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AU,

  This is EXACTLY the type of review that I look for from an experienced hunter.  I might be very studious about my techniques with my detectors but I am still a todler compared to others.  The E-Trac's display certainly does look like it gives you info that you will never use. 

  I bought two detectors at the same time at first and now use the Pioneer only because it is simple and just as deep with it's 8 inch coil as the MPX is with it's 10 inch coil.  The 8 inch coil is good in trashy areas now that I have learned it well.

  It amazes me at how well I have come to learn that 505.  I have gotten to the point that while pin pointing a target in motion mode I get a great feel of how "trashy" the target is while taking into account the depth of the target.  The deep targets will not have a solid ID so I do not let that discourage me from digging them.  Anyone that says that my model of detector is a beer can magnet has not taken the time to truly learn the unit's neuances.  I know when a target in a can most of the time and make a calculated choice whether or not to see if it might be that 1902 Silver Dollar that still eludes me.  Anyway, most cans ID's fluctuate around the silver coin ID's while a coin stays very very solid.

  For $300 US dollars, I have a unit that not only ID's targets very very well, but also tells me their depth so that if the target is too much deeper than the detector says, I know that it cannot be a coin and might just be a pipe or septic tank.

  My point is that it will be very difficult for my next detector to live up to this one and still be an improvement.  It will take me some time to feel good about spending the kind of money it will take to improve on what I already have. 

  I have just started a thread about the difference in field shape between different sized coils and would be interested in hearing your opinion on this as well.  I think that my next step in improving my depth with the 505 will be to acquire Bounty Hunter's 10 inch search coil and am curious to see any opinions on what to expect from the new coil compared to the two that I already have.

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	That can be said of too many detectorists with too many different detectors.   The thing you swing is just a tool.   More often than not the tool between your ears limits the tool you swing more than the other way around. Master craftsmen can be and are limited by their tools, but a master craftsmen in any field will frequently turn in better results using an average or mediocre tool than will an 'average joe' using a superior tool.

  No doubt, I have always taken my unit into the yard when I come up with another technique and that practice has advanced my understanding of my detector greatly.  Air tests are great but even our easy local soil changes things drastically along with surrounding metals and trash.

  Experience and keeping an open and curious mind has improved my efficiency greatly and will surely continue to do so.

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Well Cyber,

  I do love that 4 inch coil.  I will go as far as to say that the prospector coil can separate two coins that are 1 inch apart and five to 8 inches deep depending on what kind of coins they are and the soil they are in.  The 8 inch coil seems to give me no more than three extra inches in depth with larger coins and only a couple of extra inches with small coins.

  Other guys most likely can elaborate but that is what I have come to believe. 

  That coil is awesome for tight or trashy spots but you are going to have to remember that it only covers less than half of the area that the 8 inch does.  I see it as 2.5 swings to 1 swing with the 8 inch coil.

  Let me know how it works for ya.

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Great find!

As to its bend, as kids we used to use silver dimes in our sling shots to bounce them off rocks. They'd make a ricochet sound just like the Lone Ranger's or John Wayne's bullets did. Try it with a clad dime. We'd bend the soft silver dimes every time. I'm not saying this is a fact with your coin but it can be done that way.

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