This whole mess of metal detecting started when my friend got his first Bounty Hunter and showed me how it worked in the front yard of my house. I was instantly intrigued and thought it was very interesting and really neat. Soon after getting the idea and learning how to do it, what to expect and precautions of detecting, I purchased my first detector. It was a Garrett Ace 250 and I had a lot of fun with it for 2 years from 2009 to early 2011 netting my first silver dime and first silver ring. After a while of detecting, I took it upon myself to watch some metal detecting videos on youtube. One thing I noticed during some of the videos was that people were having a very high success rate with the Minelab E-TRAC. Just watching people pull silver out of the ground left and right just surprised me and I told myself, I wish I could find stuff like that around our city. I was looking at some other detectors because the E-TRAC was a bit pricey and I didn't know if it was going to be worth the investment or not, but my friend talked to me into it. I took out a loan to purchase this detector as an investment into this hobby. Might as well get the best, right?