diggindowndeep
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For what it's worth, here's an update with my new Deus...
The return/exchange process for my first DOA XP Deus was handled swiftly & efficiently from start to finish. The issues that I was having with the first one are no longer, Michael @ XP stepped up to the plate & took care of this matter ASAP. Rest assured...they have excellent C/S should a problem arise. Although I truly believe that my situation was a fluke & not the norm here.
For the past two nights I took my new Deus w/ 11" coil out for 2 shorter hunts in my yard, which is located on an older mid 1800's homestead in the Northwoods. I'm currently leaving the unit in factory(Basic 1) mode until I get a feel for what it's tones are telling me. I attached my old trusty SR Pro Golds w/ the WS4 adapter & this method works great. I found out right away that due to the overall sensitivity of the Deus, I was having a very hard time finding a spot in my soil to GB the coil. Heavy minerals & iron bits galore here...
Let's just say that I've pounded the open areas of my lot quite heavily with my now long gone Safari & E-trac, which found some cool things, but they always had a very hard time with my challenging soil conditions. Even more so in the heavy trash areas. To test out the Deus, I immediately hit an area on my lot which is full of iron bits/metal debris, which I couldn't take my old FBS units into because of the constant nulling & my old X-705 just couldn't punch down with any depth, no matter what coil I used.
Well I started off by digging my share of non valued targets(bent nails/junk) as I methodically scanned this difficult area, while learning these new tones. An old cigarette tin told me that I was heading in the right direction. Where I was once locked into constant nulls/signal smearing with my old FBS units, this thing actually lit up like a machine gun. No more nulling here...WOW! Once I began to isolate & lock onto the repeatable targets from amongst the rapid fire signals, that's when I realized just how super fast & well the Deus separates in heavy trash even with an 11" coil on it. Once again, I've tried to use my FBS units in this same area with even the smaller SEF 8x6 & SR X-5 coils without much success, let alone an 11" coil.
During my first Deus hunt I got this one faint high pitched tone in this same trashy area. The signal was clipped on one side & longer but kinda scratchy sounding on the other. It wouldn't show a repeatable VID & it fluctuated 89-94 from one side. Based on tone alone, I had to dig this iffy signal & 8 inches down was a 1918 Mercury dime. Please keep in mind that there was iron debris in & around this same hole. Being that there wasn't a lot of money in this logging area back in those early days, I thought that I would never find anything silver on this piece of land. I've only found two buffaloes & one V nickle, besides a few wheats & some basic clad. I've researched the history for this homestead, these settlers were dirt poor & lived off the land exclusively. So any coins that I find here are a rarity, silver is even more so.
Besides the merc, I proceeded to find a Japanese/Chinese 4 Mon(last mint date 1861) 7" down. I had found a pocket spill of Qing Dynasty coinage a year ago in my woods, so this was a neat find to go along with that bit of history. Asian labor was heavily used way back when for logging & the railroad. I also found a few other items from the late 1800-early 1900's during my two short hunts with the Deus in this same spot. A brass Hickory suspender clip marked 1907 & variety of rifle cartridges (.33 cal, 303, 32-40, 351, 8 m/m), along with some old REM UMC shotgun shell casings. Most items were in the 6-9 inch range, with my two deepest targets coming in the 11"-12" range. Which was an old pipe wrench & a smaller piece of brass shaped like a peace symbol. Locating at depth certainly isn't an issue either...
I will also add that having only used Minelabs in the past I was somewhat skeptical at first & I know this is going to take some time getting used to, so patience will be the key. These two detector brands couldn't be any more different, totally like night & day here. Change is a good thing & I'm up for the challenge/learning curve. I can tell you that in just a very short time with using the Deus, I'm glad that I didn't buy another familiar E-trac or a CTX for that matter. As the old saying goes, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Sorry so winded...I'll post my thoughts & finds after I hit one of our local parks which a barn/farm house blew up in during a tornado back in the early 1900's, the heavy nail concentration & modern trash there always gave my Minelabs trouble.
GL & HH!
JT
The return/exchange process for my first DOA XP Deus was handled swiftly & efficiently from start to finish. The issues that I was having with the first one are no longer, Michael @ XP stepped up to the plate & took care of this matter ASAP. Rest assured...they have excellent C/S should a problem arise. Although I truly believe that my situation was a fluke & not the norm here.
For the past two nights I took my new Deus w/ 11" coil out for 2 shorter hunts in my yard, which is located on an older mid 1800's homestead in the Northwoods. I'm currently leaving the unit in factory(Basic 1) mode until I get a feel for what it's tones are telling me. I attached my old trusty SR Pro Golds w/ the WS4 adapter & this method works great. I found out right away that due to the overall sensitivity of the Deus, I was having a very hard time finding a spot in my soil to GB the coil. Heavy minerals & iron bits galore here...
Let's just say that I've pounded the open areas of my lot quite heavily with my now long gone Safari & E-trac, which found some cool things, but they always had a very hard time with my challenging soil conditions. Even more so in the heavy trash areas. To test out the Deus, I immediately hit an area on my lot which is full of iron bits/metal debris, which I couldn't take my old FBS units into because of the constant nulling & my old X-705 just couldn't punch down with any depth, no matter what coil I used.
Well I started off by digging my share of non valued targets(bent nails/junk) as I methodically scanned this difficult area, while learning these new tones. An old cigarette tin told me that I was heading in the right direction. Where I was once locked into constant nulls/signal smearing with my old FBS units, this thing actually lit up like a machine gun. No more nulling here...WOW! Once I began to isolate & lock onto the repeatable targets from amongst the rapid fire signals, that's when I realized just how super fast & well the Deus separates in heavy trash even with an 11" coil on it. Once again, I've tried to use my FBS units in this same area with even the smaller SEF 8x6 & SR X-5 coils without much success, let alone an 11" coil.
During my first Deus hunt I got this one faint high pitched tone in this same trashy area. The signal was clipped on one side & longer but kinda scratchy sounding on the other. It wouldn't show a repeatable VID & it fluctuated 89-94 from one side. Based on tone alone, I had to dig this iffy signal & 8 inches down was a 1918 Mercury dime. Please keep in mind that there was iron debris in & around this same hole. Being that there wasn't a lot of money in this logging area back in those early days, I thought that I would never find anything silver on this piece of land. I've only found two buffaloes & one V nickle, besides a few wheats & some basic clad. I've researched the history for this homestead, these settlers were dirt poor & lived off the land exclusively. So any coins that I find here are a rarity, silver is even more so.
Besides the merc, I proceeded to find a Japanese/Chinese 4 Mon(last mint date 1861) 7" down. I had found a pocket spill of Qing Dynasty coinage a year ago in my woods, so this was a neat find to go along with that bit of history. Asian labor was heavily used way back when for logging & the railroad. I also found a few other items from the late 1800-early 1900's during my two short hunts with the Deus in this same spot. A brass Hickory suspender clip marked 1907 & variety of rifle cartridges (.33 cal, 303, 32-40, 351, 8 m/m), along with some old REM UMC shotgun shell casings. Most items were in the 6-9 inch range, with my two deepest targets coming in the 11"-12" range. Which was an old pipe wrench & a smaller piece of brass shaped like a peace symbol. Locating at depth certainly isn't an issue either...
I will also add that having only used Minelabs in the past I was somewhat skeptical at first & I know this is going to take some time getting used to, so patience will be the key. These two detector brands couldn't be any more different, totally like night & day here. Change is a good thing & I'm up for the challenge/learning curve. I can tell you that in just a very short time with using the Deus, I'm glad that I didn't buy another familiar E-trac or a CTX for that matter. As the old saying goes, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Sorry so winded...I'll post my thoughts & finds after I hit one of our local parks which a barn/farm house blew up in during a tornado back in the early 1900's, the heavy nail concentration & modern trash there always gave my Minelabs trouble.
GL & HH!
JT
