lucky to find 1 keeper. Enter the E-Trac.

I can am now going back to my hardest hit locations at that park and consistently pulling keepers from the 9-12" depth. I fact it has been reminiscing of the very first day of hunting the park where the coins were so numerous they came out in piles. In the last few hunts I've pulled a good 20 some keepers out of an area no bigger than 20'x20' that had stopped producing with all my other detectors. Some of the surprising finds has been a walking liberty half. I would never have guess this large silver was being missed by my other detectors.

 

[Jesse W. McComas]

I AM FINDING THE DEEPER COINS WHERE THERE IS NOT MUCH TRASH, AND AM FINDING COINS IN HEAVY TRASH AREAS WHERE MY OTHER DETECTORS COULD NOT READ THE COIN OR JEWELRY ITEM BEFORE.TtHIS IS A GREAT MACHINE.HH..JESSE.

 

[RONC(OR)]

Hi Dan
I dont think it goes any deeper than any of the explorers what it does do well is getting out of a null faster using auto sens. HH RonC

 

[Nick A]

For me it's both, but definitely more target separation.

 

[akelley]

I've only used Tesoro's besides the E-Trac, so I'm not an authority on which detector is best at pulling coins from trashy or iron infested areas. But I have experienced a few "miracles" in the field. My most recent example was an eagle button that was laying above a plate of iron. I clearly heard a solid, high-conductive signal (i.e., the eagle button) so I dug it. After I pulled it out, I put my probe back in the hole to check if there were other signals and had a null signal on the bottom. I continued to dig and found a large iron plate ~3-4" below the button. Was there enough distance between the eagle button and the iron for any detector to process? I'm not sure, but it certainly helped convince me that I chose the right detector for trashy, iron infested areas. As MT. mentions, the tones are really helpful, and a faster CPU on the E-trac helps it to recover from a discriminated signal quickly enough to catch a good target nearby.

-Alex

 

[CONDUCTOR7E]

There is no doubt that the E-Trac is a very deep machine,but as the others are also saying,I agree that it is both.I have found some great stuff on or near ferrous trash.

 

[mike - in]

other machine I have owned is "rusty" coins. Not the coins fault that they were lying next to old chunks of iron when I found them! Old junk infested sites are now my favorites!

 

[rbholt80]

i beleave its both as well. ive found coins under nails at depth of around 11 inches. sometimes there has been more than one iron object over the coin. i even found a wheat in a rusted tin match box at about 7 inches. how it sounded off that a penny was there is beyond me. i thout it was a false signal when i dug up the rusted box but i tapped it on my shovel and it broke open and the wheat fell out of it into my hand.
now that made a beleaver out of me. i posted pics and wrote about it so look it up.
the etrac is magic

 

[Dan(NM)]

That all sounds very exciting and enticing. Were you using the stock coil or an after market coil ???

 

[rbholt80]

i just use the stock pro coil. im cheap so i havent got another coils yet but its time for me to get a smaller coil

 

[RONC(OR)]

n/t

 

[Jack Flynn]

I'll give a big second to the X 8 coil. It is awesome...........just as deep too, definately a better sound, clear and crisp.

 

[digitrich]

Inversely.........Better separation can easily lead to better depth: Because the Etrac can get better separation than the SE, possibly you can hunt an area with a slightly larger coil because of that better separation and therefore get slightly better depth.

 

[onemore]

n/t