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On 6/18/2023 at 3:42 PM, Dcraun said:

The river is extremely low near the house so I took the kayak out to a place where a bridge used to cross the river but was burnt during the Civil war. I turned up some Civil war bullets both Yankee and Confederate a homemade fishing sinker some iron relics and two handguns! You never know what's in the river I guess.

Hmm... North Anna? 

19 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

I have found the ORX gold modes actually do the best in the mineralized Virginia dirt.  Not a fan of the limited 3 tone option on the ORX in the coin modes for Virginia hot dirt relic hunting (vs. the multiple tone and pitch options of Deus) but they can be used. However, the ORX and Deus gold modes will give you more depth and sensitivity in hot dirt.  Problem is in really hot ground, the VDI becomes unreliable on both ORX and Deus at around 4 to 6 inches of depth but you will hear the target, you'll just have to dig it to find out if it's ferrous or a keeper.  Use some test targets like previously recovered minie balls and buttons and experiment with recovery speed settings (reactivity) and coil frequency to see what combos work best at your sites.  Gold mode uses a pitch based tone rather than tone ID and it has a threshold tone and iron rejection vice discrimination.  Iron rejection breaks up the audio if the detector thinks you are swinging over a ferrous target.  Problem is, in hot mineraluzed dirt the reject signal keys off the magnetite in the soil so most all targets ferrous or not break up so it is kind of useless.  I personally like reactivity at 2.5 or 3 and 28 khz frequency as the sweet spot for relic hunting using the round 9" HF coil.  I am partial to pitch tone mode on the Deus vs. the ORX, but you can snag some great relics with the ORX too.  Good luck.

Thanks for the information. I appreciate that! My former detectors ground balanced 70- 80 around here. If I ever get up towards Culpeper, I'll be sure to run the gold modes. I've been watching that fellow on you tube that has the Skill School channel.

12 hours ago, Tnsharpshooter said:

Welcome to the forum.

Congrats on your ORX purchase.

Thanks, looking forward to to trying in a few of my relic spots!

23 hours ago, groundscanner said:

Which coil did you get with your ORX?

I got the 9" round coil coming with the Orx. 

Hey fellas...new to this forum, but frequent some of the others. Thought I'd check this one out. I have the Orx headed my way.  Maybe get some ideas on some good settings for Civil War hunting? I hunt mostly in Central Va...soil conditions where I hunt is usually not so bad. Plenty of time to learn the detector for now until the fall of the year...my time to hunt. Thanks for any ideas and good luck hunting.