Dcraun

Yes I'm very happy with V2. 90% of the time if conditions allow I run sensitive full tones, high square, offset 10, notch 07-40 , discrimination 6.8, reactivity 1.5 or 2. 

Those are my go to relic settings 

I have found these settings make it very easy to identify aluminum. A VDI of 74 that is aluminum has a hollow wind chime type of sound where as a brass button with a VDI of 74 has a solid bell sound.

Yesterday was my 1st time detecting without the control box. I was on a very wet Virginia farm field so I went with program 1 general. Disc 6.4, 3 tone, tone break at 68, high square and notch 07-40.  I found it very enjoyable to just focus on the tone and not worry about VDI numbers. This was a fairly clean field and I'm not ready to go blind in a trashy one yet. Finds include a 1860 IHC , carved bullet, 69 caliber bullet, and various other bullets and melted lead.

2 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Nice find and I hope someone can identify it a little bit better, as I would love to see a photo os what they looked like new.

Good luck on your next outing and stay safe out there.

Here's a picture of a slightly more modern one this one was minted around 1870

9 hours ago, Deep Beeps said:

Cool beans!

Can we see the other side with the wiped out name.

 

I don't have a picture of the other side. Unfortunately the land owner keeps everything at this site 

Great plate! 

7 hours ago, Geologyhound said:

Looks like a great way to reset the counter. Any idea on the stone?

I think it's just cut glass it doesn't light up under a black light very bright

Rang up 63-64

Personally I would much rather see a PI coil over a two boxsetup. I may be a bit biased though as I live near Culpeper Virginia and already own a whites TM 808 that I have never used once. Actually I was looking for mortar shells on Monday and completely forgot I even owned the White's machine until I saw the post about the two box machine on here. I'm not as young as I used to be and if I dug a 5-ft deep hole expecting to find a mortar shell only to find a horseshoe I think that would ruin me for the rest of the day possibly the week lol.

35 minutes ago, ColonelDan said:

There’s no one set of settings appropriate for every beach.  The settings I use on east coast Florida beaches may not work as well on Virginia Beaches.

Given that reality,  I suggest you start off with the factory beach sensitive program, do a noise cancel and adjust the salt sensitivity and reactivity enough to quiet/stabilize the detector.   Those two settings are key to stabilizing the Deus 2 on a salt water beach.   If you experience a lot of interference , then adjust overall sensitivity but adjust the salt sensitivity first.
 

On my beach, I normally use a salt sensitivity setting of 7 and a reactivity of 0.  Why 0?  It maximizes depth and you generally don’t need a lot of separation on our beaches that the higher reactivity settings provide.  
 

As I always say, predetermined settings only serve to get you in the ball park. It’s up to you then to pick the best seat!

Good hunting….

Thank you that's exactly what I was looking for just something to get started I will adjust based on environmental conditions. I appreciate you telling me to adjust salt sensitivity first ?

Hello everyone, I've got a lot of hours on my D2 relic hunting here in Rockingham county Virginia. Next week I'm heading to the east coast for a dedicated metal detecting vacation on the beach. Does anyone care to share their settings to get me started off right? Detecting and fishing is all I've got planned for the entire week. I would like to detect the wet during the heat of the day and the dry sand at night. Salt sensitivity maybe the only setting that I've never fiddled with. Thanks for the advice guys I'll post pics if anything turns up!

There's a thin piece on each end that looks like these could have been chained together in a strip and then broken off as needed

I found this iron bar in a Confederate camp in Rockingham county Virginia when it first came out of the ground I could barely make out the x marks on it through the rust after soaking in electrolysis overnight this is what I found. Could this possibly be a CSA made iron ingot there are several Old Stone furnaces in the area that supplied iron to the South during the Civil war. But they produced pig iron not such a well refined bar to the best of my knowledge. What do you guys think?

From my experience, if there is a iron presence in the ground you will have better luck leaving discrimination at 6.8 and notching from 7-40. This has worked very well for me. For some reason the D2 seems to be more sensitive to co-mingled targets this way. Try it in a spot that you have already covered. You will uncover non-ferrous in very close proximity to iron that you passed over with discrimination set to 40. If you have good soft digging conditions I would investigate any solid vdi number under 08 that gives you a crisp and clear high tone as well. This is coming from a relic Hunter and not a coin shooter. You will dig a little more iron this way but more than make up for it with good finds. 

If you give this a try on ground that you've already searched with your discrimination set high I would be interested in your feedback and thoughts.

Smith carbine breach loading rifle mostly issued to Calvary. I didn't even know they existed until today!

1 hour ago, dogodog said:

Not sure what that is but if its percussion or flint it just doesn't make sense. The lock is not how they are constructed, never seen one with a tang that fits into the stock like that.

Mystery solved it is a civil war era Smith carbine!

I know what you mean I've never seen anything close to it but it has a real percussion cap nipple so I don't believe it would be a cap gun or kids toy I've got it in electrolysis now maybe that will reveal some more detail

Found this today along with a flat button and a fired Colt pistol bullet. I'm having trouble identifying it. Any help would be greatly appreciated