First Rings And Turf Gold For The Deus 2

[Calmark]

Well, I finally did it, persistence paid off and I found not only my first silver ring with the XP Deus 2 yesterday in a park, but also a gold ring, my first in 24 years!  

I've had the Deus 2 with 9in. coil now for nearly 4 weeks and I've put in around 40 hours time using it primarily in park settings.  I've been digging a lot of trash since its been my goal since last fall hunting with my ML Equinox 800 and 10x5 Coiltek coil to score some turf gold.  I find plenty of nuggets detecting in the California Sierra Nevada mountains, so a "turf gold" goal was to give myself a real gold challenge.

Since location matters, I targeted a place yesterday where people picnic and sunbathe, knowing chances for lost jewelry would be higher.  I tried program 3, full tones briefly, but the audio is just to "weak" and muffled in my super hot soil, at least using software v0.6 right now.  Back to my preferred P4, or "fast" program with its square, pitch audio.  The only change was sensitivity 90 since I was focusing on quickly digging more shallow signals.   I find P4, fast really helps to liven up mid conductor targets and make them stand out and say: "dig me!". 

After about 2.5 hours I had a "86" ID# and since I dig most all zinc cents, I didn't hesitate and dug up this one, or so I thought.  It turned out to be a tiny, thin ladies .925 silver ring, the first with the Deus 2.  I really slowed down and started to dig carefully and about 20 minutes later, I broke my 24-year-long turf gold drought and popped out an absolutely tiny 14kt ladies gold ring!  It read as "36-38" ID#, so directly in the foil range.  I'd been digging a lot more foil with the Deus.  I have started to notice when the generally "wimpy" sounding foil gives a louder signal when balled up for example and have been digging more signals like that.  Turned out this "foil" was gold this time.  Eureka, I'd done it!  This tiny gold band (.61 grams) rings up at "39" ID# above ground, so if you are after micro gold with the Deus 2, it is probably a good idea to dig targets that register in the 30's.

Best of luck to you fellow turf warriors going for the gold.  Battling turf trash isn't easy!

  

[midalake]

29 minutes ago, Calmark said:

This tiny gold band (.61 grams) rings up at "39" ID# above ground, so if you are after micro gold with the Deus 2, it is probably a good idea to dig targets that register in the 30's.

Best of luck to you fellow turf warriors going for the gold.  Battling turf trash isn't easy!

Excellent work! 

It would be nice to see some deep targets found with your Equinox, then compared to the Deus 2. Seems like you are getting proficient with both.  

[Valens Legacy]

Nice finds and don't let the wife see them.

Good luck on your next outing.

[Calmark]

On 4/20/2022 at 9:50 AM, midalake said:

Excellent work! 

It would be nice to see some deep targets found with your Equinox, then compared to the Deus 2. Seems like you are getting proficient with both.  

Midlake,

Since I live in an area with severely mineralized soil, I have never gotten great depth with any previous metal detector I've owned, and neither the Equinox nor Deus 2 identify coins much past 4-5 inches in depth.  I don't see any real performance differences between the two machines.  I do find I'm starting to prefer the Deus 2, partly from being the newest to me, and also since I really enjoy the audio options.  I also find I can locate targets slightly faster with the Deus 2, so I end up digging more targets in a session.   I know the Equinox would have found both of these rings, though I don't think I'd have likely dug the gold one.

For those of you who swing an Equinox, the gold ring read ID# 4 and the silver one as an ID# of 21.  In general on the Nox, I tended to not dig signals below a "10", so I'd have missed the gold ring more than likely, partly I feel to the psychology of "10" being the cut-off for "good" targets in my mind, even though I know gold can read much lower, as it did in this case.  I think I do prefer the expanded ID# of the Deus2 since I can more easily see patterns in what ID# corresponds to the variety of targets I dig. 

[rvpopeye]

 

Nice finds. Go get more of THAT aluminum !🖖

[Aaron]

Great stuff! 👍

[okara gold]

Congratulations on breaking that looong gold ring drought!