YES!  If you are serious about finding old coins in hunted out sites the Minelab Explorer or E-Trac are what you need.  I've been detecting for 19 years, so I'm old school (though not as old as some) and new school.  My first machine was a White's Classic II.  I was swinging Fisher CZs for years and finding a few silver coins - maybe 10-20 per year.  Last year with the Explorer, I got 51 silver.  This year I have 127 silver coins in about 3 months of digging.  The majority of these are from the same sites I have been hitting for years.  

If you look at the people who are serious about silver and finding 100+ silver coins in hunted out
sites, 9 times out of 10 they have Minelabs.  The results speak for themselves.  You can look at the forums - look at the people who are showing pics of what you want to find.  Look at what machine they are swinging.  I just had a 16 silver day on Monday, and have had several 6 and 7 silver coin days this year.  My friend had a 27 silver day last month!

I agree with others that learning your machine is important, as is experience and just putting in a lot of hours swinging.  But the E-Trac is easy to use, an old coinhunters dream.  I'm running preset coin mode and auto sensitivity and the silver just keeps jumping under the coil begging to be taken home.

If you are hunting virgin homesites then any detector will produce for you.  But if you're searching the same old sites that everyone else is, the Minelabs will give you the edge.

Most of these coins were not that deep.  The majority were in the 4-6" range, just being masked by trash, iron, or undetectable by being on edge, etc.  The advantage of the Minelab is the target ID is super accurate... so you dig signals that you might pass over with other machines because they don't sound good.

If you are a relic and bullet kinda guy, or an all-metal all the time guy, the Minelab might not be for you.  But it you're a coinshooter, the E-Trac is the last word.

Bryce: http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,209115.0.html
Dan:   http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,209005.0.html
Gary:  http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,210334.0.html
Mike: http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,212098.0.html
 


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chris rhoden

12/25/2009 22:34:36

I've been using the Whites XLT for less than 3 years and have found well over 100 silver coins,but I only seriously concentrate on OLD silver or coppers. I've found 5 coins 1775-1782 just in the past 6 months,as well as 2 Capped bust dimes 1820,1832 and 11 pre 1840 LCs. These were all from 2 spots... My brother uses an older Minelab,(not sure of the model),but he did'nt find nearly as much. I'm not bragging so much as praising what I think is a super Metal Detector.

 

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