too dry to hunt

[Anonymous]

found only three nice coins and nothing else good, not even modern coins. How much difference does wet ground versus dry ground make?

 

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

It makes a world of difference. Dry ground believe it or not, is the ultimate for the Explorer. Unlike every other detector, dry ground is where it performs the best. Made in Australia under harsh, dry, and highly minerelized conditions it was designed to still get gold nuggets at great depths.
We here in the U.S. are finding out its cababilities in coin hunting in extremely dry conditions.
I've had my best ever year detecting in 9 with the Explorer in a near drought year. The reason?
Less conductivity on iron and mineralization in the ground. When wet, iron and minerals are highly charged so to speak, but when dry they offer no noticable signaling capacity.
Therefore the matrix (ground 0) is truely at 0.
The coins and objects you hear stand out pronounced against the matrix instead of competeing with it.
You hear those targets much easier than in wet soil. Try a productive spot from the past and sweep SLOW!
This machine has the slowest processor.
I think you can pull some keepers out if you go slow and hit some old, good, (worked out spots).
Best of luck.
Tony in Ohio

 

[Anonymous]

Tony is right on last sunday I dug a droped 64 round ball at 8 in and a 58 at 7. The ground was like concrete.