midalake

I have zero experience with Canadian Clad. But did extensive testing with the Manticore and Mexican Bi-metal pesos. The Manticore is unique because you can use notches in very narrow iron windows. Testing in your conditions is the key. My goal was to see if the manticore would separate the 1-2-and 5-peso coin. On the bench the Manticore did a great job of putting the 2 and 5 pesos in one notch and the 1 peso in another. However, when in real conditions the one peso shifted into the same notch as the 2 and 5 pesos. No matter how much I tried to tweak it. I could not get any separation on these coins. HOWEVER, I could separate them from other iron with great confidence. Using those upper and lower-level iron notches on your particular coins and live testing will tell you what is possible.

Beat me to it.

Amen.....Did I say Amen? Give me a big, AMEN! 😎

If he would ever stick his experiments on a Salt Beach one finds out that it will make a bench test/air test rendered useless.

You are 100% correct. The level of depth is not affected for the targets out of discrimination on a D2. Although not tested I am confident depth not affected by level of notch either.

There are a few people that think running the notch rather than discrimination to your set point on a D2 has some secret sauce. For instance, I start my Disc at 22 for beach hunting. Some seem to think that notching to 22 is better? I don't know. Never experimented with it much but going to do some testing this year.

Congrats on the gold. MAN, that is lots of diggin!!

I have done much testing and there is nothing to gain with Audio Response at 7 In a Salt environment a 7 setting can really hurt. I would only recommend 6 max.

If you can cut Black Sand....I am interested!! Not sure how 90khz will be able to do that?

WOW>>>I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy!!!! Awesome finds!!!

For me personally. Tiny gold is not worth my effort and does not pay the bills. The time lost chasing specks can lend itself to miss other opportunities.

Mono programs are not even a consideration on a wet salt beach. Not sure why you are surprised or disappointed?

Just to be clear. In depth testing on fringe targets we did not find Beach Pitch superior to another beach program.

YES>I keep mine at 6. YES> I use the 9" coil and am VERY uncomfortable hunting past a reactivity of.5 I am not sure how you are coming to the conclusion that Seach Sensitive has 50% less power than Beach P. For the record I cannot stand Beach P even on wet sand. What is the most important is frequency weighting and hunting cleanly. If you can hunt pretty clean at a sensitivity of 92 with Beach Sensitive, you will NOT find another program on the Deus2 better for gold.

Nice work!!! Man, big jellyfish.

To be clear, the Deus2 9" coil is actually 8 3/4 inches.

I am not sure what the manual states? I think where most are using tracking is at a salt beach. I run tracking GB regardless of the detector I am using.

What is a 5X9 coil going to do that the 9" round will not??? I hunt water with the 9" now.

Software updates are a rather new reality in detecting. I fully believe an update has the possibility of going wrong. I myself experienced this with my first update of the Equinox 800. I thought someone broke my detector. Flashed back and did a new install and everything was fine! I do not think this is the norm. But is an issue that needs to be watched. I can fully understand how a detector may operate different on an update. But when it goes wrong like in the case of mine, it had nothing to do with new detector settings or modes. I highly recommend someone is very into their machine before doing any updates. Otherwise, how do you really know the differences of the update? In July I opted not to update my Deus 2. I didn't think 4 or 5 times out with the machine after a layoff was enough time to be 100% up to speed and do an update. I will get that done when I am fully up to speed on the machine and can-do proper fringe depth testing after the update.

For cripes sake...Yous guys are killing me!!!!!!!!!

The NOX 800 is washed up>>>> That's why I own three of them. Absolutely outstanding and fantastic!!! LOVE those 2 signals!!! Can't wait to start my winter season. Going to be at my beach for New Years and Easter for the first time [both]!!! Should be EPIC!!!

Great hunt!!!! I would be a Billionaire if all my "feelings" hit! 😁

Wow, with the scrap you dug.....you deserve the gold!!!

Naw, Canadians get a free pass!!

Actually, I would welcome Clive down to where I hunt in Mexico. Even if he did kick my arse.