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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.

I'm hoping for an extremely small coil like the 10x5 we have been on about forever. 🤔 The new space is positioned between the coils and headphones.

Metal detecting and fishing, two Virginia favorites. 👍 They probably threw them in the river due to the crackdown on unserialized pistols. Thanks Lynyrd Skynyrd! 😵 Great photos DC, I think Jeff has you covered. They wouldn't have tossed it if it was a Colt. 😀 Here's a pic of the little guy:

From what live beach results I've seen lately with other newer machines, we already don't have that much to worry about. 😎 It's sad but kinda a thrill to have another detectorist ask me if I'm finding anything because he isn't. I just say "I'm doing all right"... 🤷‍♂️ I would hope adjusting reactivity would sort this out, but it really doesn't, and the higher you go you begin to lose the deeper stuff. That's always been the deal relic hunting, and I agree with the Cap'n that higher sensitivity gets you fringe targets outside the swing that are worth investigating.

Yeah I'm not going to say it's the be all and end all, but... This last update does seem to be a pretty good one. I do miss the simplicity of V.71 but am enjoying the wider parameters and extra settings, especially audio filter which meshes PWM and square. I took the time to go in the water today as well, and have good to say about the Diving program, it's very quiet until it doesn't need to be. This on a tip from PI-Man and his 18k banner day. This place is barren of good finds until it isn't, and it cleanly nailed two pennies in waist deep water. If there was anything out there I would have found it. I got the shiny Zincoln in the dry, and the quarter in the parking lot. The parking lot is loaded with coins but also with aluminum bottle tops and pull tabs. I have to be willing to dig in gravel. Any time there is trash there the county mowing service just shreds it. 🤬

Ok, my turn. 😀 Took the D2 and 13" to my local beach this morning with a tent stake and a shiny new clad quarter. Beautiful white river sand here. Set Beach sensitive up with full tones and everything else Cap'n did, and buried the quarter and stake. I used the typical one I find: The only program that caught the quarter on the edge of the coil was my modified General program with audio filter at 5. Only on the edge of the 13". I could literally sweep the edge back and forth and get a 93, get close to the center and iron. A 6/7. Some times it would average and I'd see a 58 or something in the 50s. Changed reactivity, changed audio response individually, changed iron audio, nada in beach sensitive. Tried disc and notch separately, still a no go. Turned Audio filter up and got a click before and after the iron tone, reactivity 2. All this was with sensitivity at 95. Guess I added a new sound to my dig repertoire, iron grunt with click might be a hit. 😀 Any high tone with iron makes me suspicious anyway since V1.1. Then I thought, "How far does the stake have to be away from the 13" to allow the quarter to be found? 🤔 The answer is pretty far, like 8", unless you catch the coin on the heel of the coil, it nails it. Closer the tip is the more it will go to iron. There is a distinct advantage to using a larger coil on a tent stake beach, the edges pick up stuff. Some short wiggling is in order, keep the edge on the target. I'm sure this scenario is pretty limited, heck you can use General in the dry. Most tent stakes are in the dry anyway, right? Ok, now I'm gonna duck and cover 🤣

Good one Kaolin, this is only about the 3d time someone posted a $1 coin find that I can recall, myself included. Those are meant to be in collections, not on a beach. 😀 The Aussies are rolling on the floor, a typical hunt is in dollars not sense (pun intended) 😏

Kudos, Karma, and other Krap to ya, PI. Excellent sleuthing and perseverance to find the owners, told ya a square diamond is big bucks. Depending on the sizing my wife might have had the engraving buffed out 🤣 You're a great person and deserve a long and happy life, also a credit to the hobby. 👍 Keep Digging! Soon enough there will be one or two you don't feel bad about keeping 🙂

Yep, if she's got Monday off, she gets another chance to really blow it. 🤣 Apparently she was on thin ice already. Everyone deserves some initial kindness, but were I to find her stuff again I might be a bit more reluctant to return it. I do wonder why she just opened the door 😀 especially so scantily clad. Not exactly the clad I was looking for. 😁

Thanks Mark, It takes a while (from experience 😀) to realize what fools we have been in life. Sometimes it's meeting the right person, sometimes it's a bolt of lightning (a metaphor). Sadly for some it is a nirvana never realized 😏