Skate

I think you'll be impressed and I look forward to hearing your reports. I also think the MI-6 is freaking brilliant. Mine is 5 years old and works seamlessly with the D2. It's so nice around people to not have the pinpointer telling everyone to look at me for the next minute while I fiddle in the dirt.

Have Fun!

You're lucky your fall occurred at the beginning of your hunt. All those coins would have buried you if that had happened at the end. That is an epic evening and I'm well aware they don't come around like that often. Things are shaping up here up the coast from you as well but we just don't have the mass of humanity that you do in your area to build up those kind of numbers. Congrats on a great day that would really be most peoples months if not year. 

I'm intrigued by the new coil and I wonder if the improvements on the dive shaft in terms of firming things up would help this coils extra weight on the wet sand. I'm hoping someone on here gets it and gives us a report on the balance and weight. I'll take any advantage I can get in the wet sand. 

I haven't seen a price but I'm assuming $400+. That's a lot of money in this economy to experiment with. I may have to wait for the used market to open up on the coil to try it out. 

Gold can warm the heart! Good minus tide today thru Friday afternoon. I sense you need to rest from the sickness that will overtake you around 4pm. Cough, cough, cough. 

2 hours ago, sodbuster said:

My understanding is that the property is the client's.   So they allowed access to recover the ring.   

 

Thanks for the story Skate.    God is good!

That is correct. She is their dog's trainer and unlike the teenager at PetCo teaching your dog to sit Gerrie teaches your dog to protect. The owners allowed me to come on and search for the ring. There was no expectation or promise of monetary exchange. 

God is good for sure! 

6 hours ago, mn90403 said:

Skate,

I know your reputation in SB has to be the greatest.  All of your clients should put together a party for you and invite some reality TV producer.

You'd have us watching.

Mitchel

Haha. Somehow I think there is less to me than meets they eye. 

I've never done drugs so I can't speak to the high but the adrenaline rush of finding a ring for someone has got to be close. 

Thanks for coming along for the ride. On to the next!

48 minutes ago, Matt4gold said:

Always love finding things for people. Please suggest to Gerrie to get the ring resized!  That ring is to valuable to her to loose again.  

We actually discussed that very thing. Lightning rarely strikes twice. 

1 hour ago, strick said:

Nice story Skate and thanks for sharing it with us along with those great photos..I’m sorry but the pirate in me keeps eye balling that gold necklace she’s wearing 😆 

strick

Haha! As a pirate you would have loved the location. You could see all the way out to the Channel Islands from the yard. I felt like the lord of the realm for a few minutes. 

I found the Silver slayer program a couple of months ago and have been using it ever since during most of my hunts. It is an excellent program and what I like the most is that the notching doesn't screw up the tones like notching did on the Nox 800 and I think it's because of the 0-99 instead of the 0-39. I'm no engineer but that's my theory. Anyway, if you are looking to hunt for high conductors it is what you need. If you don't find silver with it it's because you're in the wrong location or you just haven't put your coil over it yet. 

I'm going to use it in an avocado orchard this week that at one time was a labor camp of 30+ homes that is now planted to 30 acres of avocados. I've had to wait until the weather cooled a bit so as to not get bit by a rattlesnake. I want to slay silver, not snakes.

HH

Dave

I'd turn the sensitivity down to around 55-65, operate in Park, two tones and set the discrimination up to 30-35. Surface and 1-3 inch targets will be easy to spot. Identify target, confirm with pinpointer and dig. Do some testing in your yard and see how low you can take your sensitivity because the last thing you want to do is dig non seeded targets that are deeper than 1-3 inches. Bury a dime at 2 inches and see how low you can go before you don't identify it. 

You should do exceedingly well with the D2. 

3 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Thank you Skate! I normally use Square tones but don't really notice the "end" sounds, but when I used a couple of programs that use PWM as stock tones, I noticed more pronounced differences at the ends of targets. So, do you use PWM or Square tones to hear the end sounds?

I'm going to sound uneducated here in that all I use are the stock programs. I don't change the out of the box tones. I use PARK almost exclusively and it's defaulted to two tones, I believe one for iron and one for everything else. This allows me to focus on matching the tone to an ID over and over again and match the beginning and end of each target response to the ID. It's muscle memory for the brain is the way I look at it. 

The only saved program I have used or created is Silver Slayers silver program where you're just cherry picking high tones. It's excellent and I've had a ton of success with it. 

The only other thing I do is decide ahead of time what I'm hunting for, gold or silver and then stick with the plan. If it's gold I only dig good gold tones in gold ranges. Doing this has upped my gold count which is kind of "duh" thing but so many people dig two bottle caps and then quit because it's a waste of time and then they start hunting clad. 

I'm not sure it's a learning curve but more of a tone curve. The D2 is unique in the way it sounds off on a target. I have learned with mine to identify the "end" sounds of targets at least that's how I describe it. To me a coin or a ring has the same sound to the left and the right on my swing. It's like a word that is spelled the same backwards and forwards (palindrome). Identifying targets via tone has helped me limit the amount of junk I dig and I will always dig a couple with awkward tones just to get my mind to connect with the detector at the beginning of every hunt. 

In terms of visual ID in parks I only really get excited when I get a good tone and a number below 50. I've recovered many rings on the D2 and if it's a females ring it's always in the 40's with the best number being 44. 68-72 is the range where most of the mens rings have been that I have recovered. I've yet to pull one in the 80's but I dig every tone 80-86 when searching for gold. 

65 is almost always a pop top. 74-76 is almost always a bottle cap although a really rusty one will hit in the 40's but that's where you can hear it bleed on the end of the swing. 

If you keep digging everything you will eventually get gold and lots of it because most won't dig it. My father in law brags he's been detecting for 40 years but has found only one gold ring and it's because he won't dig anything that might be trash. 

One other thing to do when searching a park is to turn down your sensitivity if it's a newer park. Most targets will be 1/2 to 2 inches deep. Locate with detector, use pinpointer to narrow it down then use a screwdriver to pop out. Also if the grass is bermuda then all objects will likely be shallow as it's root structure goes horizontal and things won't get deep there as it's like a mesh. Fescue grasses the roots grow vertically and that's why things are deeper in those grasses/parks. There's room to sink.

Hope this wasn't too winded and obvious.

Awesome! You are part of a very special club. You got to make a difference in another persons life metal detecting. No better feeling.  

7 hours ago, palzynski said:

I doubt he will sell tons of MTCs over here in France , despite all his marketing videos .. The MTC is simply too expensive at 2000€ for the local inland hunters , knowing the current economical situation with the inflation , the increasing heating costs etc ..  

And knowing that there are many detectors under 1000€ that do the job very well , especially in fields where the targets are close to the surface and dont need ultra high depth performance ..

 

This. The eurozone economy is collapsing based on all reports. For me gas just hit over $6.50 again, up $1.25 in the past week. I love testing and using new tech and am almost always an early adopter but not this time just because of the economy. I can't imagine though what winter is going to be like in places like Germany and France. It's not going to be XP vs. Minelab but rather food vs. heat. 

I've had mine completely submerged in fresh and knee deep in the salt surf and have had zero issues. Just make sure you thoroughly rinse everything after each use and you should be fine.

Also, Michael Oliver has a youtube jewelry recovery site and he has shown many vids of him with the D2 in salt fully submerged. I don't think he's reported any problems. 

I share the same lament about a lack of history where I hunt. Usually my oldest find is an RC Cola bottle cap. Great job on the recoveries. 

Great job! I know what you mean by getting "foiled". It just proves that the only way to get the good stuff is to dig everything. Awesome recovery.

What a great day of detecting. Well done. 

Timing is everything and releasing this in the winter (November to February) in Europe is likely to be a disaster. Most of the European Union has seen and is seeing their energy costs rise by 80-100%. People in Hungary are waiting in lines miles long to buy coal and the Germans are out cutting down trees in order to try and stay warm in the upcoming months. I read last night that 70% of restaurants in the UK may close for the winter or longer due to the choice between keeping things warm and serving food to people who likely won't be coming to their restaurant due to $$. How much of this actually comes true is unknown for the moment but I'd bet that sales will be slow enough that a reduction in price just might be around the corner in 2023. 

Congrats! Always good to get a ring x2 in the scoop. I got out this morning and while it looked “ringy” it was really skunky. 

That's an awesome cap to the story. First you hunted for the ring and then you hunted for the owner. This is worthy of a FOX news special. 

That's a great hunt and that gold ring is sweet. I hope the fake one turns out real for you. 

Sometimes you just miss it. I watch a lot of detectorists swing and truthfully they are lucky to find anything. Their swings are more like a pendulum and rarely scrape the ground. Depth is an issue at the beach and your coil height may be a reason you miss the gold or any other deep object. The other issue on the beach is pace. If your step measures 24" and your coil is 11" and you're walking as you would normally you will miss targets. There will be a gap in your swing. When I detect the beach and get into a coin line or patch of targets I become the old man at the deli, I sample every piece of sand and shuffle oh so slow.