Dirtshark

I have been thinking about getting a D2 for a long time, this new update sounds great. 

9" coil or 11" coil?

Kinda thinking 9" 

For deeper hunts I can use the Legend with stock coil. 

Gratz.

Unlike you I just started detecting last year. With the Legend. I had a lot to learn and I am glad that I learned on this detector. 

From the standpoint of a newbie I was impressed to see Nokta stay on top of bug fixes and pushing new features the community requested, they have done a great job refining the machine and  communicating to their user base. 

I ultimately bought a Simplex for a spare and I really like that machine as well. 

THere are a lot of great machines out there. I would love to get a D2 or a Nox someday. But it is good to know that the Legend gives me a great feature set for the money. I almost bought a D2 as my first real detector and I am glad I didn't, the learning curve would have been much harder. 

Anyway, mine is on the way to get the speaker repaired, I can't detect now anyway because of winter. 

I am not a "brand" guy, I took a chance that Nokta was telling the truth about the Legend and preordered it. 

No regerts

https://www.predatortools.com/products/all-new-model-24-the-phoenix-shovel

I don't have this one, but it is very well regarded. Makes perfect plugs. 

I watch Merril MD NYC and he dremels his coins. 

Drives me nuts. 

I have no idea how someone so knowledgable in all things metal detecting "cleans" coins so brutally. 

My little guy, Toby, is knocking on heavens door. 

Been waiting to see if he rallys, but it seems clear that he isn't going to pull through and that he is not comfortable. 

Not sure why I am posting this other than to say that these little friends of ours are precious and it is so hard to let them go. 

So sorry to hear this. 

My little buddy is fading fast, has a mass on his liver. only 8 years old. He is a yorkie Maltese mix, mostly yorkie, and is a very good boy. 

I never felt such grief about losing a pet before. I will be devastated. 

I don't take him detecting but every time I come back he smells the dirt to see where I have been digging. 

2 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

I am only going to comment on the second video concerning Park M3.

Paysteak is very unique. His advice is also very localized to his hunting area and unique.

If you hunt targets in the air, on styrofoam, on porches, concrete slabs, are only hunting shallower targets or have dirt with absolutely no iron or salt mineralization, a lot of what he said may apply to you as far as choosing a single frequency over one of the three Multi settings in Park mode. I don't hunt in any of those conditions so his advice about frequency use is useless for me.

His commentary had some other very questionable assumptions.

The first is that the transmit and return signals were "penetrating" the foil or gold ring in order to detect the high conductor coin target underneath.

The second is that on the Legend specifically a selection of single frequency will have more power/depth than selecting Multi frequency because that same power/depth potential will be split in half between the two frequencies being used in one of the Legend's Multi settings.

To his credit, he also made some statements that people using version 1.10 software Park M3 need to be very aware of. No doubt, Park M3 will hit very hard on high conductor coins.....sometimes.  Jeremy said that "the size of the coin matters". So does the orientation/profile of the high conductor coin in the ground.

So, a very low weighted frequency combination used in Park M3 will detect some foil targets very poorly depending on their size and orientation. In fact it will detect any target poorly that is very small or is only showing a very small profile to the coil due to orientation in the ground. Micro jewelry, poorly oriented jewelry/coins will be hard to hit with Park M3 whether they have foil near them or not. If they have iron or steel allow targets that are adding to the profile being masked........same problem.

Park M1 with its middle of the road frequency weighting (note that Jeremy was recommending 15 kHz single frequency for general park hunting) is still the best mode for me, for hunting a variety of targets found in most USA parks with modern trash. Park M2 is great for lower conductors, smaller targets and for more trashy/iron mineralized areas that need a little more natural higher frequency weighting separation and Park M3 appears to be excellent for high conductor cherry picking. Its lower frequency weighting may effect its overall depth in my soil conditions.......which has a bit to do with overall power, but has more to do with the size of lower frequency waves themselves versus high iron mineralization.

So, don't take Jeremy's, CD's, TNSS's or my word for anything approaching what your experience may be in your ground conditions. All I personally can tell you is what I experience as tendencies of the Legend where I detect. Learn your Legend on your on and what it can really do.

Yeah, I love PS, but I admit I raised a couple eye brows on some of his comments. I think when he says "penetrating" he wasn't meaning actaully penetrating, he knows better than that. 

And yes, he hunts parks. almost exclusively, so you need to remember where he is coming from. 

Good points Jeff. 

Thats very sweet. 🙂

Paystreak in these videos shows what this update is all about. Along with an excellent discussion on frequencies, targets, etc. 

Amazing. Mind blowing. 

Can I ask how you cleaned your silver coins?

I found one #26 Pheonix button this year on the east coast, NH. In excellent condition.

My best find of the year to be honest. 

Awesome buttons with a very cool history. 

Wasn't expecting 2 coils!

9x5 is gonna be the go-to coil I bet. Sweet!

Now I just gotta survive until spring. 😞

Id 14 is interesting. 

I use the Legend and I know that Gold can ring up as low as 14.....can slaw range. 

Every time I get 14s, 20s etc I know I could be passing up gold. So I dig most signals like this unless I find can slaw near them. 

I have not found Gold yet. Great find. 

Oh man, I have maybe one or two more chances to get out and detect before everything is frozen, time is running out. 

This has been my first year detecting and I have not found a silver coin yet. 

That is the stuff of dreams my friend!

The only hobby where overweight old guys have good knees. 

I believe both were ringing in in the 60s. Pivoting on the targets they would bounce a bit, but still in that range. 

The simplex is very good at implying depth of target. 

They were not screamers, but solid and deep targets. I think the first one was near iron and sounded solid. 

I can't believe how cheap the Simplex is for what it can do. I want to say it is a fun machine to use and it is, but it is also a strong seeker. $250, a no brainer. 

I don't know the version I have, but I imagine it is the latest. 

So the first time I ever hunted my first find was an Indian Head penny. That was back when I first started detecting early this year on an old farm permission. The home owner insisted on keeping it even though it was crusty as heck. 

Since that hunt I had not found a single old coin. I found awesome relics, rare buttons, lots of cool finds but no coins older than Wheaties. All those hunts were with the Legend. 

Fast forward to today. And my new Simplex.

Went to a spot I have hunted before, a open area near some baseball fields. I knew the land was old, but being public land didn't have high hopes.

But I wanted to see if the Simplex could do any better than my Legend which I have used here a few times. 

Got a couple memorials before I hit the path that I wanted to scan like 10 feet from my car. 

Then bam, found an Indian head penny at 8 or more inches. Behold! The curse is lifted! 

Detected for an hour or more and decided to detect my way back to the car. Then, 10 feet from the first Indian Head I get another sweet signal, and bam! Another indian head! Deep one like the first 8 or 9 inches. I am over the moon. 

The simplex really knows how to snif out deep coins I must say. I look forward to using the Simplex more. For 250 this thing is an absolute monster bargain. 

15 hours ago, Cristian said:

Hello everyone, yesterday my nokta legend arrived and I updated it to 1.09 but I feel that it has a lot of noise, it is in sensitivity from 20 to 30. I don't know what it could be, but I read that some people after updating to 1.09 got a noisy legend. any suggestion? factory fault?

I was expeiencing the same thing.

I realized that if I put my cell phone in aitplane mode or turn it off the chattering would stop. 

Have you tried this?

On 9/28/2022 at 3:18 AM, Nokta Detectors said:

This is exactly how I would have responded. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Trust goes a long way.

I am very confident that Nokta will support their products. So much in fact I just got a Simplex today as backup! It is awesome. 

Thanks Nokta!

I thought it would be cool to have one for backup or for tag alongs who want a good easy to use detector. 

Any tips for the simplex I should know?

7 minutes ago, phrunt said:

Good tip for anyone with a Legend, use a big metal target and maximum volume to hopefully blow your speaker so you can get the new model speaker less prone to failure 🙂  Better to have it happen on purpose than out in the field when you're relying on it.

Lol, I couldn't believe it. 

Every Legend has an Achilles heal. 

I am going to miss my baby when it goes to the hospital....

So I was talking to the owner of a little shop whose house is right next to the store.  the House Seemed old so I asked for permission to detect. Came back the next day and the shop/homeowner was curious and he hung around quite a bit while I was hunting. Nice guy and we got talking.

At one point he asked me if my detector was a "good" one. I said yeah, very good, and he asked how much it cost so I told him.... around 700...

Five seconds later I hit on a alminum can and get a massive signal on the Legend......and the speaker just died. I knew as soon as it happened it was toast. 

I just told the guy, they are a good company, and that I wasn't bothered in the least. 

Stupid can killed the Legend. lol

Looks legendary. 

Can't wait to hear more!

What we have here is a FAILURE to DISCRIMINATE!!

Buford D Pussbag

🤣

I figured it out. It was my cell phone. 

If I shut it off the detector stops flipping out and its all good. 

Once I did shut the phone off it was smooth sailing all day.

I have a S22 Ultra 5G.