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I went back to the mid 40s ballpark after getting 7 silvers last weekend. And really, who wouldn’t go back? Lol! I only got to go on Sunday this time, but it paid off. Started off pretty slow, but after about an hour I got a real nice savory high tone. Savory because you just want to hover your coil over it and savor the tone. This one was a 33/34 on the nox and I knew it had to be a silver quarter. Sure enough a ‘62 GW! I’m still going over the small field where I hunted last weekend. I did some gridding last weekend but just meandered yesterday. Maybe 20 minutes after digging the quarter I get a bouncy high tone going from 30 to 37. I’m thinking possibly another silver quarter or maybe two clad quarters. I dig down about 6 inches and it’s a walking liberty half! Only my second one ever and my third silver half of all time. The other being a big ben. Boy did that make my day! Ended up with $3.51 in clad and three wheaties. These two silvers put me at 10 for the year.

I should be getting my new deus II by next weekend. I’ve been using a Whites TRX for the past four years and I really like it. The thing I don’t like is that it’s not very loud and I have to pull one side of my headphones off to hear it. The MI6 connects wirelessly to the deus II so I’ll be able to hear it through the headphones which would be really nice (at least I think so). How does the MI6 stack up to the TRX in performance though? The only other pinpointer I have is a deteknix (Quest) Xpointer which works well, but isn’t quite as deep as the TRX and not nearly as sensitive to small items as the TRX. So with my limited experience with pinpointers should I spend the money on the MI6?

Ghostlands, those videos are priceless! You had me laughing and whooping it up right along with you! Thanks for posting those!

Congrats on the buffs and ihp’s! In your first photo near the top is something that looks like a screwdriver handle. Is that an old valve stem cover from an old model T? I found one exactly like that one time and wasn’t exactly sure if it was a valve stem cover or not.

My dealer notified me my 9” coil version will arrive at his dealrship tomorrow which just happens to be my birthday! I should have within a few days as he’s in the next state over to me.

I’m in Western North Carolina.

I did do some gridding, but I’m going to go back and do a good cross hatch grid. Yes I was using my equinox 800. Mostly park 1 in custom 5 tones, recovery from 4-6, F2 at 0, sensitivity mostly at 23. I did toggle to park 2 at times.

WOW! Tell us more about them. How old are they? Were they all in the same hole? How deep, etc? CONGRATULATIONS!!!

No disc. I dug 27 nickels altogether. I was hoping for a war nick too because the place was built in 1946. As far as wheaties, I dug 10. They’re usually so toasted that I don’t check the dates on all of them.

Thanks! Yeah, one of those junker mood rings. Rang up a solid 24 on the nox.

It was cold, but all the snow is finally gone so I went to an old ballpark. This ballfield dates back to the mid 40s so I knew there had to be silver there. I had been there last summer but it was so hot I guess I couldn’t concentrate well enough on the signals because all I got was clad. Today I hit the same area and got three mercs. A 1940, 1942, and 1945. I also got a very worn, no date slq. I also got $7.96 in clad which included a 1971 half. Halves are hard to come by for me so that was a nice surprise. This was on Saturday. This puts me at five silvers for the year. I checked last year’s log and I had 7 by this time. I’m going back tomorrow so maybe I’ll get a couple more. So I went back Sunday and hit a hillside near the stands. Not 20 minutes in and I hit a well worn merc. Upon closer inspection it’s a 1916! My first 1916. The backside was caked in a thin layer of mud and not having any water I just put it in my pocket and figured I’d wash it at home and hope for a D mintmark. Before ending the day I got a ‘46 rosie and a ‘43 merc along with $5 something in clad. This 7 silver weekend puts me at 8 for the year. Oh yeah, almost forgot. When I got back home I washed off the backside of that 1916 merc. Low and behold I see remnants of a mint mark! I run to get my lighted 16x magnifier and as hard as I tried I couldn’t make it into a D….it was an S. Bummer!

Very nicely done! Did you make that with a 3D printer?

Great story! I’m a couple of years older than you and wish I had started as early as you did.

Hi Loren I find this a little disturbing from your description. If possible could you post a pic showing this?

Nice finds, congrats!

Sounds to me like it adds or subtracts automatically according to what the next to last sentence says in your quote from the manual. It says “specific signal processing is applied in order to best adapt to the terrain.” To me the specific signal processing sounds like a filter that either adds or subtracts frequencies based on the ground reading. But, heck I don’t really know. That’s just how I interpret it.

I remember reading about the sea wolf mod a while back. I thought I might send my nox off to them some day, but that was before the new deus got announced. My nox is almost four years old now and hasn’t given me any problems but you never know. To send it off for the sea wolf package and have something totally unrelated to the sea wolf mod go bad is not a chance I want to take. I’m all in for the deus II with it’s five year warranty and (what looks like), better performance than the nox. As an aside, I really like the way sea wolf puts all of the buttons including the user program button on the face of the unit so everything’s accessible with one hand.

Thanks for the video! Your English is very good.

Did the third one from the left have anything in it? 😂

Congrats! I really like that watch fob!

When something like this is found in the UK isn’t the finder only entitled to half the value of the item found? Or is that for multiple coins found (a hoard)?

Hell yeah! Sounds like you’re killing the silver halves! I’ve only dig two halves in five years of detecting. Halves seem to elude me, but I always read of other detectorists having trouble finding standing liberty quarters. I got four of those last year. It’s weird what coins were dropped in different parts of the country.

Thanks Strick! I hit it pretty good today. I went “low and slow” lol. The button actually came from the exterior where the front porch was. Thanks! I don’t know if it had a heater or not. The finds were scattered randomly all over the floor. Thanks! Yes it had floor joists and floor boards. And no, I didn’t get a chance to detect the inside before any demolition was done. That jar is made of wood and there were 3 or 4 others scattered about. No writing or identification marks on any of them. I could have and should have borrowed a magnet we have at work. I used it before on an old commercial building floor tearout a few months ago and it really helped. I just didn’t think to bring it with me. On this floor, just like the commercial bldg floor, everything was very shallow; only an inch or two deep.

Got out today to a permission that’s close by. There’s an old house on this property and from what I’ve read the house was built in either the late 1800s or early 1900s. I’ve hit this place seven or eight times already and have gotten 6 silver coins. All dimes: two barbers and four mercs. The guy that bought the place is slowly tearing down the house and I noticed he finally got the roof rafters off of it. I’ve been wanting to detect the dirt under the floor system that he tore out a few weeks ago but I was leery of going in there with the weight of the roof on those old walls. So today I got in there with the nox and six inch coil. First thing I noticed was a LOT of bottle caps. That and lots and lots of iron. I had the nox running in both park 1 and park two with custom five tones, recovery on 7, iron bias at 0 and then 6, sense anywhere from 16-21. I got two ‘45 wheats, three buffs a ‘15, ‘18 and the other is too corroded to get a date off of. Highlight of the day was a ‘36 merc, my first silver of the new year.

Are you talking about the deus II? Because the deus II has an adjustment for coil knocks so it won’t sound off when the coil gets bumped.