More data here,,,based on some real finds found.
Hunted a site today,,,have only found very few finds here period. Hunted quite a few times using Deus with 9 and 11" coils,,CTX with stock and 6" coils.
All of my previous Deus hunts done using full tones and 0 disc,,,and using full tones disc level 2.5 on 9" coil,,and disc level 3.0 using 11" coil.
This site has always been dissapointing to me.
So today,,I thought I would give it another go.
This site when bobbing 9" coil reads one dot shy of half way on mineralization meter.
Hunt today was using 9" coil,,,with the following settings,,and the only setting changed while hunting was disc.
Full tones with disc levels at 6.0,, 2.5,, and 0.
18 kHz,,reactivity 3 silencer -1,, audio report 5,, ws4 headphones used.
Tx power 2.
Pumping ground balance done,,and I run at ground setting,,no gb manipualtion.
All hunting was done using disc level 6,, but after suspect target was found all targets were cross checked using disc levels 2.5 and 0.
I cay say with nearly 100 percent certainty,,,anyone who has used Deus and has hunted old sites littered with iron and nails using full tones and low(er) disc ,and their goal was to dig all nonferrous targets,,,they have in fact likely left nonferrous targets in the ground.
Today was very eye opening,,,and you know what they say,,,,"practice what you preach",,, based on the opening post in this thread.
So why did I miss the targets in the pic???
To describe the pic some.
The 2 things in the upper left,,,I got fooled.
The nails in the lower left,,just sample of what was dug along with the nonferrous finds. Should say the 2 buttons do contain some ferrous.
The rest grouped with them,,all nonferrous,,checked with magnet.
Now I'm posting this to share,,,folks can use their Deus units anyway they want to,,and my goal here is definitely not to insult any Deus user period.
So what about these targets,,,I sure didn't find them on my previous hunts.
Did I miss them???
Yes and no.
I need to explain here,,,all the nonferrous targets and the 2 buttons dug today,,,only one of them sounded better using full tones and either 0 or 2.5 disc.
Now some of the finds did produce ample tone signature to dig using full tones and 2.5 disc and 0 disc.
A few did not.
But again why did I miss them to start with on all my previous hunts??
Did I swing a coil over??
I did,,I in fact know I did,,there is a landmark,,and I Was familiar with where I had hunted in the past,,,and actually where I concentrated most of my efforts.
Deus is a fantastic devil, hunting in nail pits.
Whomever engineered this monster,,,they deserve a cigar!!!
Why do I say this???
There is one very significant difference when a person chooses to run low(er) disc vs more traditional disc settings.
So what is the disadvantage to running full tones using low(er) disc???
The Deus when hunting in carpet of nails gives you no or little information as far as coil placement.
Granted a person with extreme minute coil progression might alleviate some of this disadvantage,,but their is also a coil sweep speed disadvantage too.
So what happens when you use Deus in more traditional disc setting???
The Deus will in this configuration,,,,become a real BIRD DOG.
What do I mean by this.
When the detector's disc is broken by a nonferrous target scenario it will give a tone,,with a whole lot more coil position location forgiveness and coil sweep speed forgiveness.
So when the detectors disc is broken by a target,,,user can many times start trying to find out by altering coil position where the target is,,,and when they find this place (spot).,, with very controlled coil movement and position,,the Deus will give the needed audio to make a dig decision.
These same target using full tones,,with 0 or 2.5 disc,,,.Deus coil position has to be more exact to get a stop and investigate signal. So in an iron pit,,you would be hearing worse tone,,or low grunts,,if coil is out of position moreso vs disc level 6 for example. (You don't get an investigate signal)
Today,,I didn't even get out of a 4 ft by 9.5 ft square. Some finds found less than a foot apart,,actually 4 were found in a less then 3ft square area.
These targets were a bear to recover,,,I intentionally dug smaller diameter holes,,and every single target,,most had multiple nails in the hole,,and most of the nails actually recovered before target,,,nails were shallower than good targets,,in all cases.
Sometimes,,I Would almost get bluffed with finding the nails,,but I know what I heard to begin with,,,and stayed with trying to locate nonferrous target.
The fence steeple and square nail,,I think I got fooled by them,,,but my overall percentages of holes dug with a good target was very high. I was impressed by this.
Now,,the Deus does offer it seems some superior unmasking,,,even with a9" coil,, I have also had some good luck with 11" coil.
I think the actual coil size diameters and shape on Deus is a driving factor for a lot of its unmasking abilities.
The big question I guess,is what will the newer almost release coils offer,,or how will they compare to existing coils when it comes to separation and unmasking.
The current coils,,are in my book deadly performing.
