2 DAYS WITH THE NEW DEUS OUT WEST...

[basque-man]

Finally; we were able to get out with our new toy!!!!! Over the past 2 days we hit it 8 hours Monday and today was another 7. All I can say is everything I hear is Beep...beep...beep....beep.....beeep......I needed a few beers after playing in the dirt.

First off; I love the feel of this machine and it's light weight. I can tell I'm going to like it as soon I can learn all the "in's and out's" for sure.

Day one, the son and I decided to try it out in a semi-trashy area where we have found coins in the past. This is the old army housing track area. This thing sure makes a lot of noise and likes little tiny pieces of metal. I tried it first for a couple of hours and had a couple wheat pennies, play money dated 1958 and a ring (kids junk I think). I was thinking this wasn't going to be to bad. Tried tweaking the settings. BAD IDEA!!! I am not even close to making changes. And this thing loves bottle caps!!!! Uhhhhgg!

I handed it off to my son who set up his own program and I directed him a spot where we had walked over numerous times and found some wheat's and silver. I walked over the area first with the E-trac (which made my arm want to fall off) and didn't have any good signals. The son walks over and finds 3 wheat's!!! WOW. Then a silver ring and another wheat which had been made into a button.

Before we left, I said we needed to find at least one silver coin; so we hit an old part of the school where we have had lots of silver but cleaned it out. At least I thought we had. I had an odd signal and after digging down at least 8 inches we see the nickle in the pile of dirt!!! Bingo!!! A very nice 1943-S war nickle.....

Today I hit the old ghost town solo and decided to try it out in the heavy trashy areas. Again, I am not ready for this machine and using the right settings. I was digging so much stuff the missed in the past I thought for sure I was going to get a coin. Nope. Lots of bullets, melted metal and those little washers with the holes in the middle that kept coming up as pennies/dimes. Thats ok, I think I'm going to like this Deus a lot when I learn how to use it!!

Did manage a nice RR Lock Key and a 1895 Indian that was surrounded by nails. The photo is just a fraction of the items I dug today with this thing. I was digging everything no matter what the numbers were saying.......LOTS OF DIGGING!!!!!!!

Thanks for looking!!!!

 

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[Gridwalker306]

Hey you are going to love the Deus! It's a very intelligent machine. The best advice I can give is to use a program like Deus Fast and hit all the productive places you have detected in the past. Once you are comfortable and have some experience I highly recommend you get a good full tones program. Then return to the places you pounded in Deus Fast lol...you will be amazed with the results! The guys on the Deus forum have helped me a lot.

Congrats on your finds, and good luck!

 

[basque-man]

Hey you are going to love the Deus! It's a very intelligent machine. The best advice I can give is to use a program like Deus Fast and hit all the productive places you have detected in the past. Once you are comfortable and have some experience I highly recommend you get a good full tones program. Then return to the places you pounded in Deus Fast lol...you will be amazed with the results! The guys on the Deus forum have helped me a lot.

Congrats on your finds, and good luck!

Thanks!! Ya; I turned it on Deus Fast with Full Tones.....Bad Idea for the first day!!!! Used Deus fast with no changes!!

 

[against the wind]

Congrats on the initial Deus outings.
Andy Sabisch has a great book on the unit and is holding Deus seminars across the country. There is one in October in Pennsylvania that my hunting partner is going to.
The Deus loves steel bottle caps and doesn't appear to have an overload. No overload is great for finding cannon balls but I usually hunt coins. Lol

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds Basque! Thanks for sharing...

 

[cjon455]

nice hunting with your new toy!, I don't own a deus but have hunted along side one numerous times, they can be very noisy but man are they also impressive how they find the goods amongst the junk!, good luck with your new deus!

 

[Scrappy]

Great finds bud. Keep it up!

Steve

 

[park pirate]

Nice hunt..

 

[46Wheat]

Nice finds and good job with your new machine

 

[CRUSADER]

Hey you are going to love the Deus! It's a very intelligent machine. The best advice I can give is to use a program like Deus Fast and hit all the productive places you have detected in the past. Once you are comfortable and have some experience I highly recommend you get a good full tones program. Then return to the places you pounded in Deus Fast lol...you will be amazed with the results! The guys on the Deus forum have helped me a lot.

Congrats on your finds, and good luck!

I agree, its too early to think about programming. Use it for at least 4 months. Deus Fast is a good start.

You saw my recent results on sites I thought I had cleared with the XP Goldmax power.

 

[CRUSADER]

Congrats on the initial Deus outings.
Andy Sabisch has a great book on the unit and is holding Deus seminars across the country. There is one in October in Pennsylvania that my hunting partner is going to.
The Deus loves steel bottle caps and doesn't appear to have an overload. No overload is great for finding cannon balls but I usually hunt coins. Lol

I would never leave a bottle cap signal, those just need clearing. I dig everthing over 10, & sites with less signals I clear the big & small iron nails etc..

 

[pepperj]

Great start on the Deus and like any new machine you have to put in the time and the rewards are to be had.

 

[Vino]

I would never leave a bottle cap signal, those just need clearing. I dig everthing over 10, & sites with less signals I clear the big & small iron nails etc..

I agree, but what I noticed is, the guys that live in the newer states over here have less chance to none finding the lower conducted targets, like pewter buttons cut small silvers as such. I tell people all the time to dig everything. But if there hunting in a 1950s park that would be crazy to dig above 10.
I do, because us in the Northeast have the chance at alot.
You on the other hand God knows!!! Lol.

 

[Gridwalker306]

I agree, but what I noticed is, the guys that live in the newer states over here have less chance to none finding the lower conducted targets, like pewter buttons cut small silvers as such. I tell people all the time to dig everything. But if there hunting in a 1950s park that would be crazy to dig above 10.
I do, because us in the Northeast have the chance at alot.
You on the other hand God knows!!! Lol.

I have zero chance at finding things like the pewter buttons and cut silver like you mentioned. However, the longer I have been detecting the more I have learned to dig everything. Like my post the other day with all the shotgun heads...I have dug probably 1000 from of them from one spot in the past nearly 6 years. They all come from a great spot where I have found lots of old coins. The easy coin signals are long gone, but there must be a gold coin, or other good mid-conductors left to find. That leaves me digging everything, hoping I will be rewarded, and I have been rewarded in the past.

 

[CRUSADER]

I have zero chance at finding things like the pewter buttons and cut silver like you mentioned. However, the longer I have been detecting the more I have learned to dig everything. Like my post the other day with all the shotgun heads...I have dug probably 1000 from of them from one spot in the past nearly 6 years. They all come from a great spot where I have found lots of old coins. The easy coin signals are long gone, but there must be a gold coin, or other good mid-conductors left to find. That leaves me digging everything, hoping I will be rewarded, and I have been rewarded in the past.

I know what shotgun cartridges sound & hit at but I still clear them & did the 1000 you talk about in about in 1 month off of 1 good site.(where other good targets were hidding)

I agree though if your doing a modern park, then the rules change.

 

[Gridwalker306]

I know what shotgun cartridges sound & hit at but I still clear them & did the 1000 you talk about in about in 1 month off of 1 good site.(where other good targets were hidding)

I agree though if your doing a modern park, then the rules change.

Yeah, there are just some sites where it's worth digging everything. Some places, like you say, are not.

A couple of years ago I dug an 1893 Norwegian 2 Ore that sounded exactly like another shotgun shell, I had already dug a pile of them that day. I know that's not old for you Cru, but for around here it's super old. It was then that I started to realize it was worth digging everything lol

 

[bspkayaker]

One thing I have found with the Deus and bottlecaps as you get more experience with the tones, bottlecaps (in most cases) tend to provide a double tone (high tone with a more faint second tone) or a faint scratchy noise mixed in. When you get used to the tones you get to where you can in a lot of cases identify the bottle caps. There are the occasions where the bottlecap are flattened out and well then it going to fool you from time to time. As a note, the Deus is a tonal machine and therfore you will need to focus more on the tones then the VDI numbers. It takes a little bit of time to get used to the tones, but once you learn the language, you will be cleaning out the areas you have hit in the past.

I should mention that the above is more relevant to full tones. Once you learn the language to full tones, lookout no coin is safe!

 

[Old Dude]

That old key is great! I hope you have much luck with the new machine.

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeah, there are just some sites where it's worth digging everything. Some places, like you say, are not.

A couple of years ago I dug an 1893 Norwegian 2 Ore that sounded exactly like another shotgun shell, I had already dug a pile of them that day. I know that's not old for you Cru, but for around here it's super old. It was then that I started to realize it was worth digging everything lol

Some of the Roman Coins I find, sound a bit like a shotgun shell & have the same numbers. Plus if your going to go over a site year after year, the more you clear the better idea you get of your progress. ie. why hear & ignore the same sound year after year & then try & guess how much rubbish/good targets are still left. Its feel good to clear as much as you can & you only clear it once. Very simple methodology & as simple as the gridding system but it amazes me how few people do it.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Love those finds B-man. It sure is nice to get a new toy which re-opens all those old pounded out sites. Looks like the E-Trac is going to be collecting some dust from now on...