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[Jim-IN]

Having used the Deus2 for about a year now and trying all the factory programs and settings that people on YouTube have posted I‘ve had limited success hunting all my old house sites that I’ve been hunting for more than twenty years with 5 different Minelabs and a Fisher F75. A while back I noticed in my test bed here at home that silver dimes buried with square nails was one way hits and turning 90 degrees the signal was chopped and ID would bounce into the 01 to 10 range. So recently I tried running kind of like I ran the Minelabs, no discrimination or notch and using tones and tone break for discrimination. The dimes with nails in my test bed sound much better and ID more consistent. Nope, it’s not a perfect ID but the signal is not as chopped and sounds more digable to me and I’m digging a lot less iron. Along with increased sensitivity and reduced reactivity it has been working better at my iron laden house sites. And yes those 86 and 88 signals will still sound really good one way but the 90 degree turn is the tell. All of these pictures are from sites I have hunted for years. These are the last couple weeks and now I‘m saying how did I miss all these signals with the other machines. Just my opinion, it has worked for me.

 

[DigDog]

Nice. Never a fan of discrimination myself, sound is king.
Many will insist they don’t want to waste time digging anything but good coin ID’s
To each his own.
Curious how deep were they?

 

[Jim-IN]

Nice. Never a fan of discrimination myself, sound is king.
Many will insist they don’t want to waste time digging anything but good coin ID’s
To each his own.
Curious how deep were they?

They were mostly in the 6 to 8 in range I think. Usually with iron debris close by.

 

[BigTony]

Having used the Deus2 for about a year now and trying all the factory programs and settings that people on YouTube have posted I‘ve had limited success hunting all my old house sites that I’ve been hunting for more than twenty years with 5 different Minelabs and a Fisher F75. A while back I noticed in my test bed here at home that silver dimes buried with square nails was one way hits and turning 90 degrees the signal was chopped and ID would bounce into the 01 to 10 range. So recently I tried running kind of like I ran the Minelabs, no discrimination or notch and using tones and tone break for discrimination. The dimes with nails in my test bed sound much better and ID more consistent. Nope, it’s not a perfect ID but the signal is not as chopped and sounds more digable to me and I’m digging a lot less iron. Along with increased sensitivity and reduced reactivity it has been working better at my iron laden house sites. And yes those 86 and 88 signals will still sound really good one way but the 90 degree turn is the tell. All of these pictures are from sites I have hunted for years. These are the last couple weeks and now I‘m saying how did I miss all these signals with the other machines. Just my opinion, it has worked for me.

Good idea and nice digs. Love the bullet coin, what a find in my opinion, congrats. That one find says plenty about your setup.
Are you using 0 discrimination Or below?
Tony

 

[Tony-Ok]

They were mostly in the 6 to 8 in range I think. Usually with iron debris close by.

I am having the same results, many targets (masked) . The speed of the D2 / Ws6 and iron volume brings targets out !!

 

[DigDog]

I am having the same results, many targets (masked) . The speed of the D2 / Ws6 and iron volume brings targets out !!

Some get too wrapped up in discrimination, iron, bottle caps, foil, etc only makes sense it’s potentially masking good targets as well. If someone wants to cherry pick that’s their prerogative. There is different degrees of cherry picking depending what you are hunting. No old coins around here so everything is game to make it interesting, ferrous or not.
I am curious though what others run as someone else mentioned on their discrimination setting.
I will take general program for example and reduce the discrimination down to 6 or 7, sometimes lower or higher and adjust the recovery depending how much trash there is.
Doesn’t have an all metal mode per say, relic or gold programs run all metal but goes into a different tone setting with using square instead of pcm and a threshold.
I don’t know of any other way to run all metal using pcm 2,3,4 tones without the threshold other than dialing down the discrimination in other programs

 

[Jim-IN]

Good idea and nice digs. Love the bullet coin, what a find in my opinion, congrats. That one find says plenty about your setup.
Are you using 0 discrimination Or below?
Tony

-6.4 only. Tried running this last fall when the crops came off but the barrage of iron signals was just too much for my ears. So this spring I tried running Deep HC in 3 tones, 0 to 55 tones 100, 55 to 88 tones 750, 88 to max 900. For my ears it made listening to all the iron tolerable and made the silver, large cents and wheaties scream here I am.

 

[BigTony]

-6.4 only. Tried running this last fall when the crops came off but the barrage of iron signals was just too much for my ears. So this spring I tried running Deep HC in 3 tones, 0 to 55 tones 100, 55 to 88 tones 750, 88 to max 900. For my ears it made listening to all the iron tolerable and made the silver, large cents and wheaties scream here I am.

Thanks, that’s an interesting idea
Tony

 

[Tony-Ok]

Some get too wrapped up in discrimination, iron, bottle caps, foil, etc only makes sense it’s potentially masking good targets as well. If someone wants to cherry pick that’s their prerogative. There is different degrees of cherry picking depending what you are hunting. No old coins around here so everything is game to make it interesting, ferrous or not.
I am curious though what others run as someone else mentioned on their discrimination setting.
I will take general program for example and reduce the discrimination down to 6 or 7, sometimes lower or higher and adjust the recovery depending how much trash there is.
Doesn’t have an all metal mode per say, relic or gold programs run all metal but goes into a different tone setting with using square instead of pcm and a threshold.
I don’t know of any other way to run all metal using pcm 2,3,4 tones without the threshold other than dialing down the discrimination in other programs

I run 0.0 disc, iron volume 4, sensitivity 93+, bottle cap rejection 2, Sensitive Full tones

 

[Tony-Ok]

-6.4 only. Tried running this last fall when the crops came off but the barrage of iron signals was just too much for my ears. So this spring I tried running Deep HC in 3 tones, 0 to 55 tones 100, 55 to 88 tones 750, 88 to max 900. For my ears it made listening to all the iron tolerable and made the silver, large cents and wheaties scream here I am.

Did you turn the volume of the iron tone down?? Just so you know that iron is close. Then the good targets pop out !! If you focus on the higher tones then the iron just barely comes in .

 

[DigDog]

I run 0.0 disc, iron volume 4, sensitivity 93+, bottle cap rejection 2, Sensitive Full tones

Do you do that in all the programs or just set up your own with those settings using a specific program ? Depending on what and where you hunt determines what programs as they run different sets of frequencies

 

[Tony-Ok]

Do you do that in all the programs or just set up your own with those settings using a specific program ? Depending on what and where you hunt determines what programs as they run different sets of frequencies

I only use Sensitive Full tones so I adjust at every site.I could save it , but I haven’t. It’s just so simple to make those adjustments quickly.

 

[DigDog]

Yes it is easy to adjust if you can see lol
The remote is easier to adjust than the puck sometimes.
Sensitive seems to be basically the same as general but little deeper but has a small notch that it discriminates. I attached a photo. I don’t know if it would mask much since its so small of a notch but nonetheless it still discriminates.
I was trying to figure a way to run sensitivity and delete the notch so it would be 00-00 like it is in general.
Do you adjust it to 00 or know how?
Thanks

 

[Tony-Ok]

Yes it is easy to adjust if you can see lol
The remote is easier to adjust than the puck sometimes.
Sensitive seems to be basically the same as general but little deeper but has a small notch that it discriminates. I attached a photo. I don’t know if it would mask much since its so small of a notch but nonetheless it still discriminates.
I was trying to figure a way to run sensitivity and delete the notch so it would be 00-00 like it is in general.
Do you adjust it to 00 or know how?
Thanks

You can scroll through the program of your choice and adjust the disc to 0.0 or wherever you like . You can also eliminate that small notch if you like. You can’t mess anything up. Every time you turn it off it resets to default. It took me a couple of hunts to figure out what everything does. I usually have the manual with me in case I need to reference it.

 

[DigDog]

You can scroll through the program of your choice and adjust the disc to 0.0 or wherever you like . You can also eliminate that small notch if you like. You can’t mess anything up. Every time you turn it off it resets to default. It took me a couple of hunts to figure out what everything does. I usually have the manual with me in case I need to reference it.

Yeah but how do you eliminate that notch?

 

[Tony-Ok]

Yeah but how do you eliminate that notch?

The programs that have notch say 20-23 . Go to the Expert menu (from disc menu) select notch . The notch numbers will appear. Long press theMenu button, then the +,- buttons can change the numbers , move - negative to zero press again and the other number can be adjusted to zero also .

 

[Tony-Ok]

The programs that have notch say 20-23 . Go to the Expert menu (from disc menu) select notch . The notch numbers will appear. Long press theMenu button, then the +,- buttons can change the numbers , move - negative to zero press again and the other number can be adjusted to zero also . I am using the Ws6 puck , I do not have the Remote.