what should I do?

[manny]

Hello everyone
I am ready to buy my first metal detector and I am leaning to minelab but I need some help.

I am either getting the E-trac or the Explorer SE Pro are these machines hard to learn and is there a big

difference in between them? Also I am geting a Excalibur.for the surf. and scuba. are these a good

selection that I am making or should I get something a bit more simple?

 

[mattockman]

Here is my opinion: Here is how I did it. I went from a radio shack $199 found tons of clad : to a Minlab Explorer XS...and found tons of clad and oldies. The first time I turned it on I was perplexed and could not stand it. It took time and believe me it was worth every penny. I jumped right into the fast lane and never looked back. I did it the unconventional way and went right into advance mode and loved how the edit and learned worked and also loved all metal mode and the iron mask feature while using discrimination and just push iron mask with wide open screen to check a iffy target. It is the best out there in my opinion but what your thoughts of a good metal detector may differ from mine...so if you have been doing your home work then you must be liking this machine. If you use all metal and dig everything but solid iron you will learn it much quicker in my opinion. Then you will find out what all targets will sound like and then choosing discrim. appropriately. But in my opinion there is nothing like choosing all metal and let your ears and eyes do the discriminating for you. The Explorers have a 2D screen with a certain location for conductivity and ferrous of target...cursor location is your first input....and then tones are great to give you the next input of target...and then of course there id a digital # for ferrous and conductivity....so what more do you need other than a poloroid of the target in the ground. There is much more to the identity of targets but that is for experts. Like Me!