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Hey Bob this was one of those spots that I had the gut feeling on. Yeah, I usually rotate my photos correctly before I upload, but forgot to do it this time. That part where you said that I always find something good when I post. Well, it’s more like I always post when I find something good. Lol!

Got out today to a site that used to have some old mill houses on it. I found another spot where a house stood and hit two wheaties. Then I started getting memorials…every coin was ringing up 90-91. Sometimes going to 89 on the low to 92 on the high and all pennies. However one of those 90-91 signals was a small shiny disc. At first I thought it was a well worn barber dime because it had the word dime on the back and this site probably only goes back to the early 1900s. When I took a closer look I could barely make out the outline of lady liberty sitting down. My first seated and oldest silver! I wish it was in a little better condition, but I’ll take it for silver #2 fty.

Your friend is in Canada?

^This is how I learned to navigate the menu. I just took the remote off the stem and took it to bed with me and fooled around with it. I know this sounds a little perverted, but it worked! LOL! I set the lower stem with coil beside the bed so it didn’t lose connection. I also had the owner’s manual on the nightstand next to me in case I needed it. Pretty easy to learn. Congrats on picking the D2. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

Hell yeah! All 14k too!

I like that idea of not having to press a button to ground balance. It senses the pumping motion and ground balances whenever you pump the coil. Nice!

Hell yeah Chase! Those are some awesome finds for an abbreviated hunt. Actually those are some awesome finds for an all day hunt too! Lol. If I’d have found that pipe tamper I’d still be scratching my head trying to figure out what it is. Thanks for posting!

Yes, slowing down is a major factor. Try roping off a small area and concentrating just on that one small area. Go slow!

Seriously though. If you’ve hit a site so much that you’re just digging non- ferrous signals, you need to turn your silencer and bottlecap reject both to zero. Then you will dig nails that sound good. But that’s what you’re gonna have to do in hopes to find something good intermingled with iron.

Before you wrap your D2 around a tree, send it to me…I’ll give it some love!

I have those “gut” or “hunch” feelings every so often and most of the time they do pay off! Just the week before last I had about 45 minutes after work before it got dark. There’s an old spring in the woods about 100 yards from my house. About 30 yards from the spring is a huge oak tree about 3-4’ in diameter. Tons of trash around that tree; aluminum pop cans and lots of iron. Anyways in that short time before it got dark I figured I’d try around the base of that tree one more time. I used my nox with the six inch coil. Amongst all the iron and trash signals I got a fairly decent tone ringing up 20-21. About 3” down was a 189? indian head penny! My first ihp for the year. I just had that hunch that there had to be a coin around the base of that tree!

To be honest, I would have no problem ever buying another coil and just continuing to use the 9” coil. That 9” coil is the goldilocks of coil sizes….at least for the D2 and the hunting I do. If I need something smaller I have my nox set up and ready to go with the 6” coil. In reality I don’t think a larger or smaller coil for the D2 would pay for itself with finds over and above what the 9 will get. Maybe if I did a lot of beach hunting…maybe? BUT, it’s always fun to buy a new toy and have specific tools for specific jobs! I guess I’m just rambling here. Lol

Hell yeah! There’s probably more out there where you got the slq.

So, a multiple of 62 mm, which to us still using the dinosaur units of inches and feet, is 2.44”. Which in multiples is: 2.44, 4.88, 7.32, etc. The ideal lengths depending on how tall you are and how far your shaft is extended will most likely fall in the following ranges: 31.72, 34.16, 36.6, 38.04, 41.48, 43.92. All in inches. I’m not so nerdy as I am anal, so I would use the length that best fits my needs. Thanks for the specs Pimento!

Hell yeah!

Call me different, but I like challenging sites like that, especially if I can hunt them multiple times trying different settings.

I would even take a 6” round if it’s possible to stuff a battery and circuit board in it. I have always (and still do) loved my 6” nox coil.

That 11x13 looks so much bigger than the 11”. Has anyone actually measured the width of both? From your pic the 11x13 looks a little wider than the 11”. It’s probably just the perspective.

One thing that may be an advantage to the 11” is that, since it being a stock coil, there may be more used ones available. Thus cheaper.

I’ll probably do what Carolina has done and coil the cable so it contracts as the rod is collapsed into its travel configuration. That way I could hunt in water that’s as deep as the top of the upper rod.

Me too! Lol

If I were to buy a larger coil, I would get the 11x13 over the 11”.

Hell yeah! And thanks for posting the tid that it came in at.

Thanks for the explanation Chase. I had surmised that the co-ax radiated it’s signal from the unshielded end. However, in the original post Parkgt’s photo shows the end of the cable sticking just past the end of the lower rod. When he puts the lower rod in the upper metal, the end of that cable is then enclosed in the upper metal tube and as shown in the video it works fine. Why is that?