A Friendly Wager! My AT Pro VS Your Etrac

[sugar]

Thanks for the pointers. I will most definetly be giving both those ideas a go.

G2M

No wonder you want to (think you can) challenge the Etrac with that AT Pro.-----You haven't even got the Etrac set up right for deep coins! (let alone dollars, SOME halves, or stacked quarters).-----I think I was one of the very first that discovered the need to edit out that top right (bar) line when the Etrac first came out, doing that is very important.-----Another tip---get that FE line opened up down to 27 (28 on blacked).---That'sk going to help you a LOT on deep (difficult) targets.------Hey, make some of these (proper) adjustments & you may have second thoughts about challenging the BIG "E" with the little "g"!-------This last sentence oughta REALLY make me an over night hit with the Garrett crowd! --------------Del

The little "g" I like that. I have opened up the top right corner on the coin program. I had dug up the half by the time I had learned how to open up the screen. This isn't about depth only. I want it to be about getting good signals among trash as well.

Im seeing all these posts about no comparison between the two. They may very well be right, but until I see it first hand, im not convinced.

G2M

ok if you want to work in trash and pick out goodies here is what you doooooooooo as a trial to see if you like it run with an open screen or black out 35 34 line if it is really trashy also using the single block in your edit pattern go along your 1 line and reject 1,1 to 1,35 and then 1.49 and 1,50 this is because iron tends to wrap around from the 35 line to the 1 line giving you a high blip which you dont want now put the etrac into FERROUS MODE and 2 tone and go out and hunt auto to start with and then flip her to manual and every two way high blip DIG today living in the uk i was digging a signal and thought i would soon be on bondii beach in australia it was so deep for the smallest of buttons but the etrac knew it was there DONT QUESTION IT JUST DIG and i hope you have got some good muscles cause your going to need them lol

 

[grouser]

the "g" spot ???

 

[RandyNorthridgeca]

n/t

 

[DrBobinMO]

I always love a good challenge...but this one will have to wait a little bit. I'm tied up with work and traveling for the next 5 weeks. Besides I'm curious as to what your AT Pro can do. I bought one weeks ago and haven't even turned it on yet.

 

[RandyNorthridgeca]

n/t

 

[brocifus]

I hunted today with a guy that had the AT pro and he did very well, I started out with my MXT PRO and did ok its pretty close to the AT pro after a couple hours I brought the Etrac out and no contest The At pro cannot hit the same tragets at depth of the etrac, I even let him try the etrac and I couldnt get it back from him lol he found a couple of wheaties at 9 plus inches and was going crazy over it and quess what he was going home to order a Etrac online today!
Bart

 

[david.di]

Like to see you offer the same challenge against th v3i

 

[reltolbert]

Now that would be a real challenge: E-Trac versus v3i

 

[Greek2Me]

Great info everyone. Even the abuse im catching is all good.

I will try out all of these pointers. That is one thing I really hate about the etrac. I spend tons of time trying to turn nail chirps into coins and it gets old fast.

G2M

 

[Greek2Me]

I hunted today with a guy that had the AT pro and he did very well, I started out with my MXT PRO and did ok its pretty close to the AT pro after a couple hours I brought the Etrac out and no contest The At pro cannot hit the same tragets at depth of the etrac, I even let him try the etrac and I couldnt get it back from him lol he found a couple of wheaties at 9 plus inches and was going crazy over it and quess what he was going home to order a Etrac online today!
Bart

That's what im hoping to see. I want the etrac to spank my AT Pro so bad that I will be happy that I own my etrac. Right now, im not really happy with it.

G2M

 

[digmeahole]

Not nice we should all be respectful and helpful. For me its been a huge learning curve switching from X-Terra 705 to E-Trac. Have you read the manual and more importantly Andy Sabisch's book? I found the easiest way to hunt with this machine and get great results is all metal with TTF. Very easy and simple method....

Great info everyone. Even the abuse im catching is all good.

I will try out all of these pointers. That is one thing I really hate about the etrac. I spend tons of time trying to turn nail chirps into coins and it gets old fast.

G2M

 

[sugar]

excuse me for asking but did you buy your etrac new or second hand i am wondering whether you have a coil problem as no one having used it can say they are not happy with its performance in my mind it is not about learning the etrac it just goes out there and does its job so if you are having a problem then i think you need to look at your etrac being defective well its either the etrac that is defective or YOU cant say it any plainer you are either having niggles at the etrac to get retorts back from us guys not having followed what we have told you to try or their is a problem so you need to decide if your not happy i would sell it and get off our etrac site so we can help people that want to learn

 

[Greek2Me]

excuse me for asking but did you buy your etrac new or second hand i am wondering whether you have a coil problem as no one having used it can say they are not happy with its performance in my mind it is not about learning the etrac it just goes out there and does its job so if you are having a problem then i think you need to look at your etrac being defective well its either the etrac that is defective or YOU cant say it any plainer you are either having niggles at the etrac to get retorts back from us guys not having followed what we have told you to try or their is a problem so you need to decide if your not happy i would sell it and get off our etrac site so we can help people that want to learn

Did I really just read this? Such a friendly site!!

 

[wildherre]

Did I really just read this? Such a friendly site!!

Dont let them get under your skin.. Im quite a ways away in NW Indiana but could maybe meet you halfway to help you out if no one in your area is willing ..... wildherre

 

[DrBobinMO]

excuse me for asking but did you buy your etrac new or second hand i am wondering whether you have a coil problem as no one having used it can say they are not happy with its performance in my mind it is not about learning the etrac it just goes out there and does its job so if you are having a problem then i think you need to look at your etrac being defective well its either the etrac that is defective or YOU cant say it any plainer you are either having niggles at the etrac to get retorts back from us guys not having followed what we have told you to try or their is a problem so you need to decide if your not happy i would sell it and get off our etrac site so we can help people that want to learn

Mr. Sajak, forget the vowel, I'd like to buy a period or two and a few commas please


Sorry, couldn't resist

 

[sugar]

excuse me for asking but did you buy your etrac new or second hand i am wondering whether you have a coil problem as no one having used it can say they are not happy with its performance in my mind it is not about learning the etrac it just goes out there and does its job so if you are having a problem then i think you need to look at your etrac being defective well its either the etrac that is defective or YOU cant say it any plainer you are either having niggles at the etrac to get retorts back from us guys not having followed what we have told you to try or their is a problem so you need to decide if your not happy i would sell it and get off our etrac site so we can help people that want to learn

Mr. Sajak, forget the vowel, I'd like to buy a period or two and a few commas please


Sorry, couldn't resist

hehe good job im in a gooood mood this guy has got to get real he first asks for a challenge and then decides that perhaps he needs to learn to use his etrac so everyone gives him good solid advice and then he comes on and says do you know what i am not happy with the etrac so i am enquiring was it new or second hand is it working correctlty and are you when doing your depth tests on auto or manual sensitivity of which i dont think i have had any answers as yet and as i said before if after all this goooood advice from etrac users he is not happy then i can only see the way forward is to sell it SORRY NO PERIODS OR COMMAS what are periods are they full stops/??????? hehe keeping this in good huimour but that only lasts so far and when an experienced etrac user comes on and tells us hes not happy well then i will start to worry but we know that wont happen

 

[moonshine]

sugar i ve only had my etrac for a short while but i understand what youre saying. theres so many variables involved with the sensitivity settings that its impossible to judge without seeing the machine in action. seems like a lot of times people post without saying what their sens. is set to or is running at. and its crucial info.

 

[Ray-Mo.]

Now that would be a real challenge: E-Trac versus v3i

Been their and done that and for me the E-Trac was the obvious winner.Not saying the V3 is not an awesome machine as well just that for my type of hunting the E-Trac works much better.I look for old deep and or masked coins at public, trashy and often high EMI locations that have been hammered for the last 30+ years.
Others results may differ and each individuals results is all that matters at the end of the day.If your machine is a pleasure to use and makes you happy then you have the "Best Machine"

 

[D&P-OR]

AIN'T THIS GITTIN INTERESTIN WE STARTED OUT TAKIN ON THA HIGHLY RISKY AT PRO CHALLENGE NOW WHERE TAKIN ON THA V3i TO (ALSO IN ADDITION ETC.) WHERE GONNA HAVE EM ALL DOWN OUR BACKS ALREADY GOT FISHER N WHITES TAKIN A LOOK AT US WHERE WALKIN ON THIN ICE------WHOOPS I FERGOT MA PUNCTUATION (AND SPELLIN)!!-------Hey, you gotta get/keep some humor in all this also! ------Like Ray said, use whatever detector works for you & the one you enjoy using.-----This is only a (great) hobby fer kryin out loud--nobody has to "bleed"!-----As for me, I'm stickin with my Ace 150--uhhhh I MEAN Etrac, SE & G2!!!---There, I said it!!!! -------------Del

 

[NebTrac]

I've often thought about this for quite sometime. The only way I could see it working in my opnion, is to section off an area say 50x50 or the like, each one hunt it the same day, but at separate times without the other being there and have a 3rd person take the data for - I would dig this or not dig this (coin hunting strictly) and write down the coordinates. Then repeat the same thing witht the other detetorists.

Compare the data and see what happens. This would have to be in a spot where deep 9"+ coins have been found. To me this would be about as good as a hunting scenerio for comparison as could be. To make it work both would have to be honest when hearing a signal as to whether or not would've dug it.

Personally I really don't care. I got spanked the other day by the X-Terra 305, I didn't find a silver, but I got to hunt and find some wheats and Ih's. I just want to hunt and find stuff. To me I got turned on by the E-Trac because it was an advanced detector that I could understand. And people were consistantly making good finds with it. That meant a lot for a newbie.

NebTrac