DaveB

Yep. Checked the price on-line for the HF2 coil. Up 10%. If you bought $400 worth of gold in May it would be up more than 10% right now. Back in 2024 I bought a variety of sizes of test gold nugget pieces from Nuggets by Grant. That turned out to be a good investment. They would cost me nearly double now. Let's all go find some more gold. It only takes 0.313 grams to equal $40 now.

I just received an e-mail that my HF coil for the Deus 2 shipped. (Well the label was created according to UPS) So I should have it within a week which will put me right at 6 months from the order date. OCBeepDigger, hopefully your number should be coming up soon since we ordered from the same dealer.

Nice.

Thanks for the updates. So after 4 plus months I sent a first inquiry to my dealer, "XP HF2 coil ordered on May 8. Any news on when you will be getting them in?...." The response was, "Unfortunately, no as the website says we have no ship dates. We are waiting on XP to get us more. I do not know when that will be." That response implies no information or hope for any near term delivery. The dealer is in the top 10 in volume in the U.S. but perhaps that is not big enough. It is more disappointing that XP cannot delivery on these HF2 coils while they are delivering on other products.

Another month gone by. 4+ months total. No estimated delivery date for HF2 coil for me. I see it "sold out" at some places online. In the meantime if there was a tariff uncertainty issue I think it is resolved now. As of September 1, EU tariffs for France were fixed at 15%. Anyone else receive a coil in the past 5 weeks or hear any news on when more HF2 coils are coming to the U.S.?

Greetings from Santa Clarita Tony. Cooler down in Long Beach for doing anything outside right now. Lots of good info and insights in the forums. Enjoy.

8 days made all the difference, April 30 order by Jeff to May 8 when I ordered and paid. If tariffs are the reason, it must be nuanced. I don't hear about other XP product shipments stalled or XP products out of stock at dealers due to tariffs on French made electronics. I see all the other XP products available for purchase with discounts, i.e. business a usual. More power to you guys that got an early unit. Keep working out the bugs for the rest of us and keep reporting on the performance and idiosyncrasies, particularly for HF applications like small gold.

Ping!... Today marks 3 months since I ordered the new HF2 coil. My life is not stalled waiting on an HF2 coil but I did expect it sooner.

Ordered May 8. Close to two months now and still waiting. Glad that those who have them are sorting through software bugs and best use cases evaluation.

Nice to see a delivery Ghostlands. I ordered the HF2 coil here in the US about 10 days ago. Looking forward to more reviews, videos and reports on its use. New tech gear is always cool. Seeing videos on the new Minelab Gold Monster 2000, perhaps with combined PI and VLF, is encouraging. Great to see the big players coming out with new gear.

Greetings Sean M. Looks like you tagged on to my SoCal newbie topic which would match San Diego. Now we have a SoCal subtopic thread on the new member forum. I had a White's Spectrum Eagle in the 90s and it pulled old silver out of my front yard the first week I owned it. Found some interesting artifacts on trails in the San Gabriel Mountains and got the worst case of Poison Oak from fishing out those hidden treasures. Watch out for old Poison Oak leave piles in the So Cal hills! All the best hunting from the mountains to the sand.

Greeting Tom. The only things I can recall about that first machine was that it cost between $40 and $50, it had an open circular coil, probably a simple single frequency VLF, and I paid for it with my own money. My parents home at the time was on a small street behind a church. The back of the church had a graveyard with some grave stones of people that died before 1776. (Lat, Long = 40.707627751636466, -74.54954422948748). Lots of US history in the area.

You got me thinking, so one more non-field surface test. 0.3" of magnetite that comes out of our So Cal mountains. This magnetite is what you get panned down as heavy material from a stream. I placed a 0.03 gram nugget (maybe the same nugget as last time just registering a bit more on the scale?) on top of the magnetite and I was still able to get a nice clear signal at 1" or more above the surface. Picture shown after the test with another dime for size reference and a push button magnet pulling on the magnetite. In the field will be different but this test was still encouraging. I imagine that the new HF coil with the Deus2 will be at least this good.

Hi Chuck - I just got the used ORX yesterday so I have not taken it out in the field or anywhere for that matter. Just surface tests and air tests comparing the Deus2 with 9" coil to the new to me ORX with the elliptical HF coil at 80 kHz. The gold in the picture are test pieces. I didn't expect the Deus2 with 9" coil to work well but I was surprised by the ORX. I have a Gold Bug Pro, but it is loaned out to a friend so I will have to test that small pieces against that when it comes back to me. What surprised me further was I was able get a nice low iron tone on a nail while still getting a nice "find" tone on the small gold pieces with the ORX. Out in the field it could be a whole different story. I am in southern California. I am not particularly a gold hunter or prospector, but I would like to get into it. I am only 5 miles away from the first major gold find in California, 1842 Placerita Canyon, 6 years before Sutters Mill. That area is mostly municipal parks and national monument land now but there is still some private land with streams near the gold bearing area. A retired LA policeman in town has told me that he and his son used to pan an ounce of gold every year out of one creek on the private land, working mostly after heavy rains. My wife does real estate and she sold a house near that creek that had a boarded up horizontal mineshaft that ended in the living room of the cabin that was built into the hillside. There are other abandoned mine shafts nearby and I found an old miner's pick axe head there not long ago.

Started detecting 53 years ago when I was 14 and lived in NJ near structures built before we were a nation. That first detector paid for it self in a few weeks when I found an old dump site in the woods and I dug up many old bottles and other artifacts that I was able to sell to a local antique store and then keep the rest. My most interesting find with that first detector was an old badge that looked like a sheriff's badge but had had the title, "Chief Chicken Inspector" on it. I guess someone was proud to have that job and title a hundred years ago! Been at it off and on, mostly off, during my work life since then. Still working now but hoping to spend some more time detecting and gold prospecting when I finally do retire. Last major time spent hunting was on a family trip to the Bahamas. Get up before everyone else was awake and hunt the beach each morning while it was empty. Lots of coins and a few low value rings and necklaces. Also did some snorkeling hunts with a Nokta Pulse Dive and some requested hunt help for people that lost things in the sand. Happy hunting! - Dave