E-Trac or SE Pro?

[Deep Seeker]

I have finally decided to get either an E-trac or SE Pro over an Excalibur. I will be using it at the salt water beaches, in the wet and dry sand. I will use it in yards at old homesteads. I will also use it at foundations I find in the woods. I have a Minelab XS-2a Pro now and can distinguish every sound and could tell you what the item was before digging it. Are the sounds the same if you know? Does the E-trac really go deeper than the SE Pro? Yesterday, mine picked up a Merc about a foot deep, will either of these machines go deeper or would have picked it up if it was on its side? Does the E-trac have so many modes that it will mess me up, or is that a myth? I know I ask a lot of questions, but i need to know if I should pay the extra $200 for the E-trac. What do you think?
Thank you for your thoughts.

[dazoff]

As best as I understand it relic hunters like the SE & park hunters like the E-Trac. The user interface is easier to handle on the E-Trac but for someone already acustomed to the Explore that should not be much of an issue.

[sniffer]

the etrac seems to be better than the SE, but if you're going to do water too, the excal would be better

[Digger]

I've owned both the SE and the E-Trac. I still have the E-Trac. The SE was pretty good but only slightly deeper than my DFX, and my DFX was much better in all other types of hunting, so I kept the DFX. The E-Trac easily pulled deep old coins out of the same park I had hit hard for years with all my other detectors. Even today I am still able to pull extremely deep coins out of the park, but only with the E-Trac.

My hunting buddy just bought him an E-Trac, after seeing me pull old coin after old coin out of the park, and has been using it for about 2 weeks. He pulled a few good coins out of the park at the start, but now he is pulling a hand full of old coins on every trip. Just yesterday he called me up to thank me for getting him to buy the E-Trac. He had just come from a quick hunt in the park and sent me a picture of his 7 wheats and 1 merc. My buddy is not much when comes to technology, so if can learn the E-Trac pretty much anyone can as long as they are determined.

[Deep Seeker]

the etrac seems to be better than the SE, but if you're going to do water too, the excal would be better

I don't mean going in the water at all, I wouldn't think of doing that with SE Pro or E-Trac. I mean that I would search saltwater beaches at the high tide line. I'm now leaning toward the E-Trac from the replies, but how does it perform in the damp/wet salt sand? Thanks all for the replies.

[sniffer]

I don't generally hunt beaches, we don't have to many of those here, but I've heard even
in wet sand they're still pretty good