Great Day with the Deus

[shanegalang]

I have been using Garys "hot" program that he shared on the XP Classroom website XP Deus hot and cold programs

I was hunting in an iron infested sugar cane field that seems to have a little bit of everything, a "mixed site" as we like to call it. Signs of habitation from late colonial times all the way through the 1920s or so.

This program, a modified #3 Deus Fast program, really homes in on the smallest of non iron targets, really deep among nails and other iron blips. I was pulling shotgun primers out of nails at 5 inches.

I managed to sniff out 4 flat buttons (one was a basket weave design that I'm told are from 1790-1800), a musket ball, a brass piece of a ruler, a silver plated spoon or fork handle that was really ornate, a 1920 D Mercury dime (my second ever Merc) bent by the plow and a 1813 Spanish One reale.

Also numerous pack studs or rivets, which ever you prefer to call them, and numerous shotgun shell brass and modern bullets.

1920 Mercury Dime-

1813 One Reale-

Pictures-










Happy Hunting- Thanks for looking

 

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[btjbtj]

Hey Shane, great stuff! I don't see the basket weave button? We found one (our first) last week, and I'm curious as to what yours looks like. Congrats on your finds! -Lisa & John

 

[bill from lachine]

Good going on the 1 reale.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[JerV3]

Nice stuff

Yeah the deus can find some tiny targets. What I've learned after a few hundred hrs is if I have it set correctly for the site I'm hunting it's a beast. But if I don't I find that I struggle a little with it. Good unit though. I like deus fast full tones.

HH Jer

 

[Dirtwisher]

Nice stuff

Yeah the deus can find some tiny targets. What I've learned after a few hundred hrs is if I have it set correctly for the site I'm hunting it's a beast. But if I don't I find that I struggle a little with it. Good unit though. I like deus fast full tones.

HH Jer

Too tiny sometimes. I often find myself trying to isolate one shotgun pellet in a pile of dirt. Pain in the arse!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice finds

 

[shanegalang]

Hey Shane, great stuff! I don't see the basket weave button? We found one (our first) last week, and I'm curious as to what yours looks like. Congrats on your finds! -Lisa & John

Hi, its the first button directly under the sword handle. Try to zoom in for a better look, Thanks for the reply :0

 

[shanegalang]

Nice stuff

Yeah the deus can find some tiny targets. What I've learned after a few hundred hrs is if I have it set correctly for the site I'm hunting it's a beast. But if I don't I find that I struggle a little with it. Good unit though. I like deus fast full tones.

HH Jer

I absolutely adore this machine and cant see myself using anything else.

 

[VOL1266-X]

Good hunt Shane!. WTG, Q.

 

[shanegalang]

Good hunt Shane!. WTG, Q.

Thank you Q! It was an awesome day, I'm hopeing to find more pieces of the sword hilt this week end!

 

[CRUSADER]

Hi,
I'm happy with my 'hot' custom settings but I've always wonder this;
Does just changing 3-Tone (which I like) to Full-Tone increase the depth?

 

[Diggin Dude]

Great finds! Man I like that Reale , still on my bucket list. Congrats and HH

 

[against the wind]

Wow,, Spanish Silver and a Mercury.
You had a great hunt.
Congratulations

 

[Deft Tones]

Mixed site indeed!

Cool finds. Looks like a great place.

 

[shanegalang]

Hi,
I'm happy with my 'hot' custom settings but I've always wonder this;
Does just changing 3-Tone (which I like) to Full-Tone increase the depth?

I dont feel like there is an increase in depth as I feel like I hear the high bleeps better that are in bedded with the iron, nail grunts. Maybe something with target separation? I bet it would be even better with a 9 inch coil, I use the 11". I cant really say why but do see and increase in my good finds in nails compared to previous stock settings. In my area anyway.

 

[jadocs]

Yeah full tones are the way to go. I think it tells you so much more about a target than an assigned tone that would sound the same for targets that fall within that range assigned.