First outing with the Explorer SE

[fd3615]

So i guess you could say I am nervous.. I havent gotten to the discouraged state yet..

I found 5 coins all clad - pennies, dimes.. and a bolt head, an old sprinkler head, and a few pull tabs, and bottle caps..

So the first thing i noticed is the machine makes alot of sound.. it sings.. lol

The second thing, i cant for the life of me figure out how to pinpoint...

I am not giviing up i figure 20 hours or so things will get better.. any advice

 

[Ridley]

I did a sketch for you of how I pinpoint with the EXPII coil.


Try it out. It works almost every time. The SE coil might be a little different but it's worth a shot.

Hope that helps.



Ridley

 

[artemis moon]

That's what I love about this site- you can ask questions and people are willing to share their expertise. Thanks to you all for the support of me and others on here..you guys are awesome

 

[teverly]

The SE is a little harder to pin point with than the Explorer or Explorer2.
You should be able to with a little practice pinpoint so the target is righ in the middle of the coil.
When you find a target move the coil to the side and press the pin point.Move the coil from side to side and note where it is loudest when you cross the target.Then,move the coil from back to front over the target and listen for the loudest sound.Do this slowly and listen carefully..
You should have made an x patern and the target should fall right where the lines cross.IE where the target was loudest from both directions.
I have been using minelabs for 5 yrs and i am still getting use to pin pointing with the SE!!!!

 

[Dreamweaver43]

I know your pain!! Took me a couple of months to figure out my EXII.

Don't worry too much about the pinpointing, you figure that out after a bunch of digs.

The advice that helped me the most was to take the machine to an easy spot, school-yard, and hunt clad! (Please don't write bad things about me hunting clad!!). Make sure your variability are set to 10 (max), and gain set at 5 (not 6 or 7), deep off, fast off, which will help you hear what coins sound like, and learn how the sounds differ with depth (which is harder, at least for me, at gains of 6 or 7). You should get lots of practice pinpointing too!!

With the explorers, at least for me, the sound gives the target away. ID the target by the sound, and then use the smartfind and depth indication to help gain more info on the target, etc. Eventually you will hear the coin so clearly, the trash sounds easily identifiable, that when you pass over a coin with all the sounds you know, and also when you pass over junk sounds not sounding quite right, you know to investigate the target area more.

Once you master the easy clad spots, then go into the older sites, which will be more difficult because these areas always contain iron nails, falsing screwcaps, etc. that drive even experienced users nuts.

Unfortunately it takes time and experience to develop these skills. Lots of elbow grease and concentrated listening. But once you figure it out, look out!!!

For inspiration, this coin was found next to a garbage can at a courthouse park that had been detected to death. It was only 4 or so inches down with trash top and bottom inches from the sidewalk. I walked over the signal, and then came back because I could hear the scratchy silver sound in there, and despite all the garbage, it sounded weird. Needless to say, I will never walk over an questionable signals without digging ever again!!!

Dream

PS. Get a sunray X1 target probe, order it right now, you won't be sorry, and it will save you hours of frustration. If they outlawed them, I would quit metal detecting!!!!!!!!!

 

[teverly]

hunting clad or anything helps you learn a lot about your detector...
And the SE to me is a little harder to pinpoint with than the EX 2.
Hope you are having better luck!!

 

[mastereagle22]

If it makes you feel any better I am in the same boat with my EX II.

I told Baldingboy the Explorer Sings not Barks so thanks for that reinforcement.

Pinpointing is a little harder with this machine since you are trying to find targets that are a LOT deeper than other machines I have used (not slamming any other machine so please don't jump all over me). I, like you, feel like I will need another 20 hours or so until I feel more comfortable with this machine. I am sort of embarrassed to hunt with the thing because the neighbor kids and adults alike laugh at the "Mario Brothers Metal Detector" Once I master it and start finding good stuff I think that will stop. So I started using Headphones.

Hang in there and know that you are not alone in this situation. I'll race you to see which one of us figures this beastie out first!!!

 

[teverly]

On the explorer 2 when you pinpoint use the same procedure as i listed above except with mine i notice that it has a "heartbeat signal" .
when you are farther away the target it sounds like a slow beep,and as you get closer it beeps faster,so you use the same x pattern just watch where it crosses when the beeps are fastest in both directions.
hope this helps and good luck!!!!!

 

[{Sentinel}]

My buddy has an SE and he just started out digging a big round circle all the way around the coil and plugging it out. He has slowly gotten better at it. Every detector has its cons, Minelabs is its pinpointing.