StinkinZincoln
Full Member
I found my deepest coin yet with my E-Trac today. Being that I'm still fairly new to this machine, it was pretty exciting, so I would like to share the details and hopefully help out some of my fellow new E-Trac users 
I was hunting a small area on my property along the road. I've been over this area at least a dozen times, and it has given me a few Wheaties and modern junk coins. This was my first day trying out some new settings. First, I cut out some of the discrimination from the Minelab factory coin program. I switched to manual sensitivity at 25 instead of my usual auto +3. Finally, I rejected the entire conductive 50 line. This helps a lot with eliminating unwanted falsing noise (which you will get lots of running in manual 25 and leaving the 50 line open). It's still noisier than it was, but it's tolerable. Knocking out 50 won't hurt a thing, but you definitely want to leave 49 and below open. Unless you don't like big silver
Now, how did it work? I hit a scraggly-sounding high tone with ferrous numbers all over the place. The conductive numbers bounced a bit, too, but stayed within a range of 36 to 43. I thought to myself "No way will I get this to repeat", but repeat it did! Same weak tone, but it was unmistakably the same one. The depth meter was reading about 10", so erratic numbers are to be expected. The tone is what kept me interested in this target.
Almost ready to dig it... To be sure, I gave it the Quickmask check. The cursor bounced nicely into the conductive range as I swung over the target. This is an awesome feature of this detector. Junk iron can give you these same types of tones and signals and drive you nuts. Switch over to Quickmask, and if the cursor stays in the bottom right corner, junk iron it is. If it hops up into the conductive range, dig it. I'm digging a LOT less iron junk on false signals since I learned to use this feature
OK, so we have: Repeatable signal (albeit weak), good conductive number range, QM iron check OK, let's dig it! Nine inches down, out popped a bright green 1919 Wheatie. I was hoping it would be an Indian, but an old Wheatie is OK with me any day. It was a fun learning experience for me, and also proved that my new settings have helped accomplish my goal of finding the tough ones deep. I hope this helps someone grow to love their E-Trac a little more.
I was hunting a small area on my property along the road. I've been over this area at least a dozen times, and it has given me a few Wheaties and modern junk coins. This was my first day trying out some new settings. First, I cut out some of the discrimination from the Minelab factory coin program. I switched to manual sensitivity at 25 instead of my usual auto +3. Finally, I rejected the entire conductive 50 line. This helps a lot with eliminating unwanted falsing noise (which you will get lots of running in manual 25 and leaving the 50 line open). It's still noisier than it was, but it's tolerable. Knocking out 50 won't hurt a thing, but you definitely want to leave 49 and below open. Unless you don't like big silver
Now, how did it work? I hit a scraggly-sounding high tone with ferrous numbers all over the place. The conductive numbers bounced a bit, too, but stayed within a range of 36 to 43. I thought to myself "No way will I get this to repeat", but repeat it did! Same weak tone, but it was unmistakably the same one. The depth meter was reading about 10", so erratic numbers are to be expected. The tone is what kept me interested in this target.
Almost ready to dig it... To be sure, I gave it the Quickmask check. The cursor bounced nicely into the conductive range as I swung over the target. This is an awesome feature of this detector. Junk iron can give you these same types of tones and signals and drive you nuts. Switch over to Quickmask, and if the cursor stays in the bottom right corner, junk iron it is. If it hops up into the conductive range, dig it. I'm digging a LOT less iron junk on false signals since I learned to use this feature
OK, so we have: Repeatable signal (albeit weak), good conductive number range, QM iron check OK, let's dig it! Nine inches down, out popped a bright green 1919 Wheatie. I was hoping it would be an Indian, but an old Wheatie is OK with me any day. It was a fun learning experience for me, and also proved that my new settings have helped accomplish my goal of finding the tough ones deep. I hope this helps someone grow to love their E-Trac a little more.
