First hunt for the Explorer was always going to be a pain, with a very ordinary day in Adelaide. But all the same, I was very keen to get out and try it in a few different areas, just to start learning what this detector can do - a bit of a mess around if you like.
First place to go was the beach (in between rainstorms), and conditions weren't great for detecting compared to the other night, very sanded in. Rather than being gung-ho, and try every setting known to man, I just left it in default settings to start off with, followed by a noise cancel. I ran along the dune line and picked up a couple of 5/10c coins and a large button, then moved onto the wet sand. I was quite impressed how quiet it ran, and managed to crank up the sensitivity without any real falsing. The only target I picked up on wet sand was a corroded 5c coin, but at quite a depth which was promising.
The rain eventually set in, so I headed off home, once again the rain cleared (make up ya mind weather!), so headed down to a local park where I had picked up a penny previously to see how things would pan put. Considering that spot had a fair bit of junk in it, I ended up discriminating out most junk targets, and stuck with mainly high tones targets (ie. silver). Well what do you know, first clear repeatable high tone at 00:28 pulled out a 1926 Florin, another first for me, and one happy chappy. The only other decent targets were a small toy soldier missing the top part of its body, and a 1971 1c coin, called it quits after that, just too wet.
Can't wait for the weather to clear up to have a decent go with this machine, it's ticking all the boxes so far. I only used the stock 11" coil, so will be giving the small eliptical coil a go next outing. So many local spots to re-detect, it's really hard to know where to start.
After a clean with some bi-carb.
