Lodge Scent

XP did the same some years back. I had just purchased the Deus 1 and literally 2 days later they dropped the price by something like $240 bucks if I recall. I emailed the dealer to find out what the heck just happened and after some hemming and hawing, they gave me a store credit for the difference. 

Decided to go with the 13 inch coil today at one of my cellar hole homesteads out in the woods. My plan was to use a couple of variations of the Tekkna program. I've been using it on my 9" coil and it keeps surprising me by sniffing out nonferrous targets at some heavily hunted sites. Wasn't really sure it would work well with the big coil with all the iron at this site but once again it surprised me with a handful of nonferrous finds. I started out with the "classic" version of Tekkna in Sensitive Full Tones. But the falsing got annoying fairly quickly so I switched to Tekkna General 4 Tones. With multi tones I can play with the tone bins so the falsing doesn't bug me as much. I didn't find anything special today but I dug 7 small buttons, and a thimble with the big coil. Also dug an iron chape. Don't find many made of iron. The partial shoe buckle frame next to it appears to have been in a fire or it is made from an odd alloy.

The whole trifid spoon and the trifid spoon top peice were from the previous hunt using the 9" coil and Sensitive Full Tones Tekkna. That is a very late 1600s or very early 1700s spoon and the first complete one that I have found. Those buttons below the spoon were from the earlier hunt. For me, Full Tones is most affective on the mid tones and it has been a button killer over the years. It loves the small bits of lead and pewter as well. 

I still can't quite get my head around using all that Disc in Tekkna, but it is putting finds in my pouch from some tired sites. 

Lodge 

Thanks Relicmeister. I am an armband user and that looks interesting. Let us know how you like it.

For raw depth, I would go with Reactivity as well.

I am with you Toad. I like the 11 X 13 a lot.

19 hours ago, Doc Bach said:

You guys are killing me with these early metallic points! That one goes beyond words that are allowed for description on this site. Finding a copper culture point has been a pipe dream of mine since I was a teenager and thanks for posting it.

Doc

Doc, there are many of us that can only dream of finding a clovis point!

Found this copper culture point some years back. Estimated to be around 4,000 to 6,000 years old. Not native to Massachusetts. Likely traded in from Great Lakes. I remember pulling it out of the hole along with a handful of dirt and thinking it was just a stone point, I set it aside. I kept rescanning the hole looking for that screamer of a signal that had mysteriously disappeared. 😁

Ads like that aimed at US customers also annoy US customers. 

Cracked ribs are no big deal.....unless you laugh, cough, sneeze, breath or move, or don't move. Swing for 10 minutes in your house and see how it feels. 

Great hunt F350! I am happy finding buttons all day. You know there are coins to be found there. I've been playing with Tekkna lately but Relic is never far from my mind. It will hit some good targets at a pounded site so hard that I am skeptical of what I am hearing. That tinkler is a very cool find!

Art I was about to loose my mind thinking you were going to be posting a few more gorgeous Liberty Caps. 😆 Sorry, can't help with the material ID.

Lodge

Well F350, you definitely put that program to the test! It seems to fair better in very low trash environs. I have a lot of "iron only" sites so I'll see how it performs in those conditions. You note that it does well finding the small nonferrous targets in the iron. I would agree but on my last hunt I was surprised to find several large nonferrous targets like brass horse tack and lantern pieces in the iron. I think all that Disc finally made them sound good enough to dig. I do like that brooch!

Glad to see you were rewarded for your efforts with another 100 acres to hunt.

Good day you say F350? Fine day I say. That is a beautiful buckle. I've yet to sniff one out from my colonial sites.

My wife has never been a fan of me being out in the woods, alone and off trail. Most of the colonial era sites I detect at are out in the remote woods and the trails and cart paths that once led to them are no longer visible. So years ago we agreed upon a plan that I would call her a few hours into the hunt just to let her know I was alive. Plus, I always left a map of where I would be and what time I should be home by. This has worked fairly well over the years EXCEPT when there was no cell phone service.

This happened on a hunt last month when for some reason an area that usually has cell service didn’t have cell service. Needless to say, my wife was not in a good mood when I got home. It doesn’t matter that statistically I am safer hiking alone in the woods then she is when she drives to the supermarket. Reason doesn’t come into play at all in these discussions however.

So to restore tranquility, I went and purchased one of those Zoleo 2-way satellite tracking units. All my wife has to do now is open the app on her phone and she can see where I am on a map. It gives the exact coordinates, shows my breadcrumbs. It’s got some other nice features such as an SOS button. It will use cell service if available, if none is available is it will automatically use the iridium satellite network. It’s pretty slick.

It's a win-win. She’s happy now. If I do fall and break my neck out in the middle of the woods, they will be able to recover my body before the coyotes get to dine on me. I am happy because I can detect anywhere with out worrying about my wife getting all worked up and upset if I lose cell service.

Tranquility has been restored.

Lodge

WOW! I'd wear off the features of that coin because I would be fondling it so much. 

3 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

Rick

 Don’t put it down you’ll never find it.

 Chuck 

Reminds me of a time in my youth (way before handheld GPS) when I did some solo backpacking way off trail. I set up my camp (I had a small camo patterned tent), and decided to explore the area a bit. On the way back it took me 2 hours to find my camp site. I had actually walked within 10 feet of the camo tent twice when trying to find it. Good thing it was late June and it was light until almost 10:00 PM. Needless to say my next tent was blaze orange.😁

I have a few sites with graphite. The usually ring in with a VDI in the high 30's on the Deus, but now and then a nice big round piece will sound great and get my hopes up.

23 minutes ago, UKD2User said:

I noticed that Gary says in one of his videos "XP don't fix it!". I see on a different YT vid by IffySignals that unmasking is not very good with Tekkna - at least if based on Sensitive FT prog 3.

I think that one of the reasons people like these settings is perhaps simply because it makes it easier to 'see the wood for the trees' in an otherwise 'busy' (audio) environment - psychoacoustics?

I would agree UKD. That is my endless quest with metal detectors. Find any combination of settings that will allow my brain to hear the good target in the chorus of bad targets. Apparently this combination of filters seems to be working well in certain conditions. It did for me in a site with a lot of iron and little modern trash.

F350, I took Tekkna out for a short spin this morning. The first time I used it a couple of weeks ago, I found it "interesting", but wasn't really sold on it.  But your review and today's short hunt convinced me there is more to it then just a catchy name. I didn't find anything special but the fact that I dug 5 or 6 copper items in this worn out location really got my attention. I used Gary's stock program and only made changes to Ground Stabilty (set it to 1), and after a few minutes of detecting I lowered the Iron Volume to 8. It's a chatty program but the iron falsing is not bad. I varied the Reactivity between 2 and 4 depending on the iron but used 2.5 or 3 most of the time. The tones were pretty smooth and usually very easy to to sniff out falsing iron with a quick turn of the coil. A couple of times the tone was a bit choppy but consistant for 360 degrees. Both cases there was iron in the hole with the good target. I also left several mid tones in the ground as my time was short. I had the feeling if I had more time I would have sniffed out a nice keeper.

Just out of curiosity, I hunted with the Offset at 40 for a while. of course it made every target above the Disc sound like a silver. 😁 But that got me thinking there maybe a use for a 40 Offset in some conditions. I won't be happy until I understand why this program works as well as it does. Gary's explanation of "witchcraft" just doesn't cut it for me. 

Lodge

Not sure how anyone can follow NJ Art's thread with those killer finds, but here goes. All the rain helped me pop a few more buttons from a tired site. The consensus on the small ship button is that it a Jacksonian missing the rim. 

Lodge

WOW!!!! Those are 2 of the absolute best Liberty Caps that I have ever seen come out of the ground. 

Good for you man! Great finds !!! It's been a long time since I found a virgin cellar hole site. Was it a secluded site you had to find in the woods or was it hiding in plain sight?

Mark, that's normal behavior for the D2. Nonferrous at the edge of detection can sound like ferrous. I'm not surprised that when you raised your coil when over a faint deep target that it went from "good to bad".

I like that idea Colonel. I use General when the ground is wet and it does seem to help with the falsing on those crusty iron colonial nails. I'm not sure the halo effect can be eliminated, but I would take any improvement!

Wow! Heck of a hunt there F350! That must have been really enjoyable. Tough to pick a favorite find but I am leaning toward the FAA pin. It's a cool find...as are half the other targets you dug!