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Well good on you, F350, but unfortunately some folks just don't deserve your kindness. You took the high road and stayed true to your nature. Your reward will come later. The woman on the other hand will probably stay true to her nature and lose all that again on her beach bender tonight! 😉

Sometimes you just need to go on a Fun Hunt and today's hunt was fun! The last few years our detecting club president and wife have hosted a Fun (seeded) Hunt and Picnic on their property which has been a farm, a ranch, a uranium mine, a campground with cabins, and a family getaway area. They have a lower field about the size of a football field where they plant the coins and conduct the hunt. I have been using the 11" coil on the D2 for my last few hunts just to get used to it and I must say I really like it. I don't really feel like it's any heavier than the 9" coil I've been swinging since I got the D2, even though I know it is. It seems to perform nearly identical to the 9" but has a little more coverage and I can run it a little hotter. So I took both coils to the Fun Hunt and decided to run the 11" today. It definitely did the job and now I'm thinking that instead of a small elliptical coil, maybe an 11x7" coil might be the hot ticket! Just a thought. 😏 I ended up with 28 silver Rosies, and a 1900 Barber Half Dollar, as well as a couple of Kennedy Half Dollars, a 1948-S Wheat Penny, and a 1910 British Penny. I know it doesn't really count the same as finding those in the wild, but the chances of finding an area here like that is pretty slim, so I'll take them and just call it a Fun Hunt! 😎

I have Sunday off (Father's Day 😎) and I have loaded your settings on my D2. I don't have a saltwater beach, but I do have a sandy lake beach nearby, so I'll try to see if I can replicate what you are experiencing. And maybe some of the other salt water hunters on here could do the same and post their results, because more users showing the same results may grease the wheels at XP, so to speak. 😎

Well that's looks like a great haul, a beautiful place, and an awesome week camping, well done indeed! I pity whoever stays there next and tries to detect there, they'll never go back. 😉

Thank you for checking that, Col. I hope they get that sorted out soon for you and the other beach hunters. I am always interested in learning the beach setting as well so I'll follow this thread closely. Thanks again for bringing this up! 😎

I may be way off here, Col, but one thing jumps out at me and that's the Audio Response setting. I get that beaches are noisy with people, wind, waves, and such so I would imagine you need to crank it up to hear the tones. However, the new V1.0 & V1.1 Audio Response was one of the settings that was beefed up by XP in the updates. I used to run AR at 5 in V0.71, but I had to dial it back to 4 with the new updates because it overloaded quite a bit on higher settings in my mineralized ground. I tried to run it on 5 a couple of days ago in an open field, but it really clipped the audio on shallower targets. I went back to 4 and deeper and shallower targets both sounded and separated better. I think it was Paystreak who has made a few mentions in recent videos that the Audio Response is basically an amplifier circuit and he demonstrated on live digs that when the setting is increased it amplifies everything in the ground more, making larger and shallower targets sounds amplified to the point that they can mask good targets. I know that doesn't address the TID masking issue, but I did some live dig tests today on a site with a lot of nails and big iron from demolished houses running my Fast Full Tones and Fast Pitch programs side by side. On more than a few instances I was able to pick out high coin tones colocated with iron with only spotty or no high TID numbers. That worked in Full Tones, but not when I switched over to Pitch Tones to check. I didn't try any of the 2 to 5 Tones settings, though. Just some thoughts.

Very interesting thread, Col. I know it's a typo, but you have your Audio Response listed as set at 9 (it only goes to 7) so I was curious what you have that set at. I'm also curious if you tried the Relic program in that scenario, as it's a Frequency Subtractive program as well. I too have surmised that there's more to the secret sauce of each program than Max Feq settings. Personally I like to leave iron audible and FE TID on to get a better idea about ferrous/non-ferrous interaction. If I suspect iron is hiding something, I'll dig it out to see.

Incredible ring set find, well done indeed, PI-Man!

Man, you have good eyes, F350! I think you're spot on... a copper Memorial.

Mine was off a few times with V0.71. It was correct after V1.0 update and has been correct with V1.1 even after pairing with different coils and headphones. Maybe try re-updating for those still having problems with the clock. It may well be a glitch in the clock code.

That's a special place to detect indeed, great hunt! Being able to hunt a place with your family connection is a rare thing and I imagine many of those items had a very personal connection to them and now to you. Well done, JCR!

Last week I reported on my soggy adventure at a relic site in town where I found one of my oldest local finds, which was a brass key tag from one of the oldest and the second largest 1800s hotel in the area, the Alamo Hotel. Here's the link if you'd like to read that post: Well I went back to that site a few days ago to see if I could find any other items related to the era or maybe even ot the hotel itself. It's been the one of the rainest Springs that I can remember, raining or storming almost eveyday for weeks, and it takes strategic timing to squeeze detecting in between one storm passing and the next one starting. I try not to complain about it because we really need the moisture after years of drought and fires, so I look at it as excercises in adapting to your environment. Adapt and overcome! 😏 So when I got back to the "mudlarking" site I noticed that the foliage had really sprung up in the area and weeds that were knee high in spots were now waist high only a few days after. I fired up my D2 with the 9" weed wacker coil and ran the same slightly modified General program and went to work. Once again, the General program was able to pull non-ferrous tones out of the soaked iron. I hit a strong 85-86 that sounded bigger than a modern penny not too far from where I found the hotel tag. I was thinking it was probably a soda can but it turned out to be a silver plated spoon. It looks like a fairly old one to me but it doesn't have any hallmarks on the back so it's hard to say how old it is. I also found an older looking pottery shard and a piece of fancy gold painted china in the same hole. I ran Silencer at 2 with no Notch and B-Caps at 0 because I want to listen to the iron since not all relics are non-ferrous. This kept the iron falsing down and I dug anything that sounded interesting. A couple of odd iron pieces were what looks like a square nail that has been pounded flat for some reason and a very corroded heavy ball shaped thing on the end of a broken shaft that kind of resembles part of a rifle bolt handle, but I don't know what it is. I also found a brass knob of some kind and the barrel of a kid's cap gun. The best find was a heavy brass slide with a steer head on it that banged in at 85-86 (just another reason why you have to dig zinc penny signals! 🤨). I think it is probably the end strap holder of a western style cowboy belt, probably from 1920s-50s if I had to guess. The last find of the day almost ended with a bang... no, nothing to do with the pistol bullet casings found. 😏 As I worked my way down the dirt road next to the site which has been there since the original houses (now long gone) were there, the clouds started moving in fast, the wind picked up, and the skies turned dark. Then I hit a solid 73. I couldn't equate a 73 to anything good in the site as it was usually a pull tab or ring pull, but this sounded really solid. It was more than a couple of inches down in the compacted dirt road so I had to chip my way around the target to get down to it. As I was working on it the first large raindrops fell and thunder began sounding closer. That's when I noticed a sporatic crackling static sound in the head phones. As I freed the target a clap of loud thunder boomed nearby. I took off my headphones and could now hear the crackling sound in the clouds directly overhead. I glanced at the crusty looking copper disk and thought, "Great, my tombstone will say- Killed by Lightning while digging a Zincoln!" So I threw it in the trash pouch and ran for the car! When I got safely got home, I went through the trash as I always do and noticed that the copper disc didn't look or feel like a zincoln at all. I can't make out any details, but my gut feeling is that it is what's left of an older penny, maybe a Wheatie or maybe even and Indian Head penny that had been repeatedly crushed by cars while under the dirt road. So there's my "Mudlarking, Part Deux" experience, and this experience has also taught me that the D2 makes a great Lightning Detector. Be careful out there! 😎 The Trash:

Wow, thats a great end to the week, F350, well done again! That's certainly a beautiful place to hang and hunt and I'm glad the weather cooperated with your vacation as well. Great stories and hunts and a welcomed distraction from my "duck weather". Thank you for posting your adventures! 😎

Yes you can.

Another great haul, F350, well done again! It is odd there's no silver in there. I'm finding that here alot too. It seems as if everywhere is cherry picked these days, but like you mentioned, why did they not pull all of the dimes and quarters? Weird, but maybe there's still some silvers hiding out there, and of course you have to keep looking to find them, so it's just a matter of time. 😏

Wow, that's some hot ground! Very interesting result using a beach program on land, I'll have to try that out. Thanks for sharing!

Great finds you two made and congrats on the silver, well done! It looks like your beachs are heating up in Florida. 😎

Great haul, Kaolin, and congrats on the silver, well done! Those erasers are a nightmare. It looks like one kid sharpened hit pencil down to the nub, He sure got his money's worth out of that one! 😉

PBS is real and the only cure is Notch, but more research is needed, so please make your donations to PBS research today and help us end this crippling plague once and for all!

That's great that you can still find coins in that pounded trash site and a testament to your skill and the D2, well done! That's interesting that you turned the FT Offset off. I haven't tried that yet and need to give that a go, but I tried General in Full Tones during a rain storm today and was quite impressed with it again. I'm beginning to see why so many like it.

Man, you killed it today, lots of great finds, congrats and well done! I'd say the Reaper 1.1 is doing the job alright. 😎

Well that sounds interesting, if you do find it, please post it. Thanks!

Awesome ring find, matt, congrats!

That does look like a fun day, congrats and well done!

Was it this one? At 14:33 he demonstrates the Audio Filter.