z118
09-25-2010, 07:31 PM
The love-hate thing with the E-Trac continues... The ground is pretty dry around here so I opted for some tot lot hunting with the Compadre & Tracker this morning, but no real luck. So I got out again in the afternoon for a short hunt and hit a local spot with the E-trac, hoping for a silver coin. I wound up with four Rosies and a nice silver ring, plus three wheats and two older nickels along with a bit of clad. I don't know what to think about this dang E-trac! It's like that girl that you know is right for you but you just don't want to marry, if that makes sense. I like the finds I'm making and I'm doing great with silver but I still have no clue what I'm digging for the most part. I'm probably digging more money in scrap iron than I am in clad. Lord only knows how you find gold with this thing. And I still don't like all the options.
There was a spark of hope today when I got a tone that was just different... a little more fluid or something than a regular tone. I thought to myself okay, this is silver thinking dime of course. I pulled the plug and it was the silver ring. Still got me excited. I guessed silver a few other times but they were all just deep wheats or Lincolns.
A while later I got what I would call a thump, sort of that short low bump kind of noise the E-trac makes when it's bouncing around over a signal in between tones. But there was no tone, just the thump. The numbers were still showing 12-42 or something after the thump. I could not work up a signal except for the shortest of chirps in one direction, but the numbers stayed right around the same spot. I was in auto and the sensitivity showed 26. I switched to manual at 26, and now I got a very faint and very low nice coin tone. So I pulled a big plug and the signal was still in hole, dug a bunch more out of the bottom of the plug and out pops a silver Rosie. It could not have been too deep... maybe 6 or so. I would say thiat it was on edge except that 6 away I repeated the exact same routine on another signal and this time it was a Lincoln laying flat at 6 tops. I have no idea why either did not give good signals. There was not signal or nulling over the area after I removed the coins. Also, it really seems like I get a lot more variation in tone volume when I'm in manual that I do in auto. In auto all tones seem to be the same volume but in manual I get a lot of faint tones.
Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and just shut up now about the E-trac. I can't argue with 4 silvers and a ring in one hunt in dry dirt, even if they are all Rosies, and even if none were tremendously deep. For all my complaining I'm doing alright I guess. I'll just keep digging and see what happens! I also think getting together with someone else swinging an E-trac will help quite a bit. I just want to make sure mine is acting the way it's supposed to and maybe get a little first hand perspective too.
Happy hunting...
There was a spark of hope today when I got a tone that was just different... a little more fluid or something than a regular tone. I thought to myself okay, this is silver thinking dime of course. I pulled the plug and it was the silver ring. Still got me excited. I guessed silver a few other times but they were all just deep wheats or Lincolns.
A while later I got what I would call a thump, sort of that short low bump kind of noise the E-trac makes when it's bouncing around over a signal in between tones. But there was no tone, just the thump. The numbers were still showing 12-42 or something after the thump. I could not work up a signal except for the shortest of chirps in one direction, but the numbers stayed right around the same spot. I was in auto and the sensitivity showed 26. I switched to manual at 26, and now I got a very faint and very low nice coin tone. So I pulled a big plug and the signal was still in hole, dug a bunch more out of the bottom of the plug and out pops a silver Rosie. It could not have been too deep... maybe 6 or so. I would say thiat it was on edge except that 6 away I repeated the exact same routine on another signal and this time it was a Lincoln laying flat at 6 tops. I have no idea why either did not give good signals. There was not signal or nulling over the area after I removed the coins. Also, it really seems like I get a lot more variation in tone volume when I'm in manual that I do in auto. In auto all tones seem to be the same volume but in manual I get a lot of faint tones.
Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and just shut up now about the E-trac. I can't argue with 4 silvers and a ring in one hunt in dry dirt, even if they are all Rosies, and even if none were tremendously deep. For all my complaining I'm doing alright I guess. I'll just keep digging and see what happens! I also think getting together with someone else swinging an E-trac will help quite a bit. I just want to make sure mine is acting the way it's supposed to and maybe get a little first hand perspective too.
Happy hunting...