F350Platinum

5 hours ago, Cheddar said:

I only use vibrate mode as i think that is far superior to listening to the audio. so i have no idea why someone would want to listen to the annoying hiss of a pin pointer in their headphones!

I do that with the Carrot, but not with the MI-6. The MI-6 in my opinion is far superior to all the pinpointers I've used, and it's a bonus to me to hear it in the headphones. I use pitch audio instead of pulse, and there is no hiss. You only hear it when you turn it on.

It might be a bit flaky, but it hits stuff very deep and I can use it to keep holes at a minimum if I have to. I run it at full sensitivity all the time. 🙂

3 hours ago, Geologyhound said:

just the price of the extra coil.

Welllll, just the price of the coil, a second shaft, headphones and a pinpointer...  🤣 Shovel, finds bag... 😁

46 minutes ago, Lodge Scent said:

Nice hunt F350! And a beautiful day for it. Six miles of swinging the coil is no easy feat! Good thing you swing the Deus.

Thanks LC. I can't say enough good about that detector, for sure anything else would give me muscle cramps in my arm. Sadly Relic season is winding to a close. 😪

4 hours ago, Cheddar said:

how you like that phoenix shovel? thinking about getting something new. been running a lesche 31" t-handle for as long as ive been detecting

It's a Predator Raptor "D" handle. 11" blade gets you to the finds fast. 🙂 I also have their T handle Barracuda which only digs 6". Far less intimidating. 😀

They're very tough shovels and cut through roots like a hot knife through butter. 

Our friend who writes in Portuguese says:

"Generally I try to explore the whole area if I find something I go back there again, but if I don't find even a hint of an object I abandon it and look for another one to explore."

Well said indeed 👍

8 hours ago, Geologyhound said:

I would really like to find a Civil War bullet.

Put the 13x11" coil on your wish list for later. 🙂 For relic hunting it's proving to be a bit phenomenal, I have that corroborated by a person long familiar with the Deus.

I've had the D2 for over a year now, and have to say it works like I would expect a detector to work. They really have put a lot of effort into giving us a very versatile machine. I'm glad they are being very careful to test and verify the upcoming update, but I'm also very happy with it as is.

1 hour ago, unox said:

Well done guys, I love the big open field congrats on the finds. 👌

Thanks Unox, it is a very big old farm. The original land grant was 3300 acres, this field is about 500. I was glad to find anything of interest, but after over 6 miles of walking I should have found something. 🤣 That view from the top of the hill is unusual here, this is all coastal plain. I wish I could have done better with the photo.

3 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Well, congrats again, you certainly got something to crow about! 😉

Thanks Cap'n, no silver this time but I thought the finds interesting and in some cases old enough to post, the stamped buckle is probably 1800s, but the spectacle is much older. The diversity of finds in this farm is incredible, and should be. 👍 

8 hours ago, JCR said:

My wife says it is the wheel of a pastry cutter. She immediately looked it up on Rubylane.com. 1880s English brass pastry cutter. It looks exact. She’s good on IDs.

This also explains it, and more accurately I think, as the parts for that sort of tool would be long gone.

Please thank your wife for me! I think she nailed it. 🏆🙂

7 hours ago, JCR said:

Could your wavy “coin” be a rowel off a spur?

Right after posting that occurred to me as well. Might explain why other parts weren't found, like broken spur bits. I looked it up, and only found the pointy ones so I didn't mention it. I have seen that style before, but only on toy spurs. 🙂

11 minutes ago, Joe D. said:

Winner winner, chicken dinner!!🍀👍👍

Thanks Joe, it was the last thing I found there near the house.

Congratulations, it's a great machine. What do you plan to use it for? Relics? Beach? Parks? All of the above? 😀

There are many knowledgeable users, definitely ask for help if you need it. 🙂

My pleasure. 🙂 I should have prefaced by writing that settings aren't the key as much as research. 

OnX Hunt is definitely worth checking out, even for free.

Hope you have a pipe hittin' root shovel, you're going to need it in those wooded areas, probably in there the 9" coil is going to be your buddy. I'm not a big fan of woods hunting but there are lots of great finds for the less timid. Some targets under roots are going to drive you nuts, be prepared with tools.

In Historic Aerials make sure you overlay roads, and look at the oldest topographic maps. Some times the roads are clearly marked other times they are dashes. Here's an example:

This road is gone but the stuff is still there. 😀 The square dots are houses and other structures.

Mark locations in OnX using the waypoints, and you can literally track your destination. Let Historic Aerials have your location when using the site and it will get you close. Look at the oldest aerials too, you'd be surprised what you might find. You'll have to compare them to newer ones to get your waypoints right. LiDar will give you evidence of cellar holes and disturbed ground.

If you suddenly start hearing a lot of iron ("all metal" settings are critical), you're in a hot spot, but the woods have greater challenges in that a lot of it may be big. People throw stuff in the woods at you'll see.

Good luck, and I'll be following this thread with great interest. 🙂

Hello Colonel, we'll all be right down to show you in person. 😏 🤣

Few questions, field or wooded (probably both), dry, marsh, clay, loam, rocky or sandy?

If you haven't read my tutorials on boning up for a historic area, now might be a good time:

Seeing as your time is going to be limited, a bit of research is the key to major success. Maybe even Colonel success. 😁

I'd strongly suggest perusing Historic Aerials and LiDar maps, OnX Hunt is free but worth every penny if you do pay for it, its location and marking capabilities are incredible. 12 acres is pretty big, and if you keep your eye out for other property owners they also might be interested in knowing what treasure lies beneath their ground. Be friendly and listen carefully to them. 🙂

An arsenal of Deus 2 programs developed lately may help, I know we have shared a few. Silver Slayer has its use, you might want to grab that one if you haven't already.

If it's a farm I have been trying to find the time to post some helpful info regarding my experience, but I'll save that until you reply. 🙂 I'll throw a Reader's Digest version at you. 

Usually 7 hours on a relic site, in the summer I go 4 hours a day in the morning on the beach, at home, 6 or 7.

11 minutes ago, Digalicious said:

So with DD coils, does it still hold true that the smaller the coil, then the smaller the target can be detected? If so, then can the 9" outperform the 11x13 on chains, small earrings, and small gold rings?

Granted, the larger the coil, the better the coverage, but due to EMI and ground noise, can the 9" outperform the 11x13 because it can be run at a higher sensitivity level?

I can tell you that I've used all 3 coils relic hunting, and as long as there aren't a lot of stalks the 13" has been killing it. I have gone over areas later with the 9" and found nothing else. The 9" is going to be more efficient for separation and maybe isolating smaller targets, but the 13" is going to find them faster. 🙂

Maybe some of the wizards can explain it better, but I really like ellipticals.

I've got all three, and find I'm using the 13" most often now, this is because the relic sites I hunt are pretty flat, not like last year with all the corn stalks. The farmers all planted cover crop instead of winter wheat for the most part, it was more profitable to not plant wheat.

I seriously doubt that will change much in the coming months when I get out to beaches and campgrounds, but I'll have the 9" handy to hunt tot lots and other places to small for the 13". I may keep the 11" for a handy backup, and sometimes will use the 9" on the WS6 Master. I like that rig but it seems a bit delicate.

Impressive and rare find! Looked it up, here's some info:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia93187.html

It's a 97 on the rarity index, kinda ironic 😀

Great finds especially for a beach. 👍 Your beach is also extremely kind to coins. 🤔

That's a great bit o' photo editing there Detectornado. 👍

Gotta ask, why is the 9" floating away? 😀

16 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

They would probably be a bit unhappy if I dug everything that beeps here

This reminds me of a campground I worked over last summer, RVP. Lotsa beeps, mitigated some of it by lifting and the rest by ID. What didn't pass the smell test turned out to be a silver dime, a ton of change, and a few rings, one of them gold. Oh, and a plastic rooster. 😀

One day I forced myself to use kac's Park Probe as my only tool, and did well. I recommend that thing but a screwdriver or Hori knife would do just as well. A little rain will cover your tracks anyway. I hoped most targets that I wanted were within reach of my pinpointer, sometimes if they weren't I moved on. 🤔

The only time anyone got nervous (GM) was when he saw me with my Barracuda, I don't bring the Ranger to a public area. 🤣 Showed him how I dig, and he said carry on. 👍

2 minutes ago, midalake said:

  this is a simple math equation!
What is the difference between a coil mount that is 1.5 inches off-center AND
  a lower rod that is extended 1.5 inches further with a center mount coil?  

Dunno, I'm 6'1. Maybe that has something to do with it.

1 hour ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Dang, Jeff, you really spanked that hunt, congrats! and well done!

Plus 1 on the Tek-Point/F-Pulse. I've started carry my F-Pulse again with the MI-6 and use it to hit those really deep targets that are just beyond the reach of the MI-6.

This interests me, but maybe it's a mineralization thing. 🤔 I have an F-Pulse now, and haven't found it to be any more useful than the MI-6. I do run the MI-6 at full sensitivity however, and find it detects targets far deeper and more accurately. Guess I'll add it to my bag for Culpeper next week. 🙂

1 hour ago, midalake said:

The offset coil is a nightmare for a beach hunter.

Maybe the offset coil is a nightmare for you as a beach hunter, but I will say for certain that after many hours using it in fields, it certainly isn't a detriment. Maybe you should consider another option?

I run sensitivity high, and it detected the brass rivets in my knee pad. Switched to Velcro knee pad, problem solved. I've also used it some on the beach and don't have any issue with it, again I appreciate the extra reach so I can keep the balance in the shaft to lessen arm fatigue. Maybe there is something wrong with how you are using it. I'm sad that you are so disappointed and cynical, but it's not a justification to put others off.

Soon I will be on the beach for quite a few weeks over the warm season, and don't expect there to be any problem, but y'all will be first to know. 🙄 I also had no issues river hunting with it. None, even in waves and current.

Additionally, it was much more of a problem when it was centered using a centering device. No amount of extension helped it.

At 2 to 4 days a week, 4 to 7 hours a day, over the past year with the D2, I probably have over 1200 hours on it. I've had the 13" for months now, being one of the first to get it. I'm pretty sure there is nothing wrong with my technique, and I certainly have the finds to show for it. 🙂

9 hours ago, SwiftSword said:

It came! And I have a brand new permission to try it out on tomorrow. It's a wide open back yard, so this should work well. I'll bring the 9" along, too, just in case. One thing I noticed today when I just swung it around the backyard is that both size and weight are far greater than I had expected. Compared to the 9", it's almost comically large. But I expect the feeling of wearing clown shoes will dissipate with the first good find 😄

Nice, there have been some complaints about the offset but you really learn to appreciate it when wearing boots with steel shanks or shoes with any metal at all. 🤣 Heck it picks up the brass rivets in my knee pad.

Always tell yourself the heaviest D2 configuration is lighter than the lightest other detector configuration. 😀 That might help.

Good luck! 🍀