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Yes, I've had my Explorer XS for about 2 months...I've gone out almost everyday...I have never found a silver coin with it. I have barely found anything other than pennies. The depth I thought I would get doesn't seem to be there unless it's a can or screw top. How are others finding all that good stuff...my wife has a Shadow and finds more coins (and more denominations of coins) than I do. I would have expected by now to have found 'one' silver coin. Frustrated!
 
I run my sensitivity up at "32" and have it on the auto with the clockwise moving square. A quarter, half, new gold dollars, and sterling silver rings will place the moving cursor up in the very top right hand corner. Only 1/4 of the cursor is showing and the sound is a high pitch squeal. I find that I detect more dimes and some of the pennies made in 70's and 80's will fall in the upper zone showing half of the cursor in top row. Now gold is the hard thing to hear and find....
 
Be a little careful how much frustration you let show on this forum. Mr. Rosario learned the hard way.
 
Jack,
Many of us too have been frustrated too with ours untill we have learned them a bit and start to understand them. Some have the patience while other do not. Getting beat by your wife Shadow dont help, but the Shadow will get more coins as it is a faster working detector, but it will not get the quality of coins the Explorer will. The Explorer has to be used a lot slower than the Shadow does as it is also going deeper and getting coins that may be close to junk that the Explorer will see both the good and the bad.
My wife used to always get more coins with her Shadow than I do with my Sovereign or my Explorer, but she gets the new coins while mine are the deeper and older ones.
Tell us what you setting are, how fast you going, what headphone you using?
Sometimes you may be better of starting in the factory presets and just up the Sensitivity a bit untill you understand the detector beter. One thing is going slow and listening close with a good set of headphones and being in a area that has old and deep coins.
Looking at these fourms we see a lot of nice finds being found with the Explorer, but i am sure this took time to understand the Explorer and having a place to go that has them.
I have had my Explorer for 2 years and I have seen some things that has impressed me with mine just like the Sovereign has done, but find it took more time to learn the Explorer than any of the other detectors i have used in my 29 years of detecting. What helps is the tips we learn here on these fourms, but these do not work for everyone as there detecting is differnt, so we learn what the setting will do and adapt them to our style of hunting.
Good luck Jack, have a little patience and try some of the advice you get on these fourms, but remember to go slow and listen to the faint ones and odd ones others have missed.
Rick
 
What happened to him? I'm just trying to get the hang of using the Explorer...but I'm not giving up.
 
You're right....my wife only finds the newer more shallow coins. We've decided that she'll go for the new stuff, and I'll only dig 'hits' deeper than 6 inches. I'm prepared to stick with this until I master it....however long it takes. I do think it's a better all around machine than any of the others I've used....I love the depth. I'm experimenting on the 'audio' and I'm reading the forum for insight. I have gotten almost all my help from the 'posts' I've read here. I'm just glad you're out there for newbies like myself.
Thanks
 
Main thing is to hunt areas that were used brefore 1960's and there will be silver there someplace.. try some old yards or parks.. best spots are picnic grounds if you can find any that were used a long time.. anywhere near water a good spot to look, especially where small brooks enter larger ones or rivers/lakes
 
Shadows and Tesoro's are generally well thought of as competition machines. They pinpoint easily, have a good swing speed, and are easy to use. Your wife is probably "out-scoring" you because the detector she is using is well-suited to ground coverage.
If I were you, I'd follow right behind her. Let her get out there and clean-up the new stuff - it will make it easier to find the deeper, older stuff. Besides, your wife might also have a knack for knowing where people hang out and you may as well find out.
As for finding the deeper stuff, there are pretty much two schools of thought. Here are the similar settings of both schools:
Iron Mask -8 to -16 (with most using -8 to -10)
Ferrous sounds
Deep Recovery
One group of detectorists like to use AUTO sensativity with sensativity jacked to 32. This is probably the more friendly of the two approaches.
The other group likes to use MANUAL sensativity and they run it up as high as it will go while remaining somewhat stable. This method is more difficult because it can be terribly frustrating
Now, those are just settings. Experience plays it's role too.
Trust your ears - the display doesn't always get it right, but the audio is awesome. Slow down, relax, and work slowly - others here have recommended 1 foot per second as your maximum swing speed.
How to get experience when you aren't finding the good stuff? Air test. You absolutely NEED to do this, in my opinion. Get out a dime and a nail or a small washer - run them under the detector's coil together. If you pay attention to the audio, you will learn the sound that a coin makes when it is near or even under iron. You can also just work the dime alone a long way from the coil. Work it closer until you can just barely hear it - that is what a deepie sounds like.
I hope this helps some. Happy Hunting!
Tim
 
I have used many types of metal detectors and some are easier to use than others. I have just moved up to New Jersey from Alabama and have had to work throught he weather. So when I get out i try to hit it hard - and no silver! I went back to the places and went so slow that i had to shave and am doing very well. You are going to be listening for a small sound for deep silver and you can go over it if you move to fast. Slow down until you are way to slow and then slow down some more! Good luck and you might want to train it to listen only in the top right corner it helps to cut all the other sounds off.
Best of luck Randall
 
Starting to find SILVER. Yes, thanks to a program I received from Larry Clark I found some silver jewlery yesterday. I'll continue to look for those elusive coins in my area. Thanks ...Larry!
 
I am really new to the explorer and certainly haven't figured it out yet, but, if you are hunting silver why would you hunt in ferrous and not conduct? Tim in KC
 
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