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What's your deepest target you've recovered so far ??
- Thread starter Dan(NM)
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Hit an 11" Wheat in Reactivity 1 last year. Hit a couple 9-10" coins (Wheats again IIRC) in Reactivity 2. Got a piece of cast iron about the size of a pocketwatch at 12" a few months back that sounded pretty close to a coin and IDed at "94" in 12 kHz. Usually for me silencer stays at 0 unless running Reactivity 3 where it goes to -1. Anything over 8" deep go by the audio and forget the VDI. You will know once you get over one of these!
Recovered a 1887 Canadian five cent silver (equivalent to our half dime) at a depth past the top of my TRX pin pointer. Don't have my TRX (and CTX) are out on loan but I think about 9". My buddy who is darn good at deep silver recoveries with his CTX said he couldn't hit it. I swear I saw his VDI in the 12-45 range. I know my CTX will be silent yet give VDI numbers kinda like our Deus will go silent but........got several keepers digging those kind of targets with both machines!
Its one of those questions that is so difficult to answer as it has so many variables,ie what size of coils do people use,what size of target and of course ground conditions,you could get someone who uses the larger of the 3 coils that the Deus has and be using it for say Relic hunting,as a result of the target being bigger then of course it stands to reason that detectorist is going to get the deepest target/s,but someone with say a 9'' coil in a park wont hit as deep.
As we are all aware no one detector does it all,the Deus is a very good all round detector,and you use the best coil that suits your location and the targets that you are basically after,this is why i have in my detector arsenal coil from 4'' right upto a 36'' square coil on my Pulse and also a 2 Box setup,someone else mentioned it last night its best to get a set of golf club and then you will be able to play most shots.
I rarely use the controller on a Deus simply because i use it mainly as a audio detector,below a certain depth which is about the 7-8'' range then the VDI No's are a total waste of time,so my way of thinking is why use the controller if the audio is so much more reliable,so hence this is why i mainly use it just for fine tuning the Deus,quality headphones as in WS5 and audio are the key to using this machine especially when hunting say deep roman and saxon coins as you listen to those ultra feint signals that will never even be seen on the screen.
Of course this is just my opinion and how i use my Deus,other will use it differently.
As we are all aware no one detector does it all,the Deus is a very good all round detector,and you use the best coil that suits your location and the targets that you are basically after,this is why i have in my detector arsenal coil from 4'' right upto a 36'' square coil on my Pulse and also a 2 Box setup,someone else mentioned it last night its best to get a set of golf club and then you will be able to play most shots.
I rarely use the controller on a Deus simply because i use it mainly as a audio detector,below a certain depth which is about the 7-8'' range then the VDI No's are a total waste of time,so my way of thinking is why use the controller if the audio is so much more reliable,so hence this is why i mainly use it just for fine tuning the Deus,quality headphones as in WS5 and audio are the key to using this machine especially when hunting say deep roman and saxon coins as you listen to those ultra feint signals that will never even be seen on the screen.
Of course this is just my opinion and how i use my Deus,other will use it differently.
I got a 9" barber dime that bounced around quite a bit. I almost gave up on the hole since it was hard digging. When I saw that glint of silver, I knew I was going to keep the Deus.
Today I dug a 7.5" shield nickel (1870-something). There was a nail a bit higher in the wall and the nickel was at a pretty extreme angle (I would call it on edge, but it wasn't straight up and down). The Deus did not identify the nickel and was reading " -- " but the weakness of the audio combined with some experience told me to go for it. As a side note, I also dug 5 chunks of iron, and 3 small bits of lead shot, all acting just like that nickel. And yeah, the iron was deepish too, so you need to be prepared to do some digging.
What I like about the Deus is that you can set it up to run light and easy with multi-tone audio, notch out all the trash, and just go to town in a park. Or you can strip it down to 2 tones and rig the settings to make it a gambler and really go deep. It seems like everyone wants to run it wide-open, but I try to make it match the task at hand.
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Today I dug a 7.5" shield nickel (1870-something). There was a nail a bit higher in the wall and the nickel was at a pretty extreme angle (I would call it on edge, but it wasn't straight up and down). The Deus did not identify the nickel and was reading " -- " but the weakness of the audio combined with some experience told me to go for it. As a side note, I also dug 5 chunks of iron, and 3 small bits of lead shot, all acting just like that nickel. And yeah, the iron was deepish too, so you need to be prepared to do some digging.
What I like about the Deus is that you can set it up to run light and easy with multi-tone audio, notch out all the trash, and just go to town in a park. Or you can strip it down to 2 tones and rig the settings to make it a gambler and really go deep. It seems like everyone wants to run it wide-open, but I try to make it match the task at hand.
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Topdecker said:
I'm with you. I find it up averages and high tones when ran wide open. I made a setting that had everything cranked and even in open ground it gave me digable feedback when it shouldn't have. That was fully wide open as one wouldn't run it normally but it wasn't nominal that's for sure..
BHMACK said:
I am guessing that you run mostly at high frequency 17kHz to defeat the bad ground? Or does it hold up at lower frequencies?
I've got fairly neutral soil here in my piece of Missouri - the only time I worry about soil conditions is when I get into cinder along sidewalks and such (it was not uncommon to take your coal ash and use it to help footing in the winters).
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Mostly 18khz, sometimes 12. It acts the same IMO at all freqs when cranked.
I wish I had your problem because the Deus is crazy deep in that soil. every now and then i'll hit a spot in a field/pasture where the FE drops to nothing and I am always shocked when I pick up a whisper of a conductive target in those conditions at over 9". I haven't seen anything at all in the Deus that says it's got a handicap regarding depth. May not be the deepest but it's plenty deep.
I wish I had your problem because the Deus is crazy deep in that soil. every now and then i'll hit a spot in a field/pasture where the FE drops to nothing and I am always shocked when I pick up a whisper of a conductive target in those conditions at over 9". I haven't seen anything at all in the Deus that says it's got a handicap regarding depth. May not be the deepest but it's plenty deep.