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Energizer Lithiums are not rechargeable, but they last a long time. 10 years means 10 year shelf life. These are all the rage now, look for 1300mAh in a single pack, don't have time right now: https://www.amazon.com/HW-Rechargeable-Batteries-Micro-USB-Indicator/dp/B0B9G9RQG3 They do not last as long as an Energizer but they are rechargeable. Caveat: Lithium batteries do not have the same drainage curve alkaline batteries do, in fact my deer cameras have a separate calculation for them. They go and go and go, and then dead. Bring a spare ?

I'll just leave this here... ? Thanks, Geotech. I'm a relative noob myself, but this forum is loaded with so much experience I just expound wild theories and get my butt kicked. ? It's all good.

Thanks Cap'n, I'm in the process of getting it back to her, I emailed the class contact this morning with directions to have her contact me. If I don't hear anything soon I'll get more aggressive. Who knows where life takes a person ?‍♂️ I always cringe when the kiddies at the beach go running in the water, or exclaim "Look, I caught a Jellyfish!" Lots of scenarios where that doesn't turn out well. These jellies aren't particularly harmful, and I have seen many people in the water, but the crying and screaming tells all. ? I warned a few moms about them. I had to wait for a cooler morning to wear my waders. By afternoon when it got up to 85 it was pretty draining, so I called it a day. Next week will be colder so it may prompt another visit. ? It will be nice to have most of the dangerous creatures take a long winter nap, we won't be at that point anytime soon. Last winter we got one day that was -9, but I haven't seen any accumulated snow here in 2 years now. Sad you're snowed in already, I was hoping for a few more tales! I'm waiting for the farmers to get done dressing the fields. Some are planting winter wheat, some are just throwing cover crop. Hoping it will be a productive season for everyone.

Thanks Joe OBN, There was a bit of boat traffic later in the morning and other noises in the area, but it was quiet for a while. I really appreciate the D2 now for its better performance in EMI that other machines, unless I was in single frequency I wouldn't have found the ring where I did, probably why it was there ? The new water program I'm working on stays pretty quiet even in the wash, it is a tad bump sensitive but the noises are at reduced volume, I also know them when I hit something with the coil ? I took my Beach Sensitive program and added a few tweaks to it, mostly discrimination at 6. Don't know if you have a Deus 2, so this may be meaningless ? You're a legendary water hunter so I appreciate your comments. ?

Thanks Colonel, I definitely plan to return it, I discovered the freshman yearbook for that year, and located the only person with those initials. I'll be "digging" into it this week ? I hope she will be happy I found it.

Thanks VL, The waders are 1600 Thinsulate, extremely warm. I have to wear thick wool socks to keep my feet from getting crushed by the weight of the water. I'll have to get lighter breathable waders for the warmer months. There are others that water hunt there, last year I had a couple who were all up in the spots I was looking until I said something. ? I was lucky to have no competition this time.

Thanks Compass, TBH I've been watching you heavy duty water hunters lately and knew I had to give it a go, the water is where the gold is. I'm glad I don't have to deal with big waves there, don't think I could stand it for long. The boat wakes are bad enough. You can see on a windless day the water is flat at slack tide, so timing is everything. Regarding the Deus 2, if you poke around a bit you'll see that since V2 it got much better on gold. The reason I personally prefer it over the Equinox is that the IDs are very tight for a 99 number machine, the XY graph screen is very useful, and overall I trust it more. It's also lighter and easier to grip for me. With the 13" coil on the beach I have to laugh at what I find people missed, particularly quarters and dimes at a foot, but it's a lot of digging just for clad. Most of the hunters I've seen there use the Equinox and now the Manticore. ? Another thing I'm noticing is that the D2 is way better with EMI now, I got the ring in a place where there was a lot of it. It was always really good but I feel they improved it. On the other hand, the Equinox is a venerable gold machine, and if you have big hands the Deus might seem small. I tried the 15" on the Equinox and couldn't take swinging it for long, and I definitely get more false positives with it overall. The D2 is an "acquired taste", if you hunt relics with it was well you have to keep attaching and detaching the waveguide for the water as it gets snagged in the field. I go through a lot of zip ties these transition to fall days ? It's also a bit less convenient to keep charged. It's a simple choice for me, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Sorry for the random thoughts. ?

Thanks! You should see them when the water is warmer ? they get to be about 8" diameter and have an angry red tint. I was wearing gloves and my waders are thick neoprene but I had a quick dry T-shirt on so my arms were exposed. Sometimes I just scooped them and threw them out of the way. It was slow going. It's probably both the reason there is and is not gold there, the upper beach gets hit hard by a couple people I can think of, so it's pretty wiped out now that the summer is over. People get in the water, lose the ring, see the jellyfish and decide that they aren't gonna spend a lot of time looking for it ?

It usually does RVP, except that day I returned the iPhone to the nekkid woman at the hotel at this beach. ? When I saw the diamond sparkle I was hoping it would be one my wife could wear, but she graduated elsewhere and had no interest in it. Heck she got a nice birthstone ring this week anyway ? I may or may not go back, that sort of hunting is brutal for a geezer like me. Had to drink some diluted vinegar as soon as I got back ?

In my last post, I wrote that I was going to take advantage of the full moon low tide, and because it's going to rain on the day I wanted to go (favorable wind), I decided to go to the beach today. Nice warm October day, started out at 64 and went up to 87. I rigged up the Deus 2 with the 9" coil, the new black waveguide, and used the BH-01 bone conduction headphones. I wore waders because the river is still full of jellyfish and the water is getting colder. This is just a small spot in the water. There were thousands. The largest one I saw was about 5" in diameter, and they kept getting stuck to my detector and scoop. I had my CooB Shark V10 with a SteveG carbon fiber handle. I also had a floating sifter ala The Hoover Boys. The tide was going out when I got there and the river was flat, no real wind today. The tide was a bit higher than I encountered last Monday, but I was going in the water and didn't care. I have to give y'all that do this all the time credit, water hunting is twice as hard as beach or relic hunting, even without waves. Some boats came by and added that element ? you feel like you're moving around on another planet and people are pushing you around. ? The 9" was much easier to swing than the 13" elliptical I normally use, and I was tweaking up a new water only program that worked very well. I dug maybe 7 pieces of trash today, no aluminum pull tabs or iron - just weird bits like a large capacitor, a sinker, a broken brass knob, and some odd bits of copper. I threw it out at the beach, it was all in the pockets on my chest waders. The D2 was really finding coins today, I felt like someone was there before me because they left a lot of pennies. Ended up with 8 Zincolns and 3 copper memorials. Some were pretty deep, but I never completely submersed the D2 so they were fairly easy to dig. Here's the total haul today: I was after gold and I got it. Got a nice solid 59, and three or four scoops later I had this 10k college class ring: It has 7 diamonds, I'll have to find my tester to see if they are real, but I'm pretty sure they are. It's dated, has "AB" for Bachelor of Arts, and has initials inside, I'm pretty sure I have already located the owner and will return it. ? it is a woman's ring. Also got this gold plated Disney pendant from the movie "Frozen", too bad water got to the picture and the gold plating is off in a few spots, it looks a lot better than it does in this photo. And last I got a pretty rare token: A Bally game token that is a 72 in rarity on Numista. The stuff people lose in the water... ? I didn't hunt the beach and only got 3 sections of the water done, I'm sure there are other finds out there so I may go back, but I was done after 6 hours.

We've all been clamoring for a 10x5" elliptical. I think a 6" round will be difficult due to constraints regarding internal electronics. Battery and wireless transmitter etc. Heck if it's possible we'd take a wired version!

I've been messing with Deep HC a bit since I saw the first video, I set up the tone break the same way he did. In most of the trashy places I'm hunting right now, I'm finding Relic to be a bit better at the max frequency of 24kHz. The biggest problem is with iron. Relic is much better at identifying it, I dug none the last time I was out. I use Disc IAR of 5. It's interesting that he got an iron tone with that coin however. ? I'm running modified Relic next to Deep HC, so I'm going to have to do more with it, but the results I'm getting favor Relic. Thanks Cap'n! I try to look for Gary's new videos but you always beat me to it. ?

If you get a chance, give Relic a try. I went hunting with Chase, and we both had a feeling that it didn't use as much battery as before on a whole day hunt. In prior versions I didn't like it, and it could be because of using it with the 13" coil, but this time I found it to be very quiet until a target was near the coil, and iron falsing was almost nil. I did modify it a bit to High Square and pushed Audio Filter but that's personal preference. Interesting you use the remote pinpointer to determine depth, Audio Response can also help with that, but it also can miss deeper targets if it's too low. It's just a feeling but I'll assert XP made the Deus 2 much better than it was in nearly every aspect.

Like with the XP 13" coil, Serious Detecting puts out notifications when ready to accept pre orders for new stuff. If I want it I jump on it, that's how I got the XP D2 13" a long time ago. Managed to get one of the first shipped. They're already selling Legend kits with the Accupoint in the box I believe ? "Nokta Banana" does have a ring to it... ?

Nice find Ghound, That's what I call the "thank you" find for saving history. ? I trust you are finding V2 to be a benefit?

Nice hunt Okara! That medal looks German or Dutch. ? I've heard of 8k but never seen it, apparently it pits a bit, but gold is gold, congrats. Some nice shark teeth you have there too. I'm regaled with tales of them everywhere here, but in 20 years I've never developed the imprint. ?

Thanks, There's something to be said for digging everything, one dig to one find. ? You never have to worry that you missed something that day if you dig all the targets. Might even get you a few extra good ones! I often wonder what I'm leaving behind, but I do try to trust my machine, same way one would trust a hammer to ring true on a nail with experience. I've hit my finger enough digging trash to hope skipping a few bits grants me a few extra good finds from coverage. So far I can always go back ?

Thanks Okara, Pretty much did that with what I had, I wasn't prepared to go in the water much past the edge. Didn't have a waveguide on the coil. Still some jellyfish in the water too. I plan to return soon better equipped, and at the still lower tides with a favorable wind. Last year I did it for a while and didn't find much, but this year I know better where to look. ?

Thanks Joe OBN, Wish I could have stayed longer and brought my waders, and put the 9" on, etc. ? However the tides will be even lower next week, and it will be too cold for competition. There are still some jellyfish up here, so at least chest waders are the way to go, the swim area isn't all that deep, heck I was at chest height to high tide yesterday. Can't imagine what you'd get with SCUBA! I've heard tales. Last month or so I did manage a silver filigree cross and a Merc at low tide. ? the better the detector(ist), the better the finds I guess ?

Thanks Cap'n, It was a really great day. ? Took the ring to the local jeweler about 40 minutes away, ? and he graciously examined it for free. He said it is a ruby, and leaned toward man made. He polished it up for me and told me I'm always welcome to bring finds in. Said he'd buy them if they were out of the ordinary. Ruby is my wife's birthstone, so it was a really special gift. ♥️

I don't either tbh, with my program some give off a telltale brassy sound, and some I just see. I'll dig the ones that produce pure tones and some that are halves.

Now that's what I've been on about all this time ??love that coil but it's a bear to swing in the water. It hit mine swinging above 4" of water and the ring was not on top of the sand. Took at least 2 scoops to get it.

Thanks Compass, any day I find gold is a big deal, it doesn't come along that often. I set out to prove your pull tab post to myself and it worked with the earring anyway. You just have to dig them. ?

Thanks Colonel, The ring is a size 4, pretty small. It was a hard "foil" hit (47) a few inches down in the sand in about 4 inches of water, I didn't have the waveguide on the coil so it was kind of lucky from swinging above the water. ? You can see here it nearly fits inside the 14K white gold honker I wear. ? 10 grams as opposed to 1.3. A truly improbable find at the end of an 8 hour search!

Yeah, looks like Hot Wheels season is over. ? I'll miss those high tones... ...Not. ? I'll tell ya I was getting a bit worried myself, so today paid off for me. The ring sells for ~$250, so at least all those days where I paid for parking are covered, maybe even some of the diesel ? it's an hour trip one way for me.