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Absolutely outstanding, PI-Man. 🏆 Not only did you beat my best by 4k each on two rings in one hole, you scored a diamond. A square cut diamond. 🥳 And a little over a year later. 😀 Seems this two ring thing is kinda rare! Hope the Deus is helping you stay out longer. And thanks for the ID's!

Only had the problem a couple of times before the update, It's held the correct time since then. Mostly it has been spot on.

Well good on ya for getting out there and braving the elements! 👍 That belt slide is so cool it hurts. 😎 Looks like it could use a polish and be put back to service. Might even be a tie clasp? My first experience with hearing lightning with the D2 was in Emerald Isle last year, even miles away over the ocean it crackled. Better than a 1965 quarter to signal the end of the hunt. 😀 If you can, try to get an estimate in mm of the coin you dug last. That helps identify them sometimes, but many of the memorials I dug this past week had been eaten away enough that they looked like dimes. I'm going to tumble the lot for my recap 😀 Just looked at your photo, and i can clearly make out the letters "LIBE" circled in the photo. 😀 Methinks it a Memorial or wheat.

It may well be a spinoff design from Scots who emigrated here. 🙂 I am part Scot, and despite my family living here since such immigration, bagpipes are one of my favorite instrument sounds. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I had never seen (or heard of) a Duck call until I moved from the North to the South and made a friend who made them. He was very proud of his work, he used exotic wood and tuned them for different Ducks. This campground was a hunting camp with a lodge for over 100 years, they destroyed the lodge and farmhouse just a few years ago. The main reason they let me hunt this campground with impunity is because I dig up the live ammunition scattered everywhere. I also don't leave a trace, although I'll be blamed for holes turtles dig to lay eggs. 🧐 I love coming here because of the diverse detecting opportunities from relics to park hunting to the possibility of water hunting, someday I'll get the opportunity to do that here when the tides are just right. They tell me wind has to come from the North for a few days to make it shallow enough to not be neck deep. 😀 The Currituck Sound has a nice sandy bottom, but you can't scoop if you go up when your scoop is pressed down. There is no beach here, only a seawall with piers.

Y'all must be pretty sick of all this, 😀 but today was another good day. Kinda went everywhere today, started near the boat launch. Lots of vehicles park here so it's a good place to look for coins, but i didn't think I'd get this very old duck call: The horn is some kind of old translucent plastic, it has two reeds that appear to be made of nylon, and the wood looks like ebony. Would not have found it if it didn't have the huge brass collar. This is a throwback to the old hunting camp. I also found an old bent copper ring there. After this area I hunted some of the tent sites I missed, and found more coins. Got 29 coins this morning, and the bent ring. Here's the junk: Got a few pull tabs because I was really hoping to find nickels today. Took a break for lunch, and went back to the place I got a bunch of coins yesterday, managed to get quite a few more, and even one nickel! 31 more. This spot is really small, pictures don't do it justice but something was going on here in the 80s. It's the area ringed by trees with my detector there for scale. Last place I visited caught my eye this morning: "Kids Corner". If you want to find coins, where kids are, you'll find a lot. I only searched for a short time, but got quite a few quarters. 60 coins today! Well that's it, it's going to rain tomorrow, and we're going home Tuesday. 🤗 I'll do a recap later to show the sheer magnitude of stuff I found here. Wish I had a working chance to hunt the water. I am very grateful to this campground for the opportunities to hunt it over the past 3 years.

Well Cap'n I'm not gonna worry too much I guess, at least I'm finding stuff every day. It's going to rain tomorrow, might be severe, we're leaving Tuesday. Kinda can't wait to hit the beaches back home now it's heating up and the kids are out of school. Wish I could get a water day in here but that probably won't happen. 😵 Next year maybe.

Yes Sir, I get out in the morning and sometimes in the evening. Love it when I hit a hot spot, thought I'd word this area out, I looked back and I dug about 56 coins out of this spot last year. I have a much better understanding of the Deus 2 than I did last year, and it's working much better. Some of these coins were on edge but it hit them just the same. I could tell when they were on edge, I got a signal and turned, it would disappear or change a bit. If flat it was consistent. Many of the coins were still in the hole or deeper. My Predator Barracuda has a 6" blade, I don't bring the Ranger because it looks intimidating. 😀 Here's a photo of the recap of last year after I tumbled all the coins. In it is a 1907 Jamestown Exposition medal I dug here. Also pictured is a live Remington 35 round, one of 5 I found next to a fire pit. 😳

Great hunt there, those wave rings are pretty common these days, nice they use some precious metal. Beautiful sapphire too. The season is getting started now! 👍

Didn't get much yesterday so I didn't have high hopes for today. Beautiful day, sunny, breezy and not too hot. Wind out of the southeast kept the pollution down. Went to the canal area this morning and used the WS6 with the 9" coil. Found a few coins here and most of my trash, along with the 2 Zincolns I got today. Next place I went was a small field at the very top end of the campground, a place I got about 60 coins last year. I wasn't expecting to find much but I was wrong. In just a small area about the size of a crowded city yard, not even a 10th of an acre (not this whole field), the coins just kept coming. Found one right after I dug the previous one. I was only here for a couple hours using the D2 and 13" coil. Ended up with 46 coins today, way more than I thought I would find. I got about 60 in this spot last year using the D2 when it was new, guess I really didn't have a handle on it. 🤣 I dug almost no trash at all here, two blobs of molten aluminum and a small aluminum strap. Got 2 1965 quarters 😏 Everything was from the 1960s to present. Here's what I got for trash elsewhere, only a couple pieces from the last spot. None of the above is iron. I was notching to 40 with the WS6, but not with the D2. I didn't see any difference between the 13" and the 9" really other than weight, both performed equally well. I'm kinda baffled that I'm not finding any silver coins here at all, I think I got one Mercury dime two years ago. Perhaps it was cherry picked, but everywhere? And with so many other coins? Also odd that I didn't get any nickels today, didn't see any 61/62 IDs. 🤔 Edit: used The Devil's Tongue Park Probe again quite a bit today, dug this quarter out from between two roots. 🙂

Thanks LC, this place has relics and is Park-like. Lots of older clad in the ground. I'm glad I haven't found any more live ammo like I have in prior years.

Thanks Cap'n, It's working great for me 🙂. Don't want to hear iron? Notch to 40. Been doing that too. It's not affecting depth or anything, I'm hitting coins fairly deep. 😀 It rained here last night so that will help.

Today I only got out for about 3 hours, this post isn't really about the hunt more than testing stuff. This morning I went to an area I have pounded the heck out of, I've probably grid searched it a few times over the last couple years. Here is an older photo, the house and lodge behind it are gone now. I used it to position myself via GPS exactly where it was. This is one of those places where there is so much junk in the ground you really couldn't hunt it without a more sophisticated machine, particularly one that has a fast processor and separation capability. You can notch and discriminate to a point, but there are copper tubing and parts, steel, aluminum, and nails forever. I think the house demolition was very messy. Another change I made to the General program is to turn off Full Tones Offset. I do this because I like the way the machine sounds when going over various materials, general defaults to 5 which pushes tones up. It seems more natural. This is where I may be getting my "Iron is iron" statement. I searched this area and managed to pull a couple more coins out, the rest came from a nearby canal shore. I dug more memorials than Zincolns today, the oldest was 1960. They were all about 4-8" deep, many out of pinpointer range. A couple were mixed in with the metal stuff I ended up with for trash: After a while of having my brain pounded by a ton of tones, I set a notch from 0 to 40 just to hear the better stuff. No pull tabs, can slaw, or iron. I hunted this spot using both the D2 with the 13" and my WS6 Master with the 9" coil, it was slightly easier to pull stuff with the 9" than the 13", some of the targets, particularly the trash, were sometimes off center with the 13". That is to be expected with a larger coil. With the 9" you don't have to dig as wide a hole. 😀

Haven't had a chance to test it at the beach, heading to one soon when I get home. For relic hunting it's great. I have tried from 0 to 5, and 5 is what makes the aluminum pop more than coins. I'm using a pretty unhacked General program, just AF and full tones and high square. 🙂 Oh and xy because i don't like the big numbers. Glare erases them. Place I'm hunting now is loaded with Bottle Caps, can slaw and pull tabs. The coins are mostly on top, but I'm hitting memorials at 4-8" with ease. Silvers would be even easier if there were any 😏

I'm using AF at 5 myself now, and with Bottle Caps at 3 even the Coronas don't fool me. I still pick bottle caps on top as a courtesy, but I'm not digging them lately. In High Square Audio Filter seems to mix some of the PWM characteristics in, that's about the best description I can offer. If you use the bone phones you don't get High Square as an option.

Thank you! Y'all may have a long "week", i extended my stay a few more days. 😁 There are going to be a few events this weekend, school is out most places and the campground will be filling up. It's been gloriously empty so far.

Thanks Cap'n, More like digging 48 Zincolns almost killed me 🤣 It was easy though, most were right on top, and I had my trusty Devil's Tongue Park Probe with me. It deserves an honorable mention, @kac really has a winner there. Leaving no trace is important both to me and the campground General Manager. Looks like I've got it dialed in with this one. When I can turn the D2 on, noise cancel, ground balance and go it's a good sign. I'll probably just post the settings when I'm confident, but I liked sending it individually to those that requested the old Reaper to get feedback. I'm going to strongly recommend use of Audio Filter. It really makes a difference with aluminum. My only fear is that I might miss some tokens, but round objects like the 1930 World Fair pull tabs I dug may suggest otherwise. 🧐 Good thing I dig most 62s because that got me the cufflink. It did not have the brassy tone so I was sure I had a nickel 😏 it's awesome when I'm wrong... Sometimes. Zincolns come in at 84 for the most part, memorials popped as high as 94 today. What I really love is that even with multiple targets in a particular spot like 2-3 quarters and a memorial or Zincoln, I still got 93-94 consistently. That is another gripe about SMF detectors, the averaging or cancelling - the D2 did not do it. The best example was pulling a memorial out of a bed of nails. The old Relic Reaper would have been a bit trifling here, this new version is much more quiet. Iron is just a low buzz.

Thanks Doc, There is a high probability of finding unusual old stuff in some spots here, however I feel it was cherry picked for the easy stuff a long time ago. There should be all kinds of silver coins here, and I have not found 1. It hasn't been picked over since then, most of the clad is from the late 70s to now. I found many wheats and Indian heads, even one large cent where the road to the hunting lodge was. Last year I dug parts of a 1907 Jamestown Exposition medal here. The tent sites are closer to the hunting lodge that was here in the 1800s to about 2015. It became a campground in the 70s and was bought by a large concern about 4 years ago. There is a tremendous amount of iron and other trash where the house and lodge were, some good stuff may be masked.

Thanks! 🤣 Absolutely no iron trash today. The tent stake was sight pick. People have been complaining about falsing iron, I'm not having that issue with this program at all. Loving V1.1!

What a day! Started out all smoggy and still, so I thought I'd try a water hunt today. It was just after low tide, I got in the sound at the end of one of the piers, the water wasn't too cold and there is a nice sandy bottom. Well that didn't last long. 🤣 I heard some good signals but the water was almost neck deep all the way to the seawall. I couldn't dig anything! Switched gears to relic and coin hunting, I went back to the place I was yesterday. It's about 2 acres of tent camping sites. Did pretty good there yesterday with 37 coins, today was even better. It got clear, warm and a bit breezy so it was really pleasant. Got a small flashlight that still works, and a lot of coins. Got near a very old cedar tree and saw this: It was just the top of the iceberg. Spent the next 15 minutes there with my pinpointer finding penny after penny, and 8 keys. Also found a wampum bracelet probably made by a Boy Scout with two pieces of turquoise on it. It was all attached with fishing line. I found a brass General star with the clasp, and an earring with a silver iron cross. Silver! 😀 Had to buy lunch. Here's the take for the morning, ended up with 38 Zincolns and a bit of clad. Also got some memorials. But the best is below, I did not expect to find any old coins here! A very nice 1926 Buffalo Nickel, and a 1930 wheat. Took my wife to lunch, came back and set out again to finish this area up. Got a lot more clad and 10 more Zincolns, but in the middle of it a storm came out of nowhere and it got extremely windy and cold. Also blew the smoke out, we went from 156 air quality to 56 in an hour. I got in a sheltered spot and waited it out My last find of the day was a 1965 quarter in the last corner of this area. 🤣 I knew it was time to go. But that's not all, I dug 3 old buttons today. The first I thought was an old overall button, but it turned out to be an odd duck with a patent date of Feb 7, 1888: And last but not least, an ancient cufflink button and a lead one. Really old stuff. Trash from the morning: And this afternoon: Banner day, 74 coins total and some relics. I was even treated to a rainbow.

You found my avatar! 👍 That's a Ford model T hubcap, not sure what the Chevrolet one goes to. Nice finds. That's an old mower, if you can get it to work, the old reel mowers cut grass the best. 🙂

I haven't noticed a tremendous gain, but when I was at the last beach I had to dig 4 scoops just to get to pinpointer range, and that's way over 8". I still only find most targets even here in less than 8". The big thing is coverage. Despite the extra weight (which isn't all that much), an area I cover with the 13" is covered. 😀 If i go back to it there's nothing but the junk I skipped. I have a lot of confidence in that. Like the 9" it has a wide field but even wider so you can follow down a blip from the edge. It's just a larger coil. For finding stuff faster the 9" can't be beat except by a 10x5" elliptical. I'm finding I prefer elliptical coils overall. 🙂

Thanks! It was a coin find every 5 minutes, not bad. I'm liking V1.1. at least 3 coin spills, one with 3 quarters. The IDs did not waver. 93.

I just went back to scratch for the most part, took General again and applied Hi Square, full tones, bottle caps ended up at 4, and turned Audio Filter up and down to see how much it affected aluminum. I think everything else is stock. 🙂 I like the XY screen better than large ID. At AF=5 aluminum gets the brassy tone, and sometimes even the up/down tone I used to get in V.71. I discussed this with Chase one day and we both thought AF was just a tone control and wouldn't affect much else. It works for me! There is a lot of can slaw in this place. Notice I got coins of every denomination, and less pull tabs than nickels 🤔

Thus far in the 3 years I've been detecting, "skunk" days come from going to places I've pretty thoroughly hunted. It's the bane of relic hunting, no ghost is gonna drop buckles, buttons and silvers when they're all gone. In my limited experience changing technique, settings and coils - even detectors - only helps marginally. The only thing that brings better success is research, using Topographic maps, LiDar maps, and generally knowing where to go when you get there by marking curious spots in a tracking app like OnX Hunt. It helps if the place you are hunting was or is a wealthy area as well. For Beach hunting I'm pretty sure weather plays the biggest part, if it's been cold expect to find less. If it's been really stormy you might expect to find more. 😀 I don't have any parks in my area and haven't really gotten into school hunting, but those are places where there should be repeat finds due to traffic. It helps of course to not have a lot of competition. 😏 I don't worry about skunk days and focus on the research to keep it from happening. The one thing that you can count on is there will be another day you can get out. Until you can't. 🤔

Didn't think I'd get out today, but managed to when we got back from shopping. I was out for only 3 hours but did pretty good. Today the air quality was bad, you could hardly see the water from the campground due to all the smoke from the fires in Canada. Who'd have thought that would be blown all the way to North Carolina? Yikes. Went back to the tent sites this evening, they photographed the bear last night but it wasn't around. Glad I had situational awareness from the WSA II headphones. The forecast said rain this afternoon, but when i got back it had changed to none. Heh. $21 a year for one of the most "accurate" weather apps. It started raining as soon as I got out there. It wasn't coming through the trees so I stayed out. So did the deer flies. 🤬 Today I was using a program I started yesterday, one that @CPT_GhostLight inspired me to create. It's just a build on General again, still needs some tweaks but it's much better. 🙂 Didn't get too much trash today, and heard very little iron falsing. Turning on a target definitely made my decision not to dig. Tent stakes were on top of the ground. The ring is a large pipe cutoff, i think copper. It was a 97. The big disc is lead. And of course all the usual suspects below. Audio filter helped with larger can slaw and many pull tabs with that brassy sound. Even the shotgun shell heads were all very weird multi tones so I dug them out of curiosity. The object that says "SOTO" is a butane pocket torch with an extended torch head. The 13" is my favorite coil these days, I've got used to its weight and love the great separation it has for such a large coil. Yeah it tends to droop a bit but It stays tight enough to not be annoying. Here's the finds, 37 coins in 3 hours. Not bad at all. 🙂 I really like that Zincolns are much lower tone and ID than memorials now, but I dug them anyway.