Recent content by Dig EM

Looks like i'm going to have to sell my E-trac. Looming medical bills is getting out of hand and now looks like surgery needed on my knee. Since the E-trac is still new should be able to get decent money for it. Hate to sell it but gotta do what I gotta do. Not giving up as I still have my older...

I got a hint to a creek with a shallow waterfall that the kids use to toss coins into. After alot of searching and probing the water I think I found the location. The water is only 2.5 / 3 feet deep at the base of this falls. thinking of going after it if the coil will be safe.

Drove past local high school thats been around longer than me and noticed that all of the sidewalks were gone! Hot dog! I've done well at this place before. Took my detector to work the next day and was going to hit the missing sidewalk beds hard and fast. Got off work and came by and the new...

Running my e-trac yesterday and searched for a couple hours and found some old clad. Moved to a diffrent area and the threshold completly nulls out unless you lift the coil away from the ground. I have hunted this area before and have never noticed this. I was still getting targets but the...

We just replaced the entire kitchen in our old house that had a kitchen addition built on in 1963 and they used a 1943 nickel as a cabinet shim! The nickel was placed under the rear of a lower cabinet. It seems that shims were not invented yet cause they used anything they could find as shims...

Been doing some reading online about the E-trac and have seen many people using using the wiggle method of pinpointing. What exactly is that? I have a new E-trac comming but it won't be here till next week. Just curious. Thanks

New to this fourm but been detecting for many years. Started out with old Radio Shack detector as a kid with very limited results and decided to get back into it a few years ago. Purchased a used White's DFX and had great success with it and most recently purchased a new Minelab E-Trac, still...