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So that works... 🤔 😀 I like toys so I got 2. True that the WS6 is pretty independent once you unpair it from the RC. You don't want to hunt farms in VA this time of year with over ear phones either... 😬 Just posted something 'bout that 🤪

Thanks RVP! I've got Chase to help me, he's more than willing. 😀 Believe it or not it's not all that bad, usually there are "hotspots" where you find a lot of stuff, and "dead zones" where there's nothing. You can kill a place like this pretty fast. I don't believe in "never hunted out". I could show you places I found tons of stuff and there's nothing left within the reach of a VLF. At least they're not worth searching again without a new toy! 😀

Thanks! 🙂 Today might have unnerved anyone a bit, it did me, but he's no stranger to ranges like me I'm sure. I tried to stay behind the hill until they were done. Thing is if I went down the hill I walked into the EMI. 😡

Haha, as a long time IT guy, when someone mentioned they couldn't do something and had an Apple computer, I used to say "Well, there's your problem"... 🤣 Couldn't resist. Fear not, one of our intrepid users posted a solution: You just have to run windows on it. 🙂

I have 4 more areas I'm looking at quickly to get an idea of what is there, one 35 acre field next to the last one I scouted, an old farmhouse field a few miles away, a cellar hole deep in the woods in another area, and a possible war of 1812 landing site. Managed to get to two of them today anyway. Got out pretty early. The first was the 35 acre field across the road from the last field I posted, I didn't expect much of anything because there is no evidence of any house on it. I walked a long time crossing the field and checking the most likely spots, pretty much all I got was lead. Buck balls, bag seals, and one mangled pistol ball. It wasn't until I crossed the center of the field one more time from another direction that I found anything, but I'll tell ya later. 😁 Next up was a small field a few miles away that I suspect was used for subsistence farming, there was a house there but it is long gone. The house was on a bluff overlooking the road where I parked, after dealing with the power line EMI near the road, I finally got up on the hill and things got quiet but not for long. 😵 All of a sudden a couple trucks came down the road carrying digging equipment, and one of the guys asked me to move my truck because they had to dig in a fiber conduit "right there" 😀 I moved it and they got all their equipment running, the ditch drill added more EMI. 😡 Off in the distance I saw another truck, it seemed like the driver was watching me. I was wrong. A while later I heard dogs, and then the shooting started in the woods behind the hill. A bunch of hunters showed up. Dogs and blam blam blam! 😀 Glad I decided to wear my blaze orange vest. At one point I had to duck behind the hill because they got pretty close. That hill was loaded with relics, coins, tokens, hardware. Not a heck of a lot of iron! The stuff ranged from the early 1800s to mid 1900s, I had to change my "Relic Reaper"™ program to reactivity 2 to get more separation. 🤣 Probably could go to 3 next time, but I got enough stuff... First the trash: Not too bad, a little more than a handful. Threw out a couple of steel cans. Next, the hardware and large relics: A few cheap spoon handles, a fork, hinges and sinkers and stuff. A little compact tin with no markings, and an unmarked lipstick tube cover. Now the fun stuff. Got.37 in modern coins, 3 wheats from 1941 to 1958, one 1886 IHP It appears to be a "Type 2", I'm waiting on some cleaning pencils. Got 5 buttons, 2 aluminum, one Tombac but it looks newer, one copper flat. A small pendant thing with one chain link on it, it's brass and heavy. 2 belt buckles, the cheesiest brass one I've ever seen, and a nice decorated one with a "P" on it. This turtle shell thing I dug I have no idea what it was used for or came off of, but it's decorated and heavy. I got a couple pieces of decorated metal that again I have no idea what they were from, and 3 tokens, one broken. The coolest one is this: What the heck is a "Capers Check" ? It was made for a long closed local manufacturing company in town. It's copper and has a big 1 on it. Another is for Snow King Baking Powder, a company that was absorbed by General Mills in 1937: The only way I was able to read any of these tokens was to buff the snot out of them with steel wool. 😀 The third broken one was for a free car wash. And now the pièce de résistance, the object I found smack in the middle of the first field: Civil War eagle "I" button. I have no idea what it was doing in the middle of that field, but I pictured the farmer plowing with the only warm jacket he had, his Civil War wool coat. it finally did quiet down, the hunters got their deer and the diggers left for the day. Glad I didn't get shot. 😎

I had the same question. Since I have the WSA II backphones too, I decided to buy a second one and pair them to the WS6 puck. Don't want to have to keep unpairing and pairing stuff! Alternately you can blow the big bucks and get the WSA II XL phones, and use them with one of the two. I'm exploring another option and that is plugging an Aptx-LL transceiver into the WS6, and using some SoundBlaster Jam V2 headphones. 😁

Major score Midalake, congratulations! I've made some of my best finds "taking a walk up there" 😀 but this one is a dream. Awesome lucky find for your friend. 👍 What's the oldest one?

BTW I have a toy hauler too, a 2022 Momentum. All the ports are at least 2A, some are 5 I think. 👍

Gotta say I'm not a total XP fanboy, but after putting aside my trusty and arguably successful Equinox 600, despite its flaws the D2 is pretty damn awesome. I just posted some praise here, considered cutting it and starting a whole new thread: The Deus 2 probably was developed to be a "Swiss Army Knife" detector, it sure seems they tried to cover every possible arena of detecting in one box. From beach to the sea to arid desert, to steamy woods, lakes, rivers, and muddy wet fields. That was ambitious at best, but I'll be darned if they didn't create the most versatile machine ever. Scares me to consider the D3... 😬 We've all seen the trials and tribulations folks have had in their particular place, but I've used it everywhere but gold prospecting and for me it took a licking and kept on ticking. It hasn't filled with water and I've only broken one coil bolt due to having to over tighten the 13" coil, and worn one camlock a bit. Oh yeah and my stupid waveguide is turning black. 🤣 Does a relic or beach hunter give a crap that the detector gets mud or sand in/on it? One word: spares. I've got spare bolts, camlocks, and even all the coils. Throw it all in the 280 backpack and go. Battery low? Convert to the WS6. Coil dead? Grab another. All from one small backpack. Charge your dead stuff with a USB power supply while you're gone. I'm not going to get into a pissing contest with people with mineralized soil or the scuba enthusiasts that literally need a machine made out of rebar. I can find everything I have found with the Equinox and 10x5. 😀 The Deus is lightweight, versatile, and can be set up/changed/configured in seconds. I'm a retired IT guy so menus mean nothing to me, constant use and repetition are everything. I think what attracted me to this hobby again were the fancy menus and tweaks, so there's that. I used a White's and a Bounty Hunter a long time ago and thought they were kinda rudimentary, I was turned off. Now I can wave this whizzy lightsaber at the ground and know (mostly) what I'm looking at. Righteous! 👍 As an entry level geezer (no offense Geezer 🤣) I really appreciate coming home and not having to take ibuprofen or magnesium pills to stop my arms from locking up in the shower after slogging for 8 hours in the water. Light detectors do nothing for leg cramps. 😀

This is true, I've connected Power Delivery chargers to it (without thinking it through 😬) and had no trouble, even some capable of 100A.

Any chance you could hit us with some before and after photos? 😀 I may have a lot of work to do 🤔 Mine are on the way!

It does work quite well. 👍 I think this thread has put forth most of the issues with the D2, and I'm glad to see Gary drop in. I hope the update will address what we posited, and not make radical changes, or worse, negate everything with a D3. On the positive side it's a killer where I hunt, my soil is "less" than mineralized, so everything is going to show. The only problem we have hunting here is excess moisture in the ground. It's probably why farms have done well here for almost 400 years now. 😀 Let's not forget that while the D2 finds metal as well as any other metal detector (I'm not kidding myself that it far exceeds any of them in any way), it does have unique features that make it the best for someone like me: It is the lightest detector in the world It is waterproof to an extreme degree over the best new VLF It has powerful tweakable and comprehensive adjustments, but you should get used to the stock modes before changing things (RTFM) There are many options to use the RC and WS6 control units - cases, wristbands, bags. Heck you can put them in your socks if you want It has the capability of being a backup to itself, the WS6 Master is brilliant, if you bought the whole shebang you got 2 detectors, who does that? All the newer headphones are water resistant It has a decent set of coils, the 13" was a great addition The aftermarket has at least caught up with shaft options and "doodads" that allow customization And most important, it is the lightest detector in the world. 😀 Did I mention that? All this aside, I think the best thing about it is that it is not like the current lineup of VLFs - the M-core, the 900 and the 700, and the Legend. They're all great tools. If you have only one tool in your toolbox, you can't be too versatile. It's interesting that it took all of a year for the bunch of us to really get used to it, I am encouraged that it may show some great potential in the long run.

Looks like it's owned by a gun club now. Pretty big deal here. Wasn't much activity there same as here, except we were invaded by the British for a few days in 1814. No civil war or Revolution stuff here. I'm going to be looking for a possible landing site sometime this winter. They came up a small river behind my house. You'd think the British would have learned something after Yorktown. 🤔 😀

Haha, should I stop posting? 🤔 🤪 Nah... Funny you should write that, my buddy in PA always says he's on his way. 😀 Wish he would make the trip now and again. 🙂 There isn't much to do here but metal detect, hunt, fish if you're retired. A few Presidents were born here but even they left. 🤣 We've got miles and miles... Of miles and miles. Make sure you look up when you get to the tree line! If you look down the ravine is deep. 😁 One famous family left a huge grant to the county that discourages modernization. The farmers are nice to locals, but their motto is "you've seen it, now leave". It's a strange place, but I like it a lot.

Well crap I'm out of likes and thanks today, but thanks NC. 😀 I had a plan in mind and stuck to it, paid off in quality rather than quantity. Sometimes I'm polishing a turd, but now and again I get lucky 😎 In this place old stuff rules, but ya gotta look. A lot. That's why I'm grateful to have the WS6, and magnesium tablets later... I did "sweep" the yard a bit, but didn't hit anything that said "dig me". 😏 I'll have to get granular now it's Carte Blanche... But in back where the barns used to be there's so much junk. 😵 I found out where the target practice occurred, and where the farmer would sneak a beer or 5 in the far back paddock. 🤣 I dug about 5 or 6 bullets and quit 82's for the duration. Only allowed myself 2 Easter Island pull tabs.

I've been using André pencils, but I like the looks of those better. 👍 Thanks for the post! https://www.amazon.com/Pixiss-Scratch-Brush-Pen-Set-Fiberglass/dp/B07M94Y12J Got a digital microscope last year for Christmas, it comes in really handy. Mine isn't as fancy so I sidelight with a small LED flashlight.

Thanks! I know over there this is nothing, 😜 but here if something is older than 1600 it gets national attention. 😀 I probably wouldn't post it! My region was settled in the 1640s. The earliest coin I've seen found here (by Chase) was ~1650, a Spanish half Reale. I've been meaning to thank you in some way for your posts on the WS6 Master. I think the D2 system is going to get much more good attention now that people are getting used to it and making some notable discoveries. To find the "hotspots" where we have a higher chance of making good finds, it took a long time crossing the field and circling until I heard multiple targets. I got an idea of the size of these areas, and moved on after digging a few things. Having the lightest detector in the world to do it was a relief. 😀

😀 Thanks Cap'n. 135 acres is gonna be a lot to cover. I've got 3 smaller scouting hunts coming up, one old house deep in the woods, a mile long trek through the forest to a possible 1812 invasion landing, and a small farmhouse site. This landowner owns 100s of acres all over the place, and always tries to think of new places for me to go when I talk to him. I'm working on some other stuff too with another guy who knows another big landowner. They get a kick out of my exploits, and I like hearing local history from them. I'm definitely filling up some Rikers, and I have a box of stuff too big for the cases. Just so it gets out there, it seems the WS6 Master is even more impervious to EMI, or at least that is what it "feels" like. I strongly recommend that those that have the whole D2 system and relic hunt get another shaft and try it out. I took @palzynski's lead on that, it really is as good to use as he has written. Once you are used to the way things sound you really don't need the extra RC displays.

Thanks VL! 😀 Going out Friday to scout two more places. Today and Thursday are "home days". I don't like to hunt on weekends, and usually wait until the second day after it rains. 👍

Thanks! I have a separate bag for trash. 🤣 The Relic Elite gets the good stuff.

Thanks! Nah I've got my 4 leaf clover on my finds pouch 🤣 probably why I found that coin in the first place 😎

Had my share of fun with them today, the D2 does a pretty good job of getting around them but it's hard not to dig something that gives you a 94 now and again! 😀 You are doing great vis-à-vis the EQX 800 for sure. It's quite a bit better from what I see in your posts. 🙂

Outstanding again! 👍 That sash buckle is incredible. Looks like your new detector is holding its own! 🙂 Congrats on the precious metals, shows your mettle. 😀

My wife wasn't feeling all that great this morning, so she said "why don't you go detecting?" Heh, don't need to say it twice. It was going to be another warm day but a bit windy. It's a new permission, a 100 acre farm that one of the landowners told me I could hunt yesterday. Before I left, I was trying to decide which detector to bring, the D2 RC with the CF shaft and 13", or the WS6 Master. I decided to just bring the WS6 rig to see what it would do. 100 acres is a lot of land, to walk across this field and back is a mile. I was going to scout the place and see if there were any hotspots, mark them and move on. A light detector was the ticket, and nothing is lighter than this one. 😀 3 digs into the day turned up this buckle, I'm pretty sure it's 1650s to 1750s. Right then I knew it was going to be an interesting day. 😀 The farmhouse was built in 1903 according to the owner, he is renovating it for his family, and doing a really nice job. He mentioned I could hunt the yard too, he is going to replace it with sod when the house is done. Another time perhaps. There are 35 more acres across the road too! I walked almost all the way across this field, I had looked at topographic maps and they suggested there was another house here much earlier than the farmhouse. I marked it in OnX Hunt. Had to park my truck on one side, the spot I was looking for was on the other. I found the spot on a small bluff facing south to a creek and marsh. The creek is loaded with waterfowl and fish, it was an excellent source of food for the early settlers. I wasn't sure what I'd find here but the prospects were good after finding that buckle. Started hearing a bit of iron so I looked around a bit and ended up on the highest point. I wasn't disappointed. Got an old brass boss, later and closer to the farmhouse a 1963 nickel and a 1908 IHP. Sadly the back is so toasted I can't tell if it's an "S" or not. 😵 I had no idea what the leftmost coin was that I found on top of that bluff, I sent pics to a few friends to see if they could find it. Well one of them did. My good buddy @dogodog sent it to a friend of his and they got me on track to finding this unexpected and extraordinary coin: Turns out it's a 1694 Scottish William and Mary Twopence. https://coinscatalog.net/great-britain/coin-copper-2-pence-km-130-scotland Here are some pictures of what it would look like if it wasn't in a farm in Virginia: I knew the coin was ancient, but not that old! 🥳 The Latin on the front is 'NEMO ME IMPVNE LACESSET’. "No one shall hurt me with impunity". Well I'll be. 🤔 Lots of different currency were used in the Colonies, this was a new one on me! Here's the logo for a very famous Virginia college: Look familiar? Yep. That William and Mary. 🙂 Only got a handful of trash today!

Thanks Cap'n! 🤣 We really thought it was silver at first, definitely thick and had a waxy feel. Did some tests and size comparisons and nope. 😵 Still had to buy my wife dinner for the nickel tho. 😁