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27 minutes ago, Bill (S. CA) said:

With that being said, I really do like The Legend in the wet.  It has no water wash/falsing issues as far as I have seen.

What is your black sand content there????   Where I hunt, we are really going to test the Legends ability in black sand. 

48 minutes ago, Bill (S. CA) said:

The bottlecap reject on The Legend has me a bit befuddled.  On shallow caps, even at 0, the caps read wacky and have a different sound.  However, at depth, even at a max of 8, they still read and sound good.  The Equinox and the Apex (with its iron audio) are vastly superior to The Legend at id'ing bottlecaps at depth.  I have to play more with this but as of now I'm digging way too many bottle caps.

If that Legend gets to the beach, I will consult to you Bill on some initial settings. Bottle caps is one item I never worry about.  It will be all about gold testing in the wet sand [especially chains] and how the detector handles the transition from wet sand to water. If it all works out, we should have the Nox 800 and 900. Deus2, Manticore and Legend!  Buckle>UP! 

2 hours ago, mn90403 said:

Tighter does not make it better but can provide an additional stress point for breakage near the coil itself.  It is for this reason I think that Minelab should have made longer more flexible ears that can withstand some user overtightening.

For me personally in regard to beach hunting. I like my coil ears locked down TIGHT! 

5 hours ago, phrunt said:

I've decided I'll get one the next time a second hand one pops up in the price I think is good,

There is a good possibility a friend is bringing the Legend to the beach in August. If so, we will put it through many tests to see how it fairs and I will do a little write-up.  

12 minutes ago, bklein said:

Yes I’ve been reading such content with google.  I don’t understand what protection there really is and haven’t come across anyone using it.  
 

I guess no one takes a chance with it - and sellers can get scammed too.

Your protection would be your credit card too. 

20 minutes ago, bklein said:

Sure but I want to know if the ads are legit or not - if OfferUp is legit or not. I have other interests besides detecting and buy stuff like camera lenses and music instruments from people.such ads if bogus do not exist on eBay long. They stay on OfferUp for months.

From google:

OfferUp is a legitimate platform, but all sellers on it are third-party providers, which means the platform is not responsible for any transaction that happens off-site after connecting to the app. Consider buying from (and selling to) verified OfferUp profiles to reduce scams.

4 hours ago, Daniel Tn said:

What in the heck doesn't make you sleepy or yawn?  I don't think I have ever saw you post something in a positive light in regards to an announcement.  

Could be? Guess I am not one to fall for company hype.  I am one of those "show me" kind of people.  

15 minutes ago, Dave johnson said:

I finally made contact with the lady that lost the class ring

Gosh, she is hot!!! 

5 hours ago, Compass said:

Unfortunately, you are probably right but another option may be for me to say, "No thanks, I'll will buy a brand-new, waterproof Nokta for that price."

You may be disappointed in small gold chain performance with that Nokta.
While I have not tested one, I can say my D2 would have struggled with a chain like that. The Equinox and Manticore are the best chain killers out there. 

18 hours ago, Rattlehead said:

The one thing that really irritates me about my Deus 2 is how fiddly it is to connect the charging cable to the remote.

Gosh, and here I direct all my cuss words at charging the coil. 

13 hours ago, Compass said:

They reminded me that my detector is no longer under warranty so we will see what my options will be.

You only option will be an offer for a new pod at about $400 bucks.  

VERY impressed with that small gold chain!!!! Nice Work! 

Garrett. Their line-up makes me sleepy. 

1 hour ago, Dan(NM) said:

Gonna go hunt a freshwater beach that produced very well with the Nox using Park 1 . I'm trying to get an idea which program might help in finding smaller gold rings or earrings. Any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks

4 hours ago, JCR said:

Clever way to drive home how important using quality Headphones is.

How many decades have I been saying this?  

9 hours ago, stateguy said:

Anyone have settings they want to share. 
I feel mine is falsing a lot and can’t tell if it’s a deep target or it’s a false target. 
 

Is this Salt water or fresh water? 

XP is making me sleepy and bored. 

Awesome find! Looks high in in gold value, 22-24k?

17 hours ago, Deep Beeps said:

Thank you!.... Thats just what Im in need of after being off the D2 for a year now.

Got it. I thought I had read you were using it on the beach.🤷‍♂️

Beach sensitive is a clear winner of the beach programs for gold chains. If you are going to use a program out of beach modes make sure you are not handicapping your ability to find gold chains 

3 hours ago, Deep Beeps said:

Lots of nails from pallets that get burned.

If the Deus 2 did not suffer from Iron-wrap around. One would not have to worry about this!   

4 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Would you water hunters use something like this?

Only if it kept sand and black sand out 100% 

I am not a fan of coils that are not OEM.   So no aftermarket coils for me. 

8 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

I thought I would put out some price points for popular Simultaneious Multi-Frequency (SMF) metal detector accessory coils, and coil prices

Eyeopener..... Thanks

3 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

saved it to that program and for half the hunt I used it. Noticed Chase was finding a lot more stuff than me, so I turned it off and I started finding stuff everywhere in the dry. 🤔 

Full disclosure, I never hunt the dry sand unless asked to find something. 100% wet sand/water contact. 

14 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Here's my observation; I found that audio response causes the detector to make a lot of extraneous noise if auto tracking is turned off. Turned it down from 5 to 3 and it got a lot better! It ran really quiet most of the time until I got over some black sand

I am not sure why that would be. As a dedicated beach hunter, I run tracking GB with EVERY detector I use. 

The key to beach success is doing depth testing on your location with gold. I fear turning audio response down has a severe negative effect.
Also, if you have pockets of black sand [like I do] without question you are losing performance if not using tracking GB.   

1 hour ago, bigtim1973 said:

Lol....was the ws6 crappy I got from you??

LOL.  Don't know?  How are your eyes?  Do you have sausage fingers?