Michigan Badger
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Okay, my Explorer XS arrived a couple days ago and I've been reading "Mastering the ME XS & S" by Sabisch.
I started this morning at a site that produces wheats and lots of copper trash. My count as of (3) hours hunting and 17+ holes is (1) large square nail.
Lots of holes with nothing. I'd get screaming solid signals so I dug the holes wide and deep and sifted the soil...nada.
Finally up from the depths of 4 inches came my big nail.
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I went back to my land fill area where new coins can be very deep. It's due to snow removal and plows pushing dirt with the snow.
This time I learned something.
The Explorer will sing-out sometimes with a constant repeatable signal over certain ground (give a 30+ readings) but it may not be a diggable target.
The targets one is looking for may be weaker but they have a certain quality that one must learn by doing.
It's hard to explain in words but the two signals are very close but there is a difference between the false and true signals and sensitivity settings don't always help. I ran mostly in Quickstart at 14 sensitivity and dug better than 20 empty holes with the detector screaming and reading 24-32. After sifting the dirt I came up with nothing. A classic case of falsing over mineralized soils.
So, I began to listen for more solid signals in at least one direction. After passing up a few dozen screams and high readings (but false signals), I came upon a weak but smoother signal. It sounded just one way. I dug the plug and the signal greatly improved. Down 8-10 inches was a memorial penny. My 1st Explorer coin!
I continued along and dug an old dime-sized zinc bottle cap at a good 6-7 inches deep. The reading was about 24 as I recall and the signal was loud and solid.
Next I got a good signal near the old sidewalk. It was only good one way and broke up the other. It was very deep. I dug down a good 10-12 inches and found a shotgun brass.
Okay! So at least now I know it works!
I had hunted this very site over many times before with other machines and none detected these things.
I can see already the Explorer truly is very deep and it does get the stuff others miss.
But due to it's power it's also prone to extreme falsing. But with a little effort the false signals are somewhat easy to sort out.
The secret in part is the quality of the sound of the signal. But I'm not really surprised; that's the way it is with all machines
So the bottom line is this, the Explorer guys are NOT windjammers.
Okay, my Explorer XS arrived a couple days ago and I've been reading "Mastering the ME XS & S" by Sabisch.
I started this morning at a site that produces wheats and lots of copper trash. My count as of (3) hours hunting and 17+ holes is (1) large square nail.
Lots of holes with nothing. I'd get screaming solid signals so I dug the holes wide and deep and sifted the soil...nada.
Finally up from the depths of 4 inches came my big nail.
-----------------------
I went back to my land fill area where new coins can be very deep. It's due to snow removal and plows pushing dirt with the snow.
This time I learned something.
The Explorer will sing-out sometimes with a constant repeatable signal over certain ground (give a 30+ readings) but it may not be a diggable target.
The targets one is looking for may be weaker but they have a certain quality that one must learn by doing.
It's hard to explain in words but the two signals are very close but there is a difference between the false and true signals and sensitivity settings don't always help. I ran mostly in Quickstart at 14 sensitivity and dug better than 20 empty holes with the detector screaming and reading 24-32. After sifting the dirt I came up with nothing. A classic case of falsing over mineralized soils.
So, I began to listen for more solid signals in at least one direction. After passing up a few dozen screams and high readings (but false signals), I came upon a weak but smoother signal. It sounded just one way. I dug the plug and the signal greatly improved. Down 8-10 inches was a memorial penny. My 1st Explorer coin!
I continued along and dug an old dime-sized zinc bottle cap at a good 6-7 inches deep. The reading was about 24 as I recall and the signal was loud and solid.
Next I got a good signal near the old sidewalk. It was only good one way and broke up the other. It was very deep. I dug down a good 10-12 inches and found a shotgun brass.
Okay! So at least now I know it works!
I had hunted this very site over many times before with other machines and none detected these things.
I can see already the Explorer truly is very deep and it does get the stuff others miss.
But due to it's power it's also prone to extreme falsing. But with a little effort the false signals are somewhat easy to sort out.
The secret in part is the quality of the sound of the signal. But I'm not really surprised; that's the way it is with all machines
So the bottom line is this, the Explorer guys are NOT windjammers.
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