ColonelDan

Good ending to your year soldier.  👍

Perhaps a good adventure trying to find the original owner.

You are one persistent detectorist and I salute you sir.

Nice finds reward your effort indeed.

👍🏻

Very productive “last hunt” before Christmas!!

😊

I salute your tenacity and dedication….those were long days!  
Good job soldier.  👍🏻

Hi Square…Why?  .Nothing complex or technical….Purely a matter of personal preference.

Great report on a great hunt!!!👍🏻

A truly great day of detecting!   Super job....👍

Love ingenuity!!!!   👍

Great review Bob.  Thank you.  I too thought it would be impossible for me to carry my detector in my left, the scoop in my right and my phone in my "third hand". 😅

I see the value for me being registering my finds with time, date, lat/long, depth, TID  and photo.  Having said that I'm still more than a novice with this new tool right now.  More later.....

That’s super Bob….👍🏻.  That will be exceptionally helpful to all those who use the WS 6

Good job soldier!!!!

I'll certainly give it a try.  Looks very well thought out.  🙂

8 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Thanks for this work, Colonel. 🏆 I'm pretty used to the menus after almost two years of owning the D2, but I'm sure I'll be using it as a quick reference from time to time.

Another thought would be to do one for the WS-6, it's both equally complicated and confusingly different 🤔

Thanks.  I’ve never used the WS-6 so I’ll leave that project to someone else.😉

In my transition to Deus after decades of using Minelab detectors exclusively, one of the challenges I personally encountered as one of the newest Deus users, was learning where all the functions and sub-functions were located within the relatively expansive Deus menu!  I often thought that a published menu tree would have been very helpful for the then 70 year old brain.    Since there was no menu tree in the user manual, I decided to build one of my own but only after becoming very familiar with all the menu options.  I then decided to do this somewhat differently than just the conventional menu tree format we've all seen in the past.  I would build two.  One would be the familiar conventional format while the other, the Function Index, would list all the functions and sub-functions in alphabetical order along with their locations naturally.    Using these trees in conjunction with the user manual that explains each function,  I felt would be helpful to new Deus users especially.  Below are the Menu Tree and the Function Index.

Deus Menu Tree 2.pdf Menu Function Index 2.pdf

Good job soldier...love that 2 cent piece.  👍

Congratulations.  That coin looks to be in XF -AU condition 

Nice!  Your persistence pays off yet again.  😊

On 10/15/2023 at 10:08 AM, Digalicious said:

Yep.

...and you'll still dig a lot of whatever you notched out, because of the TID change due to condition, depth, and orientation.

In other words, the notching avoids a very particular aluminum dig, only to trade for a different aluminum dig. So nothing has actually been gained, and gold is missed.

Granted, a notch would be beneficial if all of the site's aluminum trash only had one TID lol.

Yep,  particularly true on the beaches I hunt.  

Good job Bob!   Karma coming your way for sure.  🙂

Over the years, I’ve experimented with notching even though I knew what the answer would be.  I just tested various notch settings with a variety of aluminum to include a variety of pull tabs due to curiosity and maybe a degree of boredom when I couldn’t get to the beach.  😊

The results of my testing did not surprise me.  As posted above, aluminum can register in a range of VDIs depending on several factors.  What was obvious also was that pull tabs are somewhat like bottle caps in that they are not all alike in composition ergo they cannot be pigeonholed into a specific VDI or even a narrow range of VDIs.  
 

Bottom line of all this… like others have said, “If you want the gold, ya gotta risk digging the tabs”

Just the conclusion from my boredom driven experimentation…..😂

Great job soldier!!  😄

a lot of digging for sure....and well rewarded!  👍

Relic may suit your needs in really dry sand but I stay with a modified Beach Sensitive anywhere close to wet salt sandy beaches....and wet salt sand is about all I hunt.

Just the experience from my beachy foxhole.....😄 

Great adventure!  Excellent report.  I agree, the D2 is the best beach detector I've ever used since 1970.  👍

Wow!  Great job.  Very profitable to experiment with this machine.  It's really something.