Just Picked up an Explorer 2 Today

[dave_n_idaho]

Been using a quattro for almost a year - is a heck of a machine just took a while to figure out. Traded it in for an Explorer 2 today. The quattro was just not fast enough for my style of hunting and I like that I can customize dang near any setting on the Explorer 2 - So, once the weather cooperates, I hope to be posting some good finds here.

Happy huntin!!!

 

[Ace]

You got a great deal there, a Quattro for an EX.2! Make sure you get the Sunray X-1 probe for a killer combo!

 

[ikon]

i always smile when someone gets their first explorer. i alway think back on the learning curve and what it took to figure that machine out. give yourself a couple of weeks and they'll have to pry your hands off that machine. its amazing what she'll do. the x-1 is a must have. its put detecting in an phase. i see alot of guys who detect with other machines say after they hit a site theyll go back over it with their explorers.
oh boy im running later for work. good luck your in an all new world now. HH ikon

 

[dave_n_idaho]

Like I said I have used the Quattro, with an X-1, for almost a year before laying my hands on the Explorer II. I took the modified shaft, modified for the X-1, off my Quattro and it is attached to the Exp II now. Looks like a Quattro/Exp II hybrid.
I have only gone out once with the Exp II (the snow is flying and the ground is frozen in Idaho), but since I primarily learned to use the Quattro via tones - I have found the Exp II not to difficult a leap.
In only about 6 hours of use, I absolutely have fallen in love with this Exp II - No longer am I having to wait for the thresh hold to reset, no longer am I getting bizarre behavior, no longer am I having to go excruciatingly slow in trashy areas, and I really like the fact that I can adjust almost any setting on the Explorer II!!!!
I have found the Explorer II to work better in the trashy area's with the stock coil than the Quattro did with the smaller 8 inch coil.
After 6 hours of use I can safely say that you can have my Exp II when you can pry it from my cold, dead fingers!!!!

 

[Ace]

"you can have my Exp II when you can pry it from my cold, dead fingers!!!!"

Now where did I leave my handgun?

J/K

That's the Explorer 2 alright, the best detector out there IMO, and to think I was thinking of getting the Quattro instead of the Explorer 2, whata mistake that would've been from all the people saying it goes SLOW. Great trade you made there.