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Thanks, F350, I'm looking forward to your review in the field! I appreciate the info. 😎

I know, but since the Simplex CF lower shaft (which was probably made in China) fits in the D2's upper shaft, how hard would it be for XP to access some of those CF tubes from China and put their own coil mount ends on it? Just a thought.

Copy that! I got the CF lower when I got my D2 even though the 9" coil didn't need it. It sure tightened everything up and it's rock solid now, so I don't expect any flex with the 13" on it. That CF lower shaft should be supplied by XP with every 11" and 13" coil IMHO!

That's what I'm thinking. I can wait on the Motocross until sometime next year. The 900 with the 10x5 Coiltek should be a killer combo!

Wow, a whole page full of bucket listers... that's a thing of beauty!

That makes more sense. I couldn't imagine why there would be a difference in Bluetooth between the 700 and 900.

I pretty much like everything I see about the new Nox 900 except the Bluetooth thing, since I won't be able to use my earbuds in summer without a Bluetooth transmitter dangling from the headphone jack. It's also curious that the ML-105 headphones work with the Manticore and EQ-900, but not the 700. What's that about?

Since I don't have the 11" coil, I think the 13" is the way to go for me since they are all the same price. The only thing I'm not sure about is if the separation on the 13" is as good as the 11".

If it's still under warranty, maybe they will swap you for one of the new Equinox 700/900 coils. Minelab said they are interchangeable with the 600/800 coils. You might want to contact them.

Those are some beauties! You've got some awesome history in your area and I bet you've recovered enough great finds over the years to open your own museum. 🙂

The Nox has always done well in that park finding more modern items including silver jewelry (no silver coins there so far), but I never tried to go deep there because of all the trash. Now that I've cleared alot of the subsurface trash, I thought I try to see how deep the D2 would go and see if I could get to the silver layer. There's still alot of trash in the ground, so maybe I just need to clear the deeper trash more. I think the Nox and the D2 will both hit the deep silver if it is still there.

I wasn't either, but it makes sense for some places. Of course a smaller coil is the dream, but for what's available currently, I'm beginning to think the 13" would be a better investment than the 11" which seems only a small amount larger and/or deeper.

Yes it would be good timing to do that sooner rather than later.😎

Now you guys got me thinking about the 13" coil. Since I already have the 9", maybe adding a 13" would make more sense than the 11". 🤔

I went out last weekend to hunt an older park that might still be hiding some silver. I had been to this park before with the Nox 800 but had not found any silver, so I took the Deus 2 this time. This park usually has a lot of clad for some reason which is unusual because it's not very big. This time the park was in a giving mood, but it was giving up some very different stuff. I was running a fairly wide open modded Fast program and the hits were coming fast and furious. We had a little snow a few days before so I think the moisture helped light up the ground a bit. Clad was popping up like popcorn but I wasn't hearing any silver. A few oddball things were coming up too. Of course running very low notch and being in a dig it all knid of mood may have had something to do with that as well. At one spot I hit a solid 92 and was thinking a Mercury or Rosie, but up popped a little silver wave ring. Silver is silver so it's all good. At the end of the day I found no silver coins, but I got 14 copper Memorial pennies. The Wheats and Silvers may be cleaned out, I don't know, but it's always worth a look. I also found a gold plated ring and pendant and a fake silver-toned bracelet. But the odder finds were an old radio tube, a Meadow Gold milk bottle cap, a zincoln fused to a 2000 nickel, and a 2 cent Colorado Tax Token. All in all, a fun day with some weird finds and a little silver to boot!

Well you can't have too many coils! 😉

That's not a bad price at all. That's the same as my Gaia GPS Premium app. It looks like the apps are very similar. Since I'm mostly a city hunter, I don't use any apps much, but they are nice to have on hand when I'm out in the boonies, which I hope to do more after the snow season. Now if I could just find that Incinerator 5000 Mega Snow Melting/Ground Thawing/Trash Burning Heated Coil (Patent Pending) for XP-D2... in the 10x5" size! 😎

I don't know why nice would be inappropriate, I think it's a darn nice find. Congrats on the hunk of silver and a very unusual pendant! 😎

Well there ya go! Load 'em up Santa! 😁

Great first season with your D2, Brad, congrats on all the lovely gold! I can't wait to see what your second season looks like, well done!

I had to edit my previous post. What I meant to say is that I'm finding PWM audio can give more clues to target shape than Square audio. This isn't always the case, but I find it helps me with sorting rounded objects from non-rounded objects much of the time. However, aluminum is a curse on all metal detectorists! 😉

That was my error which I have edited. I meant to say that PWM audio will give more clues to the target's shape than Square (not Pitch) audio sometimes. What I mean by that is the more subtle ampitude response of PWM audio ramps up and down slower and can give softer "fuzzy" sounding responses that can vary quite a bit coming off the edges of non-round objects, but gives a cleaner, more focused sound on rounded objects. Square audio has a gated fast ramping up and down sound which can make even the most mangled can slaw sound like a round target such as rings and coins.

At the about the 3:30 mark in the video Debby says and shows that the ground tracking is on, so it has auto ground tracking.

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Congrats on the silver rings, Calmark!