Went back this morning for 4 hours of fast and furious hunting,Yes the Etrac is way faster than the Explorers.2 of the Barbers were in heavy iron and the one is very rusty as pic shows and is a 1898.the 1907o has rust on the front also.the 1899 plain is in better shape and was about 10" deep in a cleaner spot.1946d is like new.I do not find many Rosevelts as they were cleaned out years ago in my sites and all that is left is deep or in trash targets.The pennies are ate up in this soil very black gumbo type soil.The 1899s last night has almost full liberty for a change.The 1907o is kinda slick.The token is good for 5 cents and sais caley & long 127 so.main Whichita,Kansas and was about 8" deep.Some have asked about ID numbers on deep coins and I must say they are a little off on the 8" plus targets part of the time.Some of the deep pennies read 6-30 up to 14-39 but the sound is good.The dime are usualy 10-39 to 14-46 and the silver dimes under 8" are loud and strong compared to a penny at same depth.I still run man. sen. about 8 to 10 above auto 25 to 28.Factory coins deep on fast off gain almost maxed and multi tones conductive.I have found that the nulls with these settings don't affect the good signals much at all.The machine can be in a solid 3 ft null and a coin will sound off loud and clear.Depth guage is preaty good from 5" down but off on the shallow stuff a lot of the time.If the numbers are preaty good fut the least iron pop or crackle you may as well move on in my experience with the coin program as it will be rusty iron bolt or nail.If the depth guage is 3/4 or more down and the signal is high and smoothe it is almost always a coin or small copper wire or similar.I am starting to believe there may be something to the see through thing that is claimed.It is so much more quiet and accurate than either of my F75s .I have been using my Uni-probe and will find nails in the hole with a coin about 20% to 30% of the time.Do I think the Etrac is perfect,No but it is mighty fine .The places I am hunting will give several signals per swing in open screen and would take for ever to test each signal so I am happy with the coin program and do not think it is missing much, Later Ray.
PS almost every signal that I would call an ( iffy ) signal has been junk so far with the settings I quoted above.
PS almost every signal that I would call an ( iffy ) signal has been junk so far with the settings I quoted above.
