Hi!
My name is Tom and I'm a cherry picker.
I only did shallow targets if I know it's a quarter.
The e-Trac's ability to accurately display a coin-sized target's depth has helped cause this and continues to enable the bad habit on each hunt.
I do this for various reasons.
#1 Shallow coins seldom old
#2 I am lazy
#3 I don't want to molest the turf of a manicured lawn for a modern coin
#4 I am lazy
Yesterday afternoon I learned a valuable lesson.
While I was hunting a new spot for the first time, I dug modern coins for about two hours. I managed to dig up a couple of wheat pennies but not much of anything else that was old.
Before I left I decided to check one more spot.
Within 5 minutes I had a screamer. The numbers were a little low (12-45) for an obligatory quarter extraction. A 12-45 on my machine is generally the calling card for a silver dime. If it would have been a 12-44, I might have left it. My pinpointer picked it up without breaking ground so this confirmed what I already knew about it being very shallow.
After removing about 2 inches of dirt, I was looking at a 1939 merc which was gleaming in the sunlight.
I've found shallow silver coins in the past. I have even had a couple silver coin surface finds. Less than 10 feet away I rescued an 1895 IHP that down 6-7 inches.
My point to all this is don't be lazy like me.
Please dig all of your shallow coin signals so I have less of a distraction when I hit the spot later with my e-Trac to grab the old deep coins.
My name is Tom and I'm a cherry picker.
I only did shallow targets if I know it's a quarter.
The e-Trac's ability to accurately display a coin-sized target's depth has helped cause this and continues to enable the bad habit on each hunt.
I do this for various reasons.
#1 Shallow coins seldom old
#2 I am lazy
#3 I don't want to molest the turf of a manicured lawn for a modern coin
#4 I am lazy
Yesterday afternoon I learned a valuable lesson.
While I was hunting a new spot for the first time, I dug modern coins for about two hours. I managed to dig up a couple of wheat pennies but not much of anything else that was old.
Before I left I decided to check one more spot.
Within 5 minutes I had a screamer. The numbers were a little low (12-45) for an obligatory quarter extraction. A 12-45 on my machine is generally the calling card for a silver dime. If it would have been a 12-44, I might have left it. My pinpointer picked it up without breaking ground so this confirmed what I already knew about it being very shallow.
After removing about 2 inches of dirt, I was looking at a 1939 merc which was gleaming in the sunlight.
I've found shallow silver coins in the past. I have even had a couple silver coin surface finds. Less than 10 feet away I rescued an 1895 IHP that down 6-7 inches.
My point to all this is don't be lazy like me.
Please dig all of your shallow coin signals so I have less of a distraction when I hit the spot later with my e-Trac to grab the old deep coins.
I would trust my Etrac and its abuility to be as good if not the most consistent machine built for cherry picken high conductors . 
