First Day With D2 V1 Hits The Good Stuff

[F350Platinum]

I don't usually go relic hunting in the late spring to fall, but an opportunity presented itself right outside my house. 12 acres of the farm is up for sale, it hasn't sold in 15 years but the owner decided to get a new agent, clear some of the woods to show the potential water view, and lower the price a bit. He gave me permission to hunt all his land so I have access to everything around me that the farmers don't own, and all that too.

The field is the first field outside my house I ever hunted, got a lot of buttons and old relics, some cut pistareens and a half cent.

In the back of this field they cut a path through the jungle to the river, there is a marsh at the end. The hill doesn't look steep but the angle is around 70 degrees or more.

The realtor put a guide rope on the trees. 

Yesterday I updated all my Deus 2 gear to V1, what a coincidence 😏 I decided to pack up my WS6 Master rig with the 9" coil and went over there on my golf cart to take advantage of hunting it before the jungle takes it back. It will be impassable by fall.

It was only a 3 hour hunt, that ravine is a killer 😅 hunting on what is the equivalent angle of a 12-12 pitch roof is difficult, the ground is full of roots, and it's deer fly season so they are everywhere. 🤬

Here's the trash, I didn't get much, dug the nails to prove to myself iron was iron, and some were in the same hole as my finds.

I was using Relic Reaper and messing with some of the new features. One thing I noticed was no "Profile" option, it may have never existed but I am not a fan of the large number screen. I also want to put Silver Slayer on this machine now that there are a couple notches available, and a beach program from a forum user I want to try.

First good find was a button, a 75 that ended up being under a root. Very crisp signal, gotta say V1 is an improvement. It had no backmarks and part of the shank crumbled away.

I got to about 10 feet from the top and got a solid 58. Most of the buck balls were 57-63 depending on size, but this just sounded different. Out popped the surprise of the day:

A gold watch fob, i believe it's Victorian era from my search, 1837-1901. It could even be from the 20s. The initials of the owner are in the bottom plate:

The cleaner it gets the "golderer" it gets, nothing flaking off. It doesn't weigh a lot and appears to be hollow.

My guess is 10k Gold Filled, like the one I found doing research below:

It's pretty similar. Gold is gold tho... 🥳

Cannot believe the Deus 2 hit gold already! The initials are those of the owner of the whole farm a long time ago, I may give it to the family. 🙂

[schoolofhardNox]

Deer flies?.....God help ya 😄 Them flies are relentless. Gorgeous watch fob. Looks like the style of stuff I was pulling out of a picnic site active from early 1890's - early 1910's. So Victorian is a possibility right through to early Art Deco.

[Doc Bach]

Very pleasing watch fob that you found 350.Sometimes those really steep areas can pay off quite well. Some hunters are just a little too well lets say lazy and then of course there are others that cannot traverse such terrain because of health reasons. And then there are those who just overlook them altogether.In my own experience they can sometimes produce coin spills the direct result of someone falling and going ass over teakettle.

[F350Platinum]

1 hour ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Deer flies?.....God help ya 😄 Them flies are relentless. Gorgeous watch fob. Looks like the style of stuff I was pulling out of a picnic site active from early 1890's - early 1910's. So Victorian is a possibility right through to early Art Deco.

Yeah get 5 or 10 of them around your head when mowing the lawn, it'll drive ya nuts.

I was really stoked that a low expectation hunt turned out quality not quantity. Also like the update so far, but got a while to go before I can really say much about it. My relic program worked a bit better under the older version 🤔

[F350Platinum]

25 minutes ago, Doc Bach said:

Very pleasing watch fob that you found 350.Sometimes those really steep areas can pay off quite well. Some hunters are just a little too well lets say lazy and then of course there are others that cannot traverse such terrain because of health reasons. And then there are those who just overlook them altogether.In my own experience they can sometimes produce coin spills the direct result of someone falling and going ass over teakettle.

Thanks Doc!

I was lucky to get any slope at all, most of the ravines here are precipitous drops from 50 to 100 feet, and right at the tree line. This is Mid Atlantic jungle, very thick undergrowth that makes an area impenetrable in a short time.

I agree that a lot of good finds can be made along these drop offs if you can get to them. 👍 If you're really enterprising, you can dig in the berms created to control erosion.

In most farm fields here there are a few "zones", the Turn Zone where they turned plow animals, the Hunting Zone where they watch the woods for prey chased out by hunting dogs affording a clear shot, and the Rabbit Hunt Zone, right next to the edge. Great stuff is found in all of these, the rest is pretty random.

Turn Zone produces buttons and some coins, hunting zone is pocket knives, gun parts, coins and tools, rabbit zone is coins and some buttons from brush entanglement.

[ColonelDan]

Impressive validation run.  Good job soldier👍🏻

[Rattlehead]

Nice! Hard to beat yellow on the first hunt!

[F350Platinum]

30 minutes ago, Rattlehead said:

Nice! Hard to beat yellow on the first hunt!

Thanks man, nice I can set up Silver Slayer on the WS6 now. 😀

[PI-Man]

Gold Sweet Congrats!  Very nice piece.  Hey that type of button rings up 75 on my machine to imagine that.  😂 maybe it’s the program hmmmmm wonder where I got mine.

I am still pulling off ticks from the stuff I was climbing through on my last hunt.  I feel your pain, but it paid off for you.  Go get some more.

[F350Platinum]

32 minutes ago, PI-Man said:

Gold Sweet Congrats!  Very nice piece.  Hey that type of button rings up 75 on my machine to imagine that.  😂 maybe it’s the program hmmmmm wonder where I got mine.

I am still pulling off ticks from the stuff I was climbing through on my last hunt.  I feel your pain, but it paid off for you.  Go get some more.

You should have seen me today, long boots with pants stuffed in them and a long sleeve shirt. Wore a mesh bag over my head to keep the deer flies at bay. Poison ivy, ticks and deer flies.

It's better at the beach 😀