Sincere Apology For My Recent Post

[RLOH]

Yesterday I posted a subject that would have been better off with a private message about the Etrac. Not since the Explorer was introduced has there been a detector that truely had something better to offer. I got my first Explorer shortly after they were introduced and it was sensational. I believe the Etrac is in the same category as the original Explorer. I have said many times in the last few years that I seem to make my best finds in difficult conditions(trash, iron, etc.) I have read with great interest how people are doing with the Etrac and yes I am impressed. I am recently retired and I can no longer spend like I use to on detectors. I always have bought the latest technology and I did use them for at least 75 plus hours before I sold them based on performance pertaining to how I hunt. I do realize that there in no "majic wand" type of detector and every detector from the least complicated to the most complicated must be learned in the field to get the most out of them. With this said, I wanted to pick Bryce's brain because he hunts exactly as I hunt. I have read every single post he has made and he mirrors the way I have hunted with Sovereigns and Explorers since the late nineties. Unfortunately, my hours of idle time, makes my brain wander, and I come up with these subjects that are better off discussed privately. One more note: I had extra money set aside and was going to buy an Etrac, but my old truck was in need of a couple of major repairs so I had to make a decision to put money into it or buy a newer one. I bought a newer truck and my Etrac is now on the back burner. I will stick with my Explorer 11 and Mr. Bill moded IDX Pro. I look forward to reading about everyones success's with the Etrac and the Explorers. This particular forum is in my opinion the best on the net and I hopefully have not burned any bridges here. R.L.

 

[Rick(ND)]

I know it can be confusing with all the info we read on different detectors with some liking one over another and how some feel a new detector should work just like the old one and yet be much better then the old one. Like any detector there is a learning curve even the XS was different then and EX II which was different than the SE and the new E-Trac is different then any of the other ones are. With this being said some will understand one better then any of the other ones and try to compare it too any new one they get and see it dont work like the one they had before, but given some time with it and a open mind to learn it may just find it works better than what they had.
I have a friend that has the SE now and had a EX II before and I let him try my E-Trac in his test spot and in the field and he felt the SE had better depth in his test spot the first time he tried it. He had his SE set to the way he liked it while the E-Trac was at factory presets, but after a week with the E-Trac and setting it to what he liked he noticed the signals in his test garden were now better with the E-Trac over the SE. He did a side by side comparison in actual targets in the field and found what the E-Trac could see the SE could too, but in some cases the E-Trac gave a better signal and on the real deep targets seem the E-Trac gave a better ID. He wound up buying the E-Trac and only used it the last of the season and his silver count was 53 with the E-Trac and feels many of the targets were with other trash items and felt the E-Trac does a better job of separating.

Now when spring comes I want to let James ND try my E-Trac not for just a day, but a good week now that he has the book by Andy Sabisch and is reading it to try to help him understand it is not a XS but a different detector and has to learn it as it may be different to him than what he is used to. I think he has a spot picked out already where he has done good with the XS, but there is so much trash there he has to go so slow and to try to separate the targets. I feel this will be a good test for the recovery.

Myself I am a die hard Sovereign fan and seen where some model I liked better then some others with the GT probably the best of them all and also harder to learn also as it seems to false more on iron and had to learn how to tell the difference which was not bad at all. I have used all the different Explorers and now a E-Trac and still learning it, but will say each time out with it I have been more than happy with what i am seeing with it and finding with it for what I have used it. I have dug deeper rusty nails than I ever have before(like to dig if I am not 100% it is trash), dug several coins with nails I missed before, but had to run my E-Trac different then I had been runing my Explorers before and learning more as I go. I like what I see so far and feel when I learn it well it may just turn me into a E-Trac fan more than a Sovereign fan or maybe a Sovereign/ E-Trac die hard fan as it is hard to not use the Sovereign no matter how great the E-Trac is as I feel I have mastered the Sovereign.
I know some will like the Explorers better and if this is the case by all means use what works the best for you as this is suppose to be a fun hobby, not one we keep spending money trying to make a new detector work the way we think it should work.
Rick