NCtoad

I just ordered one also.  This looks like a great tool to pop coins out of the grass.  Thanks to F350 for posting his experience with it!   

I’m disappointed to hear you had to pay shipping both ways.  From what I can recall, any warranty issue on anything I’ve ever had to send in, I paid shipping to the company and they paid shipping back to me.  There may have been a time or two where the company paid both ways, but I don’t ever remember a time where I paid both ways.  Shame on XP!

Yesterday I hit an old house site that I’ve hit many times before. Actually it’s multiple old house sites from an old textile mill.  There’s a new larger plant where the old textile mill used to be, but all the old houses are long gone and there’s a huge grassy area in front of the new factory where all the old houses stood.  You’re not allowed to detect this grassy area.  I know because I got asked to leave about a year ago.  However, there’s a city hike/bike trail that goes right next to part of the grassy area and I can still hunt there.  In the past when I brazenly detected the main grassy area😇, I found quite a few silver coins and some cool relics.  But now all I’m left with is a small area by the trail that is yielding less and less finds.  I did manage to find an old toy car, a rifle casing and an old lock.  I did get two wheaties but no silver.  
 

So, the 39 nickels.  What’s up with that?   Well this morning I decided to hit my son’s high school for a clad hunt.  A while back pre-deus II, I used my nox and got $33 in clad out of there in one afternoon.  Then a time after that I got around $17 and few more times close to $10 each time.  Needless to say this place hasn’t been detected in a long time.  Today I got $12.08, but the amazing thing is I dug 39 nickels!  That’s a new nickel record for me!   I mostly used two programs:  Rattleheads silver slayer and my own GCOIN3.  The GCOIN3 (general, used for coins, 3 tones) is based on the general program with disc at 7 and notches from 7-57 and 66-80 with 3 tones.  The silver slayer is similar but based on the Fast program with disc at 7 and notches from 7-59 and 65-87 with pitch tones.  With both I had the sensitivity at 80 (the lowest sense I’ve ever used with the D2) and reactivity at 3.  Both programs are like lasers at picking out coins from the trash.  I don’t know why I got so many nickels. I was digging everything in the 60s.  Sometimes the TID was consistent but the tones sounded bad and other times the tones sounded really good but the numbers were really jumpy.  On some the tones were so bad that I normally would have passed on digging, but today I just wanted to experiment and most ended up being nickels.  You can see the amount of pulltabs I dug.  The half square tabs sounded really good and were indistinguishable from a good textbook nickel signal.  

39 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Thanks Cap'n. 🙂 It's a thin, small target that a lot of detectors would probably miss in all that junk. Shows the capability of the D2 IMHO.

This isn't much of a hunt, but at least there is something of interest. 🤣 Just so @NCtoad doesn't feel alone. 😁 I'm glad to see he braved the heat a few times. 🏆

A unique silver ring is much, much better than a 1939 merc!   Lol!

I haven’t posted much of anything for the past month or so.  However I did take a trip to upstate NY last month to visit my sister.  I found out her old farmhouse was built in 1785.  I had detected it about 5 years ago while I still had my very first detector, a FisherF70.   Back then I found a good bit of clad, a few wheaties, but no silver or anything really old.  This time I took the D2 and got a few decent finds, but nothing really exciting.  Since that time with the f70, they’ve moved a lot of ground around as they are remodeling the house and yard.  This time a did get a silver though, a really nice 1945 war nickel.  I also got a big copper that’s devoid of any markings because it’s so toasted.  I’m pretty sure though that it’s a large cent because it’s the exact same size as the only other large cent that I’ve found.  In the pic it’s the one without the hole in it.  I also found a nice musket ball that must have been dropped before it was fired because of its intact sprue.  It measures around .630 in diameter, so maybe that’s a .69 caliber with the patch?  I’ll have to get a pic of it.  After coming back to NC after the NY trip I hit three mercs at two different sites.  One was a park that’s about 25 minutes away that I had yet to detect with the deus. I’ve pounded that place with the nox and have pulled over 30 silvers out of there.  On my first trip there with the deus I got two mercs.  The other merc came from a site that I had been to two previous times with the deus.  These silvers bring me to 27 for the year.  

On 7/29/2022 at 6:02 PM, F350Platinum said:

Heh, I've gotten so bored with my finds I'm treating Matchbox cars like vintage relics, posting dates and such. Your hunts show me all I'm missing 😏 I really admire your organization of finds and persistence, and very often you dig things I can only dream of finding!

Any Hallmark on that knife? 🤣 Seriously, if it's made in the USA it could be worth something, or not... 🤔

Honestly I'm glad anyone else on the forum is posting hunts and stories. I love new detectors but it always devolves. 🙄 I miss @dogodog@NCtoad, @ROCKINGCM, and many others. I'm wondering if the usual summer beach/relic hunters are not finding much? Like me? 😅

I’m still around and still detecting but not finding much to post about.  I’ve gotten a few silver coins over the past few weeks but nothing special just mercs and a war nickel.  It’s been so hot that getting out is more of a chore than fun.  

On 7/18/2022 at 4:51 PM, bocash3 said:

PLEASE bare  with me:   

1.   I have a perfectly good  White's XLT Spectrum (1999), keeping it
for now.   I set several custom programs on it years ago but  prefer
to get something  "not so advanced"   where owner has to set many manual
settings.

2.  I have a  new  Garrett's  AT Gold  on the way.  It can be returned.   But I'm looking for something to "possibly"  replace the  XLT that can not only do it all but  detect small gold deposits.

3.   Nokta Legend::  Listed as  "Advanced"  machine.   2 rechargable battery packs.  Wireless headphone.    None of this appeals to me.  I don't mind a  wired headphone.   AND  the XLT  is still  a machine with so many  variable settings that I choose not to change what I programmed over the years.   I have had bad  luck  with  any  company's  proprietary  batterys and rechargable batteries in general.    My White's  battery packs finally died and are no longer available, so  run AA batteries and am much happier with throw aways.   And THINK:  How  does one  "Plug in"  a charger when in deep woods?   Carrying extra AA batteries is  a  no-brainer.      However, 2 pluses for the Legend are  backlit and  audio  tones.   AA batteries are one big plus for  ordering the  Garrett AT Gold.

4. Moving to  Equinox 800:    Praised for its pin-pointer (I love the XLT  pin-pointer).   Top reviews are many.   BUT.........lithium ion rechargable and only  ONE  (I assume proprietary)  battery comes with it at that.    I see "Beginner"  friendly.  That appeals to me because I truly don't want to go through the  arduous  learning curve the  XLT  presented to me  23 years ago when new. 

So  decisions, decisions.     my plans were to run the  AT Gold and sell the Spectrum  IF  the  AT Gold  "might" take it's place and be a better choice for small nugget shooting.     

OR................ keep either the AT Gold  OR  XLT  and maybe get the  Equinox 800  too.     I just don't want to get stuck in deep woods overnight with a  dead  detector battery.
 
AND:  I see the  Minelab GoldMonster uses my preferred  AA batteries, and is listed as  "Gold"  and  Beginner friendly.  Would it detect coins too?   I won't rule it out as if it will fits for a purpose, I'm willing to go to $950  it sells for.  
I could  keep one all-purpose machine and one which specializes in gold??  

IF I have not totally scrambled your  brains as I have my own,  what would you do?  

Thanks for putting up with me,   "Bo"

If you’re worried about rechargeable lithium batteries, my opinion is don’t.  Lol.  I’ve had my nox since it’s introduction and it’s been charged many, many times over the past four years and the battery still holds a charge for longer than I can detect in one day.  I can’t imagine how much money recharging that battery would have saved me if the nox had been made to use throw-away AA batteries.  Of course you could buy rechargeable AAs, but then you’re back to not only recharging batteries, but having to put them in and out.  
 

If you are still worried about draining the battery on the nox while out in the field, you can buy a rechargeable lithium battery pack and run your nox off of that by strapping the battery under the arm cuff and using the magnetic charging cable.  
 

One more point:   If you do happen to wear out the battery in your nox, you can buy a replacement and from the videos I’ve seen, it’s an easy, straightforward replacement.  

Very nice!

I lost my backup pinpointer a couple of weeks ago and have been thinking I would get an MI6.  However after reading through this thread I think I’ll either wait until  XP fixes the pairing problems or until my TRX dies and I’m forced to get something else.  

On 6/22/2022 at 11:35 AM, Jeff McClendon said:

The two mini USB connectors on the 3 way cable and the cable for use with the WS6 puck are the same size and type = Mini USB. The difference is the actual exposed lengths of the connectors. The connector on the single lead is definitely a bit longer.........so I am not sure where the USB B and C reference is coming from. The connectors will both fit well in the WS6 port.

Where the confusion is for me (or XP may need a different English language translator/proofreader) is what is printed in the manual and the included Erratum single sheet that came with my Deus 2. The Erratum pages shows using the single lead cable for charging and data update of the WS6 as opposed to the manual showing updating the WS6 with the single lead cable on page 30 and charging the WS6 with the 3-way cable on page 38.

Deus 1s used the 3 way cable for charging the RC and the WS4. The single lead cable was for data update of the RC but I used it for charging it too.

So, who knows.........I have charged my WS6 with the 3 way and the single lead and they both seem to work fine for just charging the WS6.

 

You’re spot on Jeff.  Going from memory, I thought it was clearly stated in the manual that the puck could be charged with either cable (three way or single), but to update you could only use the single cable.  I think the erratum was just making it known that you could use the single cable not just to update but that it could also be used as a charging cable. BTW, both of the cables fit snugly in the port on the puck and I haven’t had a single issue with the puck not pairing with the remote when I turn it on.  Knock on wood.  Lol!  I did have a problem with pairing after doing one of the updates, but once I paired it manually all was fine.  

Glad you got your permission straightened out and are allowed to keep detecting there.  And yes, the deus is a killer coin shooter!  

Congrats on the gold Erik!

I went out this evening to the same place where I hit the silver half the weekend before last.  I was hoping for another silver andI was using Rattlehead’s silver slayer program. About 15’ from where I dug that half, I got a strong, solid 63.  Less three inches down I see a gold ring.   Ends up being 2.58 grams of 10K.  
 

The ironic thing about getting this gold ring is that this past weekend we went to Charleston, SC and I got in two, 2 hour beach hunts and didn’t find anything but about 70 cents and a small cross that was junk metal.  I was using my Nox and hoping for gold.  Lol

Huge congrats on a major bucketlister!   

4 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Killer finds NC! 👍 That is an argument in favor of the Deus... 🤔  Although you probably could have found that half with anything unless it was on edge.

What program?

I was using program 2 (sensitive) when I found the walker.  Three tones but second tone break set at 86 and I upped the frequency of the high tone to 881 hz.  I also think I set the sensitivity to 95.  Stock settings other than this.  I don’t think that half was on edge although I think it was tilted slightly from horizontal.  I need to pay more attention to what I dig.  I see shiny in the hole and just want to get it out!   Lol

Very nice!

I work for a resort that has 1400 acres and two youth camps.  The resort was started back in 1909 so I’ve found some silver here over the past three years that I’ve been working here.  However it’s been pretty slow for the past year as I’ve cleaned out most of the grassy areas with my equinox.  This weekend is the first time I’ve had the D2 in the older youth camp which dates to the 1930s.  Yesterday I hit two mercs, a 1920 and a 1926 just inches apart.  Today I went back and got my third (and nicest) walking liberty half for the year.  The areas where these coins were found had been hit with my nox multiple times.  Is it the deus or did I just miss these three with the nox?   I don’t know, but I’m definitely going to hit more of the non-wooded areas with the deus II.  I hadn’t taken the deus to these areas before today because I had hit these areas so many times with my nox that I didn’t think I’d find much.  Hmmm, I might need to re-think this.  LOL!   

Dang man!   Double gold!   I’ve never had a double gold day.  Congrats!!

That deserves a “Hell Yeah”!

18 hours ago, mn90403 said:

I have a scoop made by this company and it is the same as I bought it 5 years later.

 

https://www.borderlineengineering.com/ 

I bought one of their stainless scoops. I’ve only detected at the ocean three times since I started detecting and done fresh water hunting only a few times more than that, but it worked well and is very strong.  I bought mine off his ebay store and contacted him about modifying it with a solid strap around the back.  He did that for me for no extra charge.  

On 5/25/2022 at 7:55 AM, ColonelDan said:

The higher the discrimination setting the greater number of targets will register as ferrous.   If for example you set the discrim at 7, targets'TDI that range from 7 or below will  be reported as "iron."

It doesn’t work like that in full tones.  See this thread:  

1 hour ago, F350Platinum said:

Makes sense NC! 👍

Thing is, I detest that 🤬 lanyard, I'm hoping now to sand the adapter a bit like Cap'n Ghostlight did, and use the thumbscrew to easily remove the RC. Or not. 😁

One of the things I'm not too thrilled with about the Deus 2 is the charging procedure, having to shorten the shaft when I want to charge the RC, coil, and headphones. That will cause undue wear on the clamp, leading to wobble. 

The other alternative of course is to get another power supply from them and charge the coil separately.

 

I shorten the rod every time I take it in the car.  I don’t worry too much about wear and tear on the camlocks because if they do wear out you can buy them as parts from XP.  It’s another reason I like this detector:   You can buy spare parts if they break or wear out.  

21 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Gotta add another one to this list:

https://www.detectingdoodads.com/store/p53/Locking_shoe_for_the_Deus_2.html

Wish it came in black, but I guess the maker wants it to stand out. One is on the way. Looks like the fit and finish will be great.

I saw those a couple of weeks ago and was going to order one but then I got to thinking about it.  What would happen if I tripped and fell on my detector?  Something’s got to give and either that mounting device will break or the plastic on the back of my remote will.  So I decided to just go with the factory tether.  What made me think of this was about 20 years ago I bought a BMW R1150GS motorcycle.  This was an adventure type motorcycle with the two horizontally opposed cylinders that stick out from the sides of the bike.  This is commonly known as a “boxer” engine.  Being an adventure bike I rode it on gravel roads and other places where you wouldn’t take a strictly street oriented bike.  When you do that with a big, heavy bike you’ll eventually drop it.  When you do drop it the first thing that makes contact with the ground is the cylinder head.  Now BMW is aware of this and provides stock plastic cylinder head guards.  They look and feel pretty flimsy.  It wasn’t long after that bike came on the market that there were aftermarket suppliers of better, more robust cylinder guards.  One such company made very stout aluminum guards that just bolted to the engine in the same bolt holes that the stock guards used.  I thought they looked very strong and rugged so I bought a pair and installed them.  Not too long after that I dropped the bike at a walking pace coming off the edge of a sidewalk.  Guess what happened?   That strong aluminum cylinder guard was so stiff that the weight of the bike made it crack the bolt hole where it attached to the engine!   If I would have had the stock plastic guard it would have flexed and just gotten scratched and I could have replaced it and the bike would have looked like new.  Instead I had to take those guards off and left them off.  I ended up selling the bike about a year later with full disclosure of the damage.  If I would have kept the bike I would have had to find someone to weld that hole with aluminum then drill and re-tap it.  
 

Sorry for the long story but just a heads up of what could happen.  
 

Edit:  I’m not trying to discredit detecting doodads product, it’s probably great for water hunters and such where the detector probably won’t get dropped or fallen upon.  But if you’re hiking through the woods and you trip and fall on the remote in such a way that there’s a lot of force put on it, something’s going to give.  I would probably bet XP designed the remote attachment so that it does pop off before something breaks.  

4 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Do you think you found a site that has seen few or no detectors?   Does the depth of the coins you found give an indication?  Is the area a maintained/manicured sports field or just a general unpampered play area where fertilizer and watering aren't applied?

Just from the vast amount of clad I’ve found, I’d say this school hasn’t been detected for (and I’m guessing here), at least 10 years.  Most of the clad is in the 2-5” range.  If I’m remembering correctly the two silver dimes were in the 6-7” range but they were in an area that gets more shade and the ground was softer there.  I didn’t hunt the sports fields, only the surrounding grassy areas.  I don’t think there’s any watering done and I don’t know about fertilizer.  

21 minutes ago, kac said:

Kind of like fishing for sunfish when the trout aren't around, all still fun.

Perfect analogy!