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It sounds like you have a good site to learn on. The Legend will do well for you with just stock settings to begin with. The 6" LG 15 coil will be a big help. I will suggest working the edges of the busy areas until you gain some confidence. Dig any solid signal that is not obviously large. You can gage this by lifting the coil up & sweep above it. Large items will still respond well past what a coin size object will. The main thing is to have fun while you learn. It won't take too long before it all starts making sense. There will be some good finds there, the best will be within yourself. Keep us posted.

Entrances and exits, wooden porches or decks, alongside driveways where people get in and out of cars, and back fence lines. If you find a suspect out house, check around it and in a line to the back of the house. Old tree stumps present the possibility of rope and tire swings, or shade for picnics. I realize old maps won’t necessarily give all this information. But if you know the layout of the road in relation to the house, you can get an idea of front versus back (outhouses in back), and where a side driveway might have been. Also, older houses didn’t have air-conditioning so front porches (and decks) were a high traffic area for keeping cool and talking to neighbors. Probably a lot of nails but also the odd coin which slipped through the boards. Do you have a recovery speed control on your detector? I also like to have a cow magnet in my trowel handle for quickly locating the odd nail. Depending on your capacity for tedium, you may want to take small bites out of the trash areas and then go relax in other areas. Of course, if you find a couple good targets buried in the trash, that can ratchet up your tolerance for the racket. Good luck, and post some finds here!

The first time I used my new 13"X11" coil was September 7th 2023. Since then the number of silver coins and jewelry that I have found in a period of 21 days at public park turf sites, no beaches, on ground that I have hunted extensively with Deus 2 using the 9" coil is staggering at least for me. I have not hunted all 21 days either. My hunt log shows 12 hunts with Deus 2 using the 13"X11" coil. Here in Colorado, finding lots of silver coins in a public area means getting extremely lucky as in there has been some soil disturbance like installing a new sidewalk, play structure, trees or flower beds in a park. Or a change in detector/coil has achieved more usable target separation and depth. None of these silver items were found in areas with recent soil disturbances. They were all found deep in moderate to high iron mineralized undisturbed for many years dirt between 7" and 10" deep. Some had very iffy but clearly high conductor target responses with some iron responses mixed in. Others were no brainer, has to be a deep high conductor coin or jewelry responses. I have not dug an equal amount of iron trash by the way......maybe 6 or 7 bent nails. I was one of those people that wanted the 9" coil to be sufficient due to its outstanding ergonomics. Clearly at least for my area, it isn't.

Hello friend of mine Frank C guided me to this site I'm looking for info on the best coil for GPX 6000 the moment I only have stock coils but I'm looking for something more quiet and hopefully deeper thanks for any info Steve

I haven't posted much in the way of finds the last year or so. It's not that I don't want to share with others what I've found. It's just that a lot of the time it ends up compromising a site that me and my hunting buddies have spent hours and hours researching, getting permission and making multiple recon trips to. Now that I feel like we've pretty much cleaned this site out, I think I can safely post some of the finds for others to enjoy. It all started in April of last year. First trip we made I used the Equinox 800 and 30 minutes into the hunt I knew it was going to be a great site. Literally the 3rd target I dug ended up being an 1852 $2 1/2 gold coin. Below are some pictures of my finds. We made about 4 trips to the place in total and I'll make some other posts at a later date showing what else I found. That's about all the information I'm going to give about the site.

Nice finds and you cleaned up the earth a wee bit also.

This will be the best money you spent if you ever nugget hunted before. It’s the best money you spent if you got a new detector you have yet to use it in the field.. If you have the pleasure of making the trip if you will please post it here for all to read . Chuck

Beautiful History save Glenn and so glad your efforts came through. Part of when I enjoy about metal detecting, is doing research to find a site. Then spending the time to actually locate the site you want to hunt. Eventually you get to swing the site and each of us have a particular item we are wishing to discover. In your case, a token with the town name. What a feeling of euphoria it is when all comes together, and that little piece of history is sitting in the palm of your hand. Well earned.

Many options out there now. If you want Simplicity of Turn ON and Go. Get a GM-1000. It lacks some of the fine tune features most all other higher kHZ VLF models have and it's literally is made for a No Brainer - anyone. If you are a White's fan, the improved GMT (Gold Master Tracker) is very similar to the actual running of the old V-Sat. If you prefer the most updated White's model, the now called Garrett 24K is the way to go. Now if you desire to also hunt coins/beaches for jewelry, go with Minelab Equinox 800/900 as it does it all quite well. Either way, sorry to hear of the loss. I surprised the Insurance company is even giving you any value for the 25+ yr old V-Sat. You can pick them up used for around $150 to $300. Glad to hear you are getting excited again and hoping to see some pics of success posted soon.

Gerry, You and your field staf always do a very good job helping folks learn their detectors saving perhaps months or years of trying to learn on their own. I have taken the class you offer, very much worth it.

I am hunting for sensitivity 30 with a 17" coil ..... 11" I use in the surf zone or underwater search. I use EMI detuning to compensate for the ground .... the device is quiet - if there is noise, I play detuning from electromagnetic interference. You are moving in the right direction..... if you reduce the number of turns in TX a little, the sensitivity to small targets should increase .... if you increase the number of turns a little, the depth for larger targets will increase. There is no time to rework the sensor - as soon as I have the opportunity , I will improve the characteristics of the detector .

Beach hunters need salt sensitivity control for even greater depth.

i would say $ 500-600

After chatting with F350 and hearing his experience with it, I went and got one. Not disappointed. The coverage is excellent of course, I had some concern about the weight after mostly swinging the 9" coil for several years but it really hasn't been a problem. Mostly impressed with how well it still separates in iron, even at the lower Reactivity settings.

I also own the 3 coils. On very hot soil 11x13” fails because can’t detect the little and very low conductor target (I always use in tests on hot soil) in the bottom of a 9” hole while 11” and 9” passed the test with flying colors. In open fields (neither plowed nor mineralized) and on the beach/shore I’d use the 11x13” for its big coverage.

I have the 9", 11", and 13x11". I bought the 11" because the 13x11 was not out. A week later one became available and I bought it. I'm glad I did. I have not taken the 13x11" coil off my Deus 2 since I got it for the most part. Now that the WS6 can have almost all the same settings as the D2 remote, the 9" resides permanently on my original XP shaft with the WS6, and the 13" on my SteveG CF shaft with the D2 remote. Most of the year I have the waveguides attached, but take them off when I'm going to be in the field. I use the 13" everywhere, the beach and fields and campgrounds I hunt. I've used it in the water but prefer the 9" for that, and I have rigged up a waveguide to the WS6. If I plan on going submerged in water I'll use the 13". I agree with Jeff that the pinpoint isn't all that great, but by X'ing with the coil I can pretty much nail the target, if off center it is either iron or aluminum. The 9" is faster for retrieval but the 13" goes a bit deeper and covers more ground quickly. Its ability to find even small targets is fine. About the only thing it isn't great in is field stubble, but neither is the 11". I did some comparisons between all 3, and also weighed them against my Equinox 600 with a 10x5" coil. The SteveG rig with the 13" is just a bit lighter! The WS6 Master setup is insanely light. It only took a short time to get used to the 13", but I recommend a carbon fiber shaft to use it with. Get spare bolts, you will break them occasionally. I keep them in my finds bag. The coil's off center mount is not optimum for stability. I tried centering devices but broke more bolts. It will flop a bit, but I'm so used to it now it's no big deal. I do not regret buying the 13x11 at all, and really don't regret buying the 11", but it's kinda a "case queen". I keep it charged and bring it on trips in case something goes wrong with one of the other 2.

I just have the 9" and 13X11" so I can't compare the 13X11" to just the 11". I can say that the 13X11"at 668 grams (1.47 lbs) is much heavier than the 9" at 448 grams (0.99 lbs.) and it certainly feels heavier on the stock shaft. Coverage is fantastic using the 13X11" and so is its ability to get through taller grass just by its sheer mass. I haven't used the 13X11" at a beach yet. The 13X11" that I have been using has been finding deep US silver dimes and deep wheat pennies that were missed by me with the 9". No doubt about it. Whether the 11" would have missed those compared to the 13X11"......no idea. Separation is still excellent using the 13X11". The onboard pinpointer function is not as accurate when using the 13X11" compared to the 9" I am using version 2.0 software. The 13X11" has been a good purchase for me so far.

No idea how much depth is lost, but if you're not having issues with iron falsing best to not turn it on.

I was reading through the video comments on Youtube today and noticed that Gary asked, "Who was the mystery detectorist, Post below". Someone replied, "Monsieur Alain Loubet" and Gary replied, "Bingo!", so it was a friend of his. Very clever, Mr. B! 😎

15" hits fairly small gold well (not tiny nugget) in Goldfield Mode at end of video.... 7 and a 1/2 minute video by Iffy Signals:

I've been experimenting with this and am having positive results.

Those are sounds that I often hear 60 miles north of you if I am running sensitivity and audio response too high. Back when I was doing a couple of nugget testing videos, I had several good intentioned people tell me the reason that my Deus 2 was not hitting small nuggets was because I had my audio response too low. This video by Paystreak is a good example of possibly what to do and what not to do in high iron mineralization. Keeping sensitivity under control, possibly slightly raising reactivity above 1 or 1.5, and slightly lowering audio response to 3 or 2 at least and maybe doing multiple ground balances are the best ways for me to not go crazy from hundreds to thousands of audio responses during a hunt on supposedly "clean" ground that is actually full of natural iron particle concentrations that are big enough to fool many high gain VLFs.