Steve Andrews

I had issues with mine showing the incorrect time, but it's been correct since the update.

I found this WW2 French 50mm mortar bomb fuze a couple of days ago.

Captured by German forces and used by them here in Jersey, the mortar pictured in the book is the exact one that it came from.

I target brass relics like this and use a 5 tone mod of Diving with the pitch of the last break set to max, so that they really stand out amongst all the large lead Victorian bullets.

Live ordnance does still turn up, so detecting here had some risk attached.

This WW2 3.7cm Pak was an 84, with what I'd call "ironish hum" around it.

The Deus II gives you so much information from the audio.

I would say around 20 inches. 

This was up there at 87, using a program based on Diving.

This week we are having some of the biggest tides of the year here in Jersey, Channel Islands, so I've been hitting the beach. All found with a modified Diving program, with sensitivity up to 96, reactivity zeroed, plus some other changes. It's the one for deep high conductors on the beach. Using the 13", I've been seriously impressed with the depth I've been getting.

Hi Carolina, I'm in Jersey, Channel Islands. It's a British island which is 14 miles from the French coast.

This shot is iron.

Using a modded Diving program, this canister shot was in the 70s while in its concretion, but a steady 3 when broken out.

I think this because of the iron content that has leached into the concretion, creating a target with a bigger volume.

31 minutes ago, Carolina said:

Steve, you must have Popeye arms or a backhoe 😂. Excellent work!!!

Some of the digs can be pretty brutal and you need a decent all-steel spade. 🙂

Big iron will come up with a VDI in the mid to high 80s, so you can use your normal discrimination settings to eliminate the smaller bits. 

The low frequency weighting of the Diving program make it the best for deep cannonballs on the beach, but on land I would use Deep High Conductor. 

Royal Navy 44-gun fifth-rate HMS Severn wrecked on my local beach in 1804, a few months before the Battle of Trafalgar.

I found this great copper keel staple from her recently.

I'm in Jersey, Channel Islands 

I found this great 1690-1720 period shoe buckle on the beach recently, using a modded Diving program. It's great for deep high conductors on the beach. I'm in Jersey, Channe Islands.

Receiving the 13" coil for Christmas, I took it out to my local beach on Boxing Day.

I found a few military relics, including this WW2 German-fired Czech artillery fuze 

I've found 0.71 to be very good on the beach, though I've had no problems with any of the versions to date.

I generally hunt high VDI relics; 19th century British lead bullets, large cast iron shot and brass artillery fuzes and WW2 German-fired brass and aluminium fuzes. 

For these high VDI targets I favour the low frequency weighting of the Diving program as a base, with reactivity dropped to 0, sensitivity up to 96 and using 5 tones, with breaks for different categories of relics. I use the large numbers profile.

If I'm on a jewellery recovery I use a program based on Beach Sens. Reactivity 0, full tones and using the XY screen.

2 hours ago, JCR said:

Man that's nice. How did you get it to clean up so well?

After tapping off most of the concretion with a hammer, I soak them in a mix of descaler (Kilrock Mega K) and boiling water. Then, after a wire brush, finish with extra fine steel wool 

Found on the beach in Jersey, Channel Islands, a British island that read occupied by German forces during WW2, this is a Kpf Z Zerl P fuze for a 3.7cm Flak HE projectile.

I haven't found any gold yet 🙂 ,but I was using the XY today, with full tones. The line is pretty straight on those beaver tails, maybe with a slight "flick" at each end. 

This was a solid, repeatable 86 using a modification of the Diving program too.

I like to target high conductors too.

The Diving program could equally be called Beach Deep HC!

I've done 4 hour sessions in Diving mode and only dropped one bar on the battery level, so although the coil battery drops quicker than the remote or headphones it will last longer than me.

On 3/16/2022 at 8:42 PM, Mick93 said:

Had to do a little air test with small diamond stud earring, D2 ,9inch wouldnt hit it at all in any mode including my custom beach sens. 

Off topic, but using a beach mode, have you tried changing magnetic ground to "accept"?

I was trying programs out on a stainless fish hook and changing that setting was the only thing that made it detectable.

Found yesterday, a tracer from a WW2 German 3.7cm Pak projectile.

I have the 4th tone at 702HZ and the 5th at 993HZ, so they really stand out.

I've now gone away from full tones as I found it mentally taxing to listen out for the low 90s (aluminium / brass artillery fuze parts) on a beach littered with hundreds of thousands of Victorian lead bullets at 84-86.

I now use 5 tones with breaks at 0, 70, 80 and 88.

0-70 not many relics here, just German 7.92 bullets at 69

70-80 brass rifle and shotgun cartridges

80-88 lead shrapnel, bullets and large artillery shell/mortar bomb fragments and solid shot

88-100 Brass and aluminium artillery shell fuzes, copper ship hull sheathing, staples and nails.

I took the hook back to the beach today and tried different settings of Beach Sensitive to try to make the hook detectable: different silencer, salt sens, reactivity etc.

Nothing I tried made the hook detectable, until I accepted magnetic ground. Then, a good signal 41.