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Not bad at all, Gopher. 👍 Always good to find silver. 🙂

Here's the link to the live stream if anyone is interested, it's ~2.5 hours. I skimmed it and found another tidbit that I wasn't aware of, if you have problems connecting the MI-6 a fix is available from the US service center. Shame it's not an update, might require some hardware to be replaced. Also mentioned is an updated end cap to the MI-4 and MI-6 that should be tougher and easier to unscrew. They claim it is available at many dealers. Forgive me if this is old news 🤔

Looks good to me, Compass! That's better than I did over a week with the D2 🤔 I can't imagine how much undesirable stuff you dug, for me it wasn't much. How deep were the finds on average?

Thanks Colonel, It was interesting to compare results from last year. This year's coin haul was far less, as were the toy cars. 😏 I am pleased to have a large increase in jewelry, so far it's been a good year. 🙂

Yeah JCR, That link you posted is way more complicated. The national map I linked in my article is still valid. 👍

Thanks VL, It was nice to find so many rings, just sad none of them were gold. My wife does love the Pandora and wave rings. 👍 Odd that I'm not finding a lot of toy cars this year, last year was ridiculous. Guess it's just early yet. 🤔

If you mean a diamond tester, yep 👍

This one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0B9LZS1X6 It can't differentiate between Moissanites and diamonds, because they have similar characteristics when the tester is used, but it will call out a CZ, Rhinestone, or other non-precious gemstone of you follow the directions. For $11 it's worth it.

It was nice, much better in the morning when no kids were there, and no one asked all the usual questions. It's fun that I have a relic background so when they ask what my best finds are they get an earful 🤯 I have 3 of those "wire" type wave rings, one 10k or better, one rose gold, and one 925. 😎 Tested them. This one is my wife's favorite, unfortunately the stones are too small to test. I know that Pandora uses CZ on theirs. My diamond tester is only good for diamond/Moissanite vs CZ, but that's no big deal. Just got to find more plain gold rings that aren't 200+ years old so I can have a custom setting made 🤔

I know what you mean. I was one of those new captains 🤣 now I'm a land yacht kinda guy. 👍

What program are your settings based on? I just got back from a week at the beach, 4-6 hours a day out there in dry, wet, and surf at low tide. I use Beach Sensitive. The only time I ever get a "fruit salad" of tones is when I encounter certain bottle caps, or I'm swinging over a cell phone. 🤔 Like Chase I keep bottle caps at 5, and like you I run discrimination at 0, so iron volume has no effect. I can always tell a bottle cap from something good, and I don't see much fluctuation in ID or tones even at full tones/high square. If it's crazy I advise digging it as long as the high tones outnumber the low. If the low tones are dominant it's a bottle cap. I use high square for its effect on aluminum. This past week I could run Audio Response at 7 early in the morning with sensitivity at 92. In the evening I had to turn AR down to 5, and I could turn sensitivity up to 93. Many of my finds were a foot deep. It's not completely quiet but I'm happier hearing something. I don't think I could stand my detector being completely silent until I encounter a target, I'd have to keep checking it.

That's how it is at that beach too. 👍 I'm just glad I got anything good, no hotels there, just big rental houses. The public section gave me the most finds.

There weren't many other detectorists there, I could see the inexperience in them, but you can still nail fresh drops with your coil 6" above the sand 🤪 I saw one guy walking up and down the beach holding a Bounty Hunter straight out in front of him 🤯, and helped a woman with an Ace 400 do a lil better. No one reported anything great. 7 rings in 6 days is pretty darn good, I'll take it. 🙂 Just wish there was some gold mixed in. It's always a pleasure to get deep coins even if they are crap, heck I was digging pull tabs at a foot. If there was any gold I should have found it. I did get a working iPhone, but the woman that left it came running out and claimed it before I left. I told her she would have got it back either way 🤷‍♂️ Also got this cool toy horse for the dashboard of my wife's new Bronco Sport. 😄

Guess it's time to throw my fitty cent in 🤔 I agree the 9" round is currently the best for water hunting. I have all three as well, didn't see a real need for the Xtrem hunter setup. I always find the 11" to not be anywhere near as good as the 11x13". I generally only keep it on hand with its own shaft attached as a backup for whichever other coil I am using. I bought the 11" just before the 13" and while it took a very short time to get used to the larger coil, I found it to be much more precise than the 11" and much deeper reaching than the 11" or the 9". There is a fix now for the SteveG yoke that helps to keep the 11x13" from being floppy or drooping, I offered my research to him and he got it smoothed out. What I like the most about the 11x13" is the stride I can have while detecting. On 1 or two mile beach hunts, or in a large field, I can retrieve the most targets in the least time keeping trash at a minimum. I've pretty much dialed it in to reject most aluminum and let the similar better targets show. On the beach I routinely dig coins at up to a foot or more. Having had another detector that gave me incredible results with a 9x5 elliptical, I am very excited at the prospect of having such a coil on the D2. I'm going to jump on it the second it becomes available. If its focus is nearly as laser sharp as my other machine, I believe it will be a real winner in certain situations, but the most bang for the buck for me comes from the 11x13". I am nowhere near as concerned with depth as getting the most good targets I can in the time I have. Depth=digging.

Just got back from a week at Emerald Isle, it was really hot and humid but I managed to get out twice almost every day. I've done much better with the amount of coins and other stuff I've dug there, but not as good as this time with rings. I went out early and again in the early evening most days, it's my wife's annual "birthday week", so I hoped I'd find her something nice. I cover about a mile or two of beach, both the dry and the wet, and one day I attempted a water hunt at low tide in these troughs that appear, they're about 3-4 feet deep and have a current. There were signals but everything turned out to be sinkers that I gave to the fishermen. My first find was a pretty big one, a Diamond stud earring that pegged my diamond tester: It looks to be about 3/4 carat but because the setting is 925 it might be a Moissanite. I'll probably take it to the jeweler for appraisal. Overall I've found way more here, here's a few pics from last year: Got my wife a nice pair of silver earrings. This year, well, meh. Not as many coins and only one Matchbox car 😏 I wonder if things have changed a bit. 🤔 The campground is way more expensive for sure. One day I decided to go to another beach entirely, and did rather well. Here's the jewelry haul, 3 of the rings came from that beach, one a foot deep, and the big bling nameplate was 2' down: The nameplate is kinda bendy so it might be silver backed, it's really heavy but I'll have to test it. It cost me $4 an hour to go to that beach, but the return was worth it: First is a silver Pandora ring. Second is a wave ring, also 925. This one is a cheap ring but it has a nice stone and appears to be rhodium plated, but it has no hallmarks. My wife was pleased that the two silver rings out of 3 fit her, the third is too small. The only other ring barely worth mentioning was this one, it has what might be an opal but it's only silver plated, again no hallmarks. This place is so expensive now and hard to get my monster toy hauler into, so we probably won't go back there. At least I got her two nice finds and a possible diamond for her future use.