The E-Trac and SunRay X-5 rocks for hunting those iron laden home sites.

[Phil]

My F70/6in coil and MXT with 6x10 were always my choice for hunt those really old home site in crop fields. These sites are full of iron and hot rocks and I felt like my Explorers missed targets due to masking. I set my E-Trac up in ferrous 2 tones with an open screen and hunted a couple of my already hunted home sites. At the first site I found an eagle button and what I thought was a clad dime in the awful trash close to the road. When I got home I found out my dime was an 1867 1/2 Skilling.

Today I went to a home site in the field behind my house that 2 other guys and I hunted the other day. I was only there a short time but I managed to find a nice IH in an area I thought I'd covered pretty well with my F70 .

I had to leave because they started spreading fertilizer in the field but I'm going back tomorrow. My buddy found an 1823 bust dime using my X5 on his Explorer and I found a large cent and a nice token with my Spectra. I can't wait to get back out, there has to be some more oldies there. The home site shows up on my earliest plat map(1865). If the E-Trac does as well in the fields as it has been my poor F70 and Whites may be doing a lot more sitting in the detector room.lol

 

[Jason in Enid]

Yeah, I am missing my small coils.

My old Whites detector had every size of coil from 15 down to 4. I used each one depending on the trash level of the site. The 6 or 8 inch coils were my most commonly used. Of course the DD coil is a different beast from a concentric coil, but the theory is the same.

The is so much trash in the places I hunt, that I might have to break down and spend even more cash to get a smaller coil.