Windy Winter Sunday hunt

[Terra1959]

G'day

It's been cold and wet in my neck of woods Downunder...that doesn't stop us hardy Aussies.
My detecting friend with his Etrac picked me up 6.45am for a Sunday morning hunt.
I wasn't sure if we would be able to detect and keep dry as it was a very rainy and windy night with rain coming sideways and hitting the bedroom windows.
The rain did hold off just for us and although it was cold, we had a good hunt for 4 hours.

I found a very heavy 925 silver ring, 2 old pre decimal coins (1951 and 1957) and $75.60. ...using program 2, sens.20, tracking.
Out hunting him ( far more experienced than me ) with the Etrac again - thats about the 3rd time in row now.
This just a theory : I think the Xterra performs better on shallower modern coin targets than maybe the Etrac because it is a deep hunting beast.
Love my Xterra to death ( I won't ever sell it ) but I am seriously considering buying an Etrac to use for really deep coins and relics amongst iron.
Happy swinging

Terra1959

 

[Digger]

Congrats on the large amount of finds. My reasoning for your finding more than your buddy with the E-TRAC is because the sweep speed of the X-TERRA allows you to cover a lot more ground in a given period of time. For extreme depth in undisturbed soil and for definitive target identification/separation, the E-TRAC is hard to beat. But for the majority of the places I hunt, finding coins at depths of 8 inches or less, the X-TERRA will cover much more ground, increasing my odds of finding more targets, than my E-TRAC. JMHO HH Randy

 

[Terra1959]

Digger,

Thanks for your reply ...I hear you....
Thats the funny thing about us two when we hunt.
We have totally different styles.
I swing slowish and carefully grid areas and he walks around everywhere covering 3-4 times more area than me.( possibly too fast? )
The Etrac's total was around the $65 mark so he still did very well.

T59

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

That's a great day out Terra! We got snow at Orange today and it got to a max of 8 Degrees C here. Definitely cool. Got some of your rain while I was detecting yesterday. It was windy and when that rain hit, it bucketed down. We don't see that very often in these parts.
I've heard a number of comments about what you are saying about the E-trac and the shallow stuff. Not sure why that would happen, but the X-terra with the 5x10 on board sure is hard to beat on the shallow stuff. I tried an experiment the other day with the DD attached. Put a $2 coin both directly above and below a 20c piece. I heard both coins both times!!!!!! Albeit the numbers were off a bit, but you can't argue with that; and the nicest tones of any of the light detectors.
Mick Evans.

 

[Beale]

Congrats on a very good hunt! Beale.

 

[morelic55]

Don't discount the Xterra on depth!!! Get the 10.5 DD 7.5 kHz coil and you will get the depth. I had a Safari and the Xterra with the 10.5 WILL go as deep as the "Big" Minelab machines...............MO