Deft Tones

That's a nice ring. Silver is treasure no matter how it's sliced. Do you think the stone is glass? Genuine sapphire maybe? Congratulations.

Guy on Tnet says the new coil won't do better than 5" on a wheat cent with any setting. Anyone else own one to provide insight, verify his experience? http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/deus/546676-first-thoughts-review-new-xp-deus-elliptical-coil-2.html#post5461297

Getting to be lots of crazy in the world! This story makes me so angry. I'm teaching my boys to do the right thing and act to defend victims of bullies...so they need the tools, which is why they must go to jiu jitsu classes. I've explained to them they better enjoy it (they do) because there is no choice for them. I'm not sending snowflakes forth into the world... hopefully they'll pass along to their children. Stand up for the rights of the minority, protect the weak, young and old, do what is good and right within your understanding - Be men! While detecting, I never allow strangers to enter my 5 foot personal space. They advance, I circle for an angle while back-stepping. I've even ordered a guy who was a bit strange acting, "Take your hands out of your pockets when you talk to me!" That pretty much ended our conversation within seconds. I'll close the distance if/and when I feel comfortable enough. When they're intruding on my life and time... only within my comfort level and at my discretion. Thankfully our state recently passed a stand your ground law. I'm no longer obligated to retreat anymore. Punks beware!

Sometimes I'll lock my keys inside the truck, but there is a keypad for entry so it's mostly safe to do that. Perhaps a keyless ignition with exterior security pad would be the ticket. I might look into that myself.

I tethered mine to my lifejacket. When hiking/detecting it's clipped to the bag and sits in a side pouch. Never had it fall out of the pouch yet, but having it clipped to the bag has saved me from making a trip back to a resting spot. Same with fishing poles - tethered to the canoe unless in use...everything tethered I don't want to lose. Learned an expensive lesson the hard way once. I know what you're saying. Just stash the box (or pvc, glass jar, pringles can, etc) on or near the truck. All problems solved except accidential discovery by a stranger. And I have done just that at certain places... But what if someone was watching you stash the container? I feel best/safest keeping valuables on my person.

So now the brand is called Quest.... a name selected from a botched "detector naming" competition at Tnet. lmao! Only in reality....

Nice ring! From things I've read, you can't find gold with a CTX! What a fluke! Congratulations on breaking the dry spell.

Otter Box Drybox. Used one for a canoe trip to protect remote starter/keys, wallet, and phone. Worked like a champ. Still waterproof and used 2 years later.

Don't post any pictures taken on location with any device that has GPS if you want to keep that spot to yourself. Too bad about the idiots raining on your parade. Par for the internet I suppose. Keep on stacking those nuggets!

Can't wait to see the final tally.Congratulations!

Both choice finds. Congratulations. That's a nice hunk of silver to make you smile.

I was asked a similar question once. A guy storms across the park right to me... "Is that legal?" I laughed in reply, "Everything is legal unless prohibited by law!" I don't think he understood, but he went away.

Steve got my like at the first and second sentence. It's easier to ask forgiveness than ask permission. And for the lock - intent. I've been investigated and prevailed.

Thank you GB Amateur. It always takes more time for these posts than it should because I create and peck them out on a tablet using the touch screen qwerty board, and with the unavailable to anyone Photoshop touch for Android devices.... it's painfully slow. There was more detail I intended to explain when I started, but time curtailed that when I accidentally closed the nearly completed images without saving...Doh! I am happy the effort helps someone. Kind words, Sir. Thank you.

I don't know if it would help, I assume it would, but it probably will not hurt it.

Sorry this is kind of off topic...but it's pertaining to the magazine cover design. My review of it. It's bad. Looks like somebody went Photoshop amateur with that cover. Jeesh! So much wrong here...poor and inconsistent use of strokes and drop shadows, a wannabe-cute attempt at a water drop effect overlaying the entire page... lol! Look at the left column... cool (as in temperature color) background with neutral grey text stroked with black outline combined with a poorly rendered water drop effect, it's causing parts of the text to be difficult to read. Then to throw down drop shadows... look around you blind man, shadows are very rarely neutral black in real life. Try selecting a black with a cool blue hue, duh... or drop the transparency to <10% to lose the cheap tabloid look. Ditch the difficult to read grey text on blue background for either a complementary or analogous color to the background color. Look at the text in the right column... primary red with a primary yellow stroke/drop shadow/offset mash-up abortion of design on the first line... whatsupwiththat! Second line just stroked with yellow. Third line, "Shipwreck", back to more wtf is that? Is that a lens flair filter applied to the tag line below the title... too funny! I hope somebody didn't pay for this work. Thanks for posting this...heh.

Thanks. Yes, olive oil is what I have it in. 6 months! Sheesh, I'll peek at it around christmas I guess, lol.

That's true. What's also true is that this month we both found no gold, I just worked harder not finding it, lol. I hope the coming month of July is good to you.

Finds first for the TLDR people. As the finds in my current primary patch dwindle in numbers from being worked heavily the past two years, I'm scouting for a new primary patch to begin working. Using the criteria and method outlined in a previous post, I've located a very good location that is certain to hold gold, silver, and more. Today will be my first time boots on the ground at that location and I'll walk the reader through it along with my scouting method. Maybe it will help someone and provide insight or encouragement. Here is the sat. view 5 playgrounds, one skate park, basketball, tennis, two soccer fields, two softball fields, two shelters, one former 1890's to 1950's church location on site. Here are my paths while scouting. Deus in red, V3i in green. So, from the sat. images there are many hot-spots to strike, and I won't try to get them all as this is a long term prospect, and I only desire to determine 3 primary things today. 1. Pressure - hunting pressure from other detectorists. 2. Trash composition and density. 3. Presence - Is there jewelry where I expect it to be. Deus gets the top spot today as it's the ideal scouting unit. Light, fast, great tones to read the trash. From the parking lot I begin and move to the skate park since it's close and can hold silver and junk jewelry along with lots of coins. Foil seems to be the primary trash along the way, and around the skate feature the aluminum kicks in - light can slaw and tabs primarily. I can hear lots and lots of coins, zinc and copper cents mostly, but a healthy quantity of dimes as well. I select a few targets I know are quarters and pennies, then intentionally sample some of the larger better sounding trash before moving on. The primary traffic flow from one side of the park to another is divided by a slight drainage ditch with the easiest pass being on either end... and people naturally take the easiest route, so I do too. Pennies everywhere! Zinc mostly, healthy dose of copper, decent selection of dimes, quite a few quarters...light trash mostly foil and ferrous bits... but I keep on moving through without digging a single target. Not interested today. Moving to the goal at the primary soccer field I work my way over to the nearest corner, then down the sideline to mid-field before cutting over to the center. Then I work my way to the opposite goal before coming around the back net. From there, and because of its close proximity to the goal, I briefly enter the playground before hitting the nearest corner of the soccer field diagonally opposite from the first corner I hit. Quarters everywhere! I decide to spend some time here sampling, cherry picking the best sounds. Within 10 minutes I found the heart pendant necklace. Jewelry confirmed, nice. So I pause, crank up the notch to 93 and take all the quarters before moving on. Erasing the notch I notice an area of the playground is different. Something was removed and not replaced. I suspect one of the super dangerous merry-go-rounds that children today get no experience or joy from used to be there. Clad everywhere....move on. Swing-set looks vintage so I check that and the mostly abandoned softball backstop area nearby. The trash picks up and bottle caps start to appear below the coil. I dug a first (for this park) beavertail ring pull, nice...a sign there might be some silver coins lurking around here. I'm getting hot by now so start thinking of shade and where to find some. It's scarce, so good places to concentrate. I mentally discriminate everything but quarters. Lots of nice signals, lots of trash and rusty caps. So far this is the trashiest area and I'm impressed it's not worse. Out of water and thirsty, I head back to the parking lot where I started, taking any quarters I come across. There are so many coins around it's obvious to me this park has never been heavily worked over by much of anyone in a long time, if ever. This place is a clad mine. Exactly how my current patch started out! I switch out units for the V3i and head towards the nearby secondary soccer field goal. I work one small corner of the goal net taking everything in a 6 foot diameter...clad and tabs mostly. Then I work right down the field towards the only clump of trees between the two fields and casually work the area randomly, still cherry picking signals but expanding the range down below zinc cents a little plus taking all nickel range targets as I find them. Getting tired and hot I'm thinking of wrapping it up so I head out to the sideline and try to find the trash zone where people sit and spectate. There isn't much trash to detect so I decide to just pick a line inside the playing field and take everything not obviously trash out of the ground. As I reached the corner of the field the silver ring shows up. Someone threw the ball into play and lost a ring perhaps. Now we're talking! Satisfied with the mission I walked off and swung over the curb area near the parking lot to get a feel for the trash there, too. With light to moderate trash, tons of clad signals, two pieces of jewelry - I have all the intel I need to know that this park is going to produce a few gold items, eventually. I'm hesitant to give 5 stars so we'll rate it at a 4 plus star park, IMO. Next hunt the tedious process of clad layer removal begins, oh, joy. Thanks for your time. Good hunting.

It's not only beaches but parks, too! If I'm not in the mood to socialize I'll start signing in American Sign Language with a normal resting face - wearing headphones! Most people are utterly confused and walk when I do that. And the comments...lol.

Yeah, when I take a look at the whole.... my knees and wrists ache! Lots of squats in this picture, lol. I love/hate the junk jewelry. Love knowing that nobody else is angling for gold and confirming I'm in the correct locations, hate the fact it comes out of the ground with less value than a zinc coin spill. At least I can Coinstar most of the zinc. Thanks, and good hunting.

I use zero discrimination 95% of my hunts and then the other 5% I'll notch out everything above zinc trying to locate the gold. Mostly this month I used the 10" D2 on the V3i and 11" on the Deus. Probably 2/3 of the finds in the picture were taken with the V3i because typically I'll swing it for 4 hours or more then switch to Deus for two hours while I rest my shoulder. The large chains sounded solid and pretty good, actually. The gold plated chain wasn't balled up that much and because I didn't circle the signal I cut it into two accidentally. The silver plate chain was half balled up at one end and sounded like a mostly solid can-slaw or coin-spill signal. Both were found less than 5 inches in depth.

Poorly in the standard coil flavor. It's just OK in the dry salt sand but performs poorly in wet salt sand. My experience was at Daytona for 7 days this year... that's my total saltwater experience. I brought the Deus, V3i, and Sovereign GT. The Deus got less than 3 hours use it did so poorly in comparison. I ended up rotating between the other two, with the Minelab being the deepest even though I have less than one hundred hours on it, no prior salt beach detecting, a stock 10 coil only and a larger coil for the V. Get an Excal or Sovereign for Daytona at least.

The old faithfull patch where I found the 2 cent coin is still giving up the odd piece of silver jewelry and silver coins and wheats now and then, plus junk jewelry. Some of these rings and pins come from the school patch I work a few times in the evenings. Today I hit a four star park I never hunted before but have been eyeballing for a few years, so couple pieces from there in the picture. I took photos of that hunt because it was a scouting mission with good results. I'll post about it when I get more time. Not much remarkable, IMO. No gold yet... worst drought yet.

Silencer filter kills depth. It also causes loss of subtle tone variations when in full tones mode. I always keep it off unless I forget while making changes on the fly. And yes, it is super annoying XP couldn't divorce the reactivity settings from the silencer filters.