CZconnoisseur
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I have been using the Deus since Dec 22nd and the amount of goodies turned up has been unprecedented!!!! To be fair, I've dug a LOT of trash, but what's pictured are the better finds in less than 5 months with this machine! I still turn up silver coins less than 50 feet from my front door - the most recent being a 1943 quarter as an iffy signal not 10 feet from the back door mixed in with some nails.
I made it a point before I got the Deus to "clean out" my front and back yards with the venerable Fisher CZ-6 and then rescan both yards using the Deus. Most targets I've found have been located adjacent to large amounts of trash, and I have one strip next to the garage (which has a car parked over it now) to sift through yet with the Deus. I found almost 200 targets with the CZ-6, with about half of those targets being coins - mostly clad. After scanning both yards with the Deus I located about 15 Wheats, 3 Mercs, 1 silver Washington, a sterling tennis bracelet, a large WWII medal on edge next to the sidewalk, a teeny-tiny sterling toe ring, and a Girl Scout pin to name a few!!!
Permissions have been the most lucrative ventures in and around this neighborhood with one house 2 doors down giving up two Rosies, a Merc, a silver Washington, and a Walker all on the same hunt!!! Trash is usually manageable at these rental houses, and the ones privately owned are even more fun to hunt with less trash usually!
Apart from the neighborhood, the old fairgrounds have been off-limits to detectorists until 2012 when the city purchased the land to "develop". Everything was graded and the 15-acre parking lot was ripped up, exposing much older soil underneath. I have been fortunate to be able to hunt this area at any time, but the catch is a lot of deep iron and deep non-ferrous junk as well. This site still gives up goods, but not like it did when I got started in January!!!
So whatever machine you have - get OUT there and start looking! If you've purchased a new detector, revisit those pounded sites and see what new technology can do for you!!! Deus is the clear winner in the trash as far as I'm concerned - but there are other machines out there that will resolve those iffy targets a little better than previous machines and just may produce another keeper or three at those "pounded" sites. You really never know what's under your feet...just don't walk away from it....
I made it a point before I got the Deus to "clean out" my front and back yards with the venerable Fisher CZ-6 and then rescan both yards using the Deus. Most targets I've found have been located adjacent to large amounts of trash, and I have one strip next to the garage (which has a car parked over it now) to sift through yet with the Deus. I found almost 200 targets with the CZ-6, with about half of those targets being coins - mostly clad. After scanning both yards with the Deus I located about 15 Wheats, 3 Mercs, 1 silver Washington, a sterling tennis bracelet, a large WWII medal on edge next to the sidewalk, a teeny-tiny sterling toe ring, and a Girl Scout pin to name a few!!!
Permissions have been the most lucrative ventures in and around this neighborhood with one house 2 doors down giving up two Rosies, a Merc, a silver Washington, and a Walker all on the same hunt!!! Trash is usually manageable at these rental houses, and the ones privately owned are even more fun to hunt with less trash usually!
Apart from the neighborhood, the old fairgrounds have been off-limits to detectorists until 2012 when the city purchased the land to "develop". Everything was graded and the 15-acre parking lot was ripped up, exposing much older soil underneath. I have been fortunate to be able to hunt this area at any time, but the catch is a lot of deep iron and deep non-ferrous junk as well. This site still gives up goods, but not like it did when I got started in January!!!
So whatever machine you have - get OUT there and start looking! If you've purchased a new detector, revisit those pounded sites and see what new technology can do for you!!! Deus is the clear winner in the trash as far as I'm concerned - but there are other machines out there that will resolve those iffy targets a little better than previous machines and just may produce another keeper or three at those "pounded" sites. You really never know what's under your feet...just don't walk away from it....
