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    Accidental gold

    This has happened to me 3 times with the Deus. While digging a coin signal, gold came with it. The upper right is the first and it is 10k, the upper left is 14k HGE (heavy gold plate), and the earring is 14k. I found the earring today searching a local school. When I bent down to dig a rough...
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    Have you detected a creek or riverbed?

    The water is way down and the creekbeds and riverbeds are accessable for detecting. I'm just wondering if anybody has had any success when detecting them. I tried it once but got tons of iron and fishing tackle. However the area wasn't historic and a couple areas that I was considering to...
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    How do we deal with averaging?

    I have been doing some crude testing and noticed that when nails are next to a coin in the same plane, we get the nice separation of targets and a decent high conductor signal. Introduce a pull tab or other non-ferrous target into the equation and the same separation turns into target averaging...
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    Whats wrong with my deep coin program...

    So today I was out playing with settings for my deep coin program. I was running at 12KHz but decided to drop it to 8KHz because of the sensitivity to a couple very small (near surface) targets that sounded deep. I don't know if it will help but I didn't dig any small targets after changing the...
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    Plugging in dry earth

    I only go to a couple locations that aren't impacted by digging as the grass is brown and patchy and the earth is somewhat sandy. In another location the blade pierces the earth fairly easy so cutting a plug isn't difficult even though the earth is hard and dry. However it crumbles into small...
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    Preaching to the Choir

    When I got my Deus I purchased on the basis of videos and user posts. 95%+ were positive. The YouTube videos were impressive. The Deus engineering is light years ahead of the current market. But my first impression was one of disappointment when I started using it. It would chatter and the ID...
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    Deus and chatter

    I have been experiencing a lot of chatter with the Deus in my yard. I live in a rural area, standard powerline and buried cable TV line. However I have a couple acres and can get hundreds of feet away from any suspect interference. I have properly set up GB and threshold according to the manual...
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    Deal me in...

    A couple years ago I was going to order a Deus from Alain at XP before it was offered in the US. I backed out because customs could (at their choosing) slap up to a 30% tariff on imports. In addition, if anything went wrong with it ...well, you get the idea.. Today I took possession of a used...
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    Vaquero Headphone jack mod without voiding the warranty...I think.

    In the summer months I use the cheap ear-buds that coincidentally are 32 Ohm (a better impedance match to the detector) while the high priced ones are 16 Ohm. The cheapies have a short cable but Short or long the wire gets in my way when I'm digging and I usually yank the buds out of my ear. In...
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    There's a Sovereign Elite for sale

    On ebay. I don't know if the mods like posting links to Ebay so I wont. Its got 19hrs to go and is at $340. I am not interrested but it comes with the Minelab meter and an extra brand new 5" coil. Maybe someone here is interrested? I inquired about the meter because its not mentioned in the ad.
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    Got a phone call

    A while back a friends uncle who lived alone died as a result of a car accident. Apparently he joked with family members from time to time that he buried his money on the 1 acre property. While only a rumor it has a hint of truth to it since the uncle grew up in the depression era. So I get a...
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    Murphy's law for metal detecting?

    I don't generally start threads but I did a Google search of Murphy's Law for metal detecting and only found a couple of forum posts of people referring back to it. I had a couple of my own for detecting but can only remember one at the moment. Anybody care to add theirs? 1. There will always...
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    A "field" study in human nature

    I have been working on gaining access to a couple fields that housed 1875 homesteads in my local area. The first had 2 homesteads in the field on either side of the house. The drive that lead to the house was about 100' long. As I entered the drive I saw 3 signs, no solicitors, no trespassing...
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    Critter, the 12x10 SEF is a keeper

    I went out to a school where I found a couple silvers this year with the Sovereign GT using the stock coil. I covered the same area with the SEF. While its entirely possible I simply missed these coins, they made me a believer in this coil's potential. It takes a substantial improvement in...
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    Am I just learning something you veterans already know?

    I was playing with the Sov and searching my yard with the new SEF coil yesterday to see how it worked before the rain came pouring down. I went to pinpoint in all-metal but unknown to me, I had my all-metal switch in FIX. Imediatly I noticed the difference in target response and decided to do...
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    My Bad

    I have 2 Propointers, PP#2 was bought when PP#1 was sent in for repairs last fall (I wanted a backup). In a short time Garrett repaired my old one and sent it back to me. I took it out of the package and tested its operation in the house. It worked well but since the season was almost over, I...
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    Went out today and all I got was this penny

    I got permission to hunt the property around a town hall that was est. 1867. The area was full of modern trash and old iron. I got a couple really good signals 179-180 but they were vertical and bent nails. Then by the outhouse I got a 175 and dug the pictured 1864 Indian. The only coin I dug in...
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    Swinging slow sucks....

    ................those good signals out of trashy areas. Y'all thought I was starting trouble didn't ya....lol I found these beauties yesterday and today. The two Rosie's at a school I never dug silver from yesterday. The 36 Merc and 53 Canadian are from a school I went over thoroughly with 2...
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    Question for experienced Sov users

    When hunting a nail infested area, I get some repeatable signals that creep up to 178-179 even 180. Many times this will be a nail in the earth and I'm catching the end of it. To avoid digging nails, I place the Sov in PP All-metal and check to see if there is a target underneath. I had a soft...
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    Ancient Aztec bottle opener and more!

    And we thought the beer cap was a modern invention! The first dug trash (except the hash pipe) that I will make good use of. Hash pipe was a joke... Went back to the school that I found 5 mercs and other assorted goodies last year. I didn't find any silver coinage, but I did find some decent...
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