Here are my first three trips with the E Trac. They look promising and were successful. But Honestly I thought I was buying a beefed up explorer and I was focusing on the DEEP silver. I have yet to get it to go deeper than 6" in the conditions I have encountered. I know it's probably operator error, but I hope in the highly minerailsed and iron infested soils, I can achieve the 9" mark!!! Two trips to a turn of the century picnic area produced the Indians and silvers. The other picture was at some colonial sites where the pewter spoon and odds and ends came in. Switched from coins / conduct to all metal ferrous 2 tones. Lots of falsing, probably due to the high manual sens I was running in order to get 6". Will run some more customised programs soon. Auto will not work in these conditions, although it runs absolutely SMOOTH, but only 3 - 4 " at best. Did notice it ran excellent on gravel roads and hot rocks were NOT an issue. I hope I can learn how to squeak out 9" on a silver dime as I was getting on an air test. This place is loaded with deep silver, as evident when the bobcat took out 4" and my DFX was finding it everywhere. I know it's there, but I need more depth on the ungraded areas. Any advice??? HH