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Great hunt(s) MN! So glad you got a monster truck, haven't seen one in a long time, I was getting worried there weren't any more. 😏 Can't wait to find them again in April. 🤣 Seriously, glad you're back into it and got some gold. 👍

Yes, both WS6 and WSA II headphones with the $14 3mm headphone adapter. WSA II is the least expensive of the two at about $150, the WS6 is twice as much because it is also a Deus 2. They both can put audio into a low latency transmitter to use like the above, and do not have to be on the shaft.

Great run Chase! Nice handful of silver, buttons, bits and the like. Odd that seemingly sleepy field turned out to have so much stuff in it, either there was a house there, it was a dump, or a ton of topsoil was trucked in. Judging from the range of relics, I guess anything could be true. 🤔 At first I thought the M-core was making you dig more than you wanted to, but the good stuff was a surprise, we both had "find-a-minute" going in that spot. Glad the trip was worthwhile. 🙂 Just like my post titles, "Go Small or Go Home" 🤣

Nice going, RVP! A bling ring is better than no ring, it's still a thing. 👍 We've been socked in with rain past couple days, the ground was drying out so we needed it. Looks like you're going to miss out on the big nor'easter, so you won't get too buried. 🍀 Good on ya for getting out there. 🙂

There ya go, NC! Knew you were going to get some gold out of that lake. Hard going but worth the work. 🏆👍 Congrats and hell yeah!

I use the Ranger. With its 11" blade it is the deepest digger, there is another with a T handle but I prefer the D handle. The T handle is the Piranha. To me the Phoenix seems a bit wide, especially for digging small plugs when you know the target isn't deep. The Ranger is also good for that.

Thanks Skull_Diver, I know of a few divers here that would beat the hell out of the mount totally submersed, and I've been waiting for a comment from you. 👍 Hopefully it will stand the test of time, that is yet to be seen. I'm not going to go to those extremes but it's going to get beat up in the fields and beaches all year, so I'll continue to update this and also my comments on the @steveg version which I'll be using even more. So far so good!

I agree SD, it seems that gold rings may have always been a problem, and it may be because of the alloys used to strengthen it or enhance its beauty. Silver content probably is what pushes rings into a higher number range. Here is a memorable one for me, a ~200 year old 14k ring I found in a field. It was a 79. Our new 1 cent coins -well, new since 1983 - the ones we call "Zincolns" because they are mostly zinc with copper plating are notoriously in the high 70s. When one tires of finding so many of them it could definitely cost one a gold ring. I totally understand your frustration when time is limited by life giving air, my time is mostly limited by when my wife wants me to get back from treasure hunting 🙄 This may be a problem with little solution. Looking forward to any comments you have on the RCDIGS mount! I always read your posts.

Thanks VL, Did a little more research, and found out about "Smallswords": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_sword They were very popular in the 1700s. This may be from a captured item, or may have been presented to an individual in the family. I hoped I find more of it, that may be tough because of the overwhelming iron, but if there is a "long" iron signal I'll be digging it, figuratively and literally 😎

It might be a one-of-a-kind, who knows? The examples were both from the 1700s, the 18th century was when they started with the fancy crossguards from what I've seen. 🤔 It definitely has nautical references.

In an early house owned by the Lee family (Stratford Hall) not too far away, there is an original painting of Marquis De Lafayette painted by Thomas Sully. Quite the place to see.

Nice ring! You even got some Pacifico in the Atlantico. 🤣 Quite interesting to see the AQ performing like the GPX. Great hunt! 🏆

Did some research using Navy sword and Neptune and Poseidon who both had tridents, came across this French sword that has a crossguard of similar design. Hope I find the rest of the hilt at least. Thanks @HardPack! Here's one made in Toledo Spain:

The possibilities are almost endless, this area was established in the 1640s officially, and for many years remained rather difficult to get to other than from the Northwest or by ship. It wasn't until the 1920s that major access was built across the rivers. Lots of British colonists called this an early home, and it has remained largely undeveloped. Thanks for the clues as to where to look!

Yeah, I find a lot of those, usually so far gone they're not worth restoring. I do have a sword minus hilt that I'll get looked at someday, and I hope to rescue a cannonball if it's not dangerous. A lot of the musket balls are chewed by animals, it's like old chewing gum 😀 You're also right about this being a sandbox, the soil is very often sandy making it both easy to dig, and sort of frustrating when the chemicals used on it don't leach out fast enough. 400 years takes its toll regardless.

I'm looking forward to that as well, while I'm happy to just use the Deus in any form, it was cool to see another machine at play. Sure looked light. 👍 It's amusing that the D2, even in its heaviest form with the 11x13" coil, is lighter than the near lightest Equinox with the 10x5". Both find the good stuff well, when you get down to the 9" it's like waving a stick of Balsa at the targets with the D2, much appreciated on a 9 hour hunt like yesterday. But when the going gets big, it's better to use the 13", it's not going to miss much if there isn't much.

Well, no silver this time, but I still had a fun day with Chase. Invited him down again for another shot at a really old place, he wanted to try out a new detector, I hope he will post his impressions. Another warm day, sun was bright and it got into the 50s. Had great conditions for another relic dig. It's getting a little dry now but weekend rain will help. I got there really early, hunted around for a long time, reminded me of my last post, 🙄 "Looking For Stuff In all the Wrong Places". By the time Chase showed up I really hadn't found much, so we went to a known hotspot, I switched to the 9" coil because there is a lot of iron there, and the relics started popping. Ended up with some nice Tombacs with shanks, a watch key, a really nice button with gold still on it imported from England - W&G Chance, a great small rein guide and other bits. At one point I got a 91 and thought "yay, Silver!" Nope. Instead I dug what I believe to be a sword crossguard. It has two different scenes on each side, and it's curved. One side appears to depict a person with an animal, the other a person with either a farm implement or trident. It's about 2.5 inches wide, so it was possibly a knife. Couldn't find the rest of it. And last, the real surprise of the day, an extremely old and corroded button with shank that appears to have the number "28" on it, could be from the Revolution or an earlier conflict: Huge shank, probably for a coat. This is all I dug for trash, a little more than a handful. We went to check another field before we left, it had slightly more modern stuff and added a lot of stuff to my trash pouch. I was surprised to only dig one buck ball.

'fraid so, RVP, not quite as common but common enough. Some of them even sound like pull tabs. 🤬 Which of course is why I dig pull tabs 🙄 The places I have permission to are generally centers of entertainment and/or commerce from that period. When you find evidence of horses which were quite the property of the wealthy, you find old coins and jewelry.

Thanks RVP, I usual don't ding 'em but a large cent is a bigger target. Glad it was toast anyway 😬

Yup, I don't think depth is a big consideration in a trashy spot anyway, too many signals to spoil a good one, and particularly a faint one. High reactivity will at least give you a fighting chance. 🤔 I generally don't go much over 3 on the Deus, it's so fast.

Yep, that's why Chase and I are using it. It's all blips and then a "rrrrraaaoowww" when it finds something. Best I can describe it. That was a fairly low mintage year, what does the reverse look like? You probably won't want to sell it but look at the value. 🙂

With the 10x5, recovery speed is essential, on my 600 the highest it will go is 3, equal to 6 on the 800.

It would be a Maravedis rather than a Reale, they were minted in 2,4, and 8. They're big, heavy, and copper. Got this one of all places on a beach, a Ferdinand VII. It's an 8 Maravedis.

No worries man, the Nox may be sidelined sometimes, but I'll still be using it. 🙂

Thanks JCR, It still has some kind of wood embedded in it, maybe redwood or mahogany could stand the test of time. It appears to be some sort of articulated device, I don't know if bracelets were a thing back then, but it has evidence of being connected by pins to more. 🤷‍♂️ The brass escutcheon looking thing and the yoke next to it are also some of the oddest things I've found. That came as the only good sounding stuff in another hotspot with a lot of iron.