Its sunday and i had a little time to hunt. decided to go to a middle school and a elementary that was built in 1919 and had its last class in 2015
Middleschool: !!! soooo much trash! there were just large pieces of everything everywhere. plus the ground was like digging through hardened reinforced concrete. there is just no freakin way ill be going back there.
1919 school: i mean, this one should have been a gold mine. Again so much deep iron i felt like it was masking all of the good targets. Finding a repeatable high tone was nigh but impossible.
One thing about the deus.
Yes it can shoot coins in clean soil. i really cant recall ever digging a coin deeper that about 6 to 7 inches. Not really amazing depth and i would say im running about as deep as you can get with the machine.
Trashy sites? im not sure if im not doing it right but i just dont see how people can listen, identify and decide and make any progress in a timely manner. Ive tried notching all signals from 0-77 and just trying to pick some coins out of the trash but half the time im getting the feeling that im just walking over targets and not hearing them. Ive tried response 2 2.5 3 and 4 with no real difference.
I could obviously use some pointers. If i ever get a chance to go back to those schools im going to shoot some video so you guys can get an idea what its like.
Very Respectfully,
NavyDT
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Your detector in your area will go deeper than 6 or 7",, rest assured.
Deus users need to remember,,you start toggling between reactvity levels,,silencer setting will set itself,,depending on reactvity level selected. This flaw should have been fixed with version 4.0,, don't know what Xp was thinking.
Keep your silencer at 0 or -1 for depth.
You need to commit to running one reactvity level.
If using 11" coil try 2.5 setting,,if using 9" coil try level 2 setting.
You have to go slow in trashy sites,,you can't walk continually and sweep.
I would say 8khz is where I would go and stay there.
I can already tell just by what you have dug in most of your sites,,,pretty good chance someone else has been there,,,and they were likely using fbs detector.
So,,in saying this,,concentrate moreso on areas with more iron.
When you find these areas,,,shift to lower gear when covering ground.
Keep your sens at 92 minimum at all times.
Audio report to level 5.
Running high notch will help weed out some trash.
You can hunt using full tones ,,,,disc level 6 iron volume off,,,notch set to say 66,, then start using to Deus to isolate targets.
Watch watch happens to ID as you sweep and continue to sweep as you pivot around suspect target.
Any tendencies for the target to go higher in spots,,brief periods of ID into the 70s or 80s-- if they do dig.
The deepest finds you likely won't see true ID,,but instead a 90s reading with high tone.
Try to run q true GB,,,by GBing in a cleaner area adjacent to actual site if you have to.
Should be some older nickels in this site too.
Know how nickels ID depending on your operating freq
Try this,,in those super trashy sites,,,go 18khz,,reactvity 2.5, silencer -1, sens 93, full tones,,notch 00-80,, anything that comes in tonally get to studying.
Sweep slow,,and have small coil progression.
They didn't get them all though, your mission is to find the silver that's left. I would suggest you keep chasing the known coin signals, those at the depth you're finding the wheats,..and skip investigating every chirp for now, save that for a time down the road. Try the less obvious spots around the schoolyard, hunt the edges...Good luck!
i had my youngest son with me, and the lack of a nap and the afternoon heat had us heading for the Burger King near by for a cold dairy refreshment. All in all it was an awesome day, cant wait for more like this in the months to come!
