3 Hours In The Turf And A Handful Of Rings

[Zincoln]

I decided to get more familiar w/ the new 2 me Deus2, and I planned to work a park that has been used for soccer in the past and continues to have an active little league diamond.  

I generally run my programs wide open with no notching and a minimal disc threshold to knock out nails.  Today I decided to employ notches to focus on gold signals, while allowing dimes and quarters.  Didn't want to bother with the zinc pennies and was ok w/ possibly missing a silver ring or a huge gold ring (which I might not do on a high school field for where a big class ring might hide).

In 3 shorts hours, I dug about $4 in clad (and a surprising 14 nickels at 5-6 inches which out paced all other denominations). This let me know I was dialed in for gold, and I it was likely previous detectors and notched out lower signals.  

First out of the ground was a nice 925 pandora bracelet that was ready to wear.  Daughter decided that was hers.  Next was a stainless men's wedding band...then a pair of junk rings (one a stainless spoon ring), soon after another junk ring.....and finally a 1g 10k little ring with a tiny diamond.  Not often I find that many rings in a days hunt, and to get both gold and silver was a nice bonus.

 

Definitely was impressed w/ the 9" coil and ability to go deep on low conductors.  I like the high square tones, and the full tones option really helps me separate junk from rings. 

I had also been unimpressed w/ the volume level when pinpointing.  I've seen several threads where people were complaining about this.  It may have been posted elsewhere already, but I realized today that as you turn up the audio modulation, the pinpoint audio is inversely impacted.  I verified this by tuning the audio response to a 1, and getting a much louder pinpoint audio.   Not sure if this was an intended design behavior by XP, but not very helpful when you have deep targets, you are running a 5,6 or 7 audio modulation, and you can't hear the pinpoint.  Curious if anyone else has insight on this.

Anywhooo, good day overall.  Said I'd try to post more....so here it is!

 

 

[Hamid]

Very nice 👍 All the best next spin💍🏴‍☠️

[Elbert]

Rings are always good finds. Like them.

[Joe Beechnut OBN]

What a haul!! Nice ride home I bet!

[Zincoln]

Went back again today to widen the search area.  As typically happens, it was impossible to reproduce yesterdays results.  Hit the much wider field areas once used for soccer, and did find one ring on a sideline area.  Nothing special, silver washed.

I presume this park was once a farm, and I did manage a 1929 buffalo, along with a handful of jeffs.  

Last interesting find is a silver dollar sized mint commemorative coin.  VDI came in much like a large cent.  Was surprised to see that in the bottom of the hole when I was expecting a dime!  Looks like a Bronze alloy.  I remember buying several copper commemoratives at the Denver mint in the 70's, and I'm sure this is much same.  This would commemorate the 200th anniversary of the US mint.  

 

[TampaBayBrad]

Great results for just 3 hours. I don't think I've ever found 5 rings in 3 hours. Good on you to go back and hit it again. The commemorative coin is interesting. Never heard of them. Thanks for posting. 👍

[JCR]

Very good hunting & an interesting observation on the Pin point volume.

[F350Platinum]

Great hunt, Zincoln! 

That's quite a haul, wish I had some parks around, that's one thing I don't have 😅 

Awesome you got all the metals, the D2 is good at finding them 😏 Welcome to the "Dark Side" 🤣

[Zincoln]

2 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Great hunt, Zincoln! 

That's quite a haul, wish I had some parks around, that's one thing I don't have 😅 

Awesome you got all the metals, the D2 is good at finding them 😏 Welcome to the "Dark Side" 🤣

Yes F350, I was a whites diehard for 10 years....until Joel out in Utah got me to try my first Deus.  While i still very much enjoy and use my Whites machines, the XP line is pretty darn good.  And, the older i get, the nicer it is to swing a Deus and not a toaster on a stick!