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The curse is broken! 😆 I finally hit gold with the D2! Of course there was no curse, there was a curve... a learning curve. There was and still is a lot to learn with the Deus 2, but I feel like I've turned a corner and perhaps made it to the next level. I've been experimenting quite a bit lately with programs and settings and have really gelled with Relic, Fast, and to some extent, Deep HC for the places I hunt and the targets I seek. I am land locked in the iron rich soil of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. I hunt city parks, creeks, lake shores, and occasionally ghost towns and relic sites. Even in my parks there is iron loaded fill dirt under the sod and tons of modern metal trash in the sod. So the Fast program and variations of that have really worked well for me to separate and unmask good targets. I generally hunt in Pitch tones with Square audio because I like that slap in the ears when it pops a good sounding target tone through the garbage layers that stops me in my tracks. But a couple of days ago I was waiting for a detecting buddy to show up at the same old park we were at last week and nobody was in the park so I decided to play around with some setting while I was waiting. I fired up a the D2 and loaded up a modified wide open Fast program and switched to Full tones with PWM audio. I rarely hit play grounds because they are always busy but since I was the only one there, I figured why not. I took two steps into the tot lot and got a banging 50-51 tone. I figured it was a foil cap liner from a juice bottle, but just a inch or two under the wood chips was a beautiful 5.3 gram 14K gold ring with a black star sapphire center stone surrounded by small diamonds, which has already been claimed by the wife! 😉 I seriously thought of just calling it a day after that because there was no way to beat that, but I was there to look for older coins so I stuck it out. I ended up with a silver earring back, 7 copper memorial pennies, no wheats or indians or silver dimes though, a 5 cent "Toy Money" coin, an older metal toy army jeep with "Chicago, USA" underneath, and other odds and ends, including a thick chunk of heavy brass colored metal with "maco" on it. So the ring made my day. Was it found because I switched programs? I don't know. I have been running my notched Fast program at 40 so I would have found it with that program for sure. It was probably sheer luck. Right place, right time kind of thing because that park is hit almost every day by detectorists according to a few locals I talked to. So whatever the reason, I'm happy to have finally found gold with the D2 and I feel like I am now comfortable enough with it to make any kind of changes I need to to suit the place I'm hunting on the fly. The more I explore with the Deus 2, the more I love it! We are finally learning to trust each other. 😎

Very nice results with the 13" coil and Steve's Shaft. Congrats on the relics and old ring! Well done again!

Wow, that is a thing of beauty, very cool! 😎

I started thinking about that double rig setup recently because my detecting buddy just got his WS6 Master D2 and I thought it would be fun to have a WS6 Master to just grab and go when we detect together and the Steve's Detector Rod setup with the 13" coil when I want to sanitize a big sports field of all its metal. 😆 Then I saw your post and I'm thinking that's the way to go. Thanks again for all your insights! 😎

What, no camo, F350? 😉 But serious, sweet looking rigs. Now you got my gears a-grindin'. 😎

You know hunting ghost towns and old home sites are hard places to hunt and the toughest places to test a new detector. It looks like you got a ton of non-ferrous items and certainly could have hit silver or gold if the coil was over it. The more you get to know the Manticore, the easier it will be to dial it in to the targets you want. I'd say you are making good headway with it and appreciate your reports for the rest of us to see to get realistic expectations. Well done, thanks again!

Another great hunt and great photos! That house is beautiful and a day with old buttons, coins, and relics found is a good day. Congrats on the Wheats and Indian and reign guide! And congrats on the CW pull tab... those are super rare! 😉

Thank you Ogliuga! That helps a lot. So does the Disc blank iron sounds or make them sound like non-ferrous tones above the set Disc number? Either way that explains my Full Tones nail tests not having iron tones because the Disc was set higher than the VDI of the nails. Thanks for helping me understand, guys, I'm a little slow, but I can be taught! 😏

Wow, Christmas came early! That's an awesome haul S.O.N., silver, gold, and Barbers, oh my! Another epic hunt, congrats!

Wow, that's a huge hunk of silver, congrats! It definitely looks hand made. Well done!

Actually it was added in the 0.70 update, but we've discovered it only works if the Discrim setting is 0 or lower.

Thank you palzynski, but I'm going to hold out for the D2 version and keep poking at XP until they make one just to get rid of me. 🤣

Congrats, on the gold ring, Skate, it's very unique. Well done!

Thank you, Chase! I have been using Pitch for searching and love it for stopping me in my tracks on potential good targets. Coming from the Nox, I naturally gel with Square audio, but have been trying to train my ears with PWM audio and I'm starting to get the hang of it. I do like Full Tones in PWM for interrogating the size and conductivity of targets but the missing Iron tones threw me. I suppose since I get the iron tones with my Pitch program, I don't necessarily need iron tones in Full Tones just to interrogate. Thanks for your insights!

Yes, thank you! I agree cpmpletely, come on XP if you make it for D2, it will sell! 😉

If it were'nt for detectorists, people in parks would be walking, sitting, and playing on a solid carpet of rotting zinc pennies, pull tabs, and can slaw. So you're welcome parks departments everywhere! 😎 They should outlaw pop-top cans and make pennies out of cardboard, IMHO! 😁

Well now you've got all the bases covered, congrats! I don't have the 11", but my 9" is great on low conductors in my highly iron mineralized soils. F350 is right about elliptical coils, he is doing very well with his and I am looking forward to adding the 11x13" when they get back in stock here. Now if XP releases a 6x9" coil for relic hunters (land only) then look out, the D2 will cut through hot ground like melted butter! 😎

So I was monkeying around in my basement with the D2 yesterday because it seems like it snows every other day now and the ground is hard as concrete and there is surprising low EMI down there. Also if I don't swing a detector for more than 3 days, my right arm curls up in the fetal position and won't respond, so I end up chasing the cat around the house trying to "detect" if he still has his collar on with the D2. 😾 Anyhew, I grabbed a handful of rusty and bent square nails, bottle caps, pull tabs, and a silver dime and a gold ring, and started experimenting with Disc and Notch settings, as well as PWM vs Square audio and Pitch vs Full tones. I was mainly using various modified Fast and Deep HC programs to test separation and masking which is starting to yield some interesting results. Of course I realize those tests have limited useful data made on top of a box and not buried in my iron hot ground, but why not use my down time to try and learn something and give the cat a break, right? One thing I found interesting, and maybe everyone else is aware of, is that when I was in a program that had the Discrimination set to a number higher than about 1 or 2 and changed to Full Tones, the iron tone disappeared, but if I switched to Pitch or any of the multi-tones, the iron tones were there. I like to run my Iron Volume at 3 to hear if there is iron co-mingled with targets and I don't really use Full Tones much except on the Sensi.FT program which I almost never use. I have one Fast program set up with Disc at 8 and Notch from 0.0 to 8, and the Notch blanks out the iron tone (0-8) in Pitch or Full Tones as expected, but I also have a wide open Fast program with Disc at 9 and no Notch and while I get Iron tones in Pitch it is gone in Full tones. When I drop the Disc down to 0.0 in Full tones, iron tones are there. So I guess my question is this normal for Full Tones or is it a matter of adjusting other parameters? I tried different Silencer and B.Caps settings and combinations, but they didn'y seem to affect that in Full Tones. Am I missing something? Thanks for reading through this rambling mess if you made it that far. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to fire up the D2 and see if the cat has his collar on. 🙀

3 year warranty. Don't know about the screen protector though.

Well there's a 9" and 11" but no 13" on either site.... 🤣

Great adventure and great finds! It was like reading a Hardy Boys book... The Lost E-Bike at Deadman's Gulch. 😄 I hope your leg is better, Cal. You guys are hardcore! Well done!

What a great hunt! Nice buttons and Indians and Wheats are always nice to find too. Congrats! There still could be some silver lurking below, and it looks like you've got the 13" dialed in well with your D2, so it's just a matter of time until you hit some deep silvers. 😎

I imagine everyone will be sold out for Christmas, but there will probably be more arriving next month.

The 900 has the same pod and grip design as the Manticore. The grip is a thinner pistol-like grip with a better angle on it too. Here is a post from SteveH that shows a profile view of the 800 and 900 pods for a better comparison. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page to see it.