NCtoad

Nice finds Bob!   Maybe as winter gets here the weeds will die out enough around that barn to get a search coil in there.  With finding two silvers inside, there’s a good chance of finding more around the exterior perimeter.  

5 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

One thing I can see it as useful for is a backup. If you have the WSA II or + headphones, you can put the puck in a bag and swap it out rather quickly should your remote have a problem. Also if you have a second coil and shaft, which I am going to have soon, you have a full second detector.

What coil do you have now and which coil will you be buying?

I’ve never used the puck as the master.  I really like the remote and if XP had offered a package with the remote, WSAII headphones and no puck, I would have bought that.  I’m debating on selling the puck and buying the WSAII headphones or the WSAIIXL headphones.  For me the weight savings is pretty much negligible plus the remote feels much more ruggedly built.  
 

My other option that I might do is:  if XP offers a smaller elliptical coil, then I would keep the puck, buy one of the two headphones and another shaft for two different setups.  That would be much more expensive than my first option.  In fact I could probably pocket some $ by selling the puck and then buying the headphones.  
 

Am I missing anything here?

14 minutes ago, JCR said:

Well that is neat. I dug my first Barber Half this afternoon. Also 1901. No mint mark & very worn. Also a 1888 S  Liberty Seated Dime in Good condition, No date Buffalo Nickel & 2 No date Wheats. Our shovels match too!

Wow, that’s crazy!  The one I got has an O mint mark.  From what I could find out it’s a semi-key date.  I have yet to find a seated coin!

3 hours ago, strick said:

Nice work Toad. Ive only ever got one Barber Half and it was stained pretty good. The one you got there looks to be in great shape. Liking that car as well. I keep the old antique toy cars..the modern ones go in the trash or give to a kid if there is one near by. Is that a ring in the photo as well? 

strick 

Thanks Strick!  That thing that looks like a ring is (I think), a piece of an old odometer from a car or tractor.  

3 hours ago, abenson said:

 I’ve been reading some forums and watching some video on the Silver Slayer program for the XP Deus 2. Using notch seems to be the ticket to make the D2 perform well on coins in iron and modern trash. I had experienced a similar phenomenon while hunting for gold nuggets a few months back where I notched out iron on a site that was littered with nails. This resulted in me finding a .40 gram nugget. So, I got to thinking how would using notch work while detecting extremely trashy ghost town sites? Well, I tried it out this past weekend and was pleasantly surprised with the results. Those of you that hunt ghost towns know that it can be very challenging to pull good targets from all the trash. Not only are there hundreds of nails, you also have to deal with tin cans, bottle caps, stove parts, bolts, etc.

To help deal with all the trash I developed a program for the D2 I call GHOST, for ghost town hunting. It uses the same principles as the Silver Slayer program but at the same time is nothing like it. The GHOST program is set up to find tokens, nickels and IHP or higher coins. You can make adjustments to it to include Chinese cache coins and 3 cent silver if you like but my intent is to cherry pick the most common coins and tokens. I’m sure some of you will agree that you could spend hours in a small trashy area of a ghost town picking through the targets and analyzing every target with different programs to try and get everything possible. But not all of us have that kind of time so that’s where the GHOST program comes in. It’s meant to pull the best targets possible in the least amount of time.

Here is the way I have the D2 setup for the GHOST program. Based off the FAST program. Sensitivity 90, Audio response 4, Silencer 2, Bottle Cap reject 2, PWM audio, Reactivity 3, Notch 0-10, Disc can be setup for anything up to 10 but don’t go above whatever you have notched, 5 tones-first break will be whatever you have your disc set at, second break up to 58 232 Hz, third break 58-62 (or a little higher if you like) 750 or so Hz, fourth break 62-80 550 Hz, fifth break 80-99 901 Hz. In my video the Hz may vary and really you can use whatever Hz you want. The point is to make nickels and IHP/tokens stand out. Now the nickel range you can bump up a bit to 64 or 65 but I find most Jeffersons come in at those higher numbers and I’m really only interested in the Buffalos and older nickels.

Having the D2 setup like this really makes for a more enjoyable hunt experience in my opinion. Nails are totally illuminated. Bottle caps and flat tin can easily be ID’s through broken audio. Very little flat tin type targets give a good audio response unlike other setups I’ve used. Coins, tokens and other relics that fall in the target bins, give clean audio and visual responses. For those target s that fall in the bins you have at lower Hz settings, they can be analyzed individually to determine if you want to dig them.

So now for the proof. I went to 4 different ghost towns over this last weekend. One is on private property which the owner has allowed hunting on for decades. I have personally been there 30 or 40 times over the last 30 years. I’ve used the Equinox, ORX, Deus, Simplex, Racer 2, Explorer, Fisher CZ 6a. eTrac, etc. over those 30 years and never brought more than one coin/token per trip home. Until now. Day 1 we didn’t start hunting until 2 pm. First good signal in the 90-93 range, right next to a fallen down wooden shack with lots of nails around, up pops a 1944-D dime. Not as old as I would have expected but silver non the less. Second good high tone signal in an area littered with flat tin and nails turns out to be a 1902 barber dime.

Day 2 spent most of the morning exploring some other ghost towns in the area on 4 wheelers. Didn’t get the metal detectors out much because it’s BLM and you really should only be searching for minerals or newer relics. Sad because most of these towns have been used as party spots for decades, leaving beer cans and bottle caps littered everywhere. I did pick up a few newer pennies around some of the fire pits. About 3 pm we decided to go back to the private property and search until dark, giving me about 4 hours to find something.  Got a number of high tones in the 83-88 range that all turned out to be items such as aluminum caps, a thimble, drawer pull, harmonica reed plates, etc. But then I got one signal in the 90-93 range and out pops the oldest coin of the trip an 1853 seated dime. Keep hunting along and pulled a few targets that were in the nickel range that all turned out to be brass odds and ends. Then 1 hour before we were ready to leave as I was working my way back to the truck I got a signal right next to a piece of flat tin 95-97 range. But after removing the piece of tin I was still getting 95-97 and it turned out to be an 1894-S Quarter. Now you can say that nobody ever swung over those targets before or a host of other things. But me personally I think the D2 has something special going on when notch is used.

I did a video of the trip below. In the video I show all the audio and visual ID for the coins so you can get an idea of just how good notch works on the D2. Thanks everybody!

 

 

Abenson, you deserve a “Hell Yeah” for not only getting 4 silvers, but for getting them out of a site that you’ve pounded for years!   I agree that there’s some special mojo going on with the deus and notching.  Congrats!

My cheap and easy fix:  I removed the corresponding section opposite of the break and used two zip ties to hold it in place.  Very secure, even more so than when it was new.  

7 minutes ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Steve, I would readily pay $40 to $50 for a carbon fiber or other properly sturdy extension that attaches similar to the 3D printed versions that don’t hold up. I don’t need your beautiful shaft/arm cuff upgrade for what I do but I get tired of chasing my XP detectors down hills and over cliffs😀

thanks

Jeff

It almost seems as if XP designed those feet on the armcuff to attach an extension to.  It has those molded in nubs that these aftermarket stands are using to keep their extensions in place.  I’d sure like to hear an explanation from an XP rep as to why they made the stand so short.  Otherwise, I really like the stock shaft.  

2 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Mine broke months ago. Its was the one in the second photo. Nice idea……..wrong way to produce it. 

Thanks for posting this Jeff.  That’s the one I was going to get because the ears are wider and look stronger, but I’ll look for something else now.  

I bought one of those 3d printed aftermarket stands for my D2 a while back. Well, it broke last evening.  The little “ear” that clips over the too short deus stand broke off and now it won’t stay attached.  I’ll try to remember to post a pick when I get home from work.  I bought it off of ebay from a seller named manxkat5.  It doesn’t look like he’s selling them anymore. Here’s a pic from a different seller with the narrow ears like the one I had 

My question is:  has anyone else had one break and what, if anything, did you replace it with?   I don’t want to spend $15 on a part that’s going to break every 4 or 5 months.  Are there better options?  Here’s a link to one that has wider ears but it costs more:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175321515599?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=tjwVIf_yT8q&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=aM-gh_K9QNO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I really liked the stand because it kept the detector from constantly falling over.  But, like I said above, I want one that’s not going to break so easily.  The ones in both pics above say they are printed in PETG for strength and durability.  I don’t know what the one I had was printed from.  Is PETG going to hold up?

Here’s a pic of mine:

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!

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.  

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.  

Man, that’s a nice one!   Congrats!