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😀 Ha, thanks, but we walked through enough flop for me 🤣 I was covered in red dust and smelled like a farmhand. I was thinking they must have hid some of the prize tokens under the 💩. We didn't find them all.

Finds where I am are a departure from Civil War, I do find things occasionally but my area is primarily Colonial and Victorian. I have to travel about 100 miles west to get the CW stuff. 😀 My entire detecting history is on this site.

Outstanding find Strick, glad you found the second one. That site is producing some spectacular finds! 🏆 I dug one cavalry spur almost whole but for the spinning part, and only found a piece of the other one. 😀 That's the problem with farms, stuff gets cut up. Bravo! 👍

After a good amount of time using a particular detector, you gain all sorts of coordination with it, as long as none of the fundamental operations have changed (firmware updates). Best to dig a lot at first, your brain remembers these things subconsciously, and you find you're digging less trash after a while. A big variable is where you are. If it's substantially different than your usual place, say beach vs. farm, you learn a different set of coordinations, it may be slight but it's there. A lot of time spent in the same places returns the rewards most of us seek. 🙂 If you're always going to different environments the learning slope is steeper.

There were a couple of horses that gave us that opportunity at the end of the hunt, we were kicking back on our chairs at the end, drinking coffee and enjoying a break before the long drive home. Should have taken a photo. One had a face blinder on, guess that was the male. 👍 I don't know if there was a penalty for "booping" horses, but there was a reward for tranquilizer darts. We both got one. Mine ID'd as a 90-something, thought I'd found a half dollar. I found long ago that the best times are times you make. 🙂

Thanks! 🙂 After having to pay a small fortune to fix my truck last week, probably never 😁

Thanks, some people didn't get much. One woman with a GPX scored a 1730s 1 Reale! Targets were all over, but not everywhere. More swinging than ringing, I would say... 🤔

Welcome Lost Scout, thanks for jumping in with finds! The Equinox is a great detector as you have doubtless found. 🙂 Awesome that you have a lot of places to hunt, and a fiance that likes it too. 👍

Big Culpeper hunt today. Liberty Hall Plantation. Chase was nice enough to invite me to go along, it was a 2.5 hour drive but well worth the trip. About 70 detectorists were there, it was a seeded/natural Civil war camp for both armies at one time or another. 200+ acres of rolling farm. Here's some genealogical history: http://signup.libertyhallva.com/ I was first to get something in the bag, but Chase maintained his mentor status overall. 😀 There were 3 large spots that were "seeded" with some great relics, and places you could dig some serious stuff from the civil war. We put in a few miles today, a morning and afternoon hike. This place is really well maintained and run, the hunt was fair and fun. At one point we hit on a plan to find more seeded stuff and it paid off. We both started out with Deus 2's, later Chase switched to his GPX to find more bullets. We couldn't go in the paddock areas, but there were a lot of great photo ops. 😀 Here's my take for the day: I got possibly 4 "seeded" bullets, two Sharps bullets on the right, a .69 caliber Minie on the left, a Williams cleaner center, and a .52 Three ringer. Anything white was probably seeded. On top is a ~60 caliber round ball, possibly colonial. The brass ring was the only non-lead Item I dug that was worth keeping. Here's the trash, the place was loaded with nails, staples, and wire. 😀 Really not bad! I dug an ancient cowbell with the clapper still inside. It's the large item on the bottom left. There was a building there, we searched around it for a bit but moved on. So, how did the Deus 2 do in this soil? 🤔 Great. Sometimes there were mineralization bars across the screen, sometimes nothing. I didn't notice any lack of depth although I'm sure there was, and the ground was pretty hard due to the slight drought we've had this year. I ran the detector in pretty much vanilla Relic program, except Reactivity at 2, and 00 notched out with a little bit of threshold. (Thanks Chase) Sensitivity was 93 default, but I bumped it to 96. It was basically a "go/no go" day. Some stuff, particularly the wire and nails managed to get past me, but I used my Quest pinpointer to leave a few behind. 😁 We both won prizes, I was first to win the raffle, and got a book. This was my first organized hunt, and I had a blast. 🙂

You are one of the few who finds relics on a beach. 👍 Nice gold! Still gotta wrap up my beach trip... 🤔 I had less busy weeks at work (all the time) 😵 You should definitely go back there.

Have I ever disappointed anyone other than myself? 🤣 It's a "red dirt" hunt. Going with Chase.

Big hunt tomorrow, watch this space for future announcements... 😀 We're gonna give the D2 a real run for the money.

Took mine out for a 0.71 spin today, just out back of the house. I used general and Deep HC, they appear to be much more accurate now. I did not dig any iron and only got fooled by a beer can. Didn't get any great relics but possible pieces of a crotal bell. 🙂 Also got a strip of copper, an old headstamp, and a flat bullet (probably mine).

Thanks. The best part is it's about 600 yards from my house. 🙂 It's pretty tapped out now, even the river. It's hard to go along the shore because there mostly isn't any, but I go as far as I can. I've got about 100 acres of farm in front too, two old house locations there. One is almost completely barren, the other so trashy it's a nightmare. To the left of my house last year I got a lot of buttons and 2 half Reales along with some cut pistareens from the 1700s. It's been a heckuva first year of detecting! 🙂

Just watch here, somebody probably goes there every day 😀

Indeed, good times ahead. Over time I've developed really pleasing eye-ear-hand-brain coordination (in any order you choose 😀) with the Equinox. However, I think I will reach that level of satisfaction and possibly higher with the Deus 2. I'm not impatient. 🙂 Good insights! 👍 Thanks also for posting the trash. I knew those great relics would come with a cost, but that ain't bad!

@Dirtsharkand @JCR for the win! Thanks y'all. I've found a few of these: https://detectingsaxapahaw.blogspot.com/2011/12/meet-me-in-saxapahaw.html?m=1

Interesting, I'll have to research it. This spot does have a long history, I've dug hundreds of relics here dating from the late 1600s all the way up to the mid 1900s. Got most all of them I'm afraid. 😀 Shame because it's right out my front door. I'll keep looking tho. They don't do much with the landing but the farm gets turned.

Thanks! Mine was updated at the store, they put the old Deus 1 sonar and a couple others on it. They were blown away by V0.7. yeah, I'm going to update again, it's not hard and they fixed more stuff. 😀 This wasn't like your last hunt but I dug a couple of cool things. 🙂 This place is pretty wiped out. Hard to believe but true.

Thanks! Not that I know of, it's probably a lock washer of some sort, about the 5th one I've dug. I find lots of Model T Schrader valves here, and a couple of hubcaps like my avatar. 🙂 They brought parts in on the Steamboat, and I think there was a concertina repair shop. 🤣 So far I've found about 50 reeds, they ID as pennies.

Not sure which item you are referring to?

Yeah, that's coming in the next couple of weeks, got a really good new one. Truck air conditioning comes first. 😵 Should be done itching by then 🤣

It rained yesterday, but the wind today dried everything up. My truck is in the shop so I had to do something local, took the golf cart down to the landing. I recently mowed this area, I dug a few pennies and buffalo nickels here with my Equinox, I was hoping the Deus could sniff out some more with the new V0.7 update. Ran the General program most of the day with a bit lower Reactivity and higher sensitivity. I really expected to find very little, but I was happy with what I got. It wasn't more than 5 minutes in that I got a 76, and pulled this stick pin out: Looks like it was gilded and the pin long ago broke off or corroded. It's stamped on top so I guess it's 1900s The stone is missing, it was probably paste. I'm surprised to find something so thin and brittle that survived. I didn't find anything for quite a while, thought I had the 30 minute curse, but later I went to a spot I didn't mow that also didn't have much ground poison ivy. I had sprayed my shoes and legs for ticks, so I went on in. Last time I was here I got at least 3 deer tick bites. The nymphs were so small you didn't notice them until it started to itch. 🤬 Here's the take for the day: Got the pin, a plated flatware piece, a 1919 wheat, an 1887 IHP, and an interesting little medallion. It's pretty heavy and appears to be silver plated. Looks like something from ancient Mexico. 🤔 It was the same TID as the IHP. It has a hinge on the back, it was a cover for something or a clasp. The poison ivy is everywhere here, some of the vines are 2" in diameter, and the ground is covered. I'm sure in a couple of days I will have some. 😵 Max trash as well, lots of concertina reeds, shotgun shells and other junk, but after a week at the beach it's good to be back in the old trash. 😀 V0.7 seems to be a bit better, I like that the ID stays on the screen longer. I'm really liking the PWM tones, they really help analyze an object, but it's gonna be a while.

Those are great hunts! I feel your pain, only dug some pennies when I got some old buttons and stuff, but that was another detector 🙄 Can't wait to hit a fresh field with the Deus. You really got some awesome finds there. Most look like late 1800s to early 1900s. 👍

I would do that, except I get such a degree of situational awareness from the backphones. Even at the beach with roaring surf. What would be even better is if the bone phones were wireless. Where I mostly hunt there are a lot of hunters, it is very dangerous. I have been shot at unintentionally.