I have had ever Explorer model made and have moved up as new models came out. Last year I was on the lookout for a nice SE Pro and I pulled the trigger when I found a real nice one. For the last couple of years before buying this SE, I was using the hot over seas models and my finds were drying up. They were nice detectors, but if you ever have coin hunted with a FBS machine, you will be spoiled. I immediately started finding deep, older coins.
This season started out good, but I went over a month without finding a silver coin. During that month, I found 35 wheat pennies so I knew silver was near, but I was not digging any. This am, I was at my hard hunted favorite park with the SE and my first coin was a deep wheat. Here we go again I thought. Second coin was a similar wheat. I am not against finding wheats, but silver always gets my heart racing. The next hour brought 6 nickels with one being a 1927 Buffalo. Two wheats and a Buf is a decent day for this park. For the record, I have found over 800 silver from this park and after finding so many wheats without any silver bummed me out.
I was concentrating on a 30 foot by 30 foot area beside where the wheats and Buffalo were found when I got a scratchy, but good sounding signal. From 7 inches comes a 1924 merc. I stuck the probe back in the hole and found a three inch piece of solid rust iron. Any detector capable of this is OK by me. Five feet further on the same pass I get a perfect "high right corner" warble. This can't be silver as these perfect signals are long gone in my areas. When I kneeled down to dig the plug, I noticed that this signal in the corner of someone's humongous 15 inch old plug. I dig four inch by four inch plugs even for deep coins. At 7inches in my small plug which was the very corner of the huge plug, comes a pristine 42 merc. Somebody was close, but no cigar. I am still laughing about that one. The last merc was similar to number two and three. Someones plug with a large rusty washer, but a 37 merc a couple of inches higher than the rusty washer.
To think you can buy a used Explorer for 350 to 500 bucks is unbelievable. If someone takes some time to learn one, it is still one of the best coin hunters ever made.
This season started out good, but I went over a month without finding a silver coin. During that month, I found 35 wheat pennies so I knew silver was near, but I was not digging any. This am, I was at my hard hunted favorite park with the SE and my first coin was a deep wheat. Here we go again I thought. Second coin was a similar wheat. I am not against finding wheats, but silver always gets my heart racing. The next hour brought 6 nickels with one being a 1927 Buffalo. Two wheats and a Buf is a decent day for this park. For the record, I have found over 800 silver from this park and after finding so many wheats without any silver bummed me out.
I was concentrating on a 30 foot by 30 foot area beside where the wheats and Buffalo were found when I got a scratchy, but good sounding signal. From 7 inches comes a 1924 merc. I stuck the probe back in the hole and found a three inch piece of solid rust iron. Any detector capable of this is OK by me. Five feet further on the same pass I get a perfect "high right corner" warble. This can't be silver as these perfect signals are long gone in my areas. When I kneeled down to dig the plug, I noticed that this signal in the corner of someone's humongous 15 inch old plug. I dig four inch by four inch plugs even for deep coins. At 7inches in my small plug which was the very corner of the huge plug, comes a pristine 42 merc. Somebody was close, but no cigar. I am still laughing about that one. The last merc was similar to number two and three. Someones plug with a large rusty washer, but a 37 merc a couple of inches higher than the rusty washer.
To think you can buy a used Explorer for 350 to 500 bucks is unbelievable. If someone takes some time to learn one, it is still one of the best coin hunters ever made.
