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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.

Thanks, this time of year an 8 hour day is easier to put in. There was wind all day and it wasn't 95 degrees 😅 it got up to 62. The gold ring was my last find, so persistence and getting my feet wet paid off. 😁

Thanks Erik, The way I have the Deus tuned probably makes some people roll their eyes, but this hunt put the proof in the pudding. 🤔 I have bottle caps on 5 and audio filter cranked, which produces a sound so ridiculous I only find I dig a bottle cap is when it is covered with foil, like Stella Artois. Some say BC5 will cause you to miss small non ferrous, I don't find that to be a problem. I've found stuff that produced a tone, I drop it in the bag after the long and frustrating search 🙄 and it falls through the mesh. 😀 Some say you'll miss nickels, I doubt I've missed one. I get at least one every time because others skip them. Thankfully XP got that right. My biggest problem is getting my coil over gold and silver, silver is too easy other than the random beer can bottom (which lifting most times identifies), and most important not getting in the water where most gold is anyway. 😀 There are the towel line drops, but those odds are 1000 to 1. However, my own wedding band comes up a 64 on the D2, so yeah I'll be digging pull tabs unless I hear that brassy sound from audio filter. Or if I see it. 😁 sight picks go in a different pocket. If folks haven't updated to V2 they "may" be missing some really great improvements.

Yep, that's the "ding ding ding" 🤣 I told her early on when she was more skeptical about me doing this (especially day long hunts) that I would take her out for dinner every time I find the real treasure, silver or gold. That adds to the points as well. 😎 Thankfully (well sorta) it doesn't happen often. Just for fun I keep in contact throughout the day, and send her a cute pic when I get a good find too: "King Bob", the Minion. I know, too much, right? 🙄 But I wait a bit before sending the pic of the find. 😁 Poor woman has had a knee and hip replacement, and had the Brooklyn Bridge put in her spine. She has bad arthritis and can't get around enough to go with me, she would if she could. 😢 My mother had arthritis, I'm hoping that all this exercise will stave it off a bit for me.

Haha, good one! Thanks strick, we've had gusts over 30mph for a couple of days, Northwest wind that is pushing the water out of the river. While I don't think this will last, I'm going to return with waders (water is getting cold and there still are some jellyfish) and buck the trend. 😏

Thanks Dan, I guess it is a fall thing to get all this low tide going on. 🙂 Hope others get the message and get out there. It's not often I find gold so it's a real pleasure, especially when my wife takes it. Good luck on your return to your place if you can! 🍀

True and thanks! Funny you should mention that, DanNM and I both got a 47 on the D2 today... 😎

Thanks RVP, Gotta buy dinner because I got the metals today 😀. Was too tired tonight but will take my wife out tomorrow, hoping to do a field hunt and another beach hunt this week, favorable weather. 👍 Cannot stress more how important it is to earn those Detecting Points™ 😁

Thanks! It was all tracking GB and the right amount of Audio Response that did it for me today. 👍 I did get the earring in the pull tab zone, but the silver ring and gold ring were polar opposites. I just kept on digging the tabs. It was an 8 hour hunt, I was determined!

Thanks NC, Really didn't have any expectations today, beach season is over, and there's not much going on. There were no fresh coins, everything was deep or in the water. Going to have to go out further to see if anything else is there. 🙂 lots of beach erosion brought out the wheats.

Nice hunt Dan! Looks like we both got a 47 today, guess all the planets are aligned just right or something. 😎 Always good to jump on an opportunity!

... That despite some of my fields opening up, I really needed to get to the local large beach to get another hunt in. I generally respect and follow those feelings, a long time ago I had a feeling I should stop at a particular store to buy a lottery ticket, didn't, and someone won a million from that store that very day. 🤬 Since then I act 🤣 Got there around 8AM this morning, it was windy and 42 degrees, but there were no clouds and I was dressed "warm enough", I put a Columbia fishing t-shirt under my long sleeve T, and had other warm stuff on. The waves were pretty high, I thought the tides were pretty low, lower than usual anyway, so off I went. Today I just hunted the cuts and the "surf", this is a river. Got a few coins, all really deep, some as deep as a foot. Had the D2 with my beach program, and the 13". I wasn't planning to go in the water. It was all clad at first but I got a few surprises later, we've had a lot of storms and wind lately. First interesting thing I dug was way down the beach, I was talking to a nice lady and got a 64, a pull tab signal on the Deus. I've been reading @Compass's excellent post: "How Many Pull Tabs?" I decided to dig them all today. That and foil, Zincolns, everything. Dumped out my scoop and got this nice gold plated silver earring: I'm going to have to check the large sparkly stone but I'm pretty sure it's a CZ. Still, first silver of the day 🥳 Hacked around for quite a while longer, just finding coins here and there, and finally got to the section of beach I started at, I noticed the tide was much lower than it was when I went along the water, swinging the coil out over the waves which had become slack. I haven't seen the tide this low in a long time, it's probably a fall thing. Went right to the end and got a 93, thought I had another quarter. 😀 Instead I got this nice .925 Quinceañera ring, sadly two stones are missing but the rest are in good shape. Went back the way I came hunting the new cut, and reversed for one last pass on the other side of the building. I got a 47 in the water and thought, "That's way too clear for foil", got my shoes and socks wet digging this little beauty out: 14K gold ring with a pink/red stone. I'm going to have it tested by my local jeweler who is always interested in what I find to see if it is man made, a garnet, or a ruby. Whatever it is it fits my wife's pinky and she is one happy woman. 😎 Not that big a deal but it's the first gold ring I've found this season, I guess another visit with waders and the 9" coil is in order! Now the coins, got the usual one of everything and 3 wheats, the oldest was 1921: Here's the trash, guess you have to dig to get. 🤣 Follow your hunches, y'all... 😉

Nice to talk to ya then! I'm in Northern VA, in one of the first settled counties after James City, ca. 1640s. Buncha folks were brought here because they disagreed with things in MD. If one brought settlers, one was given land and money. 🙂 I probably have ~200 buttons of all types and sizes from lead to Tombac to brass, some gilt, one or two silver. It's been quite the history lesson these past 4 years. The best places for you to find the old are farms that were prosperous. I've been lucky in that regard.

The round foil bits look like "Merry Widow" tin halves, a common and amusing find. 😀 Still cool stuff. 👍

Hey SteveSB, Your button is what I would call a "small flat", the "DON" indicates it was made in London, England. Not sure where you are but I've found many of these in my part of Virginia, they are old but not early colonial, depending on the shank type they have. Here is a good general but not great quick reference to identify buttons: Yours is probably anywhere from 1785-1820, it's brass but may have been plated. looks like a cuff or vest button. 🙂

Good question. 🙂 I'm not having any problems with my two CF shafts, the Raptor handles come with rubber inserts that should be used. My CF shafts are from SteveG who probably uses thicker carbon fiber, I've used these scoops all summer with no problem, even with wet heavy muck. Overtightening bolts is probably the culprit. I don't, and won't, use a scoop to try and move a large rock. 😁

Many of us have lots of pinpointers, but nothing beats the ol' Garrett Carrot. Not the wireless one, the standard AT. I have two Carrots, a Fisher, two Quest pointers and two MI-6 pointers. While I prefer the MI-6 for everything, often I bring a Quest with me on hunts, because despite it's issues, it does a good job identifying iron vs non-ferrous targets. If I'm not using an XP detector, the Carrot goes in my bag. I've seen plenty of praise for the Fisher but it never seems quite as strong for me as others, maybe mine isn't all that great. I have put in a preorder for the AccuPoint, but only time will tell.

Could be where I live, but EMI isn't much of a problem here. Yes, the occasional blip from my cell phone seeking a signal (some places there is next to nothing), and some underground power lines. There are a couple places where other SMF detectors have big issues but the D2 does not. However, any place that that my "other detector" was completely unusable I have been able to use the D2 with little or no problem. I agree with Jeff that if you expect the machine to run completely silent you picked the wrong machine, but regarding other XP machines, I hunt with Chase all the time, and we never have issues because we use frequency shift if we do. Additionally I can hear other vendors' machines pretty far away at group hunts. Frequency shift and move away is the solution. One point of interest under V.71 was that @Rattlehead's Silver Slayer allowed me to hunt directly under power lines. 🤔 I wonder if SS would still be valid under V2. My summer travels take me up and down the East coast from Virginia to Savannah, and I don't encounter anything that causes me to curse XP. 😀 I can always find some happy place. If all else fails I have found reducing sensitivity or audio response helps greatly. Sure you lose some depth but you still come away with finds, I fail to see what is wrong with that. 😎

Hey bigtim, Have you used the short wire to update your headphones? You cannot use the longer 3 connector USB cable. Also the WS6 cannot be paired to anything, you have to unpair it from anything to have it stand alone. When both pucks are at the same version, only then can you pair the WSA II to the WS-6. 🙂 Despite the upgrade the devices hold their pairings.

CooB scoop, most are 2mm stainless, tough stuff. Avoid thinner metal. I've had one for 3 years now and it still looks new, it's kinda heavy but I added a SteveG carbon fiber shaft and a Raptor pull handle. Weighs about 4 pounds total. https://www.amazon.com/CooB-Detecting-Stainless-Detector-ProSeries/dp/B07CZYTTJH Raptor handle: https://www.amazon.com/Raptor-Pull-Handle-Sand-Scoops/dp/B01MT248MD When I go to a beach that is less pebbly and had fewer rocks and finer sand, I have a Dune Titanium scoop, also on a SteveG shaft. It weighs about 2 pounds. Titanium is strong but it tends to bend with prying. https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Scoops-Titanium-Beach-Detector/dp/B0C1HL6VLD Other scoops are great but these are affordable.

Nice taps, JCR. 👍 I've found quite a few of them, all brass or some copper alloy, none quite as fancy, always green. What makes yours black?