jkress
08-15-2010, 09:24 PM
Hi folks,
With our busy weekend, I was given 1 hour to hunt with my new Explorer today. I knew just where I wanted to go... a yard that over the course of a year has given up over 40 silver coins to my Ace 250. But the last 4 times out I wasn't able to get anything other than nails. I felt I had pulled all of the coins out of the yard that the Ace 250 could see.
For the first half hour I went over an area that was almost completely clean of trash... because I had pulled out most of the nails with my Ace, hoping for a silver coin too deep for the 250 to see. But nothing showed up.
Then I decided to go under the old clothes lines. This is an area infested with square nails and an unlimited supply of those metal springs off wooden clothespins. Occasionally I would try to hunt in there with the Ace and sniper coil, but never could get a good coin signal through all of the iron.
As I slowly scanned, I hit 3 beautiful, clear, isolated high tones in the first 6 feet. Each one was silver.
I am blown away by how this machine can operate so nicely in an area that sent my 250 running for cover.
http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectorist/pictures/picture-2.jpg
Hopefully these are the first three of many, many silver treasures coming my way as I start to learn the Explorer SE. I am strictly using the factory coin mode right now until I get some sort of confident understanding of the beautiful tones this machine makes but I am looking forward to taking the training wheels off.
I took tomorrow off to get a real hunt in and I think I'm heading right back up to the old clothes line. :yes:
With our busy weekend, I was given 1 hour to hunt with my new Explorer today. I knew just where I wanted to go... a yard that over the course of a year has given up over 40 silver coins to my Ace 250. But the last 4 times out I wasn't able to get anything other than nails. I felt I had pulled all of the coins out of the yard that the Ace 250 could see.
For the first half hour I went over an area that was almost completely clean of trash... because I had pulled out most of the nails with my Ace, hoping for a silver coin too deep for the 250 to see. But nothing showed up.
Then I decided to go under the old clothes lines. This is an area infested with square nails and an unlimited supply of those metal springs off wooden clothespins. Occasionally I would try to hunt in there with the Ace and sniper coil, but never could get a good coin signal through all of the iron.
As I slowly scanned, I hit 3 beautiful, clear, isolated high tones in the first 6 feet. Each one was silver.
I am blown away by how this machine can operate so nicely in an area that sent my 250 running for cover.
http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectorist/pictures/picture-2.jpg
Hopefully these are the first three of many, many silver treasures coming my way as I start to learn the Explorer SE. I am strictly using the factory coin mode right now until I get some sort of confident understanding of the beautiful tones this machine makes but I am looking forward to taking the training wheels off.
I took tomorrow off to get a real hunt in and I think I'm heading right back up to the old clothes line. :yes: