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  1. LOL! 🤣 Thanks, Gh, I was thinking I had seen that pattern before on some images of prehistoric plants. That matches it exactly! 😎
  2. Wow, darn good season there, gopher, congrats and well done!
  3. That's hardcore hunting mode, Sinclair, congrats on the silvers and coins! 😎 I snow hunt and like it. Seldom anyone around and my D2 likes the cold so I can go until my hands freeze! 😏
  4. Thanks, LC! Yeah, that fossil was a nice surprise. You just never know what you'll find metal detecting! 😎
  5. Thanks! I don't think I'll forget that hunt anytime soon. My wife was about to make my son drive 3 hours out in the wilderness in the dark to try and find me. Luckily my friend saved my bacon before that happened! 😉
  6. Lol! It was definitely a fun day. The night was a little sketchy though! I'm not saying it was aliens... ,but... 🛸 I had the battery checked and it's in good shape. I tracked the problem down to the dome light. It must have been on for days because I don't remember turning it on. That's the danger of leaving the lights on "Auto", I suppose. Now I check to see that everything is off before I leave the car. And I bought a remote battery jumper to keep in the "just-in-case" box! 😉
  7. Wow, that is much better! That's the add-on cost of import export I suppose. 😏
  8. Wow, F350, you bounced back big time! Congrats on the Merc, Wheatie and specially that Draped Bust Large Cent, OMG, that's awesome!! I can't even imagine finding something like that. 1700s coins are more rare than hen's teeth out here in the wild west! 😏
  9. Way to sniff out the masked finds, Lodge Scent, well done! 😎 I don't recognize the eagle button, but it looks like it might be an early great seal design. I can see the Union shield on the eagle, an olive branch, and possibly stars above the eagle head, and it looks really old, as does that "sun" button. Congrats! What is the disc at the bottom left corner, a coin?
  10. And the Simplex CF lower shaft is half the price of the Detect-Ed CF lower, you just have to do a little sanding to make it fit properly. XP really should make their own CF lower shaft though.
  11. Way to go again, NCt, congrats on the gold ring and that titanium ring is a nice looker too, well done! For rocky beaches and rivers, I found this scoop very useful: https://a.co/d/4LSp3cF
  12. A few days ago I got invited out on a friend's relic site permission to get one last hunt in before the approaching freeze. This place is rather remote and not the kind of place you want to be when a storm moves in. So I headed out early to meet my friend and hit the ground running. When I arrived the air was already getting cooler, but there was almost no wind, which is rare at this site. I unpacked the Deus 2 with the 9" coil mounted that I usually use on brushy sites, but as I looked around I could see that most of the tumble weeds were gone thanks to the high winds a week or so earlier. So I decided to go with the 11" coil first just to see how it would handle the high iron and trashy site. I stayed near the car at first because I figured I'd have to switch back to 9" coil pretty quickly, but to my delight, I started hitting good targets and some really small ones too, so I decided to stay with the 11" coil. As I moved deeper into the site that has been detected for generations, I began finding a few strange items, but I had no idea just how strange this day would end up. One of my odd finds was a Pronghorn (antelope) shedded horn. I've seen a lot of Pronghorns but I've never come across a shedded horn before. The next odd find was not too far from the shedded horn. I noticed an area of broken glass and larger rocks, and as I moved closer, a rock with a strange pattern on it caught my eye. It looked like a snake skin pattern or maybe fish scales, but it's definitely a sandstone fossil and it was definitely out of place with the surrounding rocks. The next unusual find (for me anyway) was what I thought was a fairly large button. Later at home after a light cleaning, I determined that the button was actually a US Infantry collar tab insignia which date between 1908-1910. There were many other interesting finds made including a soda bottle topper, an organ reed, a small compact or pill case, an oil lamp wick holder, a silver or nickel plated lady's locket watch back, a lady's brooch, hair, or other decoration, ceramic doll's leg, several buttons, other bits and pieces, and a taco shaped coin. My best find of the day came as a deep surprize. I was in the middle of an open field when I hit what I first thought was a large piece of falsing iron. As I rotated around the target I could hear obvious iron grunts all the way around, but I kept hearing a faint high squeak with an occasional 91-93 popping up on the ID. Since the only coins I found for the day was a 1982 copper memorial penny, a 2003 zinc penny, and that tacoed coin or whatever it was, I decided to go for broke and dug, and dug, and dug some more. I fully expected a giant hunk of iron to show up in the bottom of the 9 inch deep hole. There were nails, several of them, but in the bottom of the hole I could see a faint greyish rim. Could it be a Barber or Seated something or other? Well it turned out to be the next best thing, a 10 cent token fom the Alamo Club! Weirdly enough, this would turn out to be the third old token I have found, because the secound old token was that tacoed coin, which turned out to be a 5 cent token, probably also from the Alamo Club but I haven't tried to pry it open yet to check the other side. Well it was getting late, the sun was setting fast, and the weather was turning colder, so I packed up the gear and said goodbye to my friend who headed out as I finished packing. It was getting really dark as I jumped in the car and hit the ignition when absolutely nothing happened! I hit the ignition again and everything inside the car with a light on it started flashing on and off randomly and out of sync. Every message programmed into the car's computer screen was popping on and off like Christmas lights. As I glanced out the window, I remember thinking that it has been a long time since I saw so many stars. Then I started thinking about every alien movie I had ever seen and and thought, "Well, this is UFO alley, so this is how I go out... being abducted by little green men... I sure hope I don't get probed!"👽 I had a call into my friend who was probably half way home by now and AAA was not responding, so I sat there waiting for the end. With hungry coyotes and bears, and maybe even a wolf or two roaming aound the area, and me being the only source of meat for miles around, I began to think that the alien probe might not be so bad. Then my friend calls up and said he was on the way back and that the weirdest thing happened and a semi truck had hit the highway's underpass and the highway was closed farther north. Okay maybe we can fight our way out after all! When he arrived back after an hour or so I told him about the weird lights going on and off and asked if he had seen anything weird in the sky. He told me to get a grip and whipped out his jumper cables. "That's not going to work because the aliens have fried my electronics!", I thought and I was hoping they didn't fry my D2 in the process!😱 He connected the cables and said to fire it up, and if by magic, the car fired right up! Had the aliens thought I wasn't worth unpackaging another probe and let me go? It was a pre-Christmas miracle! We headed out in the pitch dark and found our way back to the highway. I was trying to look for another route around the highway crash site but when we got there, there was nothing there at all. The light traffic was running both ways and there was nothing there to even indicate something had happened! So we made it home, much later than intended, but safe and sound, with no bite marks or anal probes, and a pouch full of cool finds! Happy Holidays, everyone! 🖖
  13. Nice ring, gopher, and as they say, a ring is a ring! Well done! I wish they would go to steel pennies here in the U.S. so they would eventually rust and ID lower. Of course that doesn't eliminate the 40 years of rotting zincolns in our ground. 🙄
  14. Gold plated and gold filled jewelry will test positive with acid on the surface if there is no wearing off of the plating, so to get a more accurate acid test, you have to file deep to get past the plating to the base metal. Of course that destroys the chain so it's best to take it to a jeweler that has an XRF machine to analyze the composition without damaging the chain. If you look at the individual chain links and the bale ring where the clasp attaches under a powerful magnifier and see a gap between link ends, then it is definitely not solid gold. However many plated chains do appear to have closed links due to heavy plating.
  15. Looks like an awesome hunting year, IdahoPeg, congrats on the gold, silver, copper, and arrowheads! Well Done! 😎
  16. I actually might try the magnet mount thing, but I'm afraid where I hunt, I'd end up with railroad spikes and horshoes stuck to the MI-6! 🤣
  17. That came with my XP 280 backpack and they called it a remote control case... now that Go Terrain is out, it became a phone case. 😉
  18. Yep, but you will need to sand down the sides of round bottom of the NM CF lower shaft mount to allow it to fit in the XP coil mounts, and you'll need a rubber washers as well. There was a great thread on this some time ago, but I couldn't find it.
  19. I think I get it. Merrill is an entertaining guy, and has driven up his YT followers to 42.5K subscribers. He also hasn't really put the time in to learn the Deus 2 properly, so it was a sly move to get him on the XP train, because now he has stopped using all other brand detectors and will only be using XP from now on. And I'm sure his coming "learn as he learns" videos could also help other folks new to XP with their growing pains as well, and maybe being a new XP ambassador, he will actually get some correct XP information at his disposal about the D2 and how to use it. So there's that. 😉
  20. Holy cow, NCt, way to mop up that silver, gold, and get a new MI-6 to boot! I'd call that a great day! That hunt deserves a big Congrat, Well Done, and a HELL YEAH!!! 😎
  21. The only time my MI-6 doesn't connect is if I turn it on with my body blocking the "line of sight" signal path to the remote. As long as I remember to turn it on from an angle that the remote can "see" it, it connects fine. I'm still interested in a ferrous/non-ferrous discriminating pinpointer too and would prefer that the ferrous discrim works at depth (similar to the Xpointer Max). I hope there is a discriminating MI-7 coming soon, but I can wait. I too dislke being a pack-mule for iron, unless it's something interesting of course, but most of the iron I dig, I know it's iron before I dig it. Where I find pinpointer discrimination most useful is in old nail and iron polluted relic sites when trying to fish a small non-ferrous target out of the sea of ferrous items. 😉
  22. Thanks for the info, F350! My original MI-6 might be newer then, because I've had no problems with connections or tones. In fact I'd be lost without it, so I'm glad I decided to pass on the other pinpointers out there and get another MI-6 for a back up. You know, I had to wonder though, given the substantial drop in the MI-6 price (-$40) as opposed to the MI-4 price (-$10), could that mean there's a MI-7 on the way? 🤔 Inquiring minds and all that... 😏
  23. I snagged another MI-6 for a back up since I've already worn a small hole in the tip of my original one. I fixed it with super glue and a coat of epoxy on the tip and it's holding up fine so far, but at the Black Friday deal, I couldn't resist getting a backup. 😏 So what is the difference between your original MI-6 and the newer one, if you don't mind my asking?
  24. I've watched that video a few times before and now each time I watch it, I understand a little more. 😏
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