Minelab SEs First Maiden Voyage Out Finds Silver........

DPBOB · Sep 6, 2008

Minelab SE's First Maiden Voyage Out Finds Silver........

Met up with WaterColor and Kimsdad this morning.
Spent a while with this Minelab SE .
First find was a " PULL TAB " YAHOOOO it works....
2nd find was a Wheat Penny ( 1941 )
Those were found in the woods.
After being in the woods for a bit I wondered out to the open field
and started playing around with this new noise machine they call a detector.
Found some junk ..and after a while my
arm started getting tired so I took off to get some stuff done for a small get together with friends.

Got to the Pizza Place and they weren't open for another hour.
So I said what the heck
I'll take Kimsdad's advise check out places that I have hit with the XLT. So off I went down the road and checked out a small park that I have hit with 4 different detectors.
First being a Garrett in 1985 and then 3 other White's throughout the years.
After digging several holes with some pennies and some holes with nothing at all
I got that fluttie signal and started digging,
I got down about 6 inches and the probe was saying it was still in the hole. I thought just another blank hole . Then I said " WAIT THIS A DEEP MACHINE !!!!! DIG DEEPER....
Sure as heck out popped a silver disk. Took a pic and the looked to see a SLQ from the depths of 8 inches.
This coin came from an area that is nothing but trash in it so it was avoided a lot.
After digging a few wheats I was smiling.
Walked over to a small trashy area and the plucked a nice .925 Silver ring out that was 7 inches down.

I'm so happy with the beginners luck I have had with the " FIRST MAIDEN VOYAGE " with this Explorer SE
I know I won't find a nice pocket spill like Kimesdad or a Copper Artifact like WaterColor
so I will take my meager finds of beginners luck and smile

The first pic is a frog I found while detecting at the woods

DPBOB · Sep 6, 2008

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DD-777 · Sep 7, 2008

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Congrats on the silver Bob! Good luck with your new "noise maker"... :thumbsup:

treasurefiend · Sep 7, 2008

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Great job!!! It doesn't take long to get good with the SE. :thumbsup:

BandB1 · Sep 7, 2008

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Nice finds. Can't tell from the picture but that ring looks a lot like my first silver ring.

Good luck,
HH.

Mr_Mojo_Risin · Sep 7, 2008

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Cool- I love SLQ's!!

Dman · Sep 7, 2008

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Congrats. Looks like you are really learning how to use the machine. Nice quarter.
Dman

Colonial KirkPA · Sep 7, 2008

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From White's to Minelab...Benedict!!!! >:(

LMAO Just joking, man, keep sweeping that machine. It seems to be working for you. :thumbsup:

Kirk

weasel606 · Sep 7, 2008

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now thats an awesome maiden voyage for sure

congrats on the finds, go slow and low with the SE and always be ready to dig deep :headbang:

hunterinthesky · Sep 7, 2008

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I share your excitement. Great :thumbsup:

crazyjarhead · Sep 7, 2008

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Nice finds and many more to come Bob :thumbsup:

kimsdad · Sep 7, 2008

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Wow, Bob! That's a heck of a first day! When you called while we were still in the woods to say that you found an SLQ, I told Watercolor that I thought you were just messing with us.... I'm delighted that I was wrong! With this as your first day, I don't think your finds will have an initial drop like you thought they would do when you switched. :wink:

Congrats on the great finds!!! :thumbsup:

twistidd · Sep 7, 2008

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Congratulations on the new SE and silver. Nice spring peeper (frog).

Joe

Captn SE · Sep 7, 2008

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That's a very respectable Maiden Voyage of finds with your new SE, Bob!!!

I think you will be digging much deeper now....be prepared to have bigger arms, rougher hands, and aching muscles.

Congrats,
CAPTN SE
Dan

kimsdad · Sep 7, 2008

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Captn_SE said:
I think you will be digging much deeper now....be prepared to have bigger arms, rougher hands, and aching muscles.

Hey Bob, when your back is killing you because you have to dig so deep, I'll take that 8"coil off of your hands for a while!

John Deere Digger · Sep 7, 2008

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WTG on that SLQ. I still hav'nt found one of those. The SE still wows me each time I go out, hopefully a SLQ is in my future. Keep at it with that machine, and cover all your old hit spots. HH
JDD

DPBOB · Sep 7, 2008

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Colonial KirkPA said:
From White's to Minelab...Benedict!!!! LMAO Just joking, man, keep sweeping that machine. It seems to be working for you.

Kirk

I love White's but after today there is no turning back..... Thanks

Captn_SE said:
That's a very respectable Maiden Voyage of finds with your new SE, Bob!!!

I think you will be digging much deeper now....be prepared to have bigger arms, rougher hands, and aching muscles.

Congrats,
CAPTN SE
Dan

All ready have those . Now I need to find more Silver then you find.....

kimsdad said:
Captn_SE said:

I think you will be digging much deeper now....be prepared to have bigger arms, rougher hands, and aching muscles.

Click to expand...

Hey Bob, when your back is killing you because you have to dig so deep, I'll take that 8"coil off of your hands for a while!

When I find more silver then Captn SE does in a single season I will give you the coil.....

Thanks All for the replies.
I think I will like this machine...
I was scared at first but that disappeared quickly when you start finding targets.

DPBOB · Sep 7, 2008

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TreasureFiend said:
Great job!!! It doesn't take long to get good with the SE.

Must not ..You have been doing great this year with yours

LI Tom · Sep 7, 2008

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Sweet SLQ,big congrats!!As a matter of fact I took my new (used) Explorer XS out on it's first real hunt and using the same settings as Ricardo_NY,who set it up for me,started my adventure in the realm of the flute and scored 2 Mercs and a silver Rosie and a silver scarab.You can go out with machine,if you are an experienced detectorist,and find good stuff the first day.I use the Sunray X-8 coil and probe and even with the smaller coil ,it is heavy!My M6 has found me 75 silver coins this year,but from hunting with Ricardo,I know the Explorer finds stuff in the trash that my Whites won't find.It's not so much depth as the the abilty to unmask good targets in the trash.Good luck with your SE!