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Thanks! I’ll just put that ring in my silver collection. I did some silver soldering many years in a metal smithing class I took as an art elective while in college. I don’t remember anything about how it’s done though.

Very nice write up Dan!

Yes it was. Just to the left of the little bridge in the pic below.

The D2 is so versatile with all the programs and adjustments you can make to them. It’ll keep me busy on my limited number of sites that I have trying them all.

The forecast for this weekend is very cold temps. When I got home from work yesterday the temp was in the low 60s so I figured I’d get an hour of practice with the D2 in my pounded yard. I was getting a few bullets and working my way back to the house when I get a nice, fainter sounding 85-86. I dig down about 7” and it’s a silver ring! I thought it might be a deep wheat or even a zinc penny. It’s marked: sterling-fspq. I was hunting in a custom park program.

Paystreak (Jeremy) responded to my comment on his youtube channel. “I always run 0 Iron bias on nox. Bump it up to 3 in my hot soil and you will miss many deep targets. The Nox high tones on nails like the Simplex. Legend gives very few high tones on nails.” It will be interesting to see how the Legend responds after it gets the new iron bias update. You got to like Paystreak’s videos. The guy puts out an honest video. I’m

According to Gary Blackwell.

In this video he mentions that the equinox falses a lot more on nails than the Legend. The legend that he’s testing has a preset iron bias which would keep the falsing to a minimum. I wonder if he runs his nox in zero iron bias? If he does, it definitely would false more than the legend. I’m wondering if both detectors had equivalent iron bias settings would his statement above still hold true?

Great pics! Coins probably don’t sink much in the desert do they?

Congrats Pal! That coin is in fantastic condition!

I was thinking the same thing.

I’m noticing this also.

I never thought about fitting in a backpack. Thanks for mentioning that as I may order the xp280 backpack sometime in the future. I noticed the xp stand has little bumps molded into the feet almost as if they made it so an accessory stand could snap onto it. Is that how yours attaches?

Deus II owners: you all know the shortcomings of the stock arm cuff stand. Has anyone tried this?:

That 5 cent piece is incredible! Congrats!!

Right now Cal the biggest advantage for me over the nox is the ergonomics. Not only is the deus 2 light, it’s also very compact compared to the nox. As far as performance I’m almost positive if I had gotten my nox over any of those targets I dug today, it would have hit on them with good ID. Especially the two silver coins. I’m beginning to tune into the deus and one advantage I’m seeing over the nox is being able to tell an aluminum can top from a coin. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between the two even raising the coil using the nox. With the deus however when you raise the coil a coin fades out very quickly. I’m sure this is due to having the audio response setting on 4. So yeah, the deus has much, much better audio modulation. I still have a lot to learn about the audio nuances of the deus. The other day I was doing some air tests to hear the different tone pitches I had set up in a 5 tone program. I had a quarter, a nickel, a zinc penny, a rusty nail and I had also grabbed a lead pistol bullet. I noticed when I passed the bullet and the nickel over the coil they both rang up as 62 which means they both had the same tone pitch. However to my surprise they sounded quite different. The nickel sounded perfectly “clean” but the bullet didn’t. I tried passing the bullet over the coil while changing its position relative to the coil and the closet I could get it to sounding like the nickel was when I had the rounded point of the bullet facing directly at the coil. I guess this makes sense because the detector is seeing round. Now if I can only learn to pick up on those nuances in the field. Lol

I’m jealous! Lol! Congrats on an awesome find!

I took off work on Friday to see if I could snag some silver with the D2. I hunted for about 7 hours with 6 of those at the old ballpark where I’ve gotten multiple silvers with the nox. I hit the area hard with the deus. I dug mostly silver and nickel signals and a lot of iffy signals just to see what it was, but no silver and only 1 wheatie. Needless to say I was a little bummed. Today I got out to my only permission, the old house on 3 acres. This time I concentrated on a small level field on the other side of the property from the house. I hadn’t really detected this area much at all just doing an exploratory pass last weekend. This time I slowed down. Second target of the day was a nice sweet sounding 91/92 and I figured a silver dime since I have only found one clad coin the entire time I’ve hunted this place. About 7” down was a 1918d merc. I stood up and rescanned that spot and about a foot away I get a 59/60. Turns out to be a toasted buffalo nickel at the same depth. Then about three feet away I got a high 80s and out pops a toasted wheat cent. All three of these were not in the field that’s in the picture, but on the far end to the left. Once I got in the field I hit a nice high tone reading 94-96. At about 6” was a 1907d barber quarter. A couple of feet away was a high 80s and again another toasted wheatie. In between the wheatie and barber I get a jumpy signal in the 60s and out pops a Wahl Ever Sharp silver plated mechanical pencil! Now I start gridding that area and about 50 feet away I get a 96/97 and I’m thinking another quarter, but out pops a small sterling ring. That was about it as I headed back to the car. Today I was mostly using two custom coin programs I had set up last night. One was based on park, and the other based on general. Both with disc at 35, 5 tones with custom tone breaks, reactivity I varied at 1.5-2.5, silencer at 1, sensitivity at 95, audio response at 4. Park used square and the general used pwm.

I found the deus menu easier to…let me say “interpret” than the nox menu. Why? Because it actually tells you what you’re changing. I always had trouble with those symbols on the nox. Lol. The D2 spells it out for you in words.

I’ll add one more: Long press of lower left “-“ button also goes to volume settings. Although I’m right-handed, it’s a nice feature for left-handed users.

I love my nox, but the new deus is such a joy to swing. Has Chase let you take a test run with his deus2 yet?Congrats on all the finds! I’m envious of your site. Lol

Very nice condition! Congrats!

It's explained very well in the Reactivity section in the user manual.

Were the halves still in the paper wrapper? Lol!

Congrats! Before you know it you’ll have enough of those old pulltabs to make another chain!