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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

That was a great read thanks for sharing your settings too!

On 3/12/2023 at 7:37 PM, F350Platinum said:

Nice find! 👍I take it you were in a field or park somewhere?

That's one my wife would grab in a heartbeat. 🤣 Wonder if it's a real emerald 🤔

You guessed right. I was in a field where a old resort once stood.

I should be more clear I have a friend who is a real estate agent he frequently gets me permissions of old houses where the owner has passed away. He gets the permission from next of kin and reassures them that they'll see no Trace that I was ever there. He doesn't mind doing it at all but told me that if anyone ever complains he'll have to stop. 

The guys at work had some down time so they welded some scrap together and made these. I asked them to make something that would punch a small plug of sod out of a nicely manicured lawn. Keeping the plug intact so that it could be replaced after the coin is removed. If the coin isn't in the first plug it can be slid out using your foot and a new deeper plug punched out that can be ejected onto a piece of cloth after the item is recovered use the cloth to dump the dirt back in the hole and reinstall the plug. I'm hoping this will be a fast and effective way to detect some of the permissions I have that have well taken care of grass. Haven't tested it yet but I'll let you guys know how it works any suggestions or modifications that you can think of to make it work even better?