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Hopped out to the beach after work since the weather was immaculate today. Tide was mid range which is meh but I'm getting too fat and needed to get a good walk in. After about 5 minutes i see a very pretty girl walking toward me with intent! Not that "I'm curious about metal detecting walk" and I've yet to get picked up on while detecting so it could only be one thing... she lost her diamond ring! About 100 feet from where I was she had been sitting with her mom and dad and flung her hand to the side... watching as her ring flew off. After frantically searching for a bit, her knight in dorky armor arrived. I was able to nab the ring in about 30 seconds and she was visibly relieved! She tried to pay me, which i absolutely refused but asked her if we could snap a photo so i could share it with my online friends 🤓. I'm doing fine financially and wouldnt ever sell a ring i found so it was way more rewarding making her doomsday into a good story for us both. Photo shared with her permission.

I only found 4 pieces of gold last Summer. Their pale yellow color indicates they have high silver content. As silver rapidly dissolves out of gold, these pieces may have come from up on the nearby ridge. Looking at Google Earth I see what looks like 3 small intrusions with some diggings close by. I'll take a close look this Spring.

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The beach I went to and focused on today is the one where the dock and concrete ship got destroyed by the recent storm. The removal of the dock allowed for alot more stuff to flow in and thus many things have been found near where the dock was. I thought I was too late for all the good finds, but apparently new stuff keeps getting washed in, and the backhoes are still around shifting the sands alot during the weekdays. They prevent people from going into the area while they're working, but when they leave it's pretty much virgin hunting grounds; first come first serve. I managed to time it and get back to the site before the construction crew left and pretty much cleared the beach of most of the goodies. Mostly clad, but some silver as well! 3 silver dimes at least, a crucifix and a grad tassel charm from 1959. Really cool and old stuff. I'll be heading back soon enough as it's been dry lately at all the other beaches.

I checked this little used park 5 minutes from my house and was surprised to find silver. I'll have to explore it a little more.

I was able to get out a couple times this weekend to a local soccer complex. I stayed on the sidelines and in the shaded areas. I took the Deus II with the 11" on Saturday and was able to find 121 coins in 3 hours. There were 29 quarters and 29 dimes along with mostly pennies. I have hit this place many times before with the Equinox 800, so I was a bit surprised by the number of high conductors that sounded through the machine gun sounds of bottle caps and pull tabs. I ran the fast program with a few changes. The black ring that came from behind tall netting that stops balls from going into the water, is stainless. The pendant was right in front of a team bench; there were many targets under the coil, but the 72 ID was unwaivering. The other ring is aluminum. Today, I took the Equinox out for old times sake with the 15" coil. I wanted to cover some ground and focus on numbers between 5-12. The gold helmet, the second one I have found (the first was also at this park by the basketball area), rang up a steady 8. I was in Park 1 with the horseshoe engaged and 7 recovery speed.

I'm new to this posting side of things, but have really learned a lot from Steve and others on this forum. Thank you!

Come on Simon🤣, if that were the case, she would have buried you under the house by now!!👍👍

I like the Apex quite a lot. Very good build quality. Easy to swing. Great headphones. Decent performance (better than I had expected) and I can spend a minute or two showing someone (who has never used a metal detector) the settings and they don't feel like they're tasked with programming the space shuttle. They just hunt and have fun. That is where Garrett nailed the Apex (as far as I am concerned) - it is fun. That is a factor that is difficult to quantify, but knowing what I know about the Apex, I'd buy one in a heartbeat if I didn't already own one.

I appreciate this guys! When I created this book, I just made it for me, but then I thought why not help so others with the Deus 2. I put it out there for free but also put a note that if anyone wants to take their appreciation to the next level, then they could send me an old coin. I have it saved as a PDF file also so you can save the PDF version to your phone and scroll though it in the field if you want to. I tried to attach the PDF to the previous post but it didn't seem to attach, The file was too big. You can find the PDF file in the Following link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/deusii/posts/3507171489562326/ If the link does not work for some reason it is in the "Files" tab at the top of the main page of the Facebook XP Deus 2 Group page.

This is a brand specific forum for people who own and appreciate Garrett metal detectors, or who want to learn more about them. It is not for people to point out how they think some other brand is a better choice. We have a forum for advice, criticism and comparing, the Metal Detector Advice & Comparisons Forum so take it there if that is what you want to do. This applies to all the brand specific forums in general - dropping in on them to say that brand or model sucks will be considered trolling, and such posts moved or deleted. Let people enjoy what they have without the negative commentary please. I don't go to the Ford Forum to tell them they should should have bought a Subaru, and the same general rule apples here when on a brand forum, be it Garrett, Nokta, Minelab, or whatever.

The following link will bring you to the PDF version of the Deus 2 for Dummies book: Deus 2 for Dummies book . Thank you Rattlehead for hosting a place that the file can be found all over the world!

Hi there... that is not accurate our distributor also provides the service. We did service units there.

Very true but not as well known as it should be. The woodland Indians of East Texas had a very valuable commodity, Salt. This was traded for things they did not have locally like knapping stone. I have a beautiful arrow point made of Black Obsidian that I found on our farm when I was a teenager. Far West Texas is the closest place where this volcanic glass occurs, about 800 miles from here with a lot of not much for half of the distance even today.

I can't think of a better way to self inflict pain than to go detecting 🤕 People all over the world go to the gym to get the same pain I get. But I never see any of them walk out the door with silver or gold in hand 😊 It doesn't matter how long you get out, as long as you had fun doing it. Congrats on your ring. Hope you get another soon. As for Mick, it must be a real drag getting old when your bed is made of $100 bills 🙄

This one looks pretty close. - Dave

Hey Scott, I have only been out a handful of times, but all over hammered patches with the new GPZ 17x13. I found gold every day, friend running the GPZ with stock coil got skunked 4 times with me. I have 13 small nuggets, from about 1/4 gram to 2 grams all found at great depths. A few targets my friend checked with his GPZ, running very similar settings and didn't hear them and doubted I even had a good target. No magic wands, just another $1100 coil that will find deeper gold 🙂 I'm convinced it will find a lunker deeper "if it's there!" Hope this helps a bit, Rob

As a high end user I wish the Ace Apex had more horsepower, and look forward to a future model that does. It is an Ace model though and Garrett is in no way overselling it as being anything but that. I do very much appreciate it's physical design however, as it is close to what seems perfect to me. Very solid, easy to swing, compact control box with large visible display that is easy to navigate, good affordable coil options, rechargeable, wireless, etc.

V80 and V60 landing in the United States in May. I love my Quest Detectors.

I had a couple of hours to detect today after another mini blizzard. I decided to stay close to home and hunt next to a curb at a local park that I have hunted with Deus 1 and the Equinox 800 in the past. The area I was hunting is absolutely loaded with aluminum trash and steel crown bottle caps with various states of rust unless they are recent drops. Very iron mineralized ground on top of the thousands of trash targets. Knowing this in advance I was thankful that I have the Deus 2 (and the Legend and Equinox 900) which do not have half of the regularly found aluminum pull tabs ID's landing right on top of the most common gold ring target IDs and the US nickel target IDs (Equinox 600/800/Vanquish models) both of which I really enjoy digging. In the past I have tried Deus 1 at places like this and quickly became super frustrated with all of the silver target ID range responses that could easily be US copper pennies, clad dimes clad quarters, silver coins and silver jewelry but instead were lowly pull tabs and bits of aluminum along with steel crown bottle caps that were showing up in the upper 80s to upper 90s target ID range due to severe up averaging if they were deeper than 3" or so in this iron rich dirt. Deus 2 using its multi modes based on the Fast program simply does not do that to all of that aluminum and steel trash unless it is right at the edge of detection in the dirt around here, so I had no hesitation picking it for detecting this super trashed area. I was using a saved program based on Sensitive, with 5 tones Square Wave audio, disc on 10, iron audio ON, reactivity 2, Silencer 1, bottle cap reject 1 and sensitivity on 95. Deus 2 was a bit jittery but consistent which is how I like it. The US nickel medium pitched tone was set up to sound on target IDs between 59 and 63. The highest tone for clad dimes and up was set 90 to 99. So, I concentrated on the gold and silver range of target IDs specifically any good sounding target with a consistent ID of 59 to 63 and any target with a consistent target ID of 90 and above and was basically cherry picking for US nickels/medium sized gold rings and US coins above zinc pennies with any silver thrown in. The 1.9 gram 10K ring had a target ID of 62/63 just like the nickels and square tabs in the photo. These targets were in the 3 to 6" depth range. There has been a lot of chatter about using single frequencies for detecting and how they are just "better" especially in reference to the new Minelab X-Terra Pro. I deliberately checked the target IDs of each of the low to mid conductor targets in the bottom half of the paper plate photo before digging them. I used default Deus 2 Mono set on 17 kHz. All of those targets which are normally 59 to 66 had target IDs above 85................. I'm very happy to use Deus 2 FMF simultaneous multi frequency tech, that's for sure since I can at least call the non-ferrous conductivity of targets before I dig them for the most part. Thanks for reading.

Here's a true story. I got a call from a guy that had a gold mining claim about 10 miles from my claims. He was losing his money & asked if my partner & I would come look at his ground. It was an old hydraulic operation from the 1800's. I asked him if he had done much research on it before buying it & he said no but it had an active permit & that's why he bought it. He had gold fever and wanted to mine gold immediately. Then my partner asked him if he had even walked the claim & done any testing. He said no but the geologist told him there was still gold on it. So we walked the claim from the creek at the bottom all the way up the mountain. It had all been commercially mined several times and was obvious that there wasn't much left here in the way of gold. Lot's of old hydraulic cuts & hand stacked rock. We ran some tailings through his trommel and found traces of gold but nothing mineable unless gold was $5000/oz. He had been taken and but good. However, it was his own fault for being in a big hurry. There were two claims completely mined out & he had paid nearly $100,000 for them. That's just one of several examples of what I have seen happen to people with gold fever. It can be ugly.

I agree. We decided to lease claims and take our cut right off the sluice in the form of raw gold. There is no risk or cost. I have seen several want to be gold miners lose everything including their wives. Not a business for the faint of heart. We love the exploration end of the business. I also invest in good mining companies.

That my friend is an understatement! My metal detecting for gold habit took me through 7 or 8 detectors over about a 15 year period. The most expensive was $10,000. Or more precisely $9,999.00. My least expensive was $599. Most were in the 4 figure range especially for the GPZ and GPX's. The good thing about that is that all paid for themselves over time. And then there is tournament fishing from my kayak! Fishing is supposed to be relaxing and enjoyable right with small investments of rod reel, hooks, line and baits! LOL! 14 rods later and reels of course and a continuing need for line, hooks, sinkers and a myriad of baits. Oh and a $3000 pedal kayak, spare paddle and quality PFD! All told I bet my 'hobby' fishing has about $10000.00 tied up in it. And then there is all of the tournament fees just to enter in the range of $50 to $300 per tournament! Monetary winnings for the tournaments ... well ... not so much! 🤣 But dreams are made to be followed ... Never give up on dreams!

I hope this falls under the guidelines as general chat. Fishing has always been my #1 hobby. You all know me from Civil War relic hunting and such but that's always been 2nd or 3rd tier for me. I live in the foothills of Tennessee and North Carolina...trout fishing was huge in my life growing up. So when my brother inlaw tried to get me to go to Arkansas to fish for trout..my first thoughts were...WHY? Why drive 10 hrs one way, to catch fish I can catch 20 mins from home? After nearly 3 years of begging me, I gave in and off we went to the White River. Now lemme tell ya...up to the day we left, I wasn't exactly giddy about this trip. What in the heck is in Arkansas? And why am I wasting a weeks vacation to go there. As soon as we got past the flat terrain and into the hills and ridges of Central Arkansas...I saw why my brother inlaw likes it so much . It looked like it does back home....minus the subdivisions and housing market explosion. It was like taking a time machine back to how it was back home, 30+ years ago. I was liking it more by the mile. Then when we saw the river...ohh yeah. My kinda place. We arrived with just a couple hrs day light left. We got our licenses and went to fish from a public spot on the river. My first cast from the bank...and I was holding a rainbow trout equal to the size of my biggest back home. It was just the start of what was to come. The White is known for big brown trout...something I had only caught a few of back home. The next day has us up early waiting on the fishing guides to pick us up. After introducing ourselves, we shoved off onto the river boats. First cast later, my wife was holding a 22" brown trout...her biggest trout and I had never seen a brown that big in person. Before I could get my phone out...the guide slid it back into the river. He said "I promise...they get a lot bigger". I couldn't fantom that. But he was 110% correct. By the end of the day we'd boated 19 brown trout and a half dozen rainbows...and that 22 inch brown was the smallest. The next day we woke up to 19 degrees with a 20 mph wind. I was about froze...my fingers numb. And it was a slower start than the day before. A cold front had came in and we didn't really get on a strong bite til after lunch and still managed to boat 12 browns, including my biggest to that date, a 25" five pounder. I said my trip was made with that. The next day...started with my wife putting every fish in the boat up to lunch. She had me at 8 to nothing including some really good 25-26 inch fish....5 and 6 pound browns. Then...about the last hour of the trip, I hooked into a big brown...28" and 8 lbs. I was grinning from ear to ear. And ready to come back before we even left for home! I can't believe I'm saying it...but within the next 5 years, we'll hopefully be leaving TN for Arkansas. I loved it that much. I'm not a people person and like solitude. Tennessee has become the opposite of that. Go figure...a trip I wasn't even wanting to go on, has me ready to move haha.

Hello all. Please contact our service center and it will be replaced with the new speaker. We did have an issue with the speakers at one point but the issue was resolved long time ago. Your units must be from the earlier ones. Let me know if I can help further.

Thanks Capphd! It's kind of sloppy with the white out and spelling mistakes, but there is some good content in it. I would love to know what the weighting of the frequencies is for each of the programs. I have shown the frequency ranges in red from what I could find on the internet, but I am working on a lead from a guy in Russia that although the frequencies he gave for each have not been validated yet, they are as follows: 1 General Frequencies 7.125 / 21 / 37 2 Sensitive Frequencies 7.125 / 21 / 37 3 Sensi FT Frequencies 7.125 / 21 / 37 4 Fast Frequencies 7.125 / 21 / 37 5 Park Frequencies 7 / 13.45 / 21 6 Deep HC Frequencies 4.45 / 13.45 7 Deus Mono Single frequency 16.5 8 Gold Field Frequencies 7.125 / 21 / 37 9 Relic Frequencies 7.59 / 21 10 Diving Frequencies 4.45 / 13.4 11 Beach Frequencies 7.125 / 21.4 12 Beach Sens Frequencies 7.125 / 21.4 / 37

Thanks Rattlehead for hosting the PDF version of the Deus 2 for Dummies book. That will be nice to send people to a place that they can download the file to their phone. That way they can pull out their phone while they are out in the field detecting and scroll through it pretty easy. The one thing I ask is that although the book is free for anyone, if someone wants to take their appreciation to the next level, they can send me an old coin. They can email me at scubapony@gmail.com to find out where to send the old coin.

Everything works with no noise issue. Trond 2in one receiver and Monoprice Bluetooth 5 headphone with aptx low latency. Total spent 65.00.

I never use home separation tests because they often lead to wrong conclusions ... Why ? Because an iron infested soil is a 3D structure much more complex than a coin and a nail set down on the ground . When I have a assess to new detector , I always spend a few hours in the field , in iron infested places that I know very well so that I can quickly see how the detector works vs the previous ones ... Concerning the videos , the pb is that you dont know the guys who are doing them . Even a newbie can do a youtube video and draw conclusions , often wrong ... Smaller coils have better separation than bigger ones , and not the opposite as stated by this guy ... At least on this forum you have very experimented people who can help to take the good decision .. The right place for the right choice ... 🙂

Just love a good story like this as they always have a happy ending. Good luck on your next outing.

So today was the day. Almost exactly 6 months after paying for my Manticore I got the email today... it's shipping!!! Fingers crossed it gets to me by the weekend but regardless... excited it's finally actually on its way! 🙂

That is generally correct, but that all varies with soil conditions and trash contamination. The 22cm and 28cm operate very close to the same in air and mild soil with little trash, but in high minerization and high trash, the 22 can perform better than the 28 because it's smaller size restricts the amount of ground noise and trash signals into the processor, while the 28 will allow more ground noise and trash signals into the processor reducing it's depth capability and reducing separation. But in cleaner ground, the 28 will outperform the 22 on depth.

same thing, round for me. i noticed that the lower rod they send with the 13" coil says CF which i think means its carbon fiber infused. it is stronger than the lower rod that came with the 9" coil. are you using the stock rod? or the nokta carbon? i have yet to have any issues with either of the lower rods (stock and nokta). if yours is loosening with the nokta one maybe you need to add/modify something to give the spacer more/even pressure

July 8 1950 After consulting with the geologist yesterday I am still convinced we will find a glory hole in the bedrock somewhere to the north of our current drifting. I have enough funds to continue mining and exploring for another week. The gravel is still not paying for the work but the slope is declining gently to the northwest away from the fault.

May 25 2002 When I woke up this morning there was a cold drizzle of rain coming down and dampening the camp. We all gathered at my camper for breakfast. Jacob said he wanted to come up to the dig site so we decided we would all just go up together like we used to do. Seeing as it was a little cool we were anxious to get to our work and warm up some. Jacob took a look at our open trench work and made a few suggestions as to widening it out some and cutting a ramp descending deeper into the mountain heading north. So we all worked on that all morning and Jacob took samples to pan every half hour or so. When we broke for lunch we asked him what he thought about the progress and gold at the current site. He was very positive about it and was convinced we were going to hit some heavy gold deposits sooner than later. That was always good encouragement coming from someone like him who had the experience we lacked. He’s been here and done it before and we all trust his judgment. By day’s end we had washed 17 yards of gravel and were all pretty happy because Jacob had been showing us a little gold in the test pans all day long. TO BE CONTINUED ................

Using the technique described in the earlier (actual weight, buoyancy weight) referenced article, the specimen calculates at 1.888 oz-Troy Au. I used quartz as the host material. Actual weight is 102.75 grams.

I have to admit, I have been thinking about how long he spent with you before he passed away & his cause of death. Weather from just old age complications or otherwise. D4G

I'm glad that you started this thread, Phrunt. Like you, I saw the Garrett video and am pleased that Garrett is promoting what I think is a very good detector that has been overlooked with all of the other multi-frequency machines that have been released over the past couple of years. I field tested the Apex for Western and Eastern Treasures and liked it a lot. On saltwater beaches it is a sleeper detector, one that gets good depth, especially with the Reaper coil. Inland I found it to be capable but the Apex had a tendency to be overwhelmed in high trash, with the iron audio being more or an encumbrance than an advantage. There is an update to the Apex that improves performance in this area: https://updates.garrett.com/updates/ Funny how I was just thinking of rolling out the Apex and giving it another go and then this video popped up. Steve Moore of Garrett actually hunts with their metal detectors (check out his Axiom videos) so these videos are not going to be a talking head show and will be worth watching. Hopefully the reintroduction of the Apex will get it some well-deserved attention plus open the door to Garrett's next multi-frequency detector. I hope that Garrett continues to use the Apex display disign - I think it is the best one out there. Bill

I am going to try to find some pictures of that camp and the area and post them here.

Deus 2, Equinox 900 and the Legend all have "tight discernment" of targets from my experience until targets start to be deep enough to be at the edge of detection. That really helps me when I am deciding how to hunt a modern aluminum and steel alloy trashed area. Some places I hunt have more spread out targets so I can dig everything that sounds good or has consistent enough numbers to get my attention. At other places like the curb area I hunted in the write-up, there is absolutely no way to dig even a tenth of the targets since there are just way too many. It's like hunting a carpet of rusty nails infested site except that the carpet of targets are nearly all non-ferrous. Those targets on the plate are the only ones I dug except for two aluminum screw caps that had US quarter target ID numbers that got tossed out with a dozen or so steel crown bottle caps that were on the surface. I really stuck to my plan of just digging the good sounding nickel and silver range targets. I wasn't notching anything and I will definitely go back to that spot and concentrate on other likely aluminum/gold target IDs in the 50s and 70s on another day since I heard a ton of them. The area I hunted was about 30 feet long and 10 feet wide and the amount of targets in that tiny area that Deus 2 audibly detected is ridiculous.

I also have fun making other projects in the forge, mind you I'm still learning and have only been hammering hot metal in the forge for a few months really, but I enjoy it, and it's fun and it fills in time between detecting trips. 😀 Just a couple of the project I have finished This is forged from a Railroad spike and this from another Railroad spike cheers dave

The parks are finally melted off and the mud is even starting to get better in some parts of some parks. So this morning I hit one of the oldest and no doubt THE trashiest park around here. It was machine gun everywhere. Decided to try All Terrain Trash Reject. Took my best guess and a manual GB of 15, did a long press noise cancel and the machine was running just the tiniest bit sparky at 22 sensitivity - I didn't try any higher or lower, left it there the whole hunt. Pretty happy with how the Manticore picks high conductors out of the trash with the 11" coil in this mode. Was getting everything from surface drops to 8-9" coins. Ended up with two wheaties and a '46 Rosie. And a bunch of clad. Didn't dig too, too much trash. But was digging a lot of aluminum twist caps for the first half of the hunt or so, before I started getting a handle on how not to dig them (just looking for ID spread on a cross check) and then I only dug two or three after that. My big gripe with the Manticore right now is no wireless options (without a dongle). Warm enough this morning that I was hating on the earphones after a couple of hours. But with so many people around I didn't want to run the speaker either, so I left them on. I don't really want to use a separate transmitter, but I think I'm going to have to. The earphones just aren't going to work for me as the weather continues to warm up. - Dave

I would suggest contacting the "Projectile Point" website and send them several photos from every direction/angles along with some measurements and info where you found it and they may be able to tell you what you have, they most likely will add it to their website as well.

It appears you are leaning towards the Deus 2 now, 🙂👍 I read earlier that you will be searching for relics and coins and going to the beach, not doing any sort of prospecting. My suggestion to you is that because you will be beach searching, the best thing for you to do is get the Deus 2 9" package, and then get the 13x11" coil either with it or later when you are used to the machine. In my opinion the 11" coil does put you in the center of performance, but consider that if you want to have every opportunity to get as much as you can in the least amount of time you should have the smallest and the largest coils possible. You can see in your example video that they change them very fast. I won't comment on why I think that video is misleading, but I can tell you it is. I've been using the 13x11" coil since it arrived in the USA and have to say it seems better than the 11". I have all 3 coils and when there is not a lot of field stubble (soybean and corn stalks), I tend to use the 13" initially but return with the 9" to see if I missed anything, and almost always find I did not. If I use the 9" first I can be pretty certain that if I return with the 13", I will find coins and relics I missed., This is due to better swing overlap more than separation. Do remember that most of your detection comes from the center of the coil. The weight difference between the 13"and the 11" is so little that the only issue then is balance and attachment. You can shorten the shaft to make even the 13" feel light, but it will not feel as firmly attached as the 11", again only slightly. I often travel far from home and make sure to have all 3 with me in case one does not charge enough, but I almost never use the 11". To me there is no advantage the 11" has over the 13", and the 9" is best for tight spaces and water searching. Regardless of any advantage or disadvantage, you should always have at least 2 coils for the Deus 2.

Nice finds and glad you were able to make the saves.

Other hunters have had the wire fail due to salt corrosion. This wire is readily available online in bulk and clear so it can be monitored. When installing it is best to try to seal the end with some tough product to keep water away from the wire. Like this: Shoe Goo or my favorite, Goop Marine.

Nice hunt...I'll bet you cant wait for the small coil..will we ever get the small coil? To the left of that lock...thats what I like 😄 Is it some kinda pin? strick

Good work Jeff...Those broken pull tabs I'm always hopeful that it's a possible gold ring... On the pull tabs We have all dug out share of them...at one point I was saving just for fun...but that got old quick 😄 strick

At this point I am about 20 hours in on the 11 x 13 coil. Here are some first impressions: Pros: * Coverage is enormous compared to the 9" coil. It doesn't detect just under the coil, there seems to be a significant halo around it as well. It gets my shovel every swing unless I drag it behind me. I found two silvers that rang from outside the area covered by the coil (and, to be fair, many beer cans) * Whatever problems existed with drooping appear to have been addressed, or are yet to appear. No noticeable drooping. * There seems to be a significant depth advantage over the 9" coil. I haven't verified this yet on an actual deep target, but air tests seem to indicate it. * Doesn't seem to be a lot more affected by EMI than the 9" coil. Cons (none unexpected): * Compared to the 9", it weighs a ton. Swinging it for a couple of hours is a workout. * it's not great in dense undergrowth. Overall impression: I love it and think it's definitely worth it if you have the 9" coil.

Really nice find. It must be specimen week for Axiom in AZ! Yours is a lot nicer than mine, but I'm tickled anyway.