The only place a deus is better than a Etrac,or any machine for that matter is if your hunting in iron.Hands down it's the best in iron.
You step outside iron infested places and in my opinion the deus is no better than a mid priced machine.
I keep seeing all these deus threads,and all the hype.Been there and saw it all unfold with the racer,then the racer 2, now it's the deus.
If you think for one minute it's better than a at pro or a xterra 705 in modern trash,your dead wrong.That deus will false all over the place on tiny bits of aluminum,have you sweating and digging junk till no end.
Come on guys,get a grip on what your all saying here.The nail test is getting old.If you hunt in iron all the time,by all means buy a deus.Modern parks,my xterra can pick coins out of modern junk 10 times better than the deus,hands down,and not high tone false left and right on every scrap of nonferrous metal.
And b4 someone says I don't know how to run or setup the deus,yes I do.And I'm not the only one who says it falses terribly in modern trash,till no end.
My point,if you hunt in iron,yes the deus is the best.Any modern trashy places,it's not worth any more than a xterra or at pro.In my experience it's the worst for digging non ferrous trash.To each his own,but I call !!!!!!!! on these guys.
Woodbutcher,
You are a like able fellow.
You seem to like Etrac too.
I do as well, even though I don't have one.
Have the CTX.
Listen, there are a lot of ways the detectors are different.
Yet in many situations users will arrive at same place- digging nonferrous, even coins.
Just the weight of Deus vs Etrac could be a big advantage depending on a person's strength and endurance.
I mean the more minutes and hours a person's can spend in the field sweeping their coil does mean some thing.
Speaking of Deus and iron sites only.
Not so fast.
Farm fields some are cleaner with iron, I can cover a whole lot more square footage with Deus in equal amount of time.
Now the question is, on average would a Deus user find more finds by doing?
Deus can be used to hunt modern trash.
If we are talking about 9" LF coil vs the stock on Etrac, certainly.
There are some tricks of the trade using that will aid a person.
Deeper lower conductors like nickels, gold rings, pewter, advantage Deus as far as my experiences.
This even checking them head to head undisturbed(Etrac and CTX btw)
In modern trash, CTX will average mid and higher conductors and give matching tone to boot.
Deus will too, but depending on scenario and with the right notch, Deus can be forced to give a high tone on a coloacted scenario of lower or mid conductor and higher.
Next topic here is hunted out sites.
Sites that are supposed hunted out, where is what's left generally?
Either deeper or masked right?
Stock coil to stock coil, depth wise to a trained ear, they are pretty close, unmasking and separation though, advantage Deus.
If we assume a virgin site, old, both detectors in the hands of proficient folks will do well.
Etrac user likely will dig fewer holes with junk, but will also pass on more good targets giving not so good ID.
Now, I see where folks, even you say Etrac has pulled a lot of silver.
This is true, even of the esplorer series too.
But what about this.
Wonder if XP Deus would have been released in USA in say 2000, and The first fbs detector would have been released in USA in 2013,, then what would folks be saying?
Reckon Deus would have pulled a lot of the silver dug by the fbsers (dug between (2000-2014)
And the fbs/fbs2 detectors would have been on the short end of the stick.
Personally I have commented on this before.
The fbs detectors when released in USA.
Think about this.
Wonder how many deeper coins have been dug out of parks, and of these deeper coins, how many of these coins were at one time mask by junk, but a detectorist beforehand removed the masker looking for coins and jewelry?
Both detectors are very good detectors.
As a matter a fact, I will after tomorrow if things go the way Planned,,I will have a total of 3 full Deus units, with multiple coils (5 coils)
I use my CTX, it just ain't as fun and or enjoyable to me in some scenarios detecting as the Deus and a few others.
Still can't figure out why XP locks the tx power level to 3 in 4khz.