This is Tom. I'll be posting a free updated manual soon with much more info in it that the first one. I've been back to using the QXT Pro for a few years now. Explorer just ruined the fun in my hunts with it's weight and having to "stay on top of it" to keep the thing working at peak levels. On silver and copper I've seen no depth advantage in the various Explorers I've owned provided the ground isn't highly mineralized. If it is then of course the Explorer will get much deeper. It also hits harder deeper on various other metals due to it's higher frequencies but, again, for my main goal (silver or copper coins) the QXT goes as deep in most of my ground conditions PROVIDED you set it up right and use it properly. I just find it so much more a pleasure to work with and that's more than half your battle when detecting. If you're hurting from the weight or mentaly fighting the display to figure out what is going on it takes all the fun out of the hunt. The very percise ID of the Explorer is a great weapon to have but it's got one major flaw...when you split hairs that much the ID tends to "float", causing me to often think the signal is bad. Sure, there are ways around that with further sound and target ID investigation but that's where all the "work" comes in to play. Somebody once said a bigger net catches more fish. That's the one advantage to the "COIN" zone of the QXT. It makes a coin signal that might look iffy on one machine seem good enough to dig on the QXT. However, I wish somebody could re-code the software on it to display a numerical target value. That's the one thing this machine is missing, besides a 12" coil to max the depth out. Anybody use a Hot Shot coil on the QXT with success? I've tried two on a prior QXT Pro I owned and they both would false after about ten minutes. Not sure if it was the machine or just bad coils, but these coils should work on it as they do on the XLT or 6000.
