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I found a big old padlock with the keyhole on the front when I first started detecting I would love to display it now but I have no idea where I stashed it. At the time I thought it was junk, now I realize how cool it really was.

Past minelab user here, when I made the switch the menu wasn't to big of a deal. How ever all the options can be a bit overwhelming. At first it seemed like the XP was speaking a completely different language and it took quite a while for all these new tones and nuances to click in my brain. I'm not going to lie I went through a period where I thought I had wasted $1600 and should have just stuck with the Nox. After getting some hours on the machine I am very glad I made the switch. My advice would be find a type of tone you like then find a program you like and stick with it. Constantly switching things will make the learning curve worse. Once you start speaking the same language then you'll want to begin to change settings according to conditions. In my opinion audio is more important with the XP, telling the difference between a comingled target and one that's just oddly shaped iron is different than it was with the Nox. With the Nox a iron grunt with a little bit of a high tone meant that it could be a non-ferrous target beside a iron object. This is not always the case with the XP you have to listen to the way the high tone and the iron grunt sound together. It's very difficult to explain with words but if you focus it will click with you eventually. Stick with it and you'll be glad you made the switch especially if you hunt in heavly iron contaminated sites.

Nothing like the first time on a new permission. Glad you got to share it with someone that makes it even better!

Thank you that sounds like exactly what I’m trying to do!

I’m not to worried about excavating one, most of the ones around here that blow up happen from amateurs trying to disarm them by drilling a hole in them. I’ve also heard of a guy boiling one in wax to preserve it. The water inside it turned to steam and it blew up from the pressure. The last cannon ball I found was a solid one so no concern about it.

Saturday I had a invite from a friend to join him on his new permission that runs adjacent to Newmarket battle field. How could I say no? This place has been hit pretty hard in the 70's and 80's but the Deus2 was up for the challenge. Two Confederate bullets fired in anger within 10' of a dropped 3ringer. Makes it easy to start putting the peices together. I never was a history buff until I started detecting but man this hobby can really bring history to life!

I've been detecting a site that has produced cannonballs and artillery shells in the past. One of the quirky things that I've noticed about the Deus2 is sometimes a big iron object will give you a blip of a high tone sort of like a co-mingled target. That got me wondering if this is something that could be forced and increased. What I would like to do is find some settings that would still give an iron or completely ignore small items like nails but give a mid or high tone for large objects cannonballs, artillery shells, in the horseshoes etc. I haven't tried it yet but I was thinking something along zero discrimination with silencer run up to the max? If anyone else has noticed that high tone that sneaks in on iron please share your settings so I can try to figure this one out.

That’s a great idea I put hockey stick tape on mine and I was completely happy with it until now!

Great job! Thanks for posting your settings and ID number. I’ve had great luck with notching up to 40 as well. Notching just works differently on the Deus2 than it has on any other detector so far. I’m still trying to figure out the perfect notch settings so I’m curious if you’re hunting in a park and not relic hunting why didn’t you notch out the iron as well? With the testing I’ve done so far I have found that the iron tones can still mask a good signal but once they’re notched out the signal will come through loud and clear.

So I went back to that iron infested civil war site that I recently pulled a Virginia button and belt plate from to see if anything else was hiding in those nails today I was rewarded with a saddle badge and some other goodies. I'm not convinced that these settings would be good for the first time on a new piece of ground but I think they work really well for cleaning up a site that you know has produced in the past.

That’s great, thanks for letting me know I’m about to head out the door now to an iron infested Civil War/homesite that burnt down in the early 1900s the place is littered with nails so I’m going to give it a try using the settings very doubtful anything will pop up because I’ve spent many hours picking the buttons out of the nails but I’ll let you know if anything does

By chance do you remember what your silencer was set to? I had mine on 2 but I believe zero will be more productive I will try it this weekend and let you know

Thanks for the tip I completely forgot about this setting

I'm now a believer in the FAST program I don't think it'll be my first choice at a new site but it does a hell of a job of cleaning up an old site. Don't be scared to use notch either once you know you're in the iron why listen to it? Notch can really free up those commingled targets I don't think it works like that on any other detector.

I think we're on to something next time try disc at 6.8 and notch at 40 once you know you're in the iron there's no need to hear it any longer and it will make your high tones pop! Deus2 notch is not like any other detector you won't lose any signals by notching.

No problem we’re all here to learn from each other. My go to relic program is a modified version of park using 5 tones. switching to fast with pitch tones in the heavy iron really made stuff pop I found numerous Copper and brass items that I had missed. The belt plate was about 8 inches deep and sounded a good strong tone even with reactivity on 3.

Went out today to a spot that I've hammered pretty hard using a custom relic program. This site is heavily contaminated with iron and a little modern trash. I decided to switch it up and used the FAST program with notch ran up to 40. I know I've walked over that belt plate before with a minelab Equinox 800 and my Deus2 believe it or not I'm convinced it was masked by iron.

Sorry I didn’t make that more clear. I’m speaking of single frequencies on the Deus2 in a effort to reduce EMI.

I have only found one script I button in my life and I ran my digging tool right through it!

Yes if only they could talk, this coin was also found at a Civil war pickett location it could’ve even been a soldier’s lucky charm.

1689 Spanish Cob minted in Lima Peru found in a hay field in Rockingham county Va. I never expected to find a coin this old on this side of the Blue Ridge mountains.

One of my favorite relic sites has heavily minimize soil and high-voltage powerlines going right through the middle of it. I’ve had great success using a modified version of park but I was wondering if there would be some advantages in the hot soil and high EMI using a single frequency. Does anyone have any suggestions what frequency I should start with when looking for lead mini balls about 8 inches deep in highly mineralized Virginia soil? With my current settings mini balls have been ringing up as an 82 and eagle buttons coming in around 75 or 76. I’m not getting a lot of audible EMI from the high tension powerlines but I’m wondering if silent EMI could be masking targets because things just sound differently at this site compared to other relic sites. I’ve gotten used to it but I’m wondering if things aren’t being masked.

There was a lot of square nails around it I found it near a structure that burnt down. I remember I had to wiggle the coil over it to get it to really lock on but it was a much higher VDI than you would expect I can’t remember the exact number but it is in my original post.

Got my shaft a couple days ago and it's been too cold and windy to get out there ever since. It's a work of art I can't wait to get out there and swing it. thanks for the tips about reactivity by the way!

I put considerable effort into finding out who the couple was but I was unsuccessful.