One of the three things I wanted after my return from Iraq were new golf clubs, new gps, and a new metal detector. The metal detector is the third wish being fullfilled. After take a nearly 20 year sabbatical from digg'n, it took some time to get back up to speed on what was available. The youtube videos by vidslayer played a HUGE part in making my decision with going with the ETrac. Being from the midwest I do a lot of coin shooting and have done really well over the years. I dug all my old metal detectors out which included my Teknetics Mark I and fired it up; still worked. Even went out digg'n a couple of times with it but was plagued by my Depthmaste Headphones falling apart and a loose headphone jack on the unit. But did find a 1919 dime at an old abandoned house Sout of Fremont, NE. I hunted that Saturday morning with my sweet little wife Christine sitting in her KIA Soul reading her bible. And the dime was the only coin I found there. The lack of good solid targets lead me to believe that the site had been hunted before; however, per conversations with the owner, it had never been hunted. One can draw their own conclusions from that.

Ther Etrac should be here Monday. Was hoping that it would have arrived on Friday but the FeDex driver didn't deliver on base that day; so Monday it will be here. And just in time for the ground to freeze up. I picked up the Etrac from Rod's Detector Sales in Suprise, AZ and will continue to do my buisness with him since I'll be looking at the Minelab GPX 5000 to do some nugget hunting in AZ in the coming years. Having been accustomed to the mid 80's technology, I am thinking that I will have a slight jump start on the Etrac beacuse I hunted with my ears before, now I have two sets of numbers to digest as well. So I'll be eventually hitting my old sites where I've dug some nice coins to see what I've missed. It's nice to get out digg'n again.