I was just wondering if anybody had any tips/settings for hunting plowed fields with the Deus. I ran into a situation yesterday with a field that has been worked up where I'm not sure the Deus was running that great. In the States, we have been under a big drought and most of our farm crops have done horrible. Corn is going to be outrageous. This one farm I hunt, the corn didn't get over 5 feet tall and then turned brown. I hadn't been down there in a while and was surprised to see they had already cut it for silage...which meant I had access to hunt the fields that I normally have to wait til much later in the year to hunt.
It was my first time there with the Deus...ran it in GMP program with a few mods. I took the silencer down to -1 and put it in 2 tone, and put the reactivity down to 1 since the fields aren't trashy except for isolated spots. I have been having good success with this in other spots but for some reason it didn't seem to be working that well in the plowed field setting. It's not a fresh plowed field but was worked earlier in the year. It could be that there wasn't anything much in there to find...but what makes me a little worried was the machine was nearly totally silent except for spots where the ground would change and then I would rebalance it. It balanced in the 75-79 range. I would hear some occasional iron signals, but nothing else. I dug one scratchy/broken sounding non iron signal that I suspected might be iron and dug a pull tab about 5 inches deep...which to me, seemed odd that it broke the signal up...running disc at 5.0. It hit it just fine out of the ground though. I dug a few shallow pieces of aluminum cans and such but only came home with one drop Civil War bullet...what got me was I wasn't digging anything deeper than about 4-5 inches..I was going by tone only, and not by visual ID. If it was a smooth repeating signal I was digging it. I got to thinking maybe it needed a different program or setting tweak for plowed disturbed ground. Any thoughts??
It was my first time there with the Deus...ran it in GMP program with a few mods. I took the silencer down to -1 and put it in 2 tone, and put the reactivity down to 1 since the fields aren't trashy except for isolated spots. I have been having good success with this in other spots but for some reason it didn't seem to be working that well in the plowed field setting. It's not a fresh plowed field but was worked earlier in the year. It could be that there wasn't anything much in there to find...but what makes me a little worried was the machine was nearly totally silent except for spots where the ground would change and then I would rebalance it. It balanced in the 75-79 range. I would hear some occasional iron signals, but nothing else. I dug one scratchy/broken sounding non iron signal that I suspected might be iron and dug a pull tab about 5 inches deep...which to me, seemed odd that it broke the signal up...running disc at 5.0. It hit it just fine out of the ground though. I dug a few shallow pieces of aluminum cans and such but only came home with one drop Civil War bullet...what got me was I wasn't digging anything deeper than about 4-5 inches..I was going by tone only, and not by visual ID. If it was a smooth repeating signal I was digging it. I got to thinking maybe it needed a different program or setting tweak for plowed disturbed ground. Any thoughts??