Minelab E-TRAC Metal Detector : Hi. I'm a Minelab E-TRAC Metal Detector owner myself. Before I bought the thing I had seen Minelab Explorer users do their thing. Besides being excited, I kept telling myself "this metal detector is going to be so complicated". I thought there were going to be hundreds of settings to get wrong. I thought the metal detector would be so complicated that I would have to do tons of research to even run it properly. Boy was I wrong. It's no more difficult to run than a cheap metal detector. It's a good beginer's metal detector too. The Minelab E-TRAC Metal Detector is so powerful, even with the settings wrong you will find more than you ever have.

I've been waiting to tell this story. I was setting up a pattern on the Minelab E-trac at my desk at home. To do this with a room full of electronic gear, I had to go to manual sensitivity and turn it way, way down. I forgot to put it back up. I started hunting with this low sensitivity. I must have dug half a dozen coins at 3-4 inches before I figured out the sensitivity was almost all the way down.

First I ran the Compadre for a month. Then I bought the Minelab X-Terra and found a hand full of silver. Then I bought the E-trac and started digging wheats, an 1894 Barber Quarter and just about whatever I please. I was worried that the E-trac might not be hot on tiny items. That was until I started digging little 1/8th inch button snaps at 9 inches deep in my own yard. The E-Trac is so powerful, you have to do plenty of selective digging. Good thing the display gives you a good indicator of what the target might be and how deep, or you might find yourself in China before you reach the target. - neswiper