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I think it's great even though it wouldn't aply to me I bought my machine 1 month after the E-trac came out. But it wouldn't matter anyway because I would never part with mine!
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have heard about that detector for so long my ears are starting to bleed! I think if any company out there can come up with a great P.I. unit it would be minelab.
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Besure and hang on to that E-trac they are awesome deep silver coin machines. The E-trac and CZ-3D are the only two detecors I ever really loved. I liked a lot of detector's ,But not loved them like those two. And a Nautilus IIba as far as a non metered machine.
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I should also mention it is great at handling steel bottlecaps. In the stock coins mode you don't even hear them and it will find silver coins in the same hole with them! I know because I have found many rusty steel bottle caps in the same hole with a silver coin. And just for the heck of it one time when I dug the rusty steel bottle cap out of the ground with the silver coin I put the coin
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Those nauty's might be heavy ,But they have one of the sweetest deep tones of any detector made! There rite up their with the deep silver warble of the minelab machines.
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
If you after deep silver in trash there is just one word E-trac! I love CZs ,But as far as target I.D. at depth the E-trac is the best machine I have used. Now as far as pure raw depth coil for coil an original CZ-3D. But if you want to be able to tell a 10'' silver dime from a 10'' silver quarter or half it has to be the E-trac,or at least in my area nothing can touch it as f
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I know what you mean I just know enough to log on and post a message. I don't even know how to post pictures. That's why I don't post finds. I will learn it one of these days. I do use an E-trac though,But mostly in the stock coins program with a few personal preference tweeks. I figure as long as I am finding stuff why change it?
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I thought I was old at 48 years old with all the young newbee yuppies around detecting nowadays. I sure do miss the 70's,It was the last simple decade,no cell phones no computers,great economy. If you didn't like your job you could quit go across the street and get another sometimes better job! The internet is fun,But if I had a choice I would go back in a heartbeat! Even at my current
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
It will not hit there after it has been in the ground long enough to develop a hallo that will push the numbers past the 1st line. I wouldn't have found that coin spill otherwise!
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
That's a good way to hunt with the E-trac. But be careful when you get those deep coin signals because it will cause the ferrous number to rise into the upper numbers in my area at least. That's why I get a kick out of guys who remove the small upper corner line in the stock coins pattern because you can't air test a silver dollar with it in. They also think you can't find mu
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'm a little confused here,sometimes it doesn't take much! I see where some people with mild ground say it's not that hot on silver,But respectable. And I see were other people with hotter ground say in there area it is hot on silver. Shouldn,t it be the other way around,or am I missing something? How is the depth on silver overall?
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think it is a joke the way you can't compare brands on findmall! It didn't seem to upset minelab or fisher users as much as users of that other brand. Makes you wonder doesn't it?
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Welcome to the club. I had a CZ-3D I sent back three times and they still didn't get it correctly calabrated. They got it close so I could trade it in ,But not up to specs. I would try tom as a last chance. I would have done that when I had mine but didn't know he calabrated CZs at the time. And people wonder why a brand new in the box CZ-5 on ebay went for 550.00. I guess that guy wasn
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Well you are intitled to your opion. Just like when you said the F-75 wasn't all that deep as far as I.D. at depth,which I happen to agree with. I had one and didn't like the way the numbers wouldn't lock on deep targets like the E-trac-expolrer!
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Yes bryce know's explorer's . He has been using them for quite awhile. But in my area I have compare signal's with a friend who use's a stock minelab 8'' coil and I could hit a few target's that he couldn't. Once again that is in my area. But it is lighter than the minelab 8'' coil. That's a fact jack! Beside's Bryce wouldn't do so
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
And yes it is a deeper coil. There is a feild test comparing the two on there web site by a guy on anouther forum who really knows's explorer's. I know some may not believe this ,But I hit a barber dime with it at just a hair under 10''. As a matter of fact due to the liteness of the coil and my bad shoulder I use the X-8 about 90% of the time.
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have had a lot of cz's. The hottest one I had was an original first run CZ-3D. The smoothest one I had was a CZ-70 pro. The best one I had in iron trash was the CZ-5. I don't know maybe it was the luck of the draw but that's how it worked out for me. And as far as the CZ-5 on ebay remember guy's this is a brand new machine in the box from los banos. That alone make's it
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have an e-trac which is similar to the explorer II. I mostly hunt coin's in moderatly trashy spots,And my favorite all around coil is the sunray x-8. First of all it's lighter than minelabs 8'' coil and it is a full 8'' as where minlab's is 7.25''. I alway's thought 8'' was the perfect size coil. It's small enough to be good in tr
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Heavy or not in my area on deep silver coins an E-TRAC smokes an f-75.Even a good tuned original CZ-3D will blow it away also! Once again that is my area. And were talking pure raw depth on silver coins.
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
You hit a nerve with me. I had one of the original first run CZ-3Ds 1021 machines. This was one of the hotest machines I ever had. But like a fool I traded it in on a F-75. I never did like the F-75 like you said the build quality was cheap. I also cound not beleive the way they caulked the coil. Also mine was not deep. So I sold it and bought a new CZ-3D. It was no were near as deep as my 1021 C
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Harold,ILL.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum