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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. 🤪

Thanks! Yes the first time I had stopped sweating and was a bit dizzy, drank two bottles of Gatorade and sat in the shade for about 15 minutes. Going up all those stairs was a bit of a test. 🙄 I get to do this 3 times or more a year, Myrtle Beach (We used to go to Tybee Island), Emerald isle, and the Outer Banks. The Outer Banks campground has relic hunting and sometimes water, but I have to get in it from a dock and it's often too deep. Scratches the itch for sure, all my farm permissions are planted. Got two local beaches that have stuff on them too. One is about 50 yards, and the other is about 3/4 mile. A couple years ago I met a guy with a Sovereign digging craters there, he showed me a gold ring. Yeah, Emerald Isle would be the place for you! 🙂

Thanks man, I wondered if it was just me. 😀 Haven't seen many other finds posts, so I did it anyway to show the lurkers it's not all wine and roses. 🙄 At least I got some silver. I'm figuring after doing my own ring test that if gold was there I would have found it, or it was too deep for the D2. I'll admit I didn't chase a few really faint signals, and the ones I did were all crap. 🙂 Here's hoping we both have better luck! 🥂

Yikes, now I don't feel so bad. 😀 It also costs me 2 hours of diesel to get to mine and back, my wife doesn't want me to get sand in her convertible. 😁 I get about 18mpg but that's still around $20 more. It's a hobby. 🙄

Thanks TBB, I did gear up and attempt a surf run once. Most days the flags were red or yellow/red indicating rip risk. The beach faces South and with a good summer onshore wind the waves are really short interval. I really should have used the 9" coil but was too lazy to go through installing it. 😀 The 13" is simply crazy to use. 🤪 Isn't that sand basically pulverized coral?

Thanks VL, The Fob had 3 little pills in it, I will cop to trying to identify them. 🤣 The numbers were obliterated but they were so small they were probably nitroglycerin or some other heart medicine. I plan to use it for the same. I carry a pretty good amount of water with me on the beach, at least 2 bottles. Learned to do that on my tour of Turkey in the 90s. It was in the 90s and about 80% humidity. Got dizzy the first day and had to down 2 bottles of Gatorade to make it back to my golf cart. 😵 The next time wasn't so bad, only one. They charge a premium for that stuff! 🥴 No worries, while I was there I ordered a new 32 ounce water bottle for my gear from my favorite manufacturer, it supposedly will keep water cool for 24 hours: 🤣 It even has a screwed on dog water bowl.

Thanks! Not many posting finds lately. 🤔 I have quite a lot of them now, so I'm going to let the grand kids look them over and pick what they want 🙂 in a way they're as good as gold anyway.

I found a few there last year, hopefully one good one this year. 🙂

Thanks Rick, it is fun but would be a lot better if parking wasn't $2 an hour. 😵 Someday I'll find something that makes it worth it, but it's beach hunting nearby.

Thanks! Just some summertime entertainment. 🙂 In the 1800s to the early 1900s this was a popular steamboat landing and beach. My wife used to go to the beach here over 50 years ago. Because the river is in one state and the beach another, they cleverly built a gambling house, which is now a modern one. The posts are from the old docks. I have a similar landing near my house, but it's inland so no gambling 😀 it's long gone. Lots of cool relics there until Chase and I finished it off. They say some stuff is out in the river but you'd have to scuba.

Thanks Cap'n, It is a nice beach, they replenished it a couple years ago with a white powdery sand that sticks to everything 😀 Hitting stuff buried under the new sand is fun, showed me I'm doing ok, but I would like to have given my wife a nice gold gift. She doesn't play with toy cars anymore. 😁 Despite my ring test, there just weren't any rings that I could find, going in the surf was brutal, the waves were short interval and 3-6'. Not for this geezer!

Thanks Cap'n, I'm wondering if many are finding a lot of stuff out there, last year I did much better. 🤣 I think there is a sharp drop in drops, but kids will be kids. 😁

If y'all are following me I just got back from a week at Emerald Isle, and 3 days later went out to a local beach. I knew that going on a Wednesday wouldn't be great as the beach gets heavily hit on Monday, but I also know from watching the other detectorists there that they don't follow the tides. No one hunts the "surf" or the cuts made by tides. This is basically a river beach hunt. I knew I'd at least find something. Weather was good, not too bad temperature or humidity. Got there fairly early, a severe thunderstorm knocked our power out overnight so I had to wait until power was restored. May do some more of these mid week "cleanup" runs, it wasn't great but fun. 🙂 The river was flat and the tide was soon to go out. I mentioned my D2 program is a "Matchbox Slayer", heh, yeah it is. Dug 9 more yesterday! Yikes. These cars ID anywhere from 90-95. I got at least 6 of them in one spot right at the water line. On the coin and jewelry side, not much, but the total finds to trash was over 50% so I'm happy: Got a small Pandora style "A", and a small charm. Zinc plated sinker was a 76. The keys were the only iron tone with high tone I got, it was curious enough to dig. The treble hook lure got me, hate those things. All this stuff came from the tide area, again more good finds than bad but I dug a bit more trash than I did daily on my beach trip. Just a handful. Anything with a fairly pure tone in the 60s I dig because of my white gold ring tests. As usual it was great to get out.

Thanks Colonel, I told a Marine on the beach yesterday who was interested in detecting and the Deus that it takes a bit of autism to be so persistent. He admired my thoroughness and told me a great story about EOD showing up when he was in Kuwait. 😀 I said it would be great for his health. Most days it hit 92 and around 80% humidity, thankfully there is a beach bar on top of the dunes that sells Gatorade. Had to stop in a few times but the climb was difficult. 😀

This year's Emerald Isle Beach trip is behind me, it's a place we go for my wife's birthday week, (😀) and she doesn't mind me going out early in the morning and some evenings. I get up at 6, hop on the trusty golf cart, and go. I condensed this all to one post because quite honestly it wasn't a spectacular week despite finding a ring for a woman, and getting out as much as I did. By 10am the beach was packed, and I found I was pretty much the only detectorist on the beach every day, but don't know if anyone was nighthawking. I checked the beach cameras but didn't see anyone. After the nice woman posted my ring find on Facebook they started showing up. 🤔 What I was impressed with is how my Deus 2 performed, I dug many coins at around a foot deep, and even buried my own gold ring about 8-10" in the wet sand and got a solid 64 both ways as a test. I've been tweaking a program I'll call "The Hoover" which seems to do very well at this beach and a couple others I've been hunting, but sadly I didn't find any gold that I know of. The best part of the program is the verifiable ability to skip most junk, I've had a finds to trash ratio of over 50% every time I go out. Iron is always iron, and aluminum is a touch trickier but once the sound of it becomes familiar, you can dig it all and see for yourself. 🙂 My friends call it the "Matchbox Slayer", and you'll see why 🤣 In 6 days this is what I got for non coin finds: An assortment of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, a pair of cheap but whole sunglasses, a very cool "Pill Fob" made of stainless steel, a working Casio watch, two lighters, and some small jewelry bits. The chain may be gold but the "E" pendant which probably was why I found it is plated. No hallmarks. Next are the coin finds: 138 coins, $13.68 in change. The darker coins are many of which I found at nearly a foot deep. The trip was not without something decent, my wife took a bracelet and a pair of silver earrings. 😀 ".925 IBB TH" Hallmark, Thailand silver, International Bullion Board. Here are the settings I was using all week: ********** "The Hoover" Based on Beach Sensitive Options menu: Audio 9 Audio filter 5 Audio type high square Display profile xy, I use this to push the ID and Ground readings to the corners which keeps the glare from hiding the numbers. Sometimes the graph is useful too. Fe tid on Menu: Disc 10 Full tones offset ft 0 Bottle Caps 5 Notch off Silencer 0 Sensitivity 95 Salt Sense 3 Freq Max 40 Iron volume 6 Reactivity 1 Audio response 3 Ground Balance menu: Tracking GB on Magnetic reject ********** Never really had to change much, and it worked well in the water too. If you try it PM me with questions, comments, and abuse 🤣 I promise you'll find lots of Toy cars, they are going to be in the 90s.

It is. SteveG's rig is made of round tubes. XP stuff isn't compatible. There are a couple of small caveats, for total transparency. You can run the waveguide completely through the shaft, but if you do it will not shorten completely. The only way to get around this would be to drill a hole and slot out the remote mount so that the waveguide passes all the way and comes out under the remote like I did with my WS6 Master. Fine sand gets into the larger tube which scratches the inner one. No big deal really. A shorter waveguide such as the black one that just came out or the older Deus waveguide work great for running through the tubes.

The advantage is universal with any coil. It's extremely rigid, even more comfortable than the XP shaft (if that is possible), it's a bit longer for us taller folks, and it has by far the best retaining rig for the remote I've seen. The cuff is beyond good as well.

Welcome Vladimir, Your translation is good. I use The Equinox 600 and Deus 2 in much the same way, I have had great success with both. Good luck with your searches, and if you need any advice this is the forum to join.

Without a doubt, for me it is the 11x13" coil. Love the coverage and separation of an elliptical, no matter how large. I just spent a week on the beach in 92 degree and 80% humidity weather using the WSA-II headphones, I had no problem other than surf noise but situational awareness is important to me. I have the SteveG shaft and it is excellent. 👍 Makes swinging the 13" an ocean breeze. 😀 I give an honorable mention to the MI-6.

Wow, so nice to see the old stuff! Old coin and Relic hunting is my favorite, I really miss it. 🥲 That's some great hunting there. 👍

That's one of the nicest guns I've seen in a while, usually ya find parts and bits, sometimes you can make a whole one or of them. Great find! 🏆 Just don't shoot your eye out... 😏

Haha thanks, Duct tape is all the rage here. 😀 Apparently she took it off for safe keeping, but it disappeared from what she set it on.

Thanks Cap'n, Yes it was nice. 🙂 A woman stopped me today and told me it was all over FB, I don't use it so I wouldn't know 😀 My wife sure was happy with the earrings. I'll post a recap instead of a daily post. I've found a lot of stuff but not as much as I'd hoped to find. One more day...

Thanks man, it's fun telling others too. Gives us a good rep. I think there are few if any on this forum that would demand a ransom unless the person was an entitled jerk. However, if I was one of those Finder dudes and had to spend $25 in fuel to get there, yeah I might have a minimum. 😏 I used to charge for computer repairs, an amount per hour or any fraction thereof. If it took me one minute to fix it, I charged the hourly rate. 😀

I think it's great, only tweaked salt sense a couple times. Using tracking GB to deal with the black sand, thanks @midalake. 🙂 Crappy photo, they both say 925 IBB TH. International Bullion Bureau, Thailand, I think. They are in her jewelry box already, awaiting cleaning. Probably a towel flick, I found them a few feet apart.