Can't emphasize this enough

[Pastor bob]

The Explorer SE Pro and E-Trac for that matter need to be hunted slwer than most machines. Yesterday went to an old school site that has been pounded. Used my 12 x 10 SEF and went SLOOOOOW. Found two silver rosies and one wheat and none of them deeper than 5". The people that missed these I believe swung what ever machine they were using too fast. I swing slow and I listen to every signal the machine gives me. JMHO.

 

[Old Pirate]

I'm learning that as well. Seems the slower you go the better off you are, although I only have 12.5 hours on the machine (SE) I'm noticing the difference between the signals, tone and number wise. Last trip I found that half of the 16 clad dimes I found were on there side.

 

[nge]

Back in the early 70's many people were in too much of a hurry, they only to dug all the shallow silver (2 to 5 inches deep), plus some machines had to be whipped like you were cutting weeds with a man-powered weed whacker to get a signal. Most all, except I think the Fisher 550-D were high frequency machines. Those worked really well in moist soil. Now with all machines being virtually low freq. machines, people are just in too much of a hurry, they don't have much time to hunt. Even back in the 80's, we were telling everyone to SLOW DOWN, few listened, most did not. I started out with a Radio Shack BFO, only good to 2 inches, and what wild sounds ya got from that lil booger. I have been hunting since 1960 - 61. Believe me , I know what slow is..........now. Yes, it is good to slow down to a snail's pace, use no discrimination, listen to the sounds, then look at the screen, but, Dig it anyways! That's how you learn your machine. I have a small area in one of my favorite parks that I take all my "new" additions to my arsenal to. It is only about 50' X 50'. You should see the stuff I keep pulling from that area. I have cleaned every rusted bottlecap, pulltab, screwcaps, nails, thumbtack nails, beer cap foils, using a 5 second sweep speed. But, when I slowed down to a 15 to 20 second sweep, I have pulled indian cents, indian nickels, 2 Barber dimes, 3 silver rings, 1 gold ring, and a few more old wheats from this spot. Just waiting for the weather to warm a bit more, and the ground to thaw, then it's back to my favorite spot to see what the extremely deep frost has heaved up this year.........nge

 

[mp4freedom]

im still new to this but i think my sweep is about 10 seconds i over lap a lot def a good tip

 

[Digging Fool]

I HAVE to hunt slow. Too old and afflicted to hunt fast.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Yes, I agree 100% - a very slow swing really finds the deep ones !

Whenever I hunt new site I go over the area at a medium pace - get the feel of the area, ground conditions and see what jumps out at me.
If I make any good finds I slow down a little more and cover the same area again from a different direction or angle.
If more good finds come up - I start to really slow down.
If even more good finds are made at this slower pace - I go into "Super Crawl Mode" - often standing still while swinging - more times than not - this is when the real good stuff is found !