mapper65
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Hi guys, after owning an Xterra 705 for over 6 years I made a mutual decision with my brother, Hotrod53 to buy an E-TRAC. Although not my best year for silver this was one of my better years for silver finds with the 705.
There are 4 705's in our family and we really like the detector but...I feel like I've mastered it and also feel a little limited by the technology. I had kicked the idea around many times to what I'd rather not use the term "upgrade" because the 705 is a great detector in it's class but I think the single frequency is one of the limiting elements in some situations but may also be beneficial under some circumstances.
I'm part way through Andy Sabisch's book and I've also added his coin program into the Etrac as one of my options to use. Today my brother and I hit a site that we've been going to for years. He's been going there for probably 20 some years or more. There has been everything from 2 cent pieces to flying eagles to half dimes recovered from this location. Now I can't say that we were expecting the leave this site today with pockets full of coins but we were going to be surprised if the site produced any finds at all. We had all but given up after the last few trips to this location.
As much as I'd like to say that we walked out with 10 coins that wasn't the case and that's ok. This place has been hit HARD. We did find a couple of clad coins, two pocket watches and a religious medallion. All of these items were in areas that we're sure we've gone over in the countless trips to this property. We can't expect to be proficient with the Etrac on day one and there may still be stuff there but that fact that we pulled a few more items out of there after the last few trips to this site produced nothing is still impressive. I'm scratching my head a little about the pocket watches but I suspect that maybe they were on edge or surrounded by other metals that the 705 either gave us a bad readings or no readings. I run very little discrimination on the 705 so it's hard to say what happened there. You can't cover every inch so maybe they were just missed after what could have been 20 trips with sometimes 4 people running detectors.
Ok, just wanted to introduce myself over on this forum and I look forward to sharing information with you guys.
There are 4 705's in our family and we really like the detector but...I feel like I've mastered it and also feel a little limited by the technology. I had kicked the idea around many times to what I'd rather not use the term "upgrade" because the 705 is a great detector in it's class but I think the single frequency is one of the limiting elements in some situations but may also be beneficial under some circumstances.
I'm part way through Andy Sabisch's book and I've also added his coin program into the Etrac as one of my options to use. Today my brother and I hit a site that we've been going to for years. He's been going there for probably 20 some years or more. There has been everything from 2 cent pieces to flying eagles to half dimes recovered from this location. Now I can't say that we were expecting the leave this site today with pockets full of coins but we were going to be surprised if the site produced any finds at all. We had all but given up after the last few trips to this location.
As much as I'd like to say that we walked out with 10 coins that wasn't the case and that's ok. This place has been hit HARD. We did find a couple of clad coins, two pocket watches and a religious medallion. All of these items were in areas that we're sure we've gone over in the countless trips to this property. We can't expect to be proficient with the Etrac on day one and there may still be stuff there but that fact that we pulled a few more items out of there after the last few trips to this site produced nothing is still impressive. I'm scratching my head a little about the pocket watches but I suspect that maybe they were on edge or surrounded by other metals that the 705 either gave us a bad readings or no readings. I run very little discrimination on the 705 so it's hard to say what happened there. You can't cover every inch so maybe they were just missed after what could have been 20 trips with sometimes 4 people running detectors.
Ok, just wanted to introduce myself over on this forum and I look forward to sharing information with you guys.
