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Thanks VL, I'm 2 for 2 on that front, the iPhone return a couple months ago was far less pleasant. 🙄 This was at least a very nice family. 🙂

Beach sensitive. High Square full tones, 1 Reactivity, 3 salt, audio response 3, audio filter on 5. Disc 10 but iron volume at 6. Makes aluminum brassy sounding like a trumpet. I think most other settings are stock, I do have sensitivity at 95 because I want to hear stuff outside the edge of the coil. I'm about to post "The Hoover" after this trip. 😁 Trash to finds has been anywhere from 20/80 to less than 50/50, never done this good before. Tested with one gold ring buried in the wet sand so far, hits it squarely like it was an air test at 8"+. Really pleased.

Thanks Doc, It really is a great feeling to help someone out like that. Later in the day a couple asked me to help find the man's glasses, they didn't really know where he lost them but he found them. Hated digging all those bottle caps... 🤣

Thanks Dave, Yeah they were looking for it all evening, and then in the morning someone put their stuff there. Never met the young lady but did meet her dad and sister. 🙂

Thanks! I was shocked to find it so fast. 😀 Part her knowing where to look and coverage of the 13" coil. 👍 It was right next to an aluminum chair! I was amazed with the separation.

Thanks Joe, My karma was another monster truck toy and a pair of silver earrings for my wife. 🤣

Thanks Colonel, Really nice family, I am glad I got to promote the hobby. 🙂 Ring finders wanted to know who I was 😀

Thanks Cuniagau, I meet the father later today, he wanted to thank me. This was my first retrieval, so it's kinda special. 🙂

Been camping at the beach this week, I found I'm the only detectorist hitting this place. Not getting a heck of a lot of incredible stuff, but I had a great thing happen today I thought I'd share. I was out on the morning grind, it's hot and humid here, days hitting 92 and 70-80% humidity. I'm taking a couple showers a day and going through a lot of clothes. 🥵 I'm doing about 2 miles of Beach, I'll reveal the location in my recap. I was detecting the upper beach and saw a woman running toward me gesturing to get my attention. I walked up to her and she explained she was up all night looking for her daughter's ring that she lost in the sand yesterday, a gift for her 16th birthday. She said she was even thinking about going to Harbor Freight and buying a detector! She had called ring finders but didn't think the $50 minimum would be worth a disappointment as they had been looking all last evening and overnight, so she wondered if I would help her. I had my D2 with 13" coil and my excellent new program fired up, this program hit my own gold ring at over 8" buried in wet sand at the surf line with no variation in TID. Damn thing is a 64, so I'm glad pull tabs sound worse than the ring does. 🤣 Y'all will see how I did when I post, trash to finds is off the charts. I love V1.1. She showed me where to look, unfortunately a woman was out there setting up for the day with a Beach sail and a bunch of chairs, but she said we could look and move anything we wanted to. Well it didn't take more than a minute or two to make one happy lady. Right next to one of the chairs I got an 81, instead of scooping I used my composite trowel and out popped the ring. The 13" nailed it even with the metal chair there. 😀 I'm pretty sure it was .925 with a man made ruby, but it could have been gold, she did say it was an heirloom. Asked the woman if it was ok to take her pic since it was my first retrieval, and she said sure! After giving me a huge hug, sweaty as I was, she said wait and she'd go get me a reward. I said "absolutely not, why don't you buy the woman who let us search around her stuff something". 🙂 You can see the sand on her legs, poor woman was desperate. I was glad to help. She ran off to tell her daughter.

V1.1 for me. High Square Audio is working great especially on the beach I'm hunting this week. I'm hitting quarters and dimes with the same ID as they are shallow at 10-12". Nickels stand out as nickels. My coin to trash ratio is insane. Started using tracking GB and the machine runs pretty quiet. I really liked V0.71 for relic hunting, can't wait to get back in the fields and create a solid new Relic program with what I'm learning from the new settings. I'm willing to move forward.

Hell yeah NC! 👍 If a ring says Sterling, it's probably an older one. Very cool. 🏆

Your lead disc is a hem weight. Used in window coverings and skirts. Cool finds Geologyhound!

It would be much easier to look it up if photographed on a white background straight on. 🤔

Which pins are for charging? Thanks Cap'n. And Carolina. 🙂

I'll look into a possible solution to the D2 remote charging, l also use a DetDoo clip on my 13" coil. I have to say that since I got familiar with all the settings, I have absolutely no interest in any other detector other than one with a coil for tight spaces.

I imagine this relates somewhat with reluctance to be sued by "the other guys". Twisting the DIN connector to find the right spot leads fairly fast to failure of the cable at the plug, and the coil clip could be easily fixed if redesigned with the jack pointing in the other direction. 😀 I also dislike the length of the 3 leads. I don't want to compress the detector every time I put it to charge. Guess I'm just spoiled by "grab and go". If you have a custom shaft that is round, it's not as easy to do that. However, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. I'm still thrilled with the D2 and WS6. You can use the old cord on the WS6 Master, which is easier to connect and has longer leads.

I just stuff the end of the cable in until i see the charging icon. When it starts to metal migrate I clean the D2 contacts and get a new cord. 😀 done that twice now. 😁

Great ring find! That one doesn't look all that fresh, but if it says 925 and not sterling it is post 50s anyway. 👍 And yet another return, you two are on a roll. Congrats on the ring, 63 coins is great, kinda like the arrowhead pendant - surprised it's not silver too. 🤔

Welcome to the forum, and hello from the rural counties to the north. 🙂 I switched from my Equinox 600 (probably got them both at the same place you did if you bought them at a store 😏) to the Deus 2 last year. It took me a long time to get used to it and learn the different settings, but I've managed to get it working in such a far superior manner to the 600 that I only use the Equinox to hunt difficult spots that the Deus coils are too big for, I have all 3. After such great experiences with the Coiltek 10x5 I am hoping XP will add such an elliptical to the D2 lineup, and I'll probably cough up the $400 ransom for it. 😵 From reading your posts it looks like you are doing all the right stuff, what coil do you have? Additionally, after a while you should be able to decide your audio preference on the Deus, those who had the Deus 1 typically prefer pitch and PWM audio, I'm a fan of full tones and now the new High Square with full tones. I don't look at the screen much, and don't use a small tone range, I run it wide open. Unlike the Equinox the Deus is all about audio, the nuances are important. I use the XY screen because it stuffs the ID up in a corner so I can always see it, there are glare complaints about the screen. You can use the big id screen but you lose a lot of other useful info. Shame you're leaving Topsail today, I've tweaked out a program that really "hoovers" up the finds on the beach, check out my recent posts and see the trash to finds ratio 😏. I'm headed to Emerald Isle Sunday after next with confidence. I was at Myrtle Beach in the spring, and many finds were 4 or more scoops deep. 😀 It got so I scooped at least 4 times before I used the MI-6. Relic season is done here, but I can't wait to get back to it when the crops are reaped in the fall, I have lots of permissions and some are so big I haven't had time to search them completely. Many places date to the early 1600s. It's a lot of walking but the soil is mild with few rocks. Some would say I'm very fortunate, I agree. I'm also pretty good at getting new permissions. I use the 13" coil primarily, I love the 9" but have to swing it too much. I never gelled with the 11' but it's there as a backup. I bought it and then got the 13" a couple of weeks later, thought they would never get it to market. Toss us a bit more info about what you have for hardware, what you like to look for and where. Sounds like you're like me. The Deus is king in Virginia hands down. I'll get in touch with ya with some programs but learning the Deus is key, if you jump right in with tried and true settings from others you'll never understand why they work so well. 🙂

Welcome to the 10x5 club! 😀 🏆 I've been raving about that coil for a couple of years now, I was lucky enough to get one early on thanks to a forum member. I put it on my 600 and never looked back until recently when I tried the 15" for the first time. I put it back on. I've had great success with that coil. I've dug many great relics, found gold rings, and enough stuff deep enough to make it worthwhile over the 11". It's great for getting in tight spaces, I've hit dimes at up to 14" on the beach. One beach I go to produced a silver ring between some large rocks. It's probably not going to find buried hoards, but for pure pillage there isn't a better option. Its separation capability is incredible, and it's great for hunting along fences, under park benches (an offset would have been welcome), and it's a tough little bugger, I have not had a problem with the ears. Yes, you might not get the swing coverage of a larger coil, but I've never thought it had a depth issue although the experts say it is a matter of science that it is slightly less far reaching than the 11". I'll put it this way: if I searched any place with it, going back with the 11" over the same area produced little or no new finds. Good luck and enjoy. 🙂

No harm no foul RVP, the Maxum was a pig. Great yacht but expensive. Carried 150 gallons of gas at $4.50 a gallon, do the math... 😏 About 5gpm.

Yeah my new phone doesn't have a great camera, doesn't respond well to dual lighting. 🤬 But yeah, that's it, 24 gold Washington quarters! 🥳 🤣 I thought the '16 wheat was pretty cool tho. 4th '16 coin I've found at that beach. 🤔 One was an 1816.

I had a RIB with a 25, but it was a black Merc. Fun to ride but it only worked when it wanted to. Almost got stuck in Currituck Sound one day. At least I got back what I paid for it. It wasn't an inflatable, I believe the company became Triton. It's in the Bahamas now. 😀 My main squeeze (literally) was a 30 foot Maxum with twin inboard 305s, it was tough to get anywhere with it in gallons per mile. 🤣 I'm probably gonna get a wide Jon Boat for the smaller rivers, the Potomac eats boaters. It would be a good jump off platform for those baptism places here. Too old for a kayak without a motor 😁

Been there done that, filling big boat gas tanks is worse than diesel in my truck 🤣 you know the saying "the two happiest days with a boat"... 😁

Thanks VL, thought ya might be happy to see the Equinox out there. I still love it but only with the 10x5. 😀 I posted merely because I haven't seen a heckuva lot of entertainment here lately 🤔 😀