I have been detecting for over 26 years and today, I had one of my best days variety wise. I started the day off with a deep wheatie and my second coin was a real beauty, a clear date 1928 Standing Liberty quarter. Two more wheats before a Buffalo nickel. Ten feet away, a nice mercury dime surrounded by trash. It was so trashy that I could not use the pinpoint button. I hunted this spot for another hour and found 5 more wheaties. Here is my new detecting strategy. I am rehunting the trashiest places where I have had success in the past. I am taking small areas and barely creeping the Etrac, listening for chirps and squeaks. Many of the coins I am finding can only be dug by probing with the tip of the coil. I know many people think the Etrac is too slow to hunt in trash, slow is the key. I can pick out a coin in heavy trash by going super slow. Many people find this type of detecting too boring and to be honest, I cannot do it for more than a couple of hours.
I was heading home and I passed a small town square where everybody and their brother has hunted for years. I have only hunted it once in the last year and a half. Again, I headed for a section that I have found seated coins, but that was in the first year or two when the Explorer first came out. I had hunted for about a half hour and had not found one coin. I got a 11-12 grunt that showed deep so I was hoping for at least a buffalo. No buffalo, but a real clean 1902 V nickel. That coin made my day and I got rejuvenated again. Two passes later deep zinc signal and was hoping for an Indian and sure enough 1890 crisp Indian(most around here are unreadable) Less than a foot away another similar signal and sure enough another clean Indian. Called it a day and told myself that the Etrac is still one of, if not the best coin detector made!
I was heading home and I passed a small town square where everybody and their brother has hunted for years. I have only hunted it once in the last year and a half. Again, I headed for a section that I have found seated coins, but that was in the first year or two when the Explorer first came out. I had hunted for about a half hour and had not found one coin. I got a 11-12 grunt that showed deep so I was hoping for at least a buffalo. No buffalo, but a real clean 1902 V nickel. That coin made my day and I got rejuvenated again. Two passes later deep zinc signal and was hoping for an Indian and sure enough 1890 crisp Indian(most around here are unreadable) Less than a foot away another similar signal and sure enough another clean Indian. Called it a day and told myself that the Etrac is still one of, if not the best coin detector made!
..........ETRAC..........expect the best from the best.