Popular Post Redneck Posted June 4 Popular Post Share Posted June 4 I just picked up a new D2 weeks ago. Curiosity got the best of me. I never owned an XP before. It was a real struggle getting started . I did not do well reading thru the manual to get started. I finally watched a few you tube videos from brass medic and mental metal to get the coils paired. I was able to get the 11 x 13 coil paired, but not the 9. I finally looked at the serial number on the 9 coil under a magnifying glass and realized the B actually could be a 6, so I typed that in, and it finally paired. Mental metal Scott did a great job of explaining the basics to get the beast up and running. I watched a video from Rattlehead (NWGA detecting) and he showed in great detail what buttons to push to load in his Silver Slayer program, So I got it loaded, and went to a local park, put in about 6 hours , then took the D2 to our 120 yr old homestead, to test it out in the heavy trash. Between the house and garage is a 20x 20 sand and gravel parking area. It is wall to wall crap! 10-20 targets per swing. I went thru there in the past with my other top of the line machine, using a 11, 9, and 5 x 8 coil. Big iron, scrap aluminum, etc. Did not pull up anything good. I put the 9 coil on the D2, using the SS program, 95 sens, react @ 3, everything else the same. went thru the area, nothing good. I bumped up the reactivity to 4, tried it again. I hit an 89, dug a 6" wide hole, at 4" was the spike in the pic. 1/4" x 1/4" x3". still getting an 89, dug out the 22 brass shell, still 89, 2-3" deeper the steel eye bolt. Still an 89, in the 7-8 " range the 1962 cent! I was dumbfounded. 7' away I dug another 1960's cent , 7" deep with more crap in the hole. I'm totally impressed with the D2's separation capabilities. The audio on this machine rocks. Its fun to use. Thanks to all the guys here and on You tube for helping us old foggies to shorten the learning curves on these detectors. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlehead Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 Congrats on the new detector! I agree, the audio on the Deus 2 is excellent. I had a similar experience when I started re-hunting my old spots with the D2, and I attribute a lot of the success to the very alertive audio. I think using pitch especially tends to make those otherwise faint or iffy signals jump out at you more. Good luck with it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D&P-OR Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 23 minutes ago, Rattlehead said: Congrats on the new detector! I agree, the audio on the Deus 2 is excellent. I had a similar experience when I started re-hunting my old spots with the D2, and I attribute a lot of the success to the very alertive audio. I think using pitch especially tends to make those otherwise faint or iffy signals jump out at you more. Good luck with it! Agree with you COMPLETELY DeWayne.-----On some other detectors pitch sounds like a squealing pig (at least to me).----Not so on the D2----that "feature" really works--use it all the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCtoad Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 Welcome to the magic of the D2! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 Welcome to the Dark Side Redneck, It'll take a while but I suspect you will love the D2. I'm so used to it now it's like hammering nails with a trusty hammer, I use Tekkna, Relic and Beach Sensitive. That's all I need. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palzynski Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Yes I would recommend Tekkna too for trashy areas ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWerk Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 You will learn to love the Deus 2 so well that you will truly end up with a red neck from hours of hunting with an excellent machine... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redneck Posted June 8 Author Share Posted June 8 I took the D2 into my fav 120 yr old park, yesterday. Alot of shade, not a huge sink rate on targets, so there is alot of trash build up . One 30' x 30" area near the band stand, is wall to wall targets, resulting in machine gun audio. I went thru it with the 5 x 8 coil on a different machine, speed cranked up, I think I pulled 8 coins out of the mess. I put the 9 coil on the D2, SS program, reactivity to 4, in 2 hrs I pulled out 11 coins. 3 nickels, 8 copper cents. No silver yet. But man this machine/ program is crazy good! It has become my fav machine for hi trash areas in short order, (.20 hrs ) I really need to try the other programs , to get to know the machine better. But this bad boy is fun. Fortunately, detecting in this shady park has kept my neck from getting redder! But I carry sunscreen just in case! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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