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Thanks RVP! 😀 I think the biggest haul was reaped by a woman who was cleaning up the beach. I saw her with an armload of clothes the first time, then a bunch of boogie boards and a couple fishing rods that appeared to be intact. She said she cleans the stuff up and gives it away or sells it. Sometimes I tell the curious that I'm looking for mines, guess I got one. It has an ironic name. 🤔 Yeah quite a few coin spills, the last one at the small beach where I got skunked the last two times I went there. It ain't always gravy, and I'll never find enough to pay for parking. 🤣

Thanks Cap'n, I may name my beach program "The Hoover". 🤣 Or to really confuse the younger folks, "The Electrolux" 🙄 In the 90s I was "privileged" enough to attend a training exercise in Turkey, oddly just prior to Desert Storm. 🤔 115 temps and hard work were the routine, but it was dry. I missed the actual conflict but learned some great lessons about dealing with extremes. 🙂

Thanks Joe, Amusing thoughts, I've been doing the bandana thing since the Army in the 80s. 😀 Trick was to get it up under the helmet so the "uniformity police" didn't see it. In combat they'll let ya do what ya want, training is a different story. Wearing any helmet in temps over 85 can be a bit trifling. I have found many rings at the first beach, all either silver or tungsten. Eventually I'll score something my wife will like, but it seems like there are more detectorists there now. I get tempted to leave some of the pull tabs behind 😁 I got two gold at the second last year.

Thanks JCR, 5 hours in the heat was about all I could stand, I found the Middle East to be more comfortable. 🤣 This is the Beach of Low Expectations, but it is amusing to find so much stuff. 😀 I've found some old coins and odd relics here and now know why. A Bandana, military/biker helmet style, quick dry sleeveless basketball type shirt, and quick dry or ripstop shorts are my beach couture. At the first beach I usually don "sensible shoes" as the pebbles tear my feet up, I can wear water sandals at the other. 😏 I generally end up with a line across my forehead, so I sunburn the top later mowing the lawn. One must maintain balance in life 😁

It's always a good idea no matter the weather to hit the beach the day after the 4th of July. Brutal day today, 92 and about 60% humidity, no wind to speak of. It wasn't too bad in the morning, and I outlasted all the other detectorists, but by noon it was just plain nasty. The first beach was the large one using the D2. Ran into José operating the beach groomer, I've talked to him before, he has a keen interest in metal detecting and US history. We talked for a bit, he explained how the groomer worked, and said about the only thing it catches is chains, and it mangles them. 🫤 He tried to let me hunt as much of the beach as possible, and worked around me. I was very happy. Despite the groomer being run over the entire beach, the finds just kept coming. Maybe it's the reason I found so much. Second beach was the small one, only a few kids. Over the 4th these beaches got really trashed, but were cleaned up by county employees or locals. Fireworks and trash everywhere. 😵 Here I used my Equinox 600 with a 15" coil that Chase lent me. Didn't take long to find out how much I prefer the Deus 2 with the 13" 😀, it's way lighter and easier to use, also gives a lot more audio information than the Equinox. All I found at this beach was $1.26 in clad, the targets jump out because the beach is clean. I also much prefer the 10x5 Coiltek for hunting here if I'm going to use the Equinox. Trash was very very minimal today. I've got the D2 tweaked so that it really doesn't find much junk: Bottle caps were courtesy picks. Yes that is a live firework. So here's what I got 73 coins, about $8.50, a toy car, an old button and an earring that is just bling. The earring was over a large iron pipe and the Deus picked it out easily. José explained that the replenishment sand comes from a very old county here, so that explains the 1916 wheat I found nearby where I dug a 1916 Mercury dime a month or 2 ago. The button is very old. The little oval was from some sort of brass bracelet. Fun but very difficult day, about as bad weather as I would want to be out in.

Hmm... Only $8000... 🤔

Excellent NC! Great to see some silver coming up. 👍 Good on ya for keeping the faith. 🙂

😵 Thing will probably shut off my pacemaker 🤣 of course I might find the 90 million dollar hoard that might be buried at one of my permissions... 🤔 Thanks TJ! XP, we need a 10x5 elliptical!!!

Nice token DC, almost all of these have a Numista rarity rating of 97. 👍 That's a great find.

More of this please! 😀 Congratulations on two spectacular finds. The Deus 2 is a relic machine. Great stuff. 👍 Man I miss relic hunting, all my farms are planted. 🥲

You gotta post a review 🤣

The coil also has a centering device. I haven't had good luck with them, I wonder if that accessory would work well without one. If it fits right but is fairly easy to take off to clean, that's pretty cool. 👍 Hopefully it also accommodates charging clips and aftermarket stuff. The coil that really needs something like that is the 13".

Welcome to the forum! The Legend seems like a really good detector. 🙂 It takes a while to get used to all the control, so don't get frustrated with it if you don't have a lot of experience. I'll expand on what Valens Legacy wrote, if you have any farms near you (you mention a big yard so you're possibly in a rural setting), a great thing to do is try to catch the farmer out working, compliment the place and listen to them talk about it. Be patient and very interested, and when you get a chance ask the farmer if you could metal detect their farm after the crops are taken up. Farms have been handed down for hundreds of years and have many surprises from their use over time. Fairs, horse racing, other gatherings occurred on some of the more wealthy Southern plantations. Farmers are really nice people who are mostly attached to the land for growing crops, and will typically let you keep most or all of what you find. They are suspicious of any hasty or impatient behavior, but will tell you about the history and go out of their way to find other places and get other permissions for you if they like you. Be sure that the property they direct you to is not rented by them, if so find out who the actual owner is. Relic hunting is my favorite, I have only been turned down once because the landowner wanted to hunt it himself. I have thousands of acres of old farms under my belt, and have made some incredible finds in a mere 3 years of detecting. No one can stop you from detecting private property if you have permission from the landowner to be there. Be respectful and fill in your holes, a farmer will notice poor digging as they drive equipment that does not have shock absorbers, one of the main reasons they don't like groundhogs and rabbit warrens. 😀 Good luck, we're here to help you, and look forward to your success. Get out there!

Thanks Cap'n, the biggest problem with AR was that at 5 aluminum was too "clean" in High Square full tones. When I backed off to 3, the brassy sound was more noticeable. 🙂

I took your suggestion and turned it on, saved it to that program and for half the hunt I used it. Noticed Chase was finding a lot more stuff than me, so I turned it off and I started finding stuff everywhere in the dry. 🤔 Maybe in the water, since I take my gold ring off before going detecting, I'll have to keep it with me to try it. 🙂

Thanks Joe, Chase often has to swim against the tide getting here, nothing more frustrating on a hunt than being held up by a traffic jam. From experience the traffic up his way jams up on both sides with an accident on just one. Odd "Looky Lou" phenomena. 😀 My traffic is usually just the odd farm machine on the road. I also hunted the water for a bit because the jellyfish are scarce right now, but didn't find much there. As usual it was tiring. Not a spectacular hunt, but as Chase said we need to lower our expectations at this beach. He did rather well. I knew the parking would be more costly than what I would find.

Looks like Topaz to me, beautiful ring.

Welcome to the forum! At first I misread Fabius for Fabulous, but it looks that way none the less. If you start finding Civil War relics we'll all be right down. 😀 Stone wall photo tells me your digging is going to be dicey sometimes, but a challenge is part of the fun. Or not. 😏 Don't be afraid to ask straight up for gear recommendations here. Some of us may be able to steer you toward stuff that accommodates a particular disability. Good luck and we're looking forward to your exploits and photos!

Great finds G-Hound! 👍 Nice 1914 medallion, the car is in surprisingly good shape. Good to see ya Kickin' it with the D2!

Haha Cap'n, nice title. 🤣 And cool finds, I bet your heart skipped when you saw the gold... And then... 🤣 That's way funnier than Merry Widows. Your whatzit looks like a graded fastener, an old potentiometer or maybe a 25 amp fusible link thingy 🤔 I don't think I'd be behind anything labeled "chance" if it was electrical... 😏 Great trash to finds ratio, you're really doing well. 👍

Nice hunt Kaolin, while I don't advocate hunting anywhere that is questionable, if it's public property no hag has any authority. 😀 😏 Quite the cleanup of coins and a lot of other cool stuff. 👍

Nice one Rod! Rare to find a cut coin in that great shape. 👍

It's been raining a lot here, yesterday I had to cut the grass to get it done before the severe weather we're supposed to get this evening. I am posting this in the Deus 2 forum because I have some observations from today, I was using the D2 and the 13" coil with a customized Beach Sensitive program. I told Chase I was headed up to my local beach, and he got there early with me. It was hot and muggy but now and again it got cloudy and we got enough wind off the river to keep cool. Went through a lot of water today! Last weekend the beach was packed, and this weekend was too apparently. I like to go there early on Monday regardless of tide if it was sunny at all. There were not many people there as expected, I didn't see Chase but he was there before me. Went out to the motel beach, and my first find was a dime, and then I spotted a dollar in the sand. 😀 I knew it would be a much better day than I had last weekend. He finally appeared and we went down the beach searching different parts of it. Here's my observation; I found that audio response causes the detector to make a lot of extraneous noise if auto tracking is turned off. Turned it down from 5 to 3 and it got a lot better! It ran really quiet most of the time until I got over some black sand or a cellphone was nearby. Now the proof: Here's all the trash I got. The bottle caps were all sight picked, love the old round pull tabs that give off a beautiful tone without the brassy sound, some of the others did too, but I was after nickels and ended up getting some. The iron was so close to the surface I dug it. The rubber bat was just funny. 😀 Now the good stuff: 33 coins and a dollar bill, almost $6 in change and paper money. Best was the 1945 wheat. Old coins turn up here all the time. An earring that sounds good when dropped so I included it, a sight picked bracelet with beads and brass. 3 toy cars, the big pickup truck is a Hallmark Christmas ornament without the Christmas tree in the bed. It was a fun day, I hope the storms go by without incident.

Hi AB, welcome to the forum and thanks for sticking with us, giving more info. 🙂 The Deus 2 is an incredible and versatile machine, apparently about to become moreso. It is extremely light, there are a lot of aftermarket accessories for it now, and with respect to ID's it is the tightest. I own an equinox 600, it was my second detector and I was very successful with it. Bought the Deus not too long after it came out, used them both for a while, and now almost exclusively use the Deus 2. By the time you get everything expect to be in the $2,000+ range. I have just about every accessory, all the coils, and the nice 280 backpack to stuff it all in. I recommend the Deus 2 especially to those who are retired due to its weight, and to water hunters because of it's incredible depth rating and proven history of not flooding. Like you I travel during the summer and beach hunt on the east coast, I'm in Virginia on the Potomac. The one big difference is that I relic hunt in the fall and winter, lots of history here, and lots of old farms - some dating to the 1640s. Here the Deus 2 is probably the best detector to have, if you're going to walk 5-7 miles in huge farms you don't want muscle cramps and tennis elbow that night. 😀 After using it for two years now, I prefer it to any Minelab machine because it can be set easily to reduce "boop fatigue", a common issue with nearly any Minelab detector. It is also extremely resistant to EMI, thus far only the Manticore (I don't have one) seems to come close in this detector genre. When you buy the full package you literally get two detectors in the box. The WS6 headphones can also be used as a detector. Nice to have a backup handy, but it will cost you more in accessories to put one together. I've found gold rings with both my 600 and the Deus, but I definitely prefer the Deus because I am older. Do consider the Coiltek 10x5 for your son on the Equinox if you haven't already. You might want it yourself if you get a 700. Best of luck, and we look forward to any questions you have regarding your purchase, this forum "brought me up" so to speak. 😀

Square has always been the only option for the bone phones, and It's kind of a guess that High Square mixes PWM audio with Square, making it unusable for the bone phones. For some reason they can only use Square Audio. I noticed this too but I believe it is function not a glitch.