Deft Tones

Seems he may have a bad coil. Another 5x9 owner has posted his results and it's much better. 

Does 5" air test on a wheat cent at 14khz sound normal for a 5"x9" DD coil?

I assume that must be acceptable.

The 4x6 sharpshooter paired with my V3i hits coins, but just barely, out to six inches air testing 3 frequency, but I have never dug a coin that deep in the field that I can recall. I would expect at least the same from the new coil air testing at 14khz, or whatever the lowest frequency is.

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.

6 hours ago, Jim in Idaho said:

The Otter Box is fine, but what do you do if it ends up floating down the river? The idea of hiding the keys at the vehicle is that is where they're needed. Having them in the Otter Box while floating the river is no different than having them in your pocket while hiking around....if they end up lost, your vehicle is worthless for getting you home. Just sayin'.

Jim

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.

2 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Does olive oil work on nickel coins (copper-nickel alloys) also?  I found an 1867 Shield with rays a couple weeks ago and it's pretty crusty, having likely been in the ground for over a century.

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.

1 hour ago, Swampstomper Al said:

. Some times it's simply about perspective n has nothing to do with what one did or didn't get.. Will gladly trade you month's...

Swamp

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. 

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.

10 hours ago, strick said:

Thats a lot of digging for sure. Nice work. I really hate junk jewelry because there is so much of it. Never know what the next target is going to be and thats whats keeps us going. Good luck and thanks for posting! I've got a nice hot wheel collection going as well!

strick

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.

9 hours ago, tvanwho said:

what did them chains sound like, broken signals, solid hits ,or something else? How much Disc are you using and coil size,etc?

 

-Tom

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.

3 hours ago, MontAmmie said:

Nice find!  I like the look of those Deuses (sp?).  How does it handle salt water?

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.