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Yes. Especially if there is some EMI on the beach it's very common because of WiFi and other things like power lines. Also some deep targets that the machine can't properly identify will do it.

With this choice, I'd make the drive right away with the detector plugged into a Power Delivery supply in the car. I keep a massive PD jump starter in my truck now because I had two batteries fail pulling my 40 foot toy hauler, which left me stuck in a diesel bay for about 2 hours until I could get someone to pull me out. 😀 Good use for it! My truck has 110v outlets in it, so even the charger that fast charges the power supply would work.

Watched this yesterday too. 👍 I've been using full tones in square, and an going to mess with pitch in square probably today to get a comparison. 👍 He's been with the Deus for a long time, guess he's comfortable with pwm. So many options 🤪

Nice ring, congrats! 👍 One of the two river beaches near me charges $2 an hour for the convenience of parking right at it, and pretty much everywhere in town it's the same. The other is county property and is free. 😀 Funny thing is I found 2 gold rings at the free one last year, and only tungstens at the paid beach. So, I try to find the tungsten ring prices online and get my solace knowing they cost the person more than I paid for parking 🤣 since I got 4 or 5 of them it added up to more.

Yikes, hate to tell ya this Steve, but Monday is MLK Day, so y'all prepare for delivery on Tuesday. 🫤 Let's hope I'm wrong.

I think Chase answered this pretty succinctly in the other (similar) post you made regarding this. Asking more than once just gets you conflicting answers, one post gets discussion 👍 I'm not a huge beach hunter, but I've done a beach or two. 😏 It took me a year or more to find my first hallmarked gold ring(s), BTW. Since then I've found more. Fields and beach. Lower your expectations before lowering sensitivity! If you're not noise cancelling, and then ground balancing the detector first, anything is possible. I remember 2 and a half years ago I asked similar questions when I was first using my 600, I was new to it like you. You'll find that a properly balanced detector will allow an incremental sensitivity increase, I've gone as high as 23 on some beaches. Depends on how good you are at it too - find a spot with no signals and hold that button and pump that coil until it stabilizes. As Chase told you, moving water and black sand will cause some blips and chatter, it's telling you sensitivity is too high. I go by rule of thumb: beach 1 for dry sand, 2 for wet and water. Sometimes I use Park 1 way up in the dry. You can pretty much use beach 2 everywhere though. Good luck!

Cool. Sometimes there is more. Last one I found had a sideways "W", indicating it was made in the 1800s.

Excellent! Looks like it might be an old one. Can you show the hallmarks?

Silver Slayer has a "hole" for nickels, I think it's 61-63. 😀 That's why I got a Jefferson and two V nickels. I also got small pieces of aluminum crap that hit there too. 😡 Unavoidable. What it does best is reject most iron.

Yup, it's called Silver Slayer for a reason! 😀 You will miss most gold except honkers that hit in the 90s... How often does that happen? 🤣 I'm sure you got some trash that falsed good, but hey that's detecting. 🤷‍♂️ The point is to get as many coins as you can. 👍 Great hunt!

Wow! That's a good days' pay for metal detecting 😀 SS finds the coins, especially nickels! Didja get any Zincolns? Doesn't seem so. 👍

Great stuff! Are you on the west coast too? 👍 Sorry about the weather but this seems like a once in a lifetime bonanza for detectorists. 😀

My local dealer got about 20 Deus 2's when they were hard to get, managed to snag one. He has the 900 and 700 but not the M-core. I'd direct y'all there if he did. 👍 This guy really knows his stuff.

Thanks! That was a really tough spot, I felt kinda guilty using Silver Slayer, but I knew there were a lot of coins there masked by junk. One coin was in with two large pieces of iron, all it "saw" was the coin. I think it was one of the nickels. Many other digs had multiple targets, but I usually knew where the one I wanted was. The best part was standing under those power lines, no other program or noise cancel could stop the chatter, it was intense. SS slayed the EMI too! 👍 I'm thinking now of using it where Chase found the dime, that's another brutal area. Also have one in front of my house. I found I could really trust it. You're going to dig some of the usual falsing suspects, it's going to be whole beer cans and bottle caps and stuff 😀 But, if there are coins it will find them. 2/3 of a dime is pretty small. There is a trick to the more difficult stuff like coins on edge, you get a higher pitched "blip". Gotta dig them if it's repeatable and gives you an ID.

Been there man, no worries. 👍 You're lucky you missed that! 😀 The stress was about to kill me. Metal detecting is one of the best choices I've ever made.

This farmer would let me do that, I have a lot of clearing tools myself. 👍 If I find other places unproductive I may dig deeper. 🙂

Always great to have you come down, sometimes I feel bad when the hunts aren't all that fruitful due to your long travel, but ya saved me from having to buy dinner 😀 Your insights and advice are valuable to me, and I'm glad you can put up with my wild postulates. 🤣 I was really sad that the 900 didn't get into gear, it looks and feels like a great detector. I hope you do get to the bottom of the issue. 👍 With power lines almost a half mile off and no cell towers in the area that was really strange, maybe it was a drone LiDar mapping the area? 🤣 Yesterday there were Ospreys and A-10s flying all over, I couldn't hear my targets sometimes. A local naval air base does their training over this area instead of their home state, fewer people to complain I guess. 🤔

Thanks JCR! I always appreciate suggestions from the experienced. 👍I have a probe of sorts, that's a great idea. 🙂 One think I've learned already from cellar hole hunting is that it makes me appreciate open field and beach hunting much more. 😀 Kac is another experienced cellar hole and woods hunter, he has to because the woods are about the only place his shovel doesn't bounce when he digs. 🤣 This area is a pre-tropical jungle of sorts, if you leave a spot untouched for any length of time the "jungle" comes back hard. 😵 There are some places on my permissions that are nearly impenetrable. I'm pretty sure I looked at LiDar maps of this spot, and found them to not be detailed enough, probably for security reasons like GPS. Going to look again.

Lidar mapping sees through the trees and buildings, recording height and depth. So many drones fly over my house, one of them has to be doing it 😀 guess they're looking for the holes where I bury all the gold and silver coins I find.

Thanks Matt, They would be better without all the other hunters out there, and sometimes they don't like to share. 😀 Rabbit hunting is next, but they fire into the woods and much lower.

There are all kinds of mounds in the woods around the cellar hole, I'll have to look again with some implements of destruction. 😀

Thanks! At least my arms don't lock up in the shower. 😀 For a serious experience look into the WS6 Master rig, insanely light with the 9". And I thought I was doing good with the Equinox, 10x5 and a CF shaft. I think you did yourself a favor getting a Deus, I'm guessing by the end of this year it will stand as top dog, sorry y'all. It ain't a PI, but it finds stuff well. Less digging too. I'm lucky here because if stuff isn't in the first 8-10", it's probably on its way to Australia, and out of reach. Sand. I'll take what I can get in the loam/clay layer. 😀

Thanks! Don't know when he was there last, except to farm the place. I did find a few piles of bricks under the leaves, maybe the whole thing came down. Nothing in his fields.

I had to invoke ya man, did you know SS is EMI resistant? Can't thank you enough. 👍

Today I began my adventure searching for a very old house in the woods, a part of an older permission that I didn't have time for. I did a lot of aerial and topographic map study, found where I thought the house was, and pretty much nailed it. Started out cold and foggy, in the 30s. It warmed up nicely tho, why I love living here. Winter is tolerable. I followed this road until I found my pin in OnX Hunt, and had to look around a bit. Deeper in the woods I found it, the farmer told me it had a standing chimney, but all I saw was foundation bricks. The hole was about 4 feet deep 10x12, and lined with brick, I brought the WS6 Master with the 9" coil in there knowing there would be a lot of undergrowth. Thorns and Holly everywhere. 😵 It looked like there was additional foundation next to it. I searched around for an hour or so and only found a can lid and a crushed funnel, there were hidden animal burrows everywhere. Not too long into searching I heard dogs, and then blam blam blam. I thought I should go and come back another day. It was odd because deer hunting season ended last Saturday 🤔 Got back to my truck, and decided to go to the trashy farmhouse site I visited last week. Got some pretty good stuff there but knew I would have to do something different than use my current relic program. I decided to use @Rattlehead's Silver Slayer program with the 13" coil and CF shaft, and I'm glad I did, this was the "good" junk I found: A large spoon, some sort of brass fitting, a toy truck part, a brass padlock, two heavy brass pieces and a large chunk of lead with a hole drilled in it. I'm not gonna lie and say that's all the trash I found, as a matter of fact there was a lot of steel, aluminum, and copper trash that I just threw out. A lot. 😵 No matter what you do, you're going to be in a range where you get fooled by stuff especially if every type of metal you can think of is there. 😀 However, I have to thank Rattlehead for a seriously good coin shooting program, if you have to dig a lot of junk you might as well get some good stuff too! 👍 This is not the perfect place for Silver Slayer, but it did slay one piece of silver, and then some! I got 4 buttons that I didn't expect to find. One large general service coat button, an 1840s Marines button, a small general service cuff button, and a fancy aluminum 2 hole button. An aluminum thimble, and an aluminum kennel tag. 3 memorials, 1 1959, the other two early 60s. This house was gone before 1967 as the earliest aerial shows. I dug 6 wheats, earliest 1920, latest 1949. Two "V" nickels, an 1898 and a 1901. The 2/3ds coin is silver, a reeded edge dime, but I can't identify it. It's melted, bubbled, and crushed: Got really tired after all that digging, picked up Chinese food for me and my wife on the way back because I got silver. 😀 I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned it, but Silver Slayer is extremely resistant to EMI, I literally stood under these power lines that trashed every other program on the D2, and hardly heard a chirp. 👍 That's huge...