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Got home from work today and had the urge to hit a park I've been hunting for four years. Only having an hour and a half to get it done I grabbed my 800 with my new Steve's 3 piece shaft and six inch coil and headed out. I parked the truck turned on the 800 and realized I needed to pair my headphones due to my factory reset. I got it done and walked across the driveway took one swing and got a really nice tone (32) ID. It sounded like a silver dollar but I get fooled sometimes. Shovel in and a little pinpointer action and a finger scrape and the goodness showed itself. It was a 1950 Franklin half dollar with a giant nail next to it. I figured it couldn't get any better so I continued to make my way around the big old cherry tree to see what else was there. A hand full of clad and my time closing in, I made it back within 15 feet of where I found the Franklin. I got another really great tone with the same 32 ID. I was wondering what the chances of finding two silver half's in the same day. Well I would say 100% when out came the second Franklin a 1962. It was an amazing feeling knowing I have not dug one of those let alone two in very very long time. Oddly I dig a lot of silver half's but rarely these. Today was apparently a day when the detecting gods pointed me in the right direction.

Took my new/used CTX out for its first hunt. This was a 1935 site I hit hard last Fall with a Nox 600. I was impressed with how the CTX rooted out coins-on-edge and those buried amongst the trash. '16 dime, '46 dime, '44 quarter, and 21 pennies. The '46 dime completed my collection of Canadian silver dimes from '38 to '68. I used the "User" button to cycle between the factory "coin" program (50 tones) and a custom program (5 tones, combined). The soil was wet, full of bottle caps and iron bits. Auto Sensitivity (+3) reduced the number of false signals. Response: "Normal". Target Separation: "Ferrous/coin". I didn't find the CTX's weight overly taxing on my old body. If anything, it encouraged me to slow my swing-rate a bit. Not a bad thing....

Took me 11 years hunting a small grassy resting spot from the 1870’s to find my first and only gold nugget 5.1 gram with the Deus2 at 6-7 inches deep. The closest mines are in Coarsegold California.

Had a Whites DFX for two years and found nothing, purchased a 5000 and first day out found a gram nugget, a few days later found a 11 gram nugget. I got gold fever really bad after that trip, still have that disease to this day.

May 28 2002 The mood at camp this morning is low. However, I am unable to disclose the reason here in my journal. However, we have all had our breakfast and are more than eager to get back to our dig site. All of the crew including Jacob was up at the site today and we sent gravels singing through the tom at a good clip. By day’s end we were bushed and had washed 17 yards of pay. Jacob’s test pans were all looking very good with plentiful gold in them. We will see what the morning brings. We are all ready for a good night’s sleep I think. TO BE CONTINUED ...................

Hello, i’m Andrea and i joined to this forum. Thanks to everyone for the valuable advice. I am part of an association that protects the environment and recovers lost objects. I own different metals: Whites M6, Nokta legend, Deus 2 And Minelab Manticore😉

I got back to Montana a week ago and the weather was great until last night. Hahaha! No gold yet since I have been back but I ended my winter in Arizona with an ounce of gold.

Isn't it possible that concentrating too much on the share price and shareholders' demands is what's gotten them into this mess in the first place? Did they have these problems before they were publicly traded? Putting out three new detectors practically simultaneously sounds like something the greedy shareholders thought would be a great idea, IMO. What could possibly go wrong??!! Just sit back and drown in all the money being thrown our way!

May 29 2002 The morning warmed up quickly and I think it was a hot day for mining. We got 1.3 ounces of gold from yesterday’s work. We headed up to the trench around 9:00 AM. Jacob was saying that this might be the start of the heat but it was a bit early in the season. We will find out that come June things start to get more difficult according to him. If we could just get our permits it wouldn’t be bad for us but as of now there is still no word. We wait as usual. For now, we dig and work the claim by hand just like the old crew did. I sort of take it as a challenge. Can modern man, pampered by equipment to do his work, compete with the old timers who worked so hard to get their gold? I suppose we will find out if our permits don’t come soon. By noon I felt exhausted and was starting to feel the dry, 90 degree day sap my strength. I drank water like crazy to keep up with the fluids draining out of me. None of us had much of an appetite for lunch but we ate a little and hurried back to work. I think stopping was the worst thing to do as it was hard to get back into a rhythm for digging. We stayed with it until nearly 8:00 PM. Even Jacob had got down in the pit with us for a spell. We ended with 15 yards of gravel being washed. The heat had definitely taken its toll on us today. TO BE CONTINUED ..................

It took me about a yr and a change of machines to get my first gold, I was using a mxt pro, and missing a lot of gold since it was very small where I was hunting, was shown a GB2 in action by George D. and over same ground it was getting small grain size nuggets right and left, then I bought my GB2 and first trip out to Yuba River, I got two little pickers (left side of pic), been finding gold ever since. First trip back to Rye Patch and I found 7 nuggets shown over the dime.

Ok, he has to be reading these posts. 😄 His latest video shows some similar things about the 6000 as I was saying in prior posts about desensitizing and staying desensitized. His just caused by EMI, but I know big iron also affects it too and I think he'll discover that soon with more experiments as well. The problem is when the auto adjustments are sticking around rather than being auto readjusted back up when the EMI/iron goes away, and you never know if you're running dumbed down (mine were 3-4" reduced in my brief tests) all day from an auto adjustment event potentially hours prior, because there is no way to check. Trust in a detector is paramount to do good work, this is bad. One EMI/iron event might cause you to run desensitized for the rest of the day? Do we have to reboot every 5 minutes to avoid that? Even after rebooting I was still desensitized sometimes in my brief tests, but that too was unpredictable. It was happening in "manual" too, more problematic. * Bleh, deleted paragraphs of me ranting. It's Minelab. It is what it is. I'm not going to go on another single man crusade to fix yet another thing for a detector which I am just going to retire the first chance I get to get something better anyways. I don't get paid or free detectors, not happy about doing free work for them. People can draw their own conclusions, but I know what I've seen in the field and the 6000 definitely misses a lot of gold well within it's technical range to hit, due to unpredictable adjustments, even when operated by experienced detectorists.

All good, I'm disappointed that thread even exists, I think Minelab detectors are absolutely brilliant, yet the business model they have seems so amateur, they need a massive shake up, someone to come in and take control and turn the place around, am i wrong? their share price certainly agrees. They're absolutely lucky competition has been lacking when it comes to technology until lately as if they really had fierce competition with performance over the past few years I think they'd really struggle. The future will be interesting as competition is heating up and the gold detector market is a fast burning candle that only lasts so long.

I'll take a shot at #2 and 3 above Dig, yes there is a certain type of "synthetic" diamond called a Moissanite that will "fool" this type of cheap diamond tester, I have a similar tester to yours. My wife has some of these lab created diamonds so I can use them for control along with the real one she gave me in my wedding ring, and hers of course. At least CZ's, rhinestones, and Swarovski stuff will test as not diamonds. It's also kind of tough to miss the metal next to a really tiny stone which can give you inaccurate results. I've found that when in doubt I'll visit a jeweler, some are intrigued by detectorist finds and will often evaluate something for free. Of course it doesn't hurt to snag a charm or some trinket for your wife while you're there 😏

I’ve never printed directly from scan data as I’m rarely replicating existing parts. I usually design new parts - but they may mate up to another existing parts, which is where scan data can be helpful as a reference. Mostly though, good old vernier callipers do the job, plus importing front, rear, side, top and bottom photos into the modelling software which can be scaled for shape reference. It usually takes a couple of modifications and reprints to get the final part right.

There are two gold refineries that currently have a good reputation. ARA in Dallas, and Midwest Refineries up in Wisc or Mich, I believe. Both have been paying 90 % + for gold and a little less for silver. I used ARA a few years ago and was pleased and plan to use them within the next week or so. When I last used them they removed the stones and returned them to me. Not being a water hunter, I don't find many gold rings with diamonds. I find mostly mens bands and class rings. I have not had good luck with gold and silver testing kits. The solutions seem to deteriorate with age rather quickly. I've worked up a relationship with a jewelry store that tests jewelry free for me. I toss him a bone now and then and sell him a piece at his low price compared to the refineries. Good luck! HH jim tn

i think it was 1995. i bought a Tesoro Diablo II Gold Demon from Arizona Al who had a little shop in Glendale. as i only had a car, i only got out when a friend of mine with a truck could get out. i think it was about 8 to 10 trips within about a years time i found a 1.5 gram nugget shaped like a small pinto bean. i was out in that area this morning and thought i would give it a look. i have hit this spot a lot with lots of different machines. and was not expecting to find anything. all these years and i have been walking past this .56. it was 8 feet away from the first one i ever found on the opposite side of the wash. it was under 5 inches of old dry washer tailings.

I find myself commenting late, but coincidentally I am buying a 9" after trying the 11" underwater three times. The fact is that it all depends on what you do and what the environment is like. In my case the 11" cannot be exploited because of the high salinity and a smaller footprint might solve that, perhaps with less coverage. Conversely on wet sand there are those who prefer to cover and have more depth with the 13"

Thank you. I didn't want to get in trouble for talking about coin roll hunting on a detecting forum, but in the cold winter months I look through nickel and cent rolls from the bank. A little more than a month ago I found a $5 gold 1911 half eagle coin in a roll of machine wrapped nickels from Loomis. I was over the moon.

Yeah gotta agree, but you dont know this until your an old bull and that`s no bull.... 😉 How many cows?????

Seven years. I got a bit frustrated and paid Ray Mills considerable cash for help. After an introduction session that Fall, he took my buddy and me to a better place that Spring. Over the next few days I found 63 mostly sub-gram "nuggets". My buddy the @@@, fount 79.

Started detecting in the early 70's and was very skilled at old Coins, CW Artifacts, and even found a handful of gold rings . Early 90's (20 yrs after I started detecting for Coin/Relics/Jewelry), I purchased my 1st gold detector (GM-VSAT) and went at least 6 trips to Eastern Oregon trying to find gold. Ended the year with ZERO. Next year I upgraded the detector to GM-III and went to the exact same areas I previously hunted with the VSat. Why? My buddies were finding nuggets with theirs at those same locations. At the end of the year, I have ZERO nuggets. 3rd year of owning a gold detector with ZERO gold nuggets to show for my efforts, I've pretty much written them off and decided to stick with Coin/Relic/Beach detectors. The better half of me (my wife) advised me to attend a class on how to use a gold detector. Say what darling? I've over 20 yrs experience and dug so many coins/relics/rings, even been to England with Jimmy Sierra and killed it on Romans. Why do I need a class? Yes I was a hard-head. That May of about 1994 I paid $100 and attended a half day speaking session at Rye Patch, NV and listened to a gent by the name of Gordan Sahara talk to us about "using gold detectors to find gold". He never did any hands on training with any of us, just stood up and talked and went over the motions with his own VLF detector. I took the guy and his wife out to dinner in Winnemucca that night and listened to him some more. He informed me, I was using my 20+ yrs of success/experience of hunting Coins/Relics/Rings the wrong way and I needed to toss all of that knowledge and thinking out the door. Long story short, I was listening for the wrong things and did not have the right coil control or mindset. How much did I learn from that 1/2 day group session at the burn barrel of Rye Patch? I went home with new hope and fresh mindset and new desires. A couple weeks later, Memorial Weekend I went to Sumpter, OR to the same exact location and dug 13 nuggets in 11 hours. Been hooked ever since. Moral of the story. Get off your hi horse of what you think you know and listen to the folks that are regularly doing it with Success. Watch them, listen to them, study them and hopefully they invite you along some time. Or you can waste so many tanks of gas, flat tires and weekends digging trash. My 20+ yrs of Success...chasing different targets in different conditions and being damn good at it, was my own demise. Along with my upbringing of...I was a young stud Marine USMC back then and so I was taught to have confident in myself and capabilities. You know how the joke goes. - A young bull standing the top of the hill with an older wise bull and they looking down the meadow below at all the cows. The young bull says to the older bull, "hey, lets run down there and have our way with one of those cows". The old bull stretches, sighs and then says to the young bull. "No son, lets leisurely walk down to those cows and have our way... with them all" For gold nugget hunters new to the game, my best advice is find that special person who knows the ropes and continually has success. Become acquainted with that person, buy them breakfast or dinner or etc and get to know them. Maybe, just maybe they might take you under their wing. Be sure to bring them something to the table as many of them are tired of being taken advantage of their knowledge. Good Luck Thanks Mike for posting and hope to see you this summer. Tell Sally I said hello and I'll still impressed to death with that nugget she found at Rye Patch with her GPZ-7000 while we were giving the class.

Worked very well in bad ground, lite weigh housing, Auto ground trac, pinpoint, three tone options, visual target I.D. and depth reading down to 10". I may take this one with me to the After life.

Just thought I would share this with you all, I spotted it today while lurking around. The article is here

Was lucky enough to find an 18 k chain and pendant on my second time out with the Manticore. Chain has a silver pendant and a gold pendant , looks like there was a second gold pendant that has come off. 33 gram with the silver pendant. I have been told that the gold pendant most probably holds a portion of someone's ashes. Found in the wet sand around 25 cm deep. It was the silver pendant that I heard. My guess is that most beach detectors would have heard the silver pendant, but it was nice to get some gold with the Manticore. So far I am really enjoying the Manticore on the beach and in the water. Haven’t had it in fast moving water yet, but it is working great in tidal pools.

Hello. I finally got around to getting an acid test kit and a diamond tester. Here's my questions: 1) One of my rings looks to be marked 10k or 18k. It's hard to say because only about the top 1/3 of the second digit is visible. It passes the 10k and 14k test, but fails the 18k test. Any idea what's up with that? 2) The same ring has 3 small (what appear to be) diamonds. The diamond tester shows them as real diamonds, but is there not a type of synthetic diamond that will pass the diamond test? The link to the diamond tester I used is below. 3) If my cheap diamond tester can give a false positive, by what means do I find out if it's a real diamond or synthetic? 4) I'm cashing in on the gold and diamonds. I'll be sending the gold to a refinery, so if you have any tips about that, please let me know. 5) What do you do with the diamonds, and how the heck do you remove them from the ring? Thanks for reading this. I'm looking forward to the replies. Here's the cheapo diamond tester I used: https://www.amazon.com/Accuracy-Environmental-Protection-Professional-Conductivity/dp/B09W4YR5K8/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3TLT8FUYEVW3V&keywords=diamond%2Bselector%2Bii&qid=1681929497&sprefix=diamon%2Bselector%2BII%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-1-spons&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFEQVMyRFowQkJUVVYmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA2OTk5MzAyRkFZNlJBMEFUMU9LJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA3MzUyODAzOEZVUVhLVkpBN0FWJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ&th=1

What made this unlikely spot a bit more likely than the hundreds like it was an old fence post in a cleared area.. This is on the ocean-side of the lagoon at Horseshoe Bay.. It's a bit of a bush bash getting there but as part of my new mindset: 'You never know until you give it a go' I thought I'd better put my money where my mouth was.. Anyway, the new mindset worked again with a penny, half-penny and six pence (1942-1946) as well as a few 1 and 2 cent pieces and the compulsory bullets.. But what made the new mindset really worthwhile was a little gold ring (22 carat) which rang up as a solid 11 on the Foxy Noxy.. I was hoping for some old silver coins but didn't expect a gold ring..

I was detecting in a yard where the house was built in 1890 late last week with the Deus 2 and I found a mix of modern and semi old items, but nothing from when the house was new. I think the coolest find of the day was a modern Memorial cent that was struck about 90% off center:

I think competition was the reason behind the releases more so than shareholders. The competitors have them spooked.

I borrow a tinny every now and then to get to spots where weekend boaties go to shore for picnics.. Yesterday I was at Youngs Bay, got stuck in the mud at low tide but did find an old picnic spot where I scored a 1928 florin and a few pennies.. I'm the only detectorist left on the island, the other boys gave up because they weren't finding anything.. They blame me for getting up early everyday and hogging the place.. 😄 And yeah mate, I'm keeping a very close eye on your beach.. I follow the creeks which flow into the 'lagoon' looking for those sort of spots.. During the wet season when creeks are flowing there's always people popping up in the most unlikely places.. There's some great secluded swimming holes on the island where I often find bits of jewellery and coins.. Detecting around creeks and swimming holes always make a nice change from saltwater/beach hunting..

The problem is your hand sliding up the shaft into the bottom of the RC. A generous wrap of vet wrap or bat wrap at the top of the handle will stop your hand from sliding up and provides a better grip. JMHO

Has the ability to help eliminate unwanted targets in the first few inches. Mint condition.

I leave some pics of my tesoro outlaw 😆 , i´m waiting for some DD coils i order from Belgium, they are very hard to find for this model in europe, needs to have a 5 pin plug. I´m wainting too for Compadre to try out, orderer from the Netherlands. Thanks to ebay 🤣 Tesoro´s in europe are very rare. Some pics of my companion.

I brought my Compadre Control box almost brand new and that had just had the 5 pin connector conversion and the price was crazy low so snapped that up about 5 years back,mounted it on a spare Tesoro shaft and added the 4'' concentric coil to it,not a great amount of depth with that coil but its target separation and getting around tight spaces what this combination is all about.....must admit its getting used less and less this coil as i am using the 5'' coil on my T2 for the same type of use but its alot deeper.

dogo, I don't know if that's the same place you took me, but regardless I know you have some primo detecting spots as you've proved once again. Did that small area where you found them contain other old coins? I'm wondering if there might have been a concession stand there long ago. Mintages for all Walking Liberties and all Franklins were not much different: 485.3 million vs. 465.8 million respectively. But the time in circulation is a different story. WLH's were still in circulation when in the late 60's everyone was pulling silver from circulation. By ~1970 most silver was gone. The Walkers on average had more time to be lost than the Franklins. The 90% silver Kennedy halves, although only minted for one year, was still close at 429.4 million. But way less time for those to be dropped. If you count the 40% silver Kennedys (1965-1969; leaving out the low mintage 1970-D which was only in sets sold to collectors), there were a lot more of those minted -- 846.7 million. They weren't quite as quickly removed due to their lower silver value. (FWIW I've yet to find any of the silver containing half dollars, only a couple clads.) The same thing seems to have happened with silver dimes: Mercs (compared to Roosies) being in circulation longer giving them a higher likelihood of being lost and subsequently found by detectorists.

Glad i found this metal detector, great machine really. I will make some updates, i will send more pics when it´s all done. I´m waiting for the Compadre too, to modified, i want to be able to switch coils. I think having two detector´s (Outlaw and Compadre) is enough, plus 4 coils, 7" concentric, 5" concentric, Detech 13" Ultimate DD COIL and 8" DD COIL. I was insterested to try out the Cíbola too. But one step at a time.

Nice finds. I like the old Canadian coins and designs. I find a few in northern Michigan. I've got some Canadian LC's. They come out of the ground in mint condition.

A great day to be out prospecting. A little cool, which makes you work a little harder to stay warm. Hit a spot where I had to use a rope to get up and down to my spot. There are still bits of ice floating down the river from the recent ice breakup. I set the Geo Highbanker at about 9 degrees using a 2,000 GPH electric bilge pump. My buddy wants to purchase a Geo highbanker. He is current using a Le'Trap and likes what he sees with my unit.

Is the world ending tomorrow or something.? 🤣

definitely wait for the new X Pointer Max with the Magic Holster, I was lucky to find one and I like it a lot

Thanks for the info GB. Being I was born in '66 it could be about as old as me then. On the bottom it says Tootsietoy Made in USA. Mario Andretti was my favorite driver when I was growing up. There was a Scottish formula driver named Jackie Stewart that was my second favorite. A.J. Foyt was as arrogant as the day is long so I never cared for him.

Thank you Chase Goldman, I have a few nice errors, but looking at coins in detail works better for me when its freezing outside and there is not much else I feel like doing. I have been saving a lot of RPM errors and lamination errors. I did get a nice 1823 half dollar with an ugly 3 error from a bank. That is is another story though, but the best fifty cents I ever spent.

Personally, like many of you veterans, I hunted without a pinpointer for many years and recovered targets just fine. Admittedly nowadays I can't believe that I did without one for so long but the fact is if you keep your search coil near the hole to scan the pile, and you are good at target recovery, you generally won't have much trouble pinpointing. I still remember my first pinpointer, can't recall the brand but it was an early version of the White's Bullseye. It looked like a pack of cigarettes with a stick shoved into it on one end and i think it had a light on it. It worked as I recall. Nowadays I still use my black Garrett Propointer. I have a Carrot but it stays in the box unless I am water hunting. Oh, advice? Practice target pinpointing with your detector and don't depend on the poinpointer to do your job of locating the target. I used to tape a coin on the back of a piece of cardboard and would pinpoint with my detector. Then I would push a pin through the cardboard to see if I was right on the coin or not. You might be surprised to see how often you miss, I know I was. Last thing, I do get a kick out of folks who use their pinpointers to dig. Really?

Love the off-center strike as a detecting find. Back in the day when I was into collecting - I branched off into error coinage collecting as I learned about the 1955 Lincoln Cent Doubled-Die error and some hype surrounding a number of variants of Lincoln Cent doubled-die errors in 1972. So finding a error coin like that detecting would be one of my bucket listers. Great saves.

I have the pretty large 3 D printer. This was a cover model for the Axiom. Doc

Lundy if you have closer photos with washed up coins I might be able to read that...

A used, out of warranty AT Max. A new, 3 year warranty Vanquish 540. A beginner level detector with Bluetooth wireless audio that consumes AA batteries left and right-Vanquish 540 An expert level detector with proprietary wireless audio that also consumes AA batteries-AT Max A simultaneous multi frequency detector that can handle saltwater beaches and moderate iron mineralization very well with little loss of tone or target ID accuracy until targets are at the depth of detection-Vanquish 540. A 13.6 kHz single frequency detector that does just OK at best at saltwater beaches and in moderate iron mineralization that will not have very accurate tone and target ID accuracy on targets that are very deep/at the edge of detection. Depending on the coil being used and ground conditions, the AT Max may be able to hit targets a little deeper than the Vanquish 540. Hitting them is one thing. The Vanquish 540 if it can hit the target may identify it better. Vanquish 540 control box is not waterproof. Coils are waterproof. AT Max is fully waterproof. Vanquish has internal, preset ground balance, a nice iron bias high/low feature, iron audio volume adjustment, very good 2 digit notching, universal controls, nice red backlight and a nice collapsible shaft system and is lightweight enough that it can fit many different sized users. AT Max has ground grab ground balancing, an excellent all metal mode, loud iron audio with no iron audio volume adjustment, good 5 digit notching, backlight, is specifically labeled for english speaking users and for US coins, and it has Garrett's sturdy shaft system. It's a big boy detector.

Think it took me a good 5 or 6 trips and it was .85 of grammar. Then another 3 or 4 trips before I got another one, got a 6 grammar and 3 sub grammars. I was working an old good rush area in the NT, and was getting real frustrated with boot tacks and bullets, but now I look for un worked ground. There is plenty of ground that has gold on it, that is not viable for the big companies. Hooked ever since. Rarely have a trip without at least 1 nugget these days.

Erik have you checked nice sandy boat landing points for picnics around the island. It might not be the best for coins but rings, watches and necklaces could be at these spots and they would not be hit by weekend detectorist. Hope you are still looking after MY BEACH.

It wasn't that they should have delayed the Manticore further, the good business sense thing to do would be to get the coils ready while the detector is getting eady, they seem to have a pattern of doing coils later than detectors in most cases as they don't focus on coils perhaps as much as they should. Big money can be made in coils, very big money as Steve has already pointed out entire businesses with reasonable size facilities and dozens of staff have been built entirely around Minelab not being good at making accessory coils, all this is money they could have had. Many of these aftermarket manufacturers only make coils for Minelab detectors. They decided to focus on releasing a Nox 700 and 900 as well as an X-terra rather than the accessory coils for essentially their new flagship. They failed miserably at it all as they didn't have enough stock of anything and still don't. People have been waiting for 6 months for Manticores they'd paid for, not Minelab's fault entirely as dealers should never take money like that but Minelab are the ones that said it's coming, it will be soon etc so they can't not take some of that blame, and then if they did release them in quantity when for example I got mine everyone would have before Christmas when they expected to get them according to Minelabs marketing, we've all seen the Mark Laurie video where he said we should be able to have them by Christmas, and the marketing image saying they'll be by Christmas. Releasing 20 detectors to marketing people masquerading as "testers" doesn't cut it, these people by the looks of it mostly received their detector when it was a finished product right around Christmas, they were not there to test anything, just to put videos on their Youtubes and Facebooks to help with advertising. I guess by labeling them testers it makes their videos have a bit more credibility than as marketers. I'm just waiting patiently for my coils, the first decent snow fall yesterday so my detecting time slows right down over winter/spring as skiing takes over for a until near the years end so I won't be needing them as much soon anyway. On a brighter note and for a bit of a chuckle my wife just got back from a holiday to Australia, I didn't want to go, but while doing some food shopping she discovered they seem to be confused over in Australia as to what a chicken nugget is, perhaps it's inflation's fault with the looming recession but they're really going out on a limb with this one.

NOTHING is wrong with the Beach modes......... First, the ground was moderately mineralized from looking at the mineralization meter in the lower left of the screen. Second the gentleman was swinging fairly haphazardly with lots of arc on the end of each swing and he often almost missed the targets. So, there is nothing wrong with the Beach programs that I can see. 10. Diving is maxed at 14 kHz, so not the best frequency for small gold under 1 gram depending on shape. This by the way, is where at least on paper, the Excal maxed at 26 kHz has the advantage on Deus 2 and its 14 kHz Diving program. Otherwise.......Deus 2 all day for most gold jewelry using Beach or Beach Sensitive. 11. Beach is maxed at 24 kHz. Definitely more sensitive than Diving at 14 kHz but still won't hit hard on sub gram sized gold. 12. Beach Sensitive is maxed at 40kHz. That will hit most small gold jewelry from 1 gram down to .1 gram that is near the surface and will scream on 1 gram and up gold jewelry. The other modes 1. Gen, 2. Sens, 3. Sens FT, 4. Fast, 8. Gold are all maxed at 40 kHz and will have no problem on .1 and bigger gold jewelry. Only the Gold mode hit that .05 piece really well.....VCO audio helped there. 9. Relic is maxed at 24 kHz which is okay. It will scream on small gold coins or 1 gram and up jewelry at relic sites. 5. Park is maxed at 24 kHz plus it has a default notch from 23 to 36.....right in the small gold range along with Bottle Cap reject set at 5 which may also mask small gold targets. So, default Park for small gold jewelry is highly iffy unless some settings are changed. 6. Deep High Conductor is maxed at 14 kHz.....not for gold basically 7. Deus Mono default at 17 kHz. Not the greatest small gold frequency. Deus Mono is not using XP's FMF technology. It is a throwback, holdover from Deus 1. Target IDs may up or down average a bit depending on selected frequency, on target size, conductivity and the level of ground mineralization. I will not be using that mode very much...... So, in my opinion the Deus 2 in its default settings performed about as expected on different sized gold targets laying on mineralized ground. For the modes that are optimized for gold (40kHz), the target IDs were consistent and so were the audio responses for each target.