Iron Patch said:
Thompy said:
i figure each to his own, i have seen the exp II in action, and was impressed , like i mentioned i started on the 2 filter whites, ive wanted a soverign, and thought about the quattro, but really feel that i would have a hard time slowing down that much, i may be missing something but feel pretty confident in my t-2, in my area i dont really find a lot of deep targets. there are many machines out there to fill personal needs. i loved my qxt, which was built to compete with the cz-7, but also like iron as the cz, one reason i never tryed the cz. i havent statted the t-2 is better, just effective and different than others, if looking for deep old silver i think the exp. is the way to go, i rellic hunt, trashy iron sites, little modern trash involved
Sounds like your view on the Explorer is incorrect and the way many others think too. It's the same as other units, if there isn't much trash you can pick up the pace, but if your around iron you have to slow things down. It sounds like we hunt the same type of sites and I can't imagine you fly through with a T2 or CZ? ..and if you do, you don't think you're not leaving targets behind? I have a friend who likes to cover ground and damn near gets airborne with the explorer and he still finds lots of targets. I stopped trying to tell him to slow down because he is happy with his results. If the Explorer is mainly for silver it sure isn't doing it's job for me as my Rev War buttons for the year out number my silver 4-2 and one coin was an out of place 1947 quarter, the other not even a coin signal.
I've tried and tested against many detectors since starting to use the Explorer and nothing does as good over all for my hunting. Just like everyone else I use what works for me.
I agree that he must have been watching somebody who was afraid to move the Explorer too quickly and has heard too many people say 'when you think you are going really slow, then slow down a bit more' about the Explorer. I swing mine at a pretty good clip. Certainly I'm nowhere near what I've seen some White's guys go at, but I move at what I consider a pretty fast pace and pluck out my fair share of silver, indians, and wheats.
In just 10 hunts I have dug 198 GOOD targets this years. Take off 3 anomaly / short / experimental hunts and I have dug 190 GOOD targets in just 7 hunts, for an average of 27.14 old coins or silver jewelry per hunt. And these are not shallow junk targets, these are all DEEP hits that other detectors obviously passed over due to being too deep, on edge, going too quickly, or just now knowing their machine well enough to recognize a good targets laying in a field of nails.
If I am finding exceptionally deep / old coins in any area I will grid it again a 2nd time from a different angle and slow down to turtle speed and occasionally another find will surface, but more often than not I've gotten all I could find with my machine and its current settings.
