NCtoad

I was using program 2 (sensitive) when I found the walker. Three tones but second tone break set at 86 and I upped the frequency of the high tone to 881 hz. I also think I set the sensitivity to 95. Stock settings other than this. I don’t think that half was on edge although I think it was tilted slightly from horizontal. I need to pay more attention to what I dig. I see shiny in the hole and just want to get it out! Lol

Very nice!

I work for a resort that has 1400 acres and two youth camps. The resort was started back in 1909 so I’ve found some silver here over the past three years that I’ve been working here. However it’s been pretty slow for the past year as I’ve cleaned out most of the grassy areas with my equinox. This weekend is the first time I’ve had the D2 in the older youth camp which dates to the 1930s. Yesterday I hit two mercs, a 1920 and a 1926 just inches apart. Today I went back and got my third (and nicest) walking liberty half for the year. The areas where these coins were found had been hit with my nox multiple times. Is it the deus or did I just miss these three with the nox? I don’t know, but I’m definitely going to hit more of the non-wooded areas with the deus II. I hadn’t taken the deus to these areas before today because I had hit these areas so many times with my nox that I didn’t think I’d find much. Hmmm, I might need to re-think this. LOL!

Dang man! Double gold! I’ve never had a double gold day. Congrats!!

That deserves a “Hell Yeah”!

I bought one of their stainless scoops. I’ve only detected at the ocean three times since I started detecting and done fresh water hunting only a few times more than that, but it worked well and is very strong. I bought mine off his ebay store and contacted him about modifying it with a solid strap around the back. He did that for me for no extra charge.

It doesn’t work like that in full tones. See this thread:

I shorten the rod every time I take it in the car. I don’t worry too much about wear and tear on the camlocks because if they do wear out you can buy them as parts from XP. It’s another reason I like this detector: You can buy spare parts if they break or wear out.

I saw those a couple of weeks ago and was going to order one but then I got to thinking about it. What would happen if I tripped and fell on my detector? Something’s got to give and either that mounting device will break or the plastic on the back of my remote will. So I decided to just go with the factory tether. What made me think of this was about 20 years ago I bought a BMW R1150GS motorcycle. This was an adventure type motorcycle with the two horizontally opposed cylinders that stick out from the sides of the bike. This is commonly known as a “boxer” engine. Being an adventure bike I rode it on gravel roads and other places where you wouldn’t take a strictly street oriented bike. When you do that with a big, heavy bike you’ll eventually drop it. When you do drop it the first thing that makes contact with the ground is the cylinder head. Now BMW is aware of this and provides stock plastic cylinder head guards. They look and feel pretty flimsy. It wasn’t long after that bike came on the market that there were aftermarket suppliers of better, more robust cylinder guards. One such company made very stout aluminum guards that just bolted to the engine in the same bolt holes that the stock guards used. I thought they looked very strong and rugged so I bought a pair and installed them. Not too long after that I dropped the bike at a walking pace coming off the edge of a sidewalk. Guess what happened? That strong aluminum cylinder guard was so stiff that the weight of the bike made it crack the bolt hole where it attached to the engine! If I would have had the stock plastic guard it would have flexed and just gotten scratched and I could have replaced it and the bike would have looked like new. Instead I had to take those guards off and left them off. I ended up selling the bike about a year later with full disclosure of the damage. If I would have kept the bike I would have had to find someone to weld that hole with aluminum then drill and re-tap it. Sorry for the long story but just a heads up of what could happen. Edit: I’m not trying to discredit detecting doodads product, it’s probably great for water hunters and such where the detector probably won’t get dropped or fallen upon. But if you’re hiking through the woods and you trip and fall on the remote in such a way that there’s a lot of force put on it, something’s going to give. I would probably bet XP designed the remote attachment so that it does pop off before something breaks.

Just from the vast amount of clad I’ve found, I’d say this school hasn’t been detected for (and I’m guessing here), at least 10 years. Most of the clad is in the 2-5” range. If I’m remembering correctly the two silver dimes were in the 6-7” range but they were in an area that gets more shade and the ground was softer there. I didn’t hunt the sports fields, only the surrounding grassy areas. I don’t think there’s any watering done and I don’t know about fertilizer.

Perfect analogy!

Since I subscribed to Paystreak’s videos, I want to get the phoenix model because of the curved, dish-shaped blade. For the last few years I’ve been using a rootslayer nomad. I’ve been pretty happy with it, but looking to try something different.

The deus 2 is definitely a very good clad machine! Yes, unfortunately all the jewelry is junk😥. I dug both rings within minutes of each other. That sorta put me in jewelry mode for the rest of the hunt! Lol

Actually my girls wanted to see the band concert so I said I’d take them and do a little detecting while they were watching the concert😁 I agree on the “it’s money”. It adds up over time. I usually use my clad to buy metal detecting accessories. I’ve had my eye on a predator shovel.

Hunting’s been slow lately. I don’t mean not being able to get out and detect, but just that the finds have been slow and insignificant. To spice it up a bit I took my daughters to a band concert at the high school on Thursday. While they were watching the concert I detected an area of the school grounds that I hadn’t detected before. (A little background on this school: It was built in 1960 and on a previous hunt I got two silver dimes. However on previous hunts it was the amount of clad that made it fun. On one hunt last year I got $30.03 and on another $18.15 plus the ‘59 and ‘64 rosies mentioned above.) I got on some clad right away and ended up with $7.97 in a little less than two hours. Today I went back to the same school and hit the same area as I did Thursday plus other grassy areas. Today’s total was $14.63 in clad plus a surprise! About halfway through the hunt I dug up what I thought was a dime but on closer examination it was a 1943 Swedish 25 ore coin which is 40% silver. I’m not a big clad hunter like some guys, but when things are slow it sure puts the fun factor back in detecting!

Wherever you read that 3 was the fastest recovery speed, they might have been talking about the 600. There is no audio response on the nox. Audio response is volume modulation where deeper targets sound fainter than shallow targets. IMO the nox has poor modulation no matter what the recovery speed is set to.

Right on Steve! I’d much rather spend my precious metal detecting time actually detecting. However there are times when I’ll do a few tests just to wrap my head around how the detector functions under certain circumstances. When I do those tests, the objects I’m testing are sitting directly on the ground which still isn’t anything close to an object that has been sitting in the ground undisturbed for many years. This discussion also reminds of guys who swear every nickel they’ve ever dug rang up as a 12 on a nox! You just gotta take these tests with a grain of salt.

That’s a really neat buckle! I know nothing about buckles but it looks really old.

Great hunt! That nickel is in great shape!

I’m assuming that since the large majority of silver halves are 90% silver, that is what he used in his test.

It was a silver half dollar that came in at 99. The Morgan silver dollar came in at 96. I find that strange. Can someone explain to me why a the larger silver dollar came in lower than the silver half?

What was that guy from Silence of the Lambs? Lol!

Congrats on all the neat finds and especially that barber quarter! I’ve been on a silver drought as of late, glad to see others finding some silver!

When I need to charge, I usually plug the charger in before going to bed and unplug it in the morning. I also don’t charge anything unless it needs it. For example, if I know I’ll be going on a five hour hunt and the coil is showing 2 bars, I’ll charge it the night before. If I’m going out for an hour or two I won’t charge it. My coil gets charged more than the remote or ws6.

Lots of great stuff there for the first hunt! Finding that large cent gives you the inCENTive for going back! Lol If I may ask, what does the land owner want you to look for?