120 Year Old Silver Coins Found Metal Detecting Old West Ghost Town With XP Deus 2

[strick]

Thanks for sharing your settings Andy. That deus 2 in the fast program is a eye opener.  A while back I had hunted a small area with the Nox 800 and small elliptical coil. Basically a carpet of nails in a burned out old house...then went back over the area an hour later with the Deus 2 in fast and pulled 3 wheat pennies out where I had got nothing before...

strick 

[abenson]

4 hours ago, strick said:

Thanks for sharing your settings Andy. That deus 2 in the fast program is a eye opener.  A while back I had hunted a small area with the Nox 800 and small elliptical coil. Basically a carpet of nails in a burned out old house...then went back over the area an hour later with the Deus 2 in fast and pulled 3 wheat pennies out where I had got nothing before...

strick 

Got to agree with you there. I've had similar experiences with the Nox and Deus. I've gotten to the point that I like each one for different sites. Usually will go with the Nox in parks or relic hunting in fields where finds are more spread out and the Deus 2 in the trashy sites.

[Zincoln]

Well done Andrew...you've had quite a year!  Couldn't agree more...that fast program can really expose those well masked targets in ways most other machine's can't match.  I was surprised how effective it was at moderate depth running Fast.  

Zincoln

[CPT_GhostLight]

Holy cow that was a great hunt! Thanks for taking us along and thanks for posting your settings. I'm also finding notched Fast is a winner for unmasking and going surprizingly deep. I could have used your Ghost program yesterday at an old coal mining ghost town, but I still had fun! 😎

[abenson]

2 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Holy cow that was a great hunt! Thanks for taking us along and thanks for posting your settings. I'm also finding notched Fast is a winner for unmasking and going surprizingly deep. I could have used your Ghost program yesterday at an old coal mining ghost town, but I still had fun! 😎

Glad you liked the video. Notch is definitely a game changer. One thing about my program is that you can take the bottle cap and silencer to zero if the flat tin it's too much of a problem. Doing that will allow the Deus to separate a little better in just nails.

[Zincoln]

Andrew, 

In the video you ask about those annoying round zinc items that I find tend to show up in bunches near old bars.

They say a picture is worth 1000 words....Found in Northern Nevada.  Circa 1900+/-.   I'd noticed many had a hole in them and I'd speculated they were pried out of something, and one day i found this broken top of a bottle that beeped!  My guess is they had a factory operation/machine that pressed them into the neck to seat/seal them. 

I've still been told I'm wrong by one long time detector and forum owner...but will let you be the judge. 

 

[JCR]

Hutchison bottle stopper?

[abenson]

3 hours ago, Zincoln said:

Andrew, 

In the video you ask about those annoying round zinc items that I find tend to show up in bunches near old bars.

They say a picture is worth 1000 words....Found in Northern Nevada.  Circa 1900+/-.   I'd noticed many had a hole in them and I'd speculated they were pried out of something, and one day i found this broken top of a bottle that beeped!  My guess is they had a factory operation/machine that pressed them into the neck to seat/seal them. 

I've still been told I'm wrong by one long time detector and forum owner...but will let you be the judge. 

 

Oh man that answers the question perfectly! I'm glad someone has finally been able to provide me with a visual so I know what those caps were used for. Thanks Zincoln!