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Chase may want to try the Tarsacci some too.

Please let us know your impressions of it.

GOD gives us the Present to deal with the Past. He is in charge of the Future, where everything comes together. Thankful for this Today..

I have not dug any super deep Dimes yet with the Legend, just 8-9". In my 2 bar test bed, a 10" Dime is no problem, a 12" Dime is VERY iffy. a 12" Quarter will hit 25-40% of the scans. If you mount the LG35 it will hit them a good bit better. I feel the Legend has more usable depth than my Anfibio Multi because it is more stable & gives a clearer tone. This becomes even more noticeable as Mineralization or iron trash increases. Having the Multi frequency choices & the overall adjustability of the machine make a big difference in usable performance in changing field conditions.

Thanks for the the overall summary of what you teach in your books. That would be an excellent introduction to include in any future books you publish or revise/reprint. I have enjoyed & profited from both my Anfibio & Legend books. But I did have to read them several times each for all the pieces you just posted about to come together.

I was thinking that some of the newer fishing sinkers were made out of some other metal besides Lead. I know automotive wheel weights are now primarily Zinc or some sort of sintered aberration.. You can't hardly find real Lead ones anymore at the tire shops. They were the best base material for hard cast bullets.

I edited my earlier treatise to clarify & correct after reading Chase's post. I really shouldn't be posting off the top of my head when I'm busy, supposedly with work.🙃

I will look forward to your Culpepper report, especially how the Axiom and Legend perform. I am tempted by the Axiom and have good confidence in the Legend for my hot sites. Maybe a observation by you on how these stack up against the Tarsacci. @Daniel Tnhas inspired me to re test my Vista X, Tarsacci & Legend with their big coils on a .58 cal Minie. Just an air test but it may give me some guidance/confidence on a couple of low mineral deep sand sites that should have more "old" there than what I have found.

@GB_Amateur I am not a Civil War scholar. I do know a good bit about bullet casting & reloading and related history. Most of the military small arms ammunition used during that period was factory made in cartridge form. Hollow base bullet & black powder charge done up together in nitrated paper. You would separate the bullet from the paper holding the powder, pour the powder down the barrel, cram the paper down the barrel, start & ram the bullet home, cap & ready to fire. That is why soldiers had cartridge boxes not powder horns & ball bags. Arms like the Spencer carbine were breach loaded with metallic(Copper) fixed ammunition. I am not sure if any of the factory bullets were swaged at this stage. Perhaps some Union but Confederate was cast in gang moulds as far as I know, There was some casting done in camps also. Shotguns were still muzzle loaded with buck & ball and often used by Confederate Calvary and Artillery and some line troops. Casting lead was made up in "pigs" of around 20 lbs. These were hacked down with an axe for the melting pot. I have dug one of these hacked up pigs in a Confederate camp along with an axe head with the eye split out. This pig is not pure lead. I can tell by the color of the metal & it's hardness. I'm not sure if any of the lead for Factory or field cast was purposely alloyed or not. Pure lead is not natural, it has to be refined. In nature it is often associated with Tin and Silver. Tin is the normal bullet alloy with lead @ 60/1 to 40/1 for Black Powder guns. The Tin, whether added by nature or man is needed to lower the eutectic point of where the metal melts & flows. Without this Tin, the mould won't fill out well & the bullet may have voids unless cast excessively hot.( about 800*F+) My normal cast temp for 20/1 is about 700-710*F. All this may be interesting to some, it certainly is to me but has nothing to do with finding a bullet with a detector. Pure lead or alloyed will TID almost exactly the same.

Got both of mine done.

Not having a F75/T2, I only know what I have read in the Owners Manual & on Forum post. My understanding is that there is a way to run Bp Boost process in both Disc mode and All Metal. I wonder if Daniel tried DST off and Bp on? The Sensitivity control on these units are a combination of Gain & Threshold levels. The Anfibio is the same. The Disc control does do more than just knock out targets. It also reduces EMI at modest levels, then opens the power back up at higher levels of applied Disc. My Anfibio is similar. Lead bullets are always an alloy. Usually with Tin. Factory bullets are swaged, homemade are cast.

That is some neat finds. I especially like the glass & pottery. Good scouting.

My Garrett CXII has true Non Motion All Metal. It runs quite smooth once adjusted properly. Even with the 12" coil it is not any deeper than my more modern detectors in Disc mode. I keep it for the 2 Box attachment I have for it to hunt for dumps. My Anfibio Multi has Non Motion Cache mode that I should play with some more.

Once again, some nice finds. Thanks

All very nice.

Nice looking old house site. Nice finds too.

Thanks for the replies. Yes the At Max in Motion All Metal is very deep. I agree the Threshold is not as smoothly adjustable as I would like. The Vista X is also plenty deep. I have the largest factory coils for both. The F5 is just such a nice unit to run, I would like to use it more. Is that F75 that weak in AM with the DST supposedly off?

Reading the recent conversation prompted by @Daniel Tnon his Manticore comparison at his hot dirt deep bullet site, I have been considering my All Metal capable detectors. I would normally use my AT Max if I wanted to run true motion All Metal. I have a good selection of coils for it. I also have a F5 with a NEL Sharpshooter coil. The F5 has a nice motion All Metal mode. My question is; Is the F5 motion All Metal mode inferior to a F75/T2 in motion All Metal using a comparable 11" size coil? I may want to consider getting a 11" size coil for the F5 if it is powerful enough.

If you have learned to navigate the user interface on those past detectors & the Deus II, you won't have any trouble with the Legend. The main features are pretty straight forward & the "hidden" ones were learned pretty quick for me. A really nice feature is that it saves your last settings so it doesn't take much to get going the next time you use it. The coil selection is an added bonus to the overall value & performance in the field.

Welcome from East Texas.

Welcome from East Texas.

Higher TX output could cause the falsing & instability some are reporting. A lower weighted frequency mix should not. And yes, we may never know per MInelab.

To touch something that was of such worth to people who braved a truly new world is beyond special. We have no real concept of what was required of ordinary people to establish what we take for granted today. I doubt we would impress them.

Very nice. Thanks

Does anyone else think there may be some difference in the TX power on ATHC vs the other modes?