Jack Flynn
New member
Got about 3 hours in this morning before it got too hot. I visited my wishing well site at the 200+ yr old park here in town. I've hunted it with the 70 and 705 and several coils. So this was pretty much a controlled hunt lets call it. I've gotten three double hand fulls of coins out of here over the last couple of months, five or six hunts. I figured it was raked clean by me.................. Not a chance, the E Trac showed me that. Now the downfall of the E Trac first. Man I'm whhhooopppped! I was told by several people in pm's, phone calls, and posts here about the E Trac. The X Terra 705 it ain't! I'm worn slap out after three hours with the E Trac, that's the truth. My arms hurt and back hurts. I've never had to dig so many DEEP holes in my life. I'll be looking for a longer lesche trowel if they make one in other words. I dug a wheatie at the length of my trowel I have now deep. I was shocked when I finally popped that out of the ground. If you get an ET, get a bigger longer digging tool.................I also got a penny that was virtually sitting on it's side about 3 inches deep. I had already gotten most all the shallow stuff with the X's and now I was getting the deeper stuff. Most of it was 5-10 inches deep, probably 10 that were about an inch or so, I did get two more Sacagawea dollars, that's 6 from this spot, might have been an Easter egg hunt or something at one time. I do like the nice and slow dance you have to do with the E Trac. It didn't lie to me not once today. The only thing I'll have to get used to is the nulling when you have a good target tight close to trash. . You have to thread the needle so to speak and you can get it separated from the junk. I can see this is a superb machine to run. I had quite a few as deep as the depth meter could show nice toned whisper peeps. I'll carry the ground shark for them. I'll draw the limit at wrist deep with a trowel. The ergonomics are good with the ET also, just different from the X's I've been using. The nice slow motion and picking the coins out of the ground instead of just running across a few is as cool as can be. I have no complaints at all, I was running it in default coin mode in auto and as I learn the machine if it gets better than that I'm not going to know what to think. Here's a few pics of the finds and a couple of holes. I was going to try and film but that's pretty tough by yourself. Oh yes, the live next door caretaker of the 63 acre 200+ year old park pulled up when I was digging a hole, he asked, "That thing shows stuff that deep?" The trowel was all the way in the ground, very nice high pitched whistle, it was my last dig of the day, I told him I'll have to get a bigger digger for that one. We hit it off great, he showed me several places that used to be there, where the foundations for the mansion and slave quarters used to be. He's overseen it for 48 years. Anyway here's a couple of pics..........
This is the penny sitting on it's side in the plug.
This is the hole with the wheat penny in it. Dang deep hole, good solid tone too.
Here's the the hunted out place, see the wishing well in the background, I'm actually hunting the green grassy areas between the path and fence, very small area, about what you can see in the picture.
Here's the components of a hunted out place (by me) and the results.
Here's just the take.
This is the penny sitting on it's side in the plug.
This is the hole with the wheat penny in it. Dang deep hole, good solid tone too.
Here's the the hunted out place, see the wishing well in the background, I'm actually hunting the green grassy areas between the path and fence, very small area, about what you can see in the picture.
Here's the components of a hunted out place (by me) and the results.
Here's just the take.
