Lavishlogos
Junior Member
Such an amazing year. I keep having to up my goal for the year and I have a good 2 months yet before the ground freezes. My original goal was to just beat the total from the last year. Then it went to 25, to 40, to 50, to 60, and now I am approaching 80! I am just raising it to a goal of 100.
This is my 5th year detecting. I started my first year with a Garret AT. I got out some and hit up parks. I found one silver merc that year. I dug a lot of junk. I had a whole plastic bin filled with the junk I dug. Lots of learning.
My second year after getting into it I was hooked. I needed the Equinox everyone said was the gamechanger. What a gamechanger it was. My coin to junk ratio was much better. I found a silver half that year and I found 8 silver coins total. Lots more time searching parks and curbstrips.
My third year got better. 2020! So much free time to go out and detect! I worked from home the whole year and was able to get out a lot and detect. Still running with the Nox. I was able to find 15 silver coins. Did a lot of research, hit as many public places I could.
My fourth year, last year, 2021. Again out with the Nox. Kept going over the same spots I have. Searching the out of the way areas at the spots. Mid year I went to a park to detect and found someone else there detecting! It was his second year in and he had an Equinox 800 also. He had found 1 silver coin the year before. It wasn't long and we teamed up and starting hitting spots. We both researched and found some fun spots to detect. That spot I found that silver half 2 years prior? I searched that spot so many times, so many different days. How could there just be 1 half there and nothing else? I did find two 50's bus tokens there in the same area.
We searched till the ground was froze and we ended up with 15 silver coins each! Great year!
By the end of 2021 I felt like we should be finding more. In the search for the "deep" silver I sure was digging a lot of rusty nails. Well I proclaimed I was going to buy the old heavy CTX for the next year as it was a proven machine and a silver finder. Then my hunting partner said he was going to buy the Deus2 and he started sending me all the sneek peek videos. I wasn't keen on dragging a heavy detector around if I bought the CTX. The first few videos of the Deus2 looked real good. It was so fast on processing! I ended up falling into the hype and put my name on preorder.
Now comes 2022. What a year! We are both out in full force with our new Deus 2's. We are out right away in March chipping away at the frozen ground just itching to detect. I had some silver dimes I buried in my back yard to test with a few years back. Could never get the Garret or the Equinox to give a good solid hit on them. One was 6" on edge, the other 8" flat. Always got the equinox to find them with a lot of work and hitting it just right, yada yada. In fairness my yard is filled with nails. If I was detecting normally I would walk right past them. It wouldn't make me stop. I take the Deus2 over and it locks right in on them. Screaming. No doubt a dig me signal. Awesome!
I hit all the same spots I have been hitting. We go over all the same parks. This year has been great as I have been able to stay all in the same areas. Everywhere I have been all year for the most part has been public. I had 2 permissions in the last month, and hit one new public spot this year. This has been a detector that re-opened all my spots!
As of today I am at 78 silver coins for the year!!! My hunting partner just past his 50 silver coin mark!!! What???? We have found silver in every park we had already hit over and over. Remember the park where I found the silver half. I have gridded that so many times in the past with any number of different programs on the Nox. I used the stock coil. I had bought the 6", the 15" and the 5x8 coiltek. By the end of the previous year I had felt like I was just out walking over everything, and I WAS!!!
I go back to the silver half spot with the Deus2 and find 3 silver dimes. Two of the silver dimes were 10" apart and about 8 foot from where I found the half! I ended up finding 23 silver coins at that park alone this year!
We just did a football field we had already detected last year. We found 7 silvers there last year. We found 12 there this year!
It feels good when you feel confident in your detector. I am not saying any of the others are bad, but they just didn't "click" with me. Maybe it's experience, I don't know. I still carry the Nox with me and keep the 6" coil on it. I haven't needed it yet. I tried it out on a spot after I pounded with the Deus, but I was back to digging rusty nails with it. With the Deus I am confident in my signal and have a real good idea what will come out of the hole. I have found so much stuff that we had walked over the last few years.
I am excited to see where our totals end up at for the end of the year. Now we are falling into the Manticore hype, haha. New tech is fun. I don't know if I will jump on it right away as I know I feel pretty confident with my set-up now. But I know my hunting partner will get one. It's gonna be interesting! If the manticore can open these spots back up once again will be amazing.
Here's to the goal of 100!!
This is my 5th year detecting. I started my first year with a Garret AT. I got out some and hit up parks. I found one silver merc that year. I dug a lot of junk. I had a whole plastic bin filled with the junk I dug. Lots of learning.
My second year after getting into it I was hooked. I needed the Equinox everyone said was the gamechanger. What a gamechanger it was. My coin to junk ratio was much better. I found a silver half that year and I found 8 silver coins total. Lots more time searching parks and curbstrips.
My third year got better. 2020! So much free time to go out and detect! I worked from home the whole year and was able to get out a lot and detect. Still running with the Nox. I was able to find 15 silver coins. Did a lot of research, hit as many public places I could.
My fourth year, last year, 2021. Again out with the Nox. Kept going over the same spots I have. Searching the out of the way areas at the spots. Mid year I went to a park to detect and found someone else there detecting! It was his second year in and he had an Equinox 800 also. He had found 1 silver coin the year before. It wasn't long and we teamed up and starting hitting spots. We both researched and found some fun spots to detect. That spot I found that silver half 2 years prior? I searched that spot so many times, so many different days. How could there just be 1 half there and nothing else? I did find two 50's bus tokens there in the same area.
We searched till the ground was froze and we ended up with 15 silver coins each! Great year!
By the end of 2021 I felt like we should be finding more. In the search for the "deep" silver I sure was digging a lot of rusty nails. Well I proclaimed I was going to buy the old heavy CTX for the next year as it was a proven machine and a silver finder. Then my hunting partner said he was going to buy the Deus2 and he started sending me all the sneek peek videos. I wasn't keen on dragging a heavy detector around if I bought the CTX. The first few videos of the Deus2 looked real good. It was so fast on processing! I ended up falling into the hype and put my name on preorder.
Now comes 2022. What a year! We are both out in full force with our new Deus 2's. We are out right away in March chipping away at the frozen ground just itching to detect. I had some silver dimes I buried in my back yard to test with a few years back. Could never get the Garret or the Equinox to give a good solid hit on them. One was 6" on edge, the other 8" flat. Always got the equinox to find them with a lot of work and hitting it just right, yada yada. In fairness my yard is filled with nails. If I was detecting normally I would walk right past them. It wouldn't make me stop. I take the Deus2 over and it locks right in on them. Screaming. No doubt a dig me signal. Awesome!
I hit all the same spots I have been hitting. We go over all the same parks. This year has been great as I have been able to stay all in the same areas. Everywhere I have been all year for the most part has been public. I had 2 permissions in the last month, and hit one new public spot this year. This has been a detector that re-opened all my spots!
As of today I am at 78 silver coins for the year!!! My hunting partner just past his 50 silver coin mark!!! What???? We have found silver in every park we had already hit over and over. Remember the park where I found the silver half. I have gridded that so many times in the past with any number of different programs on the Nox. I used the stock coil. I had bought the 6", the 15" and the 5x8 coiltek. By the end of the previous year I had felt like I was just out walking over everything, and I WAS!!!
I go back to the silver half spot with the Deus2 and find 3 silver dimes. Two of the silver dimes were 10" apart and about 8 foot from where I found the half! I ended up finding 23 silver coins at that park alone this year!
We just did a football field we had already detected last year. We found 7 silvers there last year. We found 12 there this year!
It feels good when you feel confident in your detector. I am not saying any of the others are bad, but they just didn't "click" with me. Maybe it's experience, I don't know. I still carry the Nox with me and keep the 6" coil on it. I haven't needed it yet. I tried it out on a spot after I pounded with the Deus, but I was back to digging rusty nails with it. With the Deus I am confident in my signal and have a real good idea what will come out of the hole. I have found so much stuff that we had walked over the last few years.
I am excited to see where our totals end up at for the end of the year. Now we are falling into the Manticore hype, haha. New tech is fun. I don't know if I will jump on it right away as I know I feel pretty confident with my set-up now. But I know my hunting partner will get one. It's gonna be interesting! If the manticore can open these spots back up once again will be amazing.
Here's to the goal of 100!!
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