Although the E-Trac is a fantastic machine, you also have to be realistic about how deep it, or any other machine can go. I hunt primarily with an E-Trac and the deepest dime that I have ever dug was a Merc at 9 inches, which just barely sounded as I swept over it. And that was a true 9 inches because I measured with a tape measure before I pulled it out of the hole. I've watched literally thousands of YouTube metal detecting videos over the years and there is one thing that the viewer has to keep in mind when watching them...just because someone claims that they pulled out a dime at 12 inches, doesn't mean it was actually at twelve inches.
There are two areas where people make honest mistakes when determining what depth something was dug at. First, they dig their plug and then find the target in the dirt that was removed from the hole. Then they look at the depth of the hole and assume that the target was at the bottom, when in fact they dug a couple of inches past the target before scooping out the dirt. All of a sudden a 6 inch dime became an 8 inch dime.
Secondly, and perhaps the most common error, is that people can't accurately estimate depth. I've been hunting with folks who have claimed the found something at 6 inches, but when measured with a tape measure it was realistically 3 inches. It can be difficult to look down into a hole and be accurate when visually trying to estimate how deep it is.
I'm not saying that your E-Trac won't hit deep coins, because it will as you should soon find out. I'm just saying that you shouldn't get frustrated if you aren't pulling out 12 inch deep coins during all of your hunts.
