Tekkna For The Deus 2, First Impression (updated 3)

[Naildiggerpro]

I’m not sure if it was on edge I couldn’t find it with my pinpointer because there was so many nails in the hole so I just dug and piled dirt up until I found it. Wish I would have taken my time to see how it was in the ground though , and yeah I just loaded the version 2.0 when I put his program in, I probably wouldn’t have if Gary wouldn’t have said that’s how he had his setup . Before that I ran the silver slayer program almost all the time which is also a pretty good setup!

[Lodge Scent]

Thanks for the report F350. I gave it a try myself Sunday morning. What I find scary is that I also lowered the Iron Volume to 7 and the Reactivity to 2.5 and raised the Audio to 5. 😄 But I didn’t sniff out any Spanish silver. I did recover a nice tombac though. With using all that Disc, I did like the fact that I wasn’t tempted to dig as many bent square nails as I normally would be tempted to dig. It’s not the program to end all programs but I’ll play with it some more. I think more than anything, because it was “different” I slowed down a bit and concentrated on the slightly different audio responses, and that helped me find a few targets from a worn out site. I used the 9" coil this time. I started with Reactivity of 3, dropped it to 1 for the heck of it, but that made the deeper iron hit harder, and settled on 2.5 for most of the hunt.

 

Lodge

[F350Platinum]

7 hours ago, Lodge Scent said:

Thanks for the report F350. I gave it a try myself Sunday morning. What I find scary is that I also lowered the Iron Volume to 7 and the Reactivity to 2.5 and raised the Audio to 5. 😄 But I didn’t sniff out any Spanish silver. I did recover a nice tombac though. With using all that Disc, I did like the fact that I wasn’t tempted to dig as many bent square nails as I normally would be tempted to dig. It’s not the program to end all programs but I’ll play with it some more. I think more than anything, because it was “different” I slowed down a bit and concentrated on the slightly different audio responses, and that helped me find a few targets from a worn out site. I used the 9" coil this time. I started with Reactivity of 3, dropped it to 1 for the heck of it, but that made the deeper iron hit harder, and settled on 2.5 for most of the hunt.

 

Lodge

Thanks for jumping in, Lodge!

I'm pretty sure it was pure coincidence and luck, I hope you do find some silver of any kind. 🍀

That is scary, but I'm not surprised. 😅 The adjustments you made are logical. Remember also that you only dig targets that give a consistent and repeatable tone all the way around. That will help dig less iron too, I know he took a chance on one target in the video but he was getting that high tone every time 

I love using Relic, but that high tone when I'm over a huge piece of iron kettle or something really hurts my ears. You can't get away from it because there's no discrimination. When I'm seeing oyster shells on the ground I can count on it now.

I find this program chatty but pleasant, it's great for comfort in heavy trash with those slight adjustments. 👍

I am going to create a similar program like the Colonel suggested using General for the moisture subtraction and call it "Gekko" or something, 🤣 I may try @raziel900's idea of dropping the tone break to 35 as well. Heading out to the spot(s) again today to give it a go. I have one area there where the trash is so bad it may just pull something special, i want to find a third of a Trime that got broken there. Honestly if I find anything there at all I'll be sold. That was a place I hit hard with my Equinox and the 10x5.

Chase suggested still higher reactivity like 4, that is also interesting. 🤔 I didn't have that luxury with the Equinox 600.

 

[Lodge Scent]

Good luck F350. If you sniff out another real, I'll be switching to Tekkna full time. 😁 I've already set it up "Gekko" in General in anticipation of wet soil conditions this weekend. We have rain coming in tomorrow and it will melt the remaining snow. While I will always hit a site hard with high reactivity settings, it really does lose a lot of depth. With my pounded sites, I'm confident that I've got most of the shallow iron-masked targets. It's the deep iron-masked targets that are  the ones that I am focused on.

[F350Platinum]

On 2/20/2024 at 9:03 PM, F350Platinum said:

Check it out. I'll be testing it a lot more very soon, and will update this with any other observations I make.

Heh, replying to myself!

Got out again today with a mission.

Last year or maybe the year before, I grid searched a particular part of a huge farm near me with my Equinox 600 and the 10x5 coil, I got some cool stuff. It had been previously detected by others, but not as well as it could have been apparently.

It's a small section but it is by far the most crap laden part of the farm. It is the spot where a house and barn stood a long time ago. It might be a half acre.

Imagine sweeping the coil once and hearing 20 or 30 targets, mostly iron. It almost seems like an area with bad EMI, the headphones are never quiet.

I thought I'd give Tekkna a try there, as I wrote last time, if I found anything there at all I would be a believer...

Well I'm a believer. 🤣

I'm not using the "stock" settings, after a very short time I bumped reactivity up to 4, something I've never done. I lowered iron volume from 10 to 8, there is just too much iron in that spot. I increased Audio Response to 5. I lowered sensitivity to 93, just too much noise.

I also tried Raziel's suggestion of lowering the disc to 35, it made a bit of a difference but for me it wasn't enough to leave it there. I put it back to 42, I didn't want to stray too far.

Found way more than I expected, I figured I'd dig lots of junk brass and lead for the most part, which I did, but only one piece of iron which was co-located with another target. I did not skip any positive signals.

Remember that you should only dig when the signal is crisp and repeatable, and listen carefully to make sure it doesn't break up or go iron. If it does it's iron or junk. Try to walk around the target to ensure it's good.

Believe it or not this is only a handful of trash. I am always shocked at the amount of harmonica bits I dig, it's annoying 😅. Shotgun shell ends are a given.

I got other stuff like a crushed aluminum thimble and some other odd bits, but here are my favorites:

A 1901 "V" nickel, I've never found one here.

And now my favorite, put some silver in the bag again!

A 1903 Barber dime, I didn't think they existed here. Guess the V nickel was my clue.

One last thing, I recommend always using the 9" coil with this program, the 11" and 13" double and triple tap targets and can get overwhelmed by iron in close proximity. If we ever get a small elliptical, I'll use it with Tekkna.

🍀

[Lodge Scent]

Wow! Good work there F350. Yeah I will definitely play with that set up some more. I will even try Reactivity at 4 😁.

[F350Platinum]

23 minutes ago, Lodge Scent said:

Wow! Good work there F350. Yeah I will definitely play with that set up some more. I will even try Reactivity at 4 😁.

If there's a lot of iron, I guess that's the trick. This place was hyper saturated with it, so I'm grateful I got some nicer coins, when I tore it up with the Nox all I got were pennies.

I'll have to wait to do Gekko, 😅 it's going to rain tomorrow.

[ColonelDan]

Good run there Bob.  After the rain would be a perfect time to try "Gekko" based on General or Relic.  👍

[Dirtshark]

Can't wait until things thaw out here so I can give this a shot. 

[F350Platinum]

Ok here's my second update, I have a spot in front of my house that was where a farmhouse stood since the 1870s, it was removed about 20 years ago.

It's a spot loaded with every kind of junk you can imagine, I grid searched it a couple years ago when I was new, didn't find a heck of a lot.

Since then I've been scoring all kinds of stuff, even found a 1773 Virginia half cent out here, but no silver.

Enter Tekkna, it's set up to find small stuff in trash, well mainly iron like British fields. I set reactivity to 3 today, yesterday there was so much iron I didn't care about depth so I ran it at 4.

Once in a while I would back it off to 2 as well, depending upon how much junk I heard on every sweep, here there are lots of high tones mixed in because of roof steel, cans, aluminum can slaw, pull tabs. It's like detecting a trashy park.

I wrote early in this post that no program is magic, and while Tekkna is great and finds small stuff in trash, if there is non-ferrous trash where you are looking it will find it all, crisp and cleanly for the most part, unless you really listen and lift.

Here's what I dug for crap:

A lot of it, but NO iron. Lead, steel, aluminum, everything. 🤪

Here's the good stuff:

A very old small brass ring size 5, and a 1958 wheat. I only looked around for about two hours, just at random. It's a lot to process, if you turn down reactivity to 2 you're going to hear a lot more. The ring was about 5" deep surrounded by iron.

I am going to find silver here eventually, probably after I dug some of this junk out.