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Now from having the D1 for 5 yrs or so and putting enough hunts and time on the machine it was the go to in the stable of detectors.
I bought the D2 last fall and have had all the updates including the 1.10 version.
Strange that there seems to be many videos/comments on the previous versions-but not a hell of a lot since the patch came out.
Not that I am a big fan of videos of folks slagging other folks so their options get more clicks than the others.
(Maybe they just want to generate a little $$$ for the pocket instead of actually going out digging dirt)
I have a site that I do a return hunt once a year and it's usually July 4th.
Church site in the woods-foundation is still there-still not hunted the actual spot as they tore the structure down all the metal roofing pieces and trash got spread around the spot.
Now that it has treed over for the last 50+ years it makes cleaning it up a rough go.
So in behind the church structure was the grounds-bush basically and it has produced a good amount of recoveries to the point the 2 previous years I recovered no coins.
These 2 return hunts were using the D1 with the HF elliptical coil, and spending approx. 8-10hrs of detecting time at the site.
Once again I returned this July 4th for the annual hunt. I wasn't really going to go but I had a 2 hr no find cellar hole hunt down the road on the permission, and decided to try one more time for a keeper.
I stayed in the general program, pitch, 97 sensitivity, disc and everything the same basically as what one would have turning on the machine and going.
I hit the area of the bottle caps and turned up the disc a tad, and the silencer as the old bottle caps can be on the surface down to 6" and I have removed 100's over the years.
The area must of been the concession booth for sodas during the get togethers as all the caps are in a 40'x 25' area-a blanket of them.
The little silver nickels(fish scales) are buried in and around the layers of caps.
I recovered my first good signal-1941 penny then a 1929 quarter sitting 10ft away from the cap blanket. Next was the 1911 5 cent piece, and then the 1800 LC. I finally got another coin small cent after a hour of detecting.
So the take after 2 hours of hot/humid detecting I called it a day. Temps were 93F feeling like 107F so with the Deer flies/ticks/mosquitoes wearing a bee suit helmet it wasn't a comfy time for sure.
My take on the new machine version 1.10 one the previous version and over the D1 machine is that it in fact recovered more targets through separation/multi freq. technology.
The slagging of the D2 vs a cheaper machine has been well noted by a few on the forum over the years. (can't justify spending the money) and they justify that with "well where's all the banner finds" I'm sure a lot of the readership have read these reasonable justifications.
This site is under 1 acre in size, 8yrs of return hunts, and probably 12 hunts and a total of 50 hrs of detecting time given to this site. I would say I have gone over it pretty good as first few years hunting were with the Minelab E-Trac, and then the D1 for the next 5 yrs.
It has given up around 35 coins 1835-1945 and out of that 12 silvers so it's an old friend I'd classify the site now.
I was thinking of notching out everything up to 80 but trying to work the settings with sweat dripping in the eyes, bugs biting any uncovered skin isn't/wasn't a happy option.
I know there's more coinage/bits of other relics/jewelry at the site and time will tell.
Not sure if the new patch version really is the end all solution to the 1.0 version as I still am digging nails that are coming up in the mid 80's range. I probably wouldn't od dug them if they were in another site, but the chances of a deep little nickel is too tempting not to dig and find out.
The 1911 Fishscale was an impressive depth, where I'd say the D2 shown, where the 1929 quarter wasn't deep at all but sitting on a rock it seemed. So was that the reason for the other machines not seeing it? I certainly had gone over that spot every trip over lapping the coil swings by habit. I don't swing fast as what most do in videos as the site conditions restrict fast swinging in the first place.
It goes the same for the the 1880 LC, recovered off the trail where it's nice and flat with no sticks or other forest debris. I have gone over the same spot for 8 yrs every hunt.
So in conclusion I will say lets throw the sluggers comments out with the dish water. If in fact new D2 machine can sniff out 5 more coins from a little site in the woods-then I will put it out there as it being the machine's capabilities mainly.
I bought the D2 last fall and have had all the updates including the 1.10 version.
Strange that there seems to be many videos/comments on the previous versions-but not a hell of a lot since the patch came out.
Not that I am a big fan of videos of folks slagging other folks so their options get more clicks than the others.
(Maybe they just want to generate a little $$$ for the pocket instead of actually going out digging dirt)
I have a site that I do a return hunt once a year and it's usually July 4th.
Church site in the woods-foundation is still there-still not hunted the actual spot as they tore the structure down all the metal roofing pieces and trash got spread around the spot.
Now that it has treed over for the last 50+ years it makes cleaning it up a rough go.
So in behind the church structure was the grounds-bush basically and it has produced a good amount of recoveries to the point the 2 previous years I recovered no coins.
These 2 return hunts were using the D1 with the HF elliptical coil, and spending approx. 8-10hrs of detecting time at the site.
Once again I returned this July 4th for the annual hunt. I wasn't really going to go but I had a 2 hr no find cellar hole hunt down the road on the permission, and decided to try one more time for a keeper.
I stayed in the general program, pitch, 97 sensitivity, disc and everything the same basically as what one would have turning on the machine and going.
I hit the area of the bottle caps and turned up the disc a tad, and the silencer as the old bottle caps can be on the surface down to 6" and I have removed 100's over the years.
The area must of been the concession booth for sodas during the get togethers as all the caps are in a 40'x 25' area-a blanket of them.
The little silver nickels(fish scales) are buried in and around the layers of caps.
I recovered my first good signal-1941 penny then a 1929 quarter sitting 10ft away from the cap blanket. Next was the 1911 5 cent piece, and then the 1800 LC. I finally got another coin small cent after a hour of detecting.
So the take after 2 hours of hot/humid detecting I called it a day. Temps were 93F feeling like 107F so with the Deer flies/ticks/mosquitoes wearing a bee suit helmet it wasn't a comfy time for sure.
My take on the new machine version 1.10 one the previous version and over the D1 machine is that it in fact recovered more targets through separation/multi freq. technology.
The slagging of the D2 vs a cheaper machine has been well noted by a few on the forum over the years. (can't justify spending the money) and they justify that with "well where's all the banner finds" I'm sure a lot of the readership have read these reasonable justifications.
This site is under 1 acre in size, 8yrs of return hunts, and probably 12 hunts and a total of 50 hrs of detecting time given to this site. I would say I have gone over it pretty good as first few years hunting were with the Minelab E-Trac, and then the D1 for the next 5 yrs.
It has given up around 35 coins 1835-1945 and out of that 12 silvers so it's an old friend I'd classify the site now.
I was thinking of notching out everything up to 80 but trying to work the settings with sweat dripping in the eyes, bugs biting any uncovered skin isn't/wasn't a happy option.
I know there's more coinage/bits of other relics/jewelry at the site and time will tell.
Not sure if the new patch version really is the end all solution to the 1.0 version as I still am digging nails that are coming up in the mid 80's range. I probably wouldn't od dug them if they were in another site, but the chances of a deep little nickel is too tempting not to dig and find out.
The 1911 Fishscale was an impressive depth, where I'd say the D2 shown, where the 1929 quarter wasn't deep at all but sitting on a rock it seemed. So was that the reason for the other machines not seeing it? I certainly had gone over that spot every trip over lapping the coil swings by habit. I don't swing fast as what most do in videos as the site conditions restrict fast swinging in the first place.
It goes the same for the the 1880 LC, recovered off the trail where it's nice and flat with no sticks or other forest debris. I have gone over the same spot for 8 yrs every hunt.
So in conclusion I will say lets throw the sluggers comments out with the dish water. If in fact new D2 machine can sniff out 5 more coins from a little site in the woods-then I will put it out there as it being the machine's capabilities mainly.
it's "The machine rocks!"
