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I don’t know what voodoo hoodoo stuff xp has going on with the d2. I had silencer at 2, bottlecaps at 0 and reactivity at 3.

I think I dug two holes that were nails. You have to remember though how many times I’ve hit this area. Thus I’m digging signals I probably wouldn’t if it were a newer site. The more times I go over a site the iffier the signals I will dig praying that it might be silver!

I have to give you a “hell yeah” just for the effort!🤗

Wow, I just posted about finding more coins in my pounded site using the Fast program with disc at 40! Your finds are much, much nicer than what I got, but still a testament to the D2 fast program. Congrats!

I can’t say for sure how many times I’ve hit this particular site, but probably half a dozen times with the nox and 3 or 4 times with the deus. This time I ran the stock Fast program with disc at 40, sensitivity at 95 and pitch in PWM tones. This is a site where some old mill houses stood and it’s littered with old trash, pieces of coal, you name it, but very little modern trash or coins. I can’t believe I found 15 pennies. 12 are wheats and 3 copper memorials. I also got two military buttons, a princess pat makeup lid and what looks like an old lipstick case. I’ve probably gotten 10 silver coins from this area. I was really hoping to get on the board for 2023 to start my silver count😟.

Dang Chase, what a great explanation! No way I could have replied with such an informative and fact filled post! Thanks!

I’m in no hurry for an update. Version .0.71 works pretty darn good from my perspective as far as raw performance is concerned. Plus ( like you said), I’d rather have a bug free update than to have to keep updating to fix the update. I would much rather spend my free time detecting than updating. Lol

I have to admit I’m probably the odd man out in that I prefer the “duck in distress” sounds of the PWM audio!

I have to disagree. Rattlehead’s silver slayer program is a very precise coin shooter program. With the appropriate notching, any of the basic programs can be used with pitch tones to make a very effective coin shooter program.

This almost exactly mirrors my thoughts on the D2. I say almost because I clicked with deus the first time out. It’s an absolute joy to swing with that 9” coil. I became comfortable very quickly with the menu setup, writing and saving programs and the button layout. (One thing I don’t like about the button layout is turning the pinpoint function on and off. They should have made use of the same button to turn it on and off instead of having to switch.) I loved my nox. It was my first really, really good and most expensive detector since I started detecting about 6 years ago. I used it since they first came out and thought I was doing well with it. But since getting the D2 I’ve only had the nox out twice! And both of those times it felt like a tank with the 11” coil and its tones sounded so foreign. I couldn’t even remember how to ground balance it. I had to look up the nox manual on my phone😂. I don’t think I’ll sell my nox though. It’s a great detector and makes a great back up detector. I have the 6” inch coil on now, so it’s pretty light and easy to swing, but I still prefer the deus. About the wireless aspect. I too became a little miffed about this when out in the woods detecting a spring. I wanted to detect the bottom of the spring reservoir but as soon as I submerged my coil the detector quit. It took me a few seconds to figure out why! However, I can see a real big advantage to not having a hardwired coil if I was ever to detect a crawl space or a cave or some other place where you might be on all fours. You can just hold that lower shaft and swing it around like a wand. Other than submerging the coil and losing the signal, I like the wireless coils. I like my deus so much that I hardly ever think about the manticore. I am almost certain I won’t buy one, unless in a year or two’s time it’s really is out performing the D2. But hopefully XP will keep updating the D2 and it’ll perform just as well or better than the manticore.

Hell Yeah Bob! That’s an oldie right there and I think anyone that found one of those would be rightfully proud! Congrats! I have to say this though: If I had gotten permission to hunt the yard around the house, I would have chucked the field and made a beeline to that yard. Lol. I’m glad you don’t think like me. Lol

46 silver coins, however one of Roosevelt dimes came from a coinstar and my kids found that one, so 45 is my official total for the year. Two of those were foreign coins: a 1922 British half crown and a 1943 Norwegian 25 ore. I also got an 1867 Italian 10 centesimi copper. In the pic are my only gold finds for the year, both are rings; a 10k and a 14k. Since I started detecting about 6-7 years ago, this is my 3rd highest fty total. However, this year had 5 big silvers; 3 walkers, 1 barber half and the half crown. It was my year of the half. Lol! I’m pretty happy with my total. I was hoping for 50, but it just didn’t happen. Silver’s getting harder to find around here and if I don’t get some good permissions this year, I doubt if I’ll beat 2022’s total. It’s fun trying though!

The Holy Grail! That would pay for a LOT of detectors! Lol

George for those of us who are fairly new to detecting, can you tell us what it was like detecting back in the 70s? I’m sure there was more silver coins and more virgin sites that had never been detected. How well did the detectors from that era work?

Very nice! Can someone explain the advantages (or differences) in a straight rod verses the S shaped stock rod?

I haven’t gotten out much this month. But the last three hunts were on the property where I work and each time I hit silver. The 1904 O barber was a surprise. It was wet that day and I thought it was just another clad quarter, but when I got home and counted my clad, I got a nice surprise! Next up was the ‘63 rosie. It was in a really trashy area and only maybe two inches deep but the D2 hit it hard with good numbers using a modified 5 tone general program. Today was the ring. I was using the fast program with disc at 41 and PWM pitch tones. It was very shallow too and rang up 96 with a 97 coming in about every other pass. I sorta thought it was going to be a silver quarter, but I’ll take the ring. (This and the barber quarter is an example of why I’d like to see an expanded high conductor tid range.). I wasn’t going to post any of these but the quarter is a semi-key date and it’s been a little slow here with the bad weather going on across the country.

I’d love to see an expanded high conductor range. I don’t even know if that’s possible, but that’s my wish😍! There’s one other thing: I wish the ground balance would stabilize in 4 or 5 pumps instead of 12 or 13 pumps (yes I count them).

It was Metaldetector.com, but I either read the green print of “In stock” and didn’t notice the word “No” after it or someone bought their last one after I posted. Sorry for giving anyone hope that they were still available. You’d think their website would take it down completely since tesoro is no longer in business and they will never be in stock again. https://www.metaldetector.com/tesoro-4-inch-round-concentric-search-coil-with-5-pin-connector

Hell yeah! Everyone loves them some gold! I’ve been paying more attention to solid 50s signals lately, but no gold. I’ve dug two gold rings with my D2, one a solid 63 and the other a solid 66.

Minelab must have only electrical engineers working for them; not a single mechanical engineer on the payroll! It makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

Tom Dankowski https://dankowskidetectors.com/

Great, easy to understand explanation!

I’ve found a few of those presidential one dollar coins, but I don’t think any of them are George Washington ones. Congrats on a fun find!

I noticed that anomaly in full tones while doing a little testing this past summer. Maybe a future update will fix that. I hardly ever run full tones and when I do I set the disc at its lowest setting of -6.8 which is maybe why xp has it set that low in program 3 (sensitive full tones). BTW, I almost always use program 3 to find a clean piece of ground to do a ground balance. That number then carries over to any custom program I may want to use where I have some discrimination or notching.

That’s usually how anything that’s not silver or gold comes out where I am in Western North Carolina too. 🥲🥲 I feel your sadness!