I went out Friday afternoon again to the the old park a couple blocks from my house. I went back to the trashy area where I found the Silver Dime in my first hunt with the new E-Trac. I started griding the area and digging a few more targets. I knew they were probably junk, but wanted to correlate what I was seeing and hearing with the the actual buried object. I was very pleased to see the level of sensitivity to small conductive targets. Note the partial Wheat Penny slice , and quarter section of a Tax Token in the below picture.
Along with the junk that I dug up, I found two Wheats as well. There really is no mistaking a coin hit. There is a lot of noise to deal with, but I am used to this from using the Whites V3 in trashy areas. The consistent rhythmic hits of good targets contrast themselves clearly against the Calliope of sound. I was just blown away by the level of separation I was getting with an 11 inch coil. Before I called it a day I walked over to the corner of the park where I buried a clad Dime a few years ago at about 8 or 9 inches. The E-Trac had no problem seeing this target. I did make the observation that changing the ground condition setting from Difficult to Neutral gave me a much better response tone, and the CO/FE didn't jump as much. I am looking forward to going out Saturday for some real hunt time.
Jack