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Wow Cap'n, you guys are on a roll! 🏆 Surprised you didn't lose your shoes, marsh around here eats them. That's one of the first things I learned when I moved here 20 years ago. 😀 The hard way. Glad you returned the ring at least, maybe the influencer should influence a less dramatic partner. 😁

Wow what a great restoration! Very cool find. 👍

I generally run AR at 3 on my beach program. It still makes a bit of noise with varied minerals like iron and black sand, but it's acceptable.

Harks me back to my first button find, a WW1 general service button I dug in my backyard. It had serious bronze disease. I later found a few colonial buttons and didn't know for a while that they were much older, but I was hooked! That's a great button, nice shape. What detector were you using?

I won't argue further but to say that the Legend has just at much "bling" as any of the Equinoxes, and as much if not more than the M-core or the Deus. Same learning curve. I'm 63 and appreciate the swing all day thing 😀 Plenty of posted settings around for all, lots of help here. I know some stodgy characters that switched to the D2 lately just because it weighs so little, lighter than an Apex with the 9". I'm not talking about the WS6 Master, but that is even lighter. Absolute killer relic machine and coin shooter. Kinda a "Go big or go home" deal IMO. 🤔 Looks like the XTerra Pro is doing well, if single frequency is your thing that might suffice. 🙂 Good luck to you.

Here's an uncomplicated answer: Deus 2. 🙂 Lightest machine there is.

Good on ya Cap'n! 🏆 Is this your first where you were the one that found it? Sentimental value of any object tops what it is made of. Glad you made some people happy. 👍

Some of them are really great looking, they do some cool stuff. But they also can shatter when dropped. 🤬

You never know what might find YOU. 😁

Wow! Nice assortment of unusual finds. Goes to show that there is much more to discover than just metal. It's sad to know that many were heavily addicted to opium and its by-products back then, might explain the calico buttons 🤪

Well maybe they won't update it again until you're ready. 😁 Best wishes on the surgery!

Nice Lapis ring kac! 👍 The deer head indicates hunting, or sport. Great relic, congrats. I like how they inlaid it in the horns too. Is the inside under the stone hollow?

Hey @Deep Beeps, Try the settings for Beach Sensitive i posted in this article: It's not perfect but I am pretty sure you'll skip a lot of iron, and most pull tabs and aluminum bits will produce a "brassy" tone that you can also ignore after proving it to yourself. 🙂 Nothing to lose!

It's a toy motor with an internal wind up spring and a real prop. 😀 Don't know what toy boat it goes to. I had a 12' Trident RIB with a 25 black Merc, there's a lot of sayings about the older black Mercury engines, basically they work when they want to. 😀 Mine was no exception. 🤣 Boat is in the Bahamas now. It was fast, when it ran.

That's the second one I've found since starting this hobby 🤣 first one worked, that one was broken. Probably a Mercury. 😁

Nice hunt. Campgrounds are a great place to find coins, especially if the campground is old. Don't ignore the relics, and in gathering areas even gold rings are possible. Bands+drinks=drops. For some reason few think to ask management if they can dig, and since I found live ammo buried next to a fire pit at one of mine, they gave me a full pass to dig anywhere. 😀 They can never find my holes, and I have dug literally hundreds of coins there. Good job sorting out the trash from the treasure after a bit. 👍 Ya have to get out there to get anything. Like the tiny toy car, been finding a lot of them lately. 🤣 Any silver in that pile?

Thanks, I'm leaning to plated because it isn't all that heavy and has no hallmarks. 🙂

Headed up to that same beach again today for another 6 hours, found a new section that doesn't get detected as much, so it seems. Got two more toy cars, the Corvette is really old but can't tell if it's a red line, it's badly corroded but all die cast. Got there really early but didn't need to, I was the only detectorist there all day. 48 coins, one junk earring and a nice Tree of Life pendant that may be gold. The oval is a State Park penny smashed in a rolling machine. It was totally encrusted but I was able to get details, it's a park across the river about 30 miles south. Forgot to include the trash, just a handful of bits. Older pull tabs are still fooling me from time to time, probably when I get bored not digging stuff for a bit. The new ones are pretty consistent.

Typical run there is 6 hours for me. So, $12. You can stay the whole day for $21, but if you leave early no refund. It's all done through an app, I don't try to feed the machines. They very often don't work.

My two beach scoops, one heavy stainless and the other titanium, are both on Steve's handles. 👍 I'd like to get a 5 or 6 foot one for river hunting but they work great at the beach. 🙂

Coins are still pretty good here but you can find 50 of them and still not reach US $1. 🤣 one of my beaches gets replenished with sand from a very old place, so I get old coins sometimes. It also has a gambling house so sometimes visitors drop lucky coins. 🤣 I've probably found 5 tungsten rings at that same beach, one that was so gold it blinded me. Heavy too. 🤪

You've always been saying put one on a stick, maybe it stuck. 😀

Thanks Mark, We get what we get. Seems to be a decline in precious metal loss lately, no comment on why that would be. 🤔

Agree completely with this, I was able to use beach sensitive in the water, some others use the diving program. Variable salt conditions, black sand and other minerals. My program works well but was only tested in my conditions. You have to fiddle with the settings to get what works for you. Thus far the vanilla programs have not produced the best results. Most of fiddling is by logic and understanding the controls (read the manual) the rest is "feel" and knowing what strata you are dealing with.

If you have a dedicated metal detector store around they might do it for you, I know mine would whether you bought it there or not. Don't blame you at all for fearing complications. I've worked with just about every type of computer for over 40 years and still worry something will go wrong. 🤪