NCtoad

10 hours ago, mudwhale said:

I am absolutely not having any issues with my factory charging setup. Yes, you need to get your coil off the ground a bit to ensure contact. I am having zero issues.

Me too.  Sometimes it’s a little difficult getting the clip wide enough to slide over the edge of the coil cover.  To make it a little easier to slide on, I took a small file and beveled the edges of the coil cover where the clip slides on.  

That looks like a printing block off an old printing press.  Just a guess on my part though.  Congrats on the silver rosie.  A silver dime will make any detectorist’s day!

16 hours ago, Troy E said:

Sweet finds, I’m not that familiar with the D2, but I hear a lot of great things about her.  What frequency were you running?  Nice hunting……

I was using a custom version of the Fast program which is multi-frequency.  

4 hours ago, palzynski said:

Very nice job ... How did you make these bushings ? 3D print ?

I would say he used a lathe to make those since they were made out of delrin rod.  Very nice job by the way!

I’ve been using Rattlehead’s silver slayer program a lot recently also.  CPT, I also have your concerns about missing good targets (mainly gold) with a lot of notching.  However I started looking at this from another perspective.  I mostly hunt for silver coins and the silver slayer program is very good for this especially in trashy areas.  So my new perspective on this is that once I go through a site looking for silver, I can always go back using different notching or another program more suitable for finding mid and lower conductors.  I will mention this: one of the first times I tried the silver slayer program I dug a nice 10k ring that came in at 63 in that nickel window that doesn’t get notched out!

That’s a Hell Yeah! on that cavalry button Bob!   You had a great hunt, thanks for posting!

1 minute ago, F350Platinum said:

Go NCtoad! 👍 Looks like you're really getting good with the D2.

Do the partial silver coins still hit the 90s?

Yep, 97, 98, 99.  It was only about 3” or 4” deep.  When I got it out I thought it was some kind of silver plated coin and most of the plating had worn off.  In the area where I found it the soil is really black and ashy ( is that a word? Lol) looking like there been a big burn pile there in the past.  

So last evening after work I decided to hit a site where some old mill houses once stood.  I’ve pounded this place with the nox getting maybe 5 or 6 silver coins, a silver ring and I don’t know how many wheats.  I hit this place a couple of times with the D2 back when it was fairly new to me (the D2).  Yesterday I went there and decided to use Rattlehead’s silver slayer program.  It’s based on the Fast program but with a lot of notching and the sensitivity at 97. In about 10 minutes I had 2 wheaties about 6” apart then within another few minutes I got a 1945 merc about 8” down.  I ended up with 3 wheats and the merc.  Tonight I went to the same place again.  This time 5 wheaties, 1 copper memorial, and a 1922 King George V Half Crown which after I looked it up I found out it’s 50% silver!   It’s about the size of a US half dollar.  How I missed it before I don’t know.  I have gridded that area in the past but there’s lots of iron, coal, ash and other trash from when they demolished the old houses.  A 50% silver coin, especially one slightly larger than a half dollar counts as a silver in my book and makes 36 for the year.  

4 minutes ago, fogrider said:

Your detector is well set-up for coin hunting, judging by your variety of finds.

That V nickel is beautiful.

 

I was using program 3 (sensitive full tones), varying the reactivity from 1.5-2.5 and sensitivity at 95.  I like sensitive FT for woods hunting because it uses no disc.  

On 10/8/2022 at 4:47 AM, RickUK said:

Any location that has folks walking to or from a venue or at the actual venue you will stand a chance of folks dropping mainly money i would have though,but also possibly rings or lucky charms could be dropped,these are the classic locations that folks drop thing......i went to one place that in theory i did not have permission it was a funfair location so was hunting for spendables that was basically just laying on or near the top,so i casually put my Deus elliptical coil in a carrier bag my itself and my controller in my pocket with a small single earphone and walked around discretely around the field picking the odd coinage up.

Must admit it did work reasonably well but only done it the once,not the best setup but the coil was just a couple of inches off the floor but it did work.

That’s genius!!

2 minutes ago, Rick N. MI said:

Great hunting. The V nickel is in great shape. Your going to check out the woods.

Yeah I’ll be checking the woods this winter.  
 

I checked  my V nickel collection and I think this one makes 8 that I’ve found and this one is by far the nicest.  And it’s only the second one that has a green patina to it. 

6 minutes ago, JCR said:

That is a really nice V Nickel & IHP.  Evidently that old path saw a lot of use long ago. There should be some areas along the way where people would have had a picnic & such. Higher ground or nice level area beside/overlooking the path. There would have been a lot of fishing done around the dam also. Neat place.  I use that same Nomad shovel alot. It is a great all around tool.

I’ve only ventured a little off the actual path.  The property line is just to the left of the path as you walk in.  On that property is a fairly big house that was built in 1840 so I’m hoping for some older 19th century coins.  Anyways, I’ve got a lot of area to explore this winter.  

I work at what used to be an old resort.  Originally there was a 100 acre lake here but the dam got washed out in a flood back in the early 20th century.  I found an old roadway that goes back to where the old earthen dam broke.  On the way back there I got a solid 64 on the d2.  Expecting another shotgun headstamp I dig down about 5-6” and see a green disk.  Turns out it’s my nicest V nickel, a 1907.  That got my hopes up and a little further on I got a high 80s tid and out pops a wheatie.  When I got to the old remnants of the damn I turned around and detected back along the other side of the road/pathway.  Before long I got a low 80s tid and out comes an 1896 Indian head penny.  The rest of the way back all I found were headstamps, 22 shells and some old pistol casings.  I also found a couple of modern copper memorials.  
 

Hoping for silver I hit the same road again on the weekend.  Nothing but headstamps and pistol shells.  
 

This past weekend I hit it again hoping that maybe I missed something.  On the way in I got more headstamps, .22 shells and some small centerfire pistol shells.  On the way back more headstamps, but no coins.  
 

Not to be one who gives up easily, I hit the trail once again Monday after work.  On the way in I got maybe 2 headstamps and that was from wandering off the path slightly into the woods.  I did get teased with a high 80s but it was a small 4 hole button.  On the way back about the same, a couple more headstamps until about 100 yards from where I was parked I got a really strong, nice 95/96.  Thinking this is a clad quarter I dig down only about 2-3 “ and I see shiny!   Out pops a 1963 quarter!   Not as old as I wanted but I’ll take it for #34 for the year.  

Man, that’s a nice one!   Congrats!

12 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

What a great hunt, well done! I like nickels myself. So why did you choose to run the sensitivity so low? 

Just because it’s such a trashy area and most of the coins are very shallow (1-3”)

I use a custom General program.  I call it Gcoin3. It uses a lot of notching and as the name suggests, it’s for finding coins and uses 3 tones.  Here’s my settings:

disc:  7

sens:  95. But can vary

iron volume:  3

reactivity:  1.5.  But can also vary depending on the amount of trash. I feel 1.5 is a good starting point for deep silver coins in areas that aren’t really trashy. 
 

tones:  3 as the name implies 

B cap reject:  0.  Most areas I dig don’t have a lot of bottlecaps. 
 

silencer:  0

notch 1:  7-57

notch2:  66-80. You can raise the higher number to 87 if you’re strictly cherry picking for silver coins but you’ll miss indian head pennies and maybe some smaller silver coins like half dimes and such.  I’ve never dug a half dime so I’m just guessing that it would come in lower than 87.  Also the nickel window of 58-65 will get some gold also.  

Great hunt!   I still have two tesoros left:  6” compadre and the mojave.  Just sold my 8” compadre on ebay to a 78 year old guy.  He just emailed me that he loves it.  Fun detectors that will still find the goods.  

On 9/17/2022 at 1:10 PM, Troy E said:

So I was detecting at the same park I found a old silver capped bust dime.  Seen a dude I know who just talks to much and didn’t want this guy following me around like a puppy dog.  I got in my car unseen to him, and went to another area.
 

Looked like original ground, finding square nails in this area.  Using equinox 800 with the 10 by 5 coil using Andy’s coin program but not discriminating anything, iron bias 0, recovery speed was 8. Gain 22.  Found this, was about 9-10 inches down.  Looks like a large cent?

Thanks for any input anyone may give.

I dug one similar to yours, hole and all.  Mine does have enough detail to assure it’s a large cent.  

1 hour ago, jim tn said:

A. 5 silver day including jewelry is getting rarer each passing year. Good hunting! HH jim tn

That’s the truth!   Permissions to private residences are hard to get and the public areas are pretty much hunted out.  Sometimes I’ll luck upon a place that hasn’t been hit hard, but it’s rare.  
 

All I had to do today was get a material list for a deck repair side job in a neighboring town.  On the way there I hit a large park that I hadn’t been to in probably 4 or 5 years.  This isn’t an old park and from previous research that I had done there weren’t any houses there before the park went in.  I was just going there to get clad and maybe some jewelry.  I ended up on a large field that is used for soccer.  Things were slow and target signals few and far between, but near the middle of the field I got a deeper sounding high tone (I was in program 3 but with the reactivity at 1.5) coming in at 89-91.  About 5-6” down I see a silver rim and out pops a 1951 rosie.  Definitely a nice surprise!   Then not 10 feet away I got a bouncy 70s signal and a few inches down was a nice little rose petal 925 earring.  I left not long after that and headed to the deck job.  

On my way back I stopped in my little town and figured I’d hit some curbstrips.  I got a few wheaties and was heading back to the car and hit a strip without a sidewalk.  I got a wheat then got a nice 95-97 signal and out pops a 1939 GW.  A few feet further I got a 1950 rosie.  I then rounded the corner and hit a very narrow (about 16-18”) strip along the sidewalk and got a well worn 1944 merc.  By then it was getting dark so I called it quits.  

I ended up with 4 silvers, the 925 earring, 9 wheaties, a 1952 Canadian cent and $5.97 in clad.  My last silver coin was back on the last day of July so these four were very welcomed.  I’m now at 31 for the year.  

I agree with everyone else who bought one.  Well made, very strong and easy to use.   Great tool!

Since I bought the deus II, it’s been my primary detector.  In fact, since I got it, I’ve only put maybe 5 or 6 hours on my nox 800.  I usually keep the 6” on the nox but last weekend I hunted a “retired” golf course and used the nox with the 11” coil (to get more coverage) for the last two hours of the hunt.  It had been so long since I had used it that I forgot how to ground balance it and had to look it up on my phone!  😂  Anyways, I hit the small front yard of the clubhouse with the D2 and pulled 8 wheaties, went over it again with the nox and got zilch.  Now that I’m very familiar with the D2, I’m loving it and the nox feels bulky and like an old friend that I haven’t seen for years.  If I decide to get a new manticore I’ll probably sell the nox.  I just can’t see me managing 3 different detectors and being proficient with all three.  Heck, I have two Tesoro compadres and a mojave that I never use and really need to sell.  

Well, it’s been a little over 24 hours since I re-set the clock on my remote. It is right on, to the minute.  Hopefully it’ll stay that way.  

I hardly ever look at the clock on my remote, mainly because I need bifocals but refuse to get them.   Anyways, I noticed today that the time was way off.  I know it was correct about a couple of months ago.  I had checked it back then because I had read (I think on this forum) that someone else had noticed their clock not keeping time.  When I checked it then it was correct within a minute of the time on my phone. Has anyone else had this problem and did figure out what was causing the clock to be off?  I just reset the time and will check it in a day or two and see if it’s still accurate.  
 

I’m also posting a pic of my latest silver find.  

Have I missed a release date or is this an unknown?