swing speed comparison ? Help needed

[grumpy]

Can anyone out there help me with a swing speed question. The wife and I were debating, her F75 LTD and my E trac. if you are swinging over a quarter say at 5 inches , which will still pick up the coin at the fastes swing speed??? I am with the opinion that both would pick it up at a reasonablly fast speed but from using them both over the years I wonder if the f75 might not pick up the quarter when the speed was getting to fast for the etrac to lock onto it??? We have been playing with rush hunting at a few parks to see how quick we could run through the parks and cherrie pick the things when were limited on time. Thanks for the help.
Grumpy

 

[utahshovelhead]

Hmm... The E does better for me with a slow swing...I swing a bit faster with it than I did the explorers I had but still I recomend a slow swing. Never used a f75 so dont know bout the comparison there.
However, If your cherry picking on the top 5 6 inches with a good deal of discrimination then I get about 1 second in each direction...left....right.
Ill be interested to see what others say as almost all my hunting for the last few seasons has been for deep hidenseek kinda sutff.

Good luck to you.

 

[grumpy]

Shovelhead; that is what has me confused. I usually do the slow and deep dig thing in parks we know and frequent because of old stuff but on the road traveling and hitting parks and ect once a couple of hours and off on the road to never return, Id like to pick up as much change as we can in what i call cherrry picking or high grading and Im not sure if the E trac is cut out for it. I have to do some testing the F75 is a fast swinging machine but Im not sure that the E trac wont swing and hit pretty fast if you ask it to ???
Good luck
Grumpy

 

[Goes4ever]

The etrac is not made for speed hunting, it is meant to kept slow and low......there are better machines if you want to swing fast and cherry pick clad. The etrac is better suited for picking out deeper coins in trash, therefore you must swing slow and listen to the tones

 

[sprchng]

I swing both daily almost and especially if it's a public park with trash .The 75 first to clean off the clad on top and then the e-trac to get the good stuff. EMI restricts both the depth and discrimination of the 75 in those types of locals and if mine pinpoints at 5" it's never more than 2" because it's not only inaccurate , you also can't use sensitivity settings above 30% and still have a pleasant machine to use.

So if you're looking for cherries you definitely need the e-trac to get them once the pits are removed.

 

[Stormrider51]

I've never used any Fisher machine but I do have an E-trac and a White's DFX. The difference between the two is like night and day when it comes to sweep speed. This was the hardest thing for me to learn when I got the E-trac. If I take off with the E-trac swinging at DFX speeds I am going to miss good targets. But the E-trac, when operated low and slow, seems to find deeper targets. That's why I have both. If you want to go fast and cherry pick shallow targets why not get something like a Garrett Ace 250? My wife loves hers but lately she has been eyeing the DFX because most of what she finds with the Ace is shallow clads.

Storm