Beachcomber
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As BobNH has posted about it being tough for a lot of us diehard Explorer and especially Ferrous Mode users to deal with the new E-Trac I think I may have come up with a method that will help. When i went out hunting this weekend for the first time on my own with the E-Trac I was expecting to have a hard time with it and prepared to hate it based on what I have read and even more so because my primary hunt mode was gone and all the targets now crammed together in a straight line. And at first I was a bit annoyed as it took awhile to start to understand what this was doing. So I came up with a different approach and I am nto having nearly as much trouble learning the E-Trac as some of you are. Possibly part of that is because I purposely have avoided my rally bad iron laden beaches until I get a good handle on the way the E-Trac responds under ideal or semi-ideal conditions. But the approach I decided to take was to take much of what i have learned about over the years with the Explorer like what controls do what and so forth and carrying that over to the E-Trac which meant a lot shorter learning curve than when I turned on my first Explorer back in Jan, 2000. And from that point on considering the rest of the detector as NEW Machine that I had to learn from scratch like any other new detector that I might buy. By NOT trying to make it into my Explorer and letting it show me what it can and can't do I am finding it a pretty easy machine to learn (not Master..that will come later on down the road). I have never hunted, modified or even used patterns in the Explorer as they were not necessary for my detecting so I will need to learn these things. From what I have been reading in the Posts many of you used patterns with the Explorer and are already comfortably working with them in the E-Trac. It really is a nice machine if you give it a chance......now when I get into the really trashy sites we'll see if my opinion changes 
But for now this is JMHO )
HH
Beachcomber
But for now this is JMHO ) HH
Beachcomber