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Winter is slowly coming here, it's going to rain tomorrow after about 5 days of dry weather. This morning started out at 26 degrees. Doesn't look too bad for a cold morning? It wasn't. No wind, and enough sun to keep warm. I had to ditch a lot of cold weather gear. It's been about 5 days since it last rained so digging was easy. The ground was not frozen and I could get a plug with one shot. It doesn't get better than this. 🥳 Had a good day, within 15 minutes I had a button and a clad dime, and it didn't stop. Guess I was looking in the right places today. Here's 7 hours worth of digging: Ended up with a steel or very heavy aluminum monogrammed tray of some sort, at first I thought it was a hubcap. Can't find it anywhere. Got a piece of big D buckle, and a very "trigger" looking piece, but not sure what it is. 11 buttons today. One big fancy two piece: It has backmarks but I can't get a read. Not military but very cool. Got 2 Tombacs, one has some decoration. The other buttons have the usual backmarks like "Treble Gilt" "Orange Colour", that sort of thing. A couple still have shanks. Got two IHPs today, an 1880 and an 1883: got one wheat that I think is 1917 but am not sure. Going to be a few days before I can get out again, another big permission is opening up. Here's the trash for today Looks like I got a brass wagon hub of some sort. Dug too much aluminum probably because I wasn't lifting on it. It never got above 45 but it was comfortable and great to be out.

Oof, you poor guy. Try to post a few simple things... 🤣 For a hot second I thought your last photo was target trace of a crucifix. 🤣 Looking forward to your success with the M-core. Get on the list early, get the goods. 👍

Nice bit of work there! Sorry about the mishaps, I'd be happy to be home, but excited to get back there. 👍 Really like the buttons and trade stuff. There should be pipes everywhere here, but I haven't found a single piece of one in over 2 years now. I've heard some find them and supposedly there is an Indian settlement somewhere near where I live, but bupkus. 🤷‍♂️ At least I know what some of the stuff looks like now thanks to you. 🙂 Gotta be dangerous to ride bicycles in arid areas, there are a lot of surprises. 😵 Glad you're ok, looking forward to your next exploits!

You'll have to get on a list probably, it's sold out at serious detecting where I got it.

Thank you! 👍 Hopefully I'll find more of it today! Gonna rain tomorrow. Some pretty good history here, that collar stud was 1850s, I dug a Tombac one a couple weeks ago. That might have been a cufflink tho 🤔

Thanks! Funny you should mention that, I noticed the hole today and cleaned it out with a pin. It's big and heavy, around 2" and that's about 2/3 the length of the side, and it is curved. Shoe buckle? I think the cast and pinned buckles were made in the latter part of the 18th century, or early 19th. Couldn't find it in my buckle book. 🤔 Also, I think the "cufflink" is a collar stud. 😀 https://www.darcyclothing.com/collections/mens-collars

I'm a fan of the Hoover Boys, learned a lot from their videos except "dig it all". 😀 They find stuff that I eventually do so I know what it is. My county was settled when John Mottrom escaped Lord Calvert's crazy. 😀 I'm originally from much farther north but lived in Richmond when I was a kid. Always thought I'd come back, but city life isn't what I want. I was lucky to be lured here, and remarried locally. We bought a "spec" house in what was supposed to be a development, but it never happened and a farmer bought all the land around us. My driveway is a half mile long, it doesn't get better than that. Open door and detect.

Nice find! I wish my wife could detect with me, but I've given her 4 gold rings this year so she's happy. 😀 She can't get around well anymore due to a few operations. Glad yours likes the hobby. 👍 You sure know it's silver when it leaves all that black behind! Don't need no stinkin' sterling or 925... 😁 Is it old? The coin could be an old Spanish copper Cob, but you'll be lucky to get any details. Be careful. Hint... Follow your posts using the follow button below or by flipping the follow switch before you post. That way you'll be notified when people comment without quoting you.

Yep just like Carolina told me VA Beach is "tapped out" and then finds some gold 🤣 No worries, I'm only going as far south as Myrtle Beach this coming spring, I wiped out Tybee Island last spring while I was there 😁 nobody got a video that week... 🤣 Then Emerald Isle. My wife likes snow so we're not going anywhere. Yes, was Gilt. I find a lot of them here, but most have lost it. Dug a silver plated one last week too, as opposed to silver wash. There is a lot of history in the ground here. My county was established in the 1640s. In two short years I've dug hundreds of buttons from lead to Tombac to brass. I prefer the solitude of relic hunting to beach, but the farms have crops in the summer, and houses are hard to get. Farmers have no interest in the land other than crops. My first finds were in my yard, and then Spanish silver in the 120 acres out front. I got hooked immediately. 🙂

Well I'm no big deal Cap'n but thanks. 🙂 I love the stuff y'all turn up out there. To me you are doing great. I was glad not to get skunked especially at a permission this large, it's 68 acres! We all have those days tho 🙄 sometimes you just walk all around the good stuff. 😵 I did that for almost 4 hours. Noticed we're all digging to the bottom of this disc thing, I'm running mine at 00-00 with notch off, switched to that when it missed a gold chain in VA Beach. Of course if they go to V.8 soon it may be moot. That's where Full Tones comes in for me, not because I'm trying to make my Deus sound like an Equinox, but because of the way the tones sync with the IDs, and you get an indication of depth by tone, not by the horseshoe. I think the depth indicator is one of the Deus 2's flaws, but that's me. Let the flames begin! 🔥 🤣 I used the depth indicator on the Equinox a lot. I use the XY screen too, because a shotgun shell "mostly" makes a crazy square and ferrous "leans" to ferrous most of the time. Shallow targets are a big line, and deep ones are a short line. I'm trying real hard to understand that. One thing for sure these farms are loaded with shotgun shells, it's the only "relic" besides beer cans and tabs, and buckshot/bullets that gets added to them every year. 😀 Here's hoping you get out again before all the snow! 🥂

We've discussed it but my wife still wants some snow. 😀 She may get her wish for a White Christmas this year. 👍 I'd miss the relics tho, not much competition. 🤣

Fwiw, here's a cheap light rig that will work with any detector that has either a 1/4" or 1/8" jack. The headphones work with the Equinox straight up. The whole thing will cost you around $60, the transmitter comes with a 1/8" to 1/8" adapter but I've broken them and found more rugged replacements. The whole rig is Aptx-LL, the headphones are very loud and last 40 hours on a charge: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08QRQMLVY I've worn them at the beach and can hear them over the surf. They are light and don't really get too sweaty because of the air circulation. I use them all summer, everywhere. They are on-ear. Here's the transmitter, they also make a smaller one but this one will last all day, and it's BT 5: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01K8ANDCI And the adapters: 1/8 to 1/8 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B077GRQ4F4 1/8 female to 1/4 https://www.amazon.com/Chadou-Adapter-6-35mm-Headphone-Connector/dp/B084VGXK45 I use the ACU wrap because the headband is a bit stiff. I despise earbuds and always want situational awareness, it's come in handy a few times, a couple extreme. Here's what it looks like on an old detector I have: Weighs next to nothing.

What I'm seeing here is that you're making a really tough shaft for the Deus 2, the lightest detector there is. 👍 To me weight is not much of an issue especially if it's just an ounce or two. Water hunting is my main interest with this purchase, the stock rig is fine on land, especially with the new lower that comes with the 13" coil. The cuff is really great, I hope you will offer them separately as well as lowers. Will it fit your other shafts? Great job Steve!

Thanks! Wish I found the whole thing, but it probably wouldn't have been there, kinda hard to lose one that big. 😀

Thanks, I'll be here all winter 🥁 (Ba dum tishhh)

Thanks kac, 🤣 I moved South hoping it would help. Didn't move far enough. Had a rough time up there in the winter.

Thanks VL. I've mentioned it before that I have Raynaud's syndrome in my hands and feet. When the temperature drops below 50, all the blood leaves my fingers and toes, the vessels shrink. Some people I know get it in just a few fingers, my wife has it in her nose. 😀 (Ray-nose) If I stay in that condition for too long, two things are possible. In extreme cold (anything below freezing) I can get frostbite faster than other people. Luckily that has never happened but it's been close, I've had them turn blue. I have to wear mittens when shoveling snow. The worst thing to me is somewhere in the middle there before frostbite, if I don't get my hands and feet warm enough, when the blood returns it is extremely painful. I've had sciatica in my leg, but this is the most pain I've ever felt in my life. It's like having your hands and feet in a vise that keeps getting tighter. 😵 And of course my fingers don't tan 🤣 As they warm up it stops. I've had it all my life but didn't know what it was until a few years ago when I talked to a doctor about it. Always wondered what it was. There are some heart meds that help a little bit by opening up vessels and capillaries. Other drugs work but they do damage. Last year I got the new generation electric heated socks and gloves that last all day, they are a huge help and allow me to get out in the cold more. The only problem with that is they generate EMI, and affect the pinpointer too. The Equinox can't find a clean frequency, but the Deus can. If anyone is interested in heated stuff I'll post some links, Amazon has a lot of them. Get the ones with the long lasting LiPo batteries and run them on the lowest settings you can stand. The ground rarely freezes here so I can hunt all winter.

Looks like I'm following a bunch of better acts today but hey. Got out for another day with the Deus 2 and the 13x11". It started out at about 44 degrees and just got colder, 10-15 mph wind and cloudy. 😵 Not a fan of this weather but I was at least prepared for it. I have some insulated digging gloves that I switch out for electric heated gloves when my hands go numb. At least the D2 can tune out the EMI from the gloves. My Equinox cannot. This is a different field than the one I've been hunting, I came here to try and test separation with the big coil. I went to a spot that's very trashy, and really didn't find anything worth digging! That means there was nothing worth digging for the most part. 😀 Using this coil in another spot showed me that using it feels kind of like using the 10x5 on my Equinox, despite the large size. Separation is quite good. This field was planted with corn, and they knocked down most of the stalks, but the big coil did manage to get caught now and again 😀 Got nothing but trash for the first 3 hours, so I went to a spot I knew would have something. Finally got some finds in the bag, not much for 7 hours but I'll take it: 2 D buckles, a "Merry Widow" prophylactic tin top. I've read people find these all the time, I found it just off the old road near a church, ironically. 🤣 Here's a link if you're interested 🙄 they're from the early 1900s: https://www.mnhs.org/blog/collectionsupclose/3-merry-widows-tin The next item to the left of the broken key I'm not sure of but it is pretty ornate: Could be part of a shoe buckle but it's really heavy. Bottom row is a cufflink, two buttons and an odd buckle fragment. The cufflink broke easily, the concave bottom was attached. It's not a rivet. Buttons were cool, one London warranted treble, and a fancy Scovill with some gold still on it. I've found these English buttons here before. I want to mention something I've noticed with this coil. I'm running reactivity at 0 for maximum depth, you would think I'd have to slow down. Gotta say you don't have to if the field isn't all that trashy. I'm using Full tones so every time I hear a high tone I investigate it, if it dives to low once centered for sure it's iron, if it still insists on remaining high with a low blip, I'll dig it. It seems quite accurate and I don't dig much iron at all. One particular scenario is an 81 around a low tone, every time it's falsing iron. Changing sweep angle gives it up immediately. You can "grab" signals with this coil. Most of my large pieces of trash today were sight picked, the rest were the usual suspects. Hope I get a few points for presentation anyway. 😁

Looks like I'm following a bunch of better acts today but hey. Got out for another day with the Deus 2 and the 13x11". It started out at about 44 degrees and just got colder, 10-15 mph wind and cloudy. 😵 Not a fan of this weather but I was at least prepared for it. I have some insulated digging gloves that I switch out for electric heated gloves when my hands go numb. At least the D2 can tune out the EMI from the gloves. My Equinox cannot. This is a different field than the one I've been hunting, I came here to try and test separation with the big coil. I went to a spot that's very trashy, and really didn't find anything worth digging! That means there was nothing worth digging for the most part. 😀 Using this coil in another spot showed me that using it feels kind of like using the 10x5 on my Equinox, despite the large size. Separation is quite good. This field was planted with corn, and they knocked down most of the stalks, but the big coil did manage to get caught now and again 😀 Got nothing but trash for the first 3 hours, so I went to a spot I knew would have something. Finally got some finds in the bag, not much for 7 hours but I'll take it: 2 D buckles, a "Merry Widow" prophylactic tin top. I've read people find these all the time, I found it just off the old road near a church, ironically. 🤣 Here's a link if you're interested 🙄 they're from the early 1900s: https://www.mnhs.org/blog/collectionsupclose/3-merry-widows-tin The next item to the left of the broken key I'm not sure of but it is pretty ornate: Could be part of a shoe buckle but it's really heavy. Bottom row is a cufflink, two buttons and an odd buckle fragment. The cufflink broke easily, the concave bottom was attached. It's not a rivet. Buttons were cool, one London warranted treble, and a fancy Scovill with some gold still on it. I've found these English buttons here before. I want to mention something I've noticed with this coil. I'm running reactivity at 0 for maximum depth, you would think I'd have to slow down. Gotta say you don't have to if the field isn't all that trashy. I'm using Full tones so every time I hear a high tone I investigate it, if it dives to low once centered for sure it's iron, if it still insists on remaining high with a low blip, I'll dig it. It seems quite accurate and I don't dig much iron at all. One particular scenario is an 81 around a low tone, every time it's falsing iron. Changing sweep angle gives it up immediately. You can "grab" signals with this coil. Most of my large pieces of trash today were sight picked, the rest were the usual suspects. Hope I get a few points for presentation anyway. 😁

Well you guys got me thinking, despite this Necro thread I have something to add. Dug back in March of this year, a "Chatelaine" also made by The Martin. A Chatelaine is a "buckle" of sorts that Victorian women used to hang keys and scissors from. It's mangled but cool, and extremely rare. The chain rings are iron so most of them crumbled.

Outstanding hunt, Cap'n. 👍 Whenever you feel you aren't killing it (and you are btw), always remember this: Silver is the easiest thing to find. If you're hunting a hard-hit area, of course you're not gonna find it! The finds you did get are testament to doing well. 🙂 And you even got a ring or two. As usual even your trash is cool. 😀 I've been using full tones so the iron gets pushed to its end of the spectrum. Yes, there are the usual high false tones, most of which seem to come from the edge of the coil. They are cancelled by the deep dive once centered over the iron. It's a dead giveaway. Hard work rewarded. 😎

Thanks Maxxkatt! Yep, and I love the fact that it is near or over 100 years old and came up in that condition. 👍 Second favorite find of all time for me, to which is only about 2 years. 😀 Of course my wife scoffed it immediately. 🤣

At least you got out digging. 😀 How are you finding the M-core EMI handling to be? You mentioned it briefly in your last post but not here. I have a house site like that, managed to squeak out a small ring myself. 👍

Even your trash is cool. 👍 It's nice to have a goal detecting, glad you could reach yours. What size is the ball you were looking for, or is that some sort of archaeological secret? I find them all the time, and wouldn't know a good or desirable one from crap. Did they let you keep all those bullets? Some of them are pretty old too.

Sorry guys, I'm not that excited. The difference IMO is marginal at best. Since the odds of finding a gold ring in a field of nails are about equal to finding a gold ring at all, I'd rather see him put the nails ON the ring and see if either one can find it. Chances are they will both suffer or not see the ring at all, especially with the nail disced out. I did an air test recently with square nails and silver, and the results surprised me especially when my lowly Equinox 600 with 10x5 was able to sometimes catch the silver under a rusty square nail, it being the only one against other newer machines. The only one that "nailed" the silver with iron disced out every swing was an old analog machine. It was a real eye opener, but reality is this situation is so rare it hurts. What you're seeing in this video is exactly what you see dealing with 2' buried big iron, too. Yeah there's gold there 🙄 I'm not bashing the M-core, I'm certain it has the fastest processor of all, and was very heavily developed, but I have to mention this. Not seeing any major new development, and certainly not going to be selling my Deus 2. Glad to see the excitement. 👍 On the other hand, Strick's test with a bottle cap and a ring was pretty cool and far more realistic.