I have a question for you long time Deus users.

[Dan(NM)]

How long did it take for you to get comfortable and confident in your machine? And do you remember what the turning point was when it finally clicked? I really do enjoy using the Deus but I don't have the confidence in it like I do my Explorer. I will add I've only used it for 5 or 6 times at this point For about 20 or so hours.I at least finally came up with a program that runs rather stable in trash, that was the biggest issue at first.

 

[squirrel1]

Didn't take long. The -1 setting with silencer and reactivity levels of 0 and 1 will get you down deep. If trashy consider hunting site in reactivity 2 silencer -1, and believe it or not another go with reactivity 3 silencer -1 freq 18 may bring a few more things out. You must concentrate on the audio, on the real deeps you'll see the 94 and up readings. Use your disc and notch to help you with iron and trash-tones too. The less tones the better. Three tone setting is the most I would ever recommend period. Relic hunting 2 tone is best Give your deus time. It'll come. Too good of a detector to ditch or trade. And if XP releases smaller coil, yipee. And another update is in the works. If it helps the Deus some more, oh well, what can you say?. Don't be afraid to use your XY screen to help with junk ID.

 

[jvc55349]

I'm only in a few months and feel quite confident, turning point was listening to a friend that has one and getting Andys book.

 

[sprchng]

About 6 months as well and still prefer the Minelabs in modern trash by far and doubt it will ever change.
Audio on the Deus is just not a comparable trait when considering the tones you're used to from an Explorer. 3 tones max?---sounds like the CoRe for half the price
There's no doubt the Deus can do much the same it's just that you need to allow yourself to trust the electronics versus your ears.

 

[TexanWest]

Dan, if you need, I can take a road trip and try to help. Just let me know. Send me a PM.

 

[Sleepyjim]

Dan time is diff for each person, do you hunt daily or weekends or maybe 8 hours a day vs 2, so it varies.....Are you hard of hearing or super tuned ears? See all different.

For me still learning and like it that way, I blame Andy for not having a bootcamp near me yet

Seriously, am darn happy and fully expect to find great stuff every outting! But I got tons more to learn....

Jim

 

[Mega]

I was comfortable straight out the box,currently use mine 10-15 hours week due to the weather most of the time and that is 98% i use it in Basic1 and a also Deus Fast,both work well for all my needs over here in the UK,although i do own and carry a controller its never used only for the odd setting change,the audio on the Deus is what i feel its all about with this machine,also use the WS5 headphones to cut out most of the external noise as this allows me to hear the deeper feinter signals.

The Deus in my mind is a superb machine,of course sometimes one cannot GEL with a machine,its not the only machine i use as no one machine can do it all,so do have other brands for specific site use but in general the Deus is the machine that i use most of all.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

My second trip out ti clicked for me. First trip I just could not get over how good it was in trash and iron. Second trip I was in LOVE! lol

 

[BHMACK]

I agree. She's a pretty straightforward machine and quick to understand, and those 'takes-time-to-learn' nuances are less critical to early proficiency than most machines I've used, and mostly pertain to discrimination of foil and caps and the other usual suspects.

While it's not designed to sing a special tune on silver coins like some machines, I find it's incredibly consistent and accurate in it's audio description of a target, (blunt without being one dimensional, size/shape/orientation easy to hear). It's the best machine I've used when it comes to not giving hard to decipher/nonrepeatable information. If it sounds like junk it is (IMO, after digging hundreds of borderline targets to see what's going on with the audio) If it high tones, and you've learned to exclude large iron and read falses, there is a high conductive target under your coil 9/10. Even really, target ID up to it's depth ceiling is very accurate in the sense that if you are getting high conductive numbers you have high conductive material under your coil, assuming again you know how to exclude large iron and falses and understand the correlation to consistent numbers and target shape/orientation and all the info your brain needs to visualize what your are investigating is presented in the audio. So, In closing i'd say in the hands of a moderately experienced detectorist, it's darn easy to pick up and go, while being confident you're not walking over one sweet find after another while in the fog of the first days of ownership.