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the learning curve........

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Goes4ever

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Ok I have been using the xterra 70 now since sept 2008, I was laid off in Nov 08 so I detected the entire season of 2009 6 days a week. I have about 2000 hours on my x-70. I feel I have learned the machine fairly well. I have kicked around the idea of getting an etrac for a few months, got some buddies with them, so I have had the chance to try them on a few different hunts. My question is how long will it take me to get "confident, or good" with the etrac, since I am so used to the xterra 70?

do you think I will have a shorter learning curve than someone who just started detecting, or will it not matter?
 
i think you would catch on fast. you have used them some and plus you already have a minlab mind set with the x70.
so dont buy one lol we dont need competition. im joken
come to the dark side my friend let the etrac power seduce you.
:starwars:
 
got my taxes done yesterday looks like I have a good return coming back........u might see me posting here often :thumbup:
 
that would be cool. iv seen some of your finds with the 70 and you have done great. it can only get better now.
iv rehunted all my old spots and found plenty that i missed in the last 25 years so youll have fun rehitting places and seeing what you left.
 
yeah I know that feeling... I started with the ace 250 couple yrs ago, went back to a lot of them spots I thought I had picked clean..lol
went over them with my x-70 and I could believe how much I had missed with the ace. I am sure the x-70 missed stuff the etrac will find as well
 
I think you will become confident very quickly with the E-trac. Before I bought mine I got Andy Sabisch's book "The Minelab Explorer & E-trac Handbook." That really helped me a lot. Then I ordered my E-trac. The book helped me become familiar with the detector before I even got it. So when my detector arrived, I set it up and off I went. I started finding goodies immediately. But I have to tell you, as you already know, there's no substitute for field experience. As the season progressed, I got better at finding goodies.
 
It is not a hard machine to learn at all in my opinion.If you have hunted around them you know how well they work on the old deep goodies as well as the ones hiding in heavy trash.Looking forward to your posts,Ray.
 
I started with an X-Terra 70 also. One thing I can tell you is that the E-Trac does a GREAT job of noise cancelling and ground balancing. You will be impressed with how quiet it can be when there are no targets around, no more falsing and you are going to find those targets that the X-Terra missed. The E-Trac does go as deep as they say if conditions are right. I am laid-off too, and I spend a lot of time detecting, love this hobby. Your experience with the X-Terra will help with the E-Trac.
 
I bet you would adapt and do fine very quickly. Just think of it this way, starting with your first signal. You have never heard it before and never dug that signal before, so the machine just threw you the first curve, an unheard undug target. Now, after you swing the coil over that target in two or three directions and look at the target ID # you have a feel of what it sounds like and the TID #. Now you dig the target and voila you know what it is, so the next time you hear that tone you will want to dig it. The machine will throw you many curves, but after you dig the target and identify the tone with what you dug, those curves become a hard fast ball that you will knock out of the park.

Hows that for an Analogy ? In other words after you dig several targets of the same sort you will start identifying it before you dig, and you will become very acustomed to the tones of this machine very quickly.

BCOOP

P.S. Jump in there and get you one.
 
Terry I'm sure you hunt in multi tones if I remember correctly. If you do you will probably never miss a beat. I hunted with the 70 and 705 in 4 tone mostly with a short visit to multi. To me learning the language in multi IS the learning curve. In my experience with the other two machines vs the E Trac is, it will see a lot more stuff it will talk about. One giant plus is when the ET sees a coin, you know it period. The iffy stuff will take a little longer. Good luck and go very very slow practicing for it's arrival.
 
In my 42 years swinging a detector, this was the easiest machine to learn. I have used them all, from BFO's on up to the E-Trac. get one and you will never turn back. HH...Jesse.
 
Seems like the field time I had with my Safari ( only a month ) made my transition to the E-Trac a lot easier so you should be in real good shape.

Good Luck ! --- Mark
 
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