schoolofhardNox

That large ring is part of a reign's guide (I think the real name is a terret). As for the medallion, people in this part of the country have this bad habit of buying these medallions and never engraving them ? It was real popular in the 70's-90's. Both items are usually made if nickel plated brass. Thanks! I have this love affair with collecting junk ? These days I'm happy just pulling any silver. There is also that selfish satisfaction of finding things after a lot of detectors have been through the area. Kind of a challenge to see if you can get something where others couldn't. Hones the skills I guess, but really just there to make excuses for why I waste all day digging for just a couple keepers.?

I got a good feeling about this Deus. As for golf..........??? I rather throw those clubs than play them ?

Lucky you. I wish sometimes it would drain fast. But I guess deep moisture is why we get some really deep coins, especially when the winter snow melts.

Keep plugging away with that Deus. I think it's going to be a good machine, despite some of the negative things people say about it on line. I would get one but if I get one more machine my wife will ban me from the house ? Hey that petrified iron donut looks yummy ? You did dig a lot of trash this time out. Makes up for me being lazy.

Thanks. New detector to me, but I used to have an E Trac and sold it so I picked one up a little while ago, just for hunting silver. It really is a good machine for silver, even in junky areas. The bracelet was with the necklace in one hole on the beach, unusually deep for how modern it looks. The necklace has at least 3 beads that are metallic. I'm glad you won the trash digging race this week ? - I was definitely slacking.I'm bummed, it's going to rain me out next week again. I hate when I get trapped in that reoccurring cycle of rain storms. ?

Beach hunt # 30 finally happened after I was washed out last week. Decided to pull out the old E Trac and do some grass hunting and then the GPX for a short while on the beach. Beach conditions were not very favorable, so I did a good chunk of the hunt on grass. I really need the practice with the E Trac just hunting for silver, but I can’t seem to not dig some low conductors hoping for gold. Time is always a concern for me because of the travel, so I really need to just cover a lot of area and only dig high conductors from now on. Obviously, these areas have been hit over the years, so I am just looking for missed signals or signals that had some form of iron next to them. The E Trac may be slow in comparison to modern detectors, but it has that ability to sound off on shallower targets while in the null. I did manage to get 3 silvers and a nice plated pendant that my wife claimed instantly. Lots of copper pennies and clad dimes and my fair share of junk, some of which was just sitting on top of the ground. As for the beach part of the hunt, I managed one buffalo nickel and a lot of junk. Not many coins lingering around these parts lately. Great weather and fun in the sun.

Most of us have complaints for EMI. We spend thousands on a machine and there are just some places it can't work. Heavy EMI areas will affect every detector either by making it unusable (going crazy) or by falsely leading us to believe the machine is purring silently when in fact all they did was silence the EMI response. I had a problem on my Minelab detecting a beach that has a train running right on the beach (20 feet from it). EMI was crazy when they charged the lines for the train to pass. Nothing could be done about it as some machines went crazy while the other machines I have, just silenced the EMI but cut depth by at least 50% in some cases. My solution was a Coiltek anti-interference coil. Didn't think it worked at first but it did, very well in fact. So maybe an E mail to Deus asking if they ever considered making or having a 3rd party make an anti-interference coil for their machines. If my 5000 can run wide open on this beach with that coil, I'm sure there would be a way for Deus to make that kind of coil. I hope you get your situation worked out.

So in my style of detecting, if I got a machine that I could get more depth/cleaner signal just by increasing a setting by 1 number, I would be jumping for joy. Especially if I had an extra 3 settings higher than that. I much rather have a machine that I can maximize and get extreme depth than to have a machine that makes me think I get a lot of depth difference by raising the setting by 5 numbers. As an example.....why have a setting that goes from 1-10 if all you get is 1" total extra depth. Honestly I think it makes people learn their machines or they can be satisfied digging 6" deep targets. I think most Deus users will adapt very quickly, those that are not previous Deus users, can learn the machine. It's not fair to make it sound like Deus (or anyone else) is not doing a good job of designing their machine because a new user can't figure it out. Just my opinion on it.

Welcome aboard Ian. There are a lot of people doing what you want to do. Hopefully someone will chime in. In the meantime read some of the post and get familiar with the forum categories.

Actually it sounds like it will help detectorists. It only goes down about 2", so the aluminum foil, pull tabs and other light junk will be removed. I'm assuming coins and jewelry will sink further than that? Thoughts?

Could be rose quartz or glass. But either way it's a huge ring!!!

Beautiful ring. A lot of nicer rings come up junk lately. You got a real one! I think they used to be called cocktail rings (the original "bling" rings.) Sweet find.

If the Deus II could find coins as deep as I'm getting and could handle the extreme EMI, I would buy it in a second. ? When I'm old, I'll probably just hang the GPX body on my hip and just swing the coil until I die. Then they can bury me and my machine in the dunes ? Clad at 12" is good for any VLF/ Multi. The CTX 3030 could peg a clad quarter at 12" in slightly wet sand, but it couldn't do that if there was a lot of EMI present. I've had a couple people watch me dig coins at 15", including one of our members here. He had a PI as well and did hear each target although some were very sketchy. 15" coins are very faint but very repeatable, and if you get a couple of them close together, you will probably be digging a lot of them that day. 18" deep coins are rare, I think I've only dug less than 10 in 4 or 5 years of hunting beaches, so no one has seen that. Most of the people that watch me dig a penny at 15" want nothing to do with digging that deep for a cent ?

For recent history it is Minelab all the way. From the E Trac to the CTX 3030, but the bar raised substantially by the GPX 5000. Whether it's relic hunting or beach hunting, the 5000 has made detecting fun again. Only real drawback is it's weight. The sheer number of old coins and relics it's found in the last 5+ years is way more than I would have found with my old machines. Now, past history has to go to Whites electronics. They fueled me from the late 60's through the 90's.

Thanks Rick. I usually only have one day off to hunt, so I make sure it's a long one. If I had more days, they would surely be shorter in duration ? I do pay the price the next day, but at least one day a week , I actually get some real exercise. The good stuff makes up for some of the digging. It's funny, the deep buffalo nickels in certain areas of the beach come up a dark red color that basically rubs off on my pants. It's the greenish color ones that need real cleaning at home. If I find one that is that deep red color, I just clean it there before it oxidizes or reacts with the sunlight and becomes harder to clean. The same thing happens with some copper cents too. You can rub some clean, but they tone a bit by the time you get home. That nickel was bright silver after a beach clean, but toned a bit by the time I took the picture the next day. As for iron man, just one muscle on one arm ?. The rest of the body is screaming at me at the moment. I tell myself that heavy 14" DD balances out the heavy GPX body. ? Not really, but it keeps me going. By the end of the hunt, parts of the body just go on strike and I say "ok, I'm done" Time to go home.

Beach hunt # 29 is my last hunt at this beach…. Really, ? I mean it this time. Pretty hard hunt as targets were rarer until I shifted sections… then the iron showed up. The 5000 gets heavy if you don’t break up the swing time with some digging. A couple of times I went almost a half hour without a signal. I’m fairly sure I am done in the sections that were producing a bunch of silver recently. The 14” Coiltek DD anti-interference coil has really started to click with me. Some fine tuning of the GPX and this coil does above what I was expecting, considering the almost nonstop heavy EMI. The surprise of the hunt was finding the Roosevelt and the Washington at 18”. This was in the same area that I pounded, but this time I crept along like a snail and investigated many slight anomalies to the threshold. A lot of them were EMI related and resulted in no real signal in the hole once opened up. But two were very deep silvers. So that was a real surprise. I managed 5 silvers for the hunt, with 2 Mercury dimes that almost look like dirt coins and not beach finds. I’m thinking they moved some sand around that was way up on the banks of the beach. Never seen such nice clean coins before. It was also nice to see 3 dated Buffalo nickels and an early 1910 wheat cent. All in all, it was a great day hunting. The rain held off until I was almost done, and the temps were pleasant. Come on next week!!!!

That whatzit could be a fancy drawer pull also. Watch fob is very probable too. Decent hunt.

The Sunray probe was awesome for the E Trac. I wish I never sold mine. Nothing like putting the probe deep in a hole and hearing the sweet sound of silver ☺️ It didn't go super deep but it helped not scratch your coin once the hole was opened up a bit.

The E Trac with the right program and some patience to weed through a trashy park, can get you a lot of deep silvers (and wheats that mimic silvers ?). My best two machines are both old technology. They made them so good that it will take a while before I retire them. The Equinox had the potential to retire the E Trac but the lack of target ID separation makes the E Trac the winner for parks for me. And it will take a LOT of convincing for me to retire the 5000. Some people swear by Tesoro for cellar hole hunting and I believe them but never tried one there. There is a certain comfort in old machines that I miss. As for the weather, It can rain from Saturday to Wednesday and that would be fine with me ? Thanks. Them trimes are small. I think I have only found 3 or 4 of them. When I hunted cellar holes a lot, I would find way more half dimes than trimes. That silver saved my butt for sure. Trash was lighter because I got lazy ?

Beach hunt # 28 was a challenge. Started out by helping a friend out with his new (used) Equinox 600. We hit a beach and small park area for 2 ½ hours and it wasn’t producing much, so I left there and went to another beach, hoping for some good finds. Waves were pretty aggressive, and the wind kicked up, so it was much harder detecting than the calm times I had the past few weeks. Not much showing up, some technical issues, and just lots of wasted time was the narrative for this hunt. I actually doubted that I would get any silver and wasn’t even considering gold as an option. The layer I was doing was clearly from the 80’s and I just got plain lucky to get the one silver Roosevelt dime. Most of the copper cents were Memorials with just a few wheats. Kind of glad that hunt is over. ? I knew I should have continued hunting the beach that was giving up silver, but I needed to check out a couple of things at the 2 beaches I hit this hunt. I was hoping to get some silvers from the park area with the E Trac, but I am severely out of practice hunting parks, especially with a machine I have not used much for probably 10-15 years. Well, that is over and for sure next week I am going back to the silver beach. Hopefully conditions have not changed much, and I can continue where I left off. Still better to better to be detecting a beach than working. ?

"Put as many controls on the unit as possible." I wrote that with a tiny bit of sarcasm ? but generally meant it. Not that I want to see a cluttered up machine or screen or have to get a college degree just to use it, but to highlight what happens when trends start in the manufacturing industry. One manufacturer does a turn on and go machine and they all follow. That is a dangerous thing to buy into, if you are and avid detectorists. If I go cheap (for the new technology) I will be disappointed in the lack of controls, but if I wait, I lose the chance to try something new and possibly beneficial to my type of hunting. I'm getting the feeling that a turn and go machine is what they want beginners to get, while a mid priced machine is what gives me the options that I usually want, and recently the high end stuff is extremely focused on one task (like the GPX 6000). You can't go by lineage anymore since the GPX 6000 is nothing like the GPX 5000. Carl, I was actually very interested when White's announced the Vision was coming. I saved up for it, since I had been with Whites since the CMV Supreme days. But legal delays and my attention span being short, I opted to try a Minelab and never looked back. I wish the V3 would have been available, but not under powered. I would have love the ability to explore the different (and sometimes unorthodox) combinations that might arise. I think it would have been a great park machine. I guess I don't understand the view of a manufacturer that doesn't want to make a machine that has beginners as well as advanced users talking about how great it is. To me it's simple, just leave a note to beginners telling them to use the expert menu at their own risk. Then just show them the factory reset button ? Problem solved.

I agree as well. Put as many controls on the unit as possible. That way if I'm late to the game, I will have many to choose from after some people start selling them cheap when they have had enough. ? Seriously, I'm all for having as much control as I can get. As long as the stock programs give good results, the people that just want to turn on and go hunting will be satisfied. That's how I am with my car.... took me 5 years to realize there was a secret box below the seat to hide valuables ? Never hurt me a bit not knowing that. The car drove me where I needed to go and I could care less about any other features.

Thanks! Some days are better than others but it's always a good day to be detecting. Who knows what is hiding your way. You probably could retire of some of those treasures. Time to get one of your buddies drunk and have them steal a bulldozer ? Just deny you know him when the cops get there.

Thanks. Beaches are funny. I hit this area in previous years and hit silver, but apparently there was too much sand to access all the silver. I assume the same is happening again here. More is left that I can not get to, but hopefully more sand will be removed and more silver will be available, and possibly some gold that may be even deeper than the silver. There is lots left that is just too deep to get. The spike is from the train that lives on the beach. I think the guys that maintain or built the tracks just through it on the beach ? I think I've found about 5 or 6 of them already. The silver is a blessing! ? If I had to survive on the gold I find, I would be dead many years ago ? I never worry about the 16 D's, I toss them like zinc pennies. (sure I do ?). All the small targets are actual hits from the GPX. They hit on the 11", 12 1/2" and the 14" coils. They sound deep but are rarely deeper than 2-3" I am amazed at how tiny the targets are and that they can even be heard on the GPX. It's harder to find then with the pinpointer than it is to find them with the large coils. Detectors have really come a long way since the 70's.

I bet OBN makes it ? He makes everything else for it ? Glad to see Fisher is still doing something with the AQ