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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!

1 hour ago, Ogliuga said:

Take for example Sensitive program: with 6.8 disc you cut out rusty nails. Turn up silencer and ground stabilizer to 2. To completely ignore with no iron tones, lower iron volume to 0. Cannonballs and big pieces of iron  will give high tones..

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.

On 1/13/2023 at 4:12 AM, Daniel Tn said:

Nice finds!  I actually took your settings to a local Civil War camp site yesterday that we've hunted since the late 1990s.  Getting a non ferrous target there, no matter what it is, is a good achievement.  To my VERY big surprise, I dug a large piece of old brass that's approx 5-6 inches long and heavy but no idea what it is.  I've walked and swung over it dozens of times with dozens of other detectors.  It was actually rather deep...something I discounted with the Fast program because I thought it was only for picking out shallower stuff in iron. I need to go back and hunt some more...it's on a hill and the wind was so hard and loud yesterday I couldn't hardly hear with headphones on and the wind would blow me backwards.

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

22 hours ago, NCtoad said:

Wow, I just posted about finding more coins in my pounded site using the Fast program with disc at 40!   Your finds are much, much nicer than what I got, but still a testament to the D2 fast program.  Congrats!

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.

6 hours ago, NCtoad said:

Wow, I just posted about finding more coins in my pounded site using the Fast program with disc at 40!   Your finds are much, much nicer than what I got, but still a testament to the D2 fast program.  Congrats!

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.

52 minutes ago, Txquest said:

Great finds. Thanks for the info on your settings. 

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.

29 minutes ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Are you asking about the best single frequency setting for Deus 1 or the new Deus 2?

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!

10 minutes ago, Chase Goldman said:

Congrats!  Yep it is an especially unusual find that far west, but not unheard of as Spanish Silver was used throughout the colonies and US as legal tender well into the early-to-mid 1800's and that area had plenty of Colonial era settlements and of course the CW Valley Campaign, so officers may have been carrying silver to trade with the locals.  I found a similar 1600's era 1/2 Reale Cob last year on an invite from my buddy Bob (F350Platinum) but it was in the Northern Neck, so more "expected" there thanbwhere you found yours, but a rare and coveted find no matter where one of those turns up now.  He has found A LOT of Spanish silver from Cobs, to minted Reales, and cut Pistereens in his neck of the woods, there.  I once found an 1830 Mexican First Republuc 1/2 Reale minted in Mexico City in South Central PA on a remote Civil War picket site (no documented CW activity there but plenty of CW artifacts found).  Would love to hear that coin tell the story of it journey from Mexico to how it came to be in that PA cornfield, just as how yours came to rest in the Shenandoah Valley of VA.

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.

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.

31 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

That sure did look nice peeking out from the dirt !

When the detector went over it , did it go honk instead of beep ?

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.