Found a few items today that have me pretty excited about the D2.
Yeah, I know it’s just a couple of wheats, a nickel, a key and some reeds.. It’s not so much
what I found, but where I found it and how I found it.
These items were found in my own back yard. The house was built in 1880, has nasty orange clay and is absolutely LOADED with iron. It’s actually one of the worst places I’ve ever detected. You can literally dig a random plug anywhere in the yard and find between 10 to 15 nails and other bits of iron in the hole. I’m not exaggerating.. it’s THAT bad.
Anyway, the yard is small.. Roughly 25 ft X 60 ft. I’ve lived here since 2009 and have detected here with every machine I’ve owned for countless hours. I’ve covered it multiple times from every angle. Even though there’s still tons of ferrous targets and a lot of junk non-ferrous signals that read in the foil and can slaw range, there were no signals left in coin range.. or so I thought.
I got out the D2 today and tried using Fast mode with pitch tones. I love how pitch makes nonferrous jump out at you when hunting thick iron, but it can be overwhelming when there’s modern trash mixed in. As I expected, it was very noisy. So many hits on every swing that it was almost impossible to pick out any signals in the range I wanted to dig. Didn’t find anything worth mentioning. So I sat down to take a break. As I was sitting there I wondered what would happen if I set up a coin shooting program based off of fast, using pitch tones. I switched the remote back on and made some adjustments. By default it has discrimination set at 6.8. I bumped it up to 7 then created two notches. One from 7 to 57, then another from 65 to 80. This gets rid of everything but a nickel slot and targets that read from IHPs on up.
I also raised bottle cap rejection up to 4.
After my break, I continued hunting for another hour using my new pitch coin shooting program. Found all of the targets you see in the picture, and every single one of them hit in the coin range with a repeating signal. All in my own yard which I’ve been hunting relentlessly since 2009 with damn near every top detector on the market. That’s pretty impressive to me.
PS: Posting this here instead of creating a new thread so not to get anyone riled up about more Deus 2 content.
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