NCtoad

Just because it’s such a trashy area and most of the coins are very shallow (1-3”)

I use a custom General program. I call it Gcoin3. It uses a lot of notching and as the name suggests, it’s for finding coins and uses 3 tones. Here’s my settings: disc: 7 sens: 95. But can vary iron volume: 3 reactivity: 1.5. But can also vary depending on the amount of trash. I feel 1.5 is a good starting point for deep silver coins in areas that aren’t really trashy. tones: 3 as the name implies B cap reject: 0. Most areas I dig don’t have a lot of bottlecaps. silencer: 0 notch 1: 7-57 notch2: 66-80. You can raise the higher number to 87 if you’re strictly cherry picking for silver coins but you’ll miss indian head pennies and maybe some smaller silver coins like half dimes and such. I’ve never dug a half dime so I’m just guessing that it would come in lower than 87. Also the nickel window of 58-65 will get some gold also.

Great hunt! I still have two tesoros left: 6” compadre and the mojave. Just sold my 8” compadre on ebay to a 78 year old guy. He just emailed me that he loves it. Fun detectors that will still find the goods.

I dug one similar to yours, hole and all. Mine does have enough detail to assure it’s a large cent.

That’s the truth! Permissions to private residences are hard to get and the public areas are pretty much hunted out. Sometimes I’ll luck upon a place that hasn’t been hit hard, but it’s rare.

All I had to do today was get a material list for a deck repair side job in a neighboring town. On the way there I hit a large park that I hadn’t been to in probably 4 or 5 years. This isn’t an old park and from previous research that I had done there weren’t any houses there before the park went in. I was just going there to get clad and maybe some jewelry. I ended up on a large field that is used for soccer. Things were slow and target signals few and far between, but near the middle of the field I got a deeper sounding high tone (I was in program 3 but with the reactivity at 1.5) coming in at 89-91. About 5-6” down I see a silver rim and out pops a 1951 rosie. Definitely a nice surprise! Then not 10 feet away I got a bouncy 70s signal and a few inches down was a nice little rose petal 925 earring. I left not long after that and headed to the deck job. On my way back I stopped in my little town and figured I’d hit some curbstrips. I got a few wheaties and was heading back to the car and hit a strip without a sidewalk. I got a wheat then got a nice 95-97 signal and out pops a 1939 GW. A few feet further I got a 1950 rosie. I then rounded the corner and hit a very narrow (about 16-18”) strip along the sidewalk and got a well worn 1944 merc. By then it was getting dark so I called it quits. I ended up with 4 silvers, the 925 earring, 9 wheaties, a 1952 Canadian cent and $5.97 in clad. My last silver coin was back on the last day of July so these four were very welcomed. I’m now at 31 for the year.

I agree with everyone else who bought one. Well made, very strong and easy to use. Great tool!

Since I bought the deus II, it’s been my primary detector. In fact, since I got it, I’ve only put maybe 5 or 6 hours on my nox 800. I usually keep the 6” on the nox but last weekend I hunted a “retired” golf course and used the nox with the 11” coil (to get more coverage) for the last two hours of the hunt. It had been so long since I had used it that I forgot how to ground balance it and had to look it up on my phone! 😂 Anyways, I hit the small front yard of the clubhouse with the D2 and pulled 8 wheaties, went over it again with the nox and got zilch. Now that I’m very familiar with the D2, I’m loving it and the nox feels bulky and like an old friend that I haven’t seen for years. If I decide to get a new manticore I’ll probably sell the nox. I just can’t see me managing 3 different detectors and being proficient with all three. Heck, I have two Tesoro compadres and a mojave that I never use and really need to sell.

Well, it’s been a little over 24 hours since I re-set the clock on my remote. It is right on, to the minute. Hopefully it’ll stay that way.

I hardly ever look at the clock on my remote, mainly because I need bifocals but refuse to get them. Anyways, I noticed today that the time was way off. I know it was correct about a couple of months ago. I had checked it back then because I had read (I think on this forum) that someone else had noticed their clock not keeping time. When I checked it then it was correct within a minute of the time on my phone. Has anyone else had this problem and did figure out what was causing the clock to be off? I just reset the time and will check it in a day or two and see if it’s still accurate. I’m also posting a pic of my latest silver find.

Have I missed a release date or is this an unknown?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!