few relics

[Cletus]

I took a short hunt this morning. but at 16 degrees 2hrs was plenty long enough.
I hunted a small area that I had pounded over and again with my ATP/NEL.
The Deus really shined. I'm starting to really understand the Deus and the programs.
I still need to get the tones down when it comes to square nails. but other than that I'm very pleased.
Every target was deep and just gave a whisper even with the audio responce set at 5. once the plug was out
the tones would get strong and there was not much guessing what was in the hole.

 

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[Geochem]

I took a short hunt this morning. but at 16 degrees 2hrs was plenty long enough.
I hunted a small area that I had pounded over and again with my ATP/NEL.
The Deus really shined. I'm starting to really understand the Deus and the programs.
I still need to get the tones down when it comes to square nails. but other than that I'm very pleased.
Every target was deep and just gave a whisper even with the reactivity set at 5. once the plug was out
the tones would get strong and there was not much guessing what was in the hole.

It is interesting to hear of your new Deus MD experiences. Your background gives very informative insight.

 

[rick67]

Diehard. Were you using a pickaxe to brake ground?

We'll all be watching "Calibash" videos soon. Hope he's been busy.

 

[vferrari]

Believe it or not, Virginia ground is not frozen yet. We haven't had a prolonged period of <30 weather. Nice finds Cletus. Looks like you have the Deus dialed-in.

 

[Cletus]

the ground was as soft as spring time. the only problem was the wet soil freezing up on the tip of my pin pointer.
as you can see in the background I was in a good sized field. I have been all over this field in the last 3 months.
only one spot has gave up relics. a gentle hillside looking over a small spring fed creek. I have dug close to 80 mini balls (at least 70 have been confederate) ,8 or 10
buttons and other relics including small buckles and a scabbard tip. all in a area 50'x70'.

 

[Calabash Digger]

congrats on the finds. I have never raised my reactivity above 4 just remeber the higher you go the more depth lost.

 

[vferrari]

congrats on the finds. I have never raised my reactivity above 4 just remeber the higher you go the more depth lost.

Brings up an interesting "technique" point. Was wondering about what both you and Cletus said. Do you think it is worth it if you get a keeper target whisper on a lower reactivity reading amongst a lot of trash signals (say a button or miniball amongst a bunch of nails) if increasing reactivity on the fly can bring out the good target audio more despite the loss of depth (and also appropriately re-adjusting silencer - which is a PIA glitch on this software version 3.2 that I want fixed in 4.0) if the target is still at a depth that is detectable with the new reactivity setting? I agree with you that reactivity 5 is a huge depth killer otherwise and was surprised at the success Cletus was having with it.

 

[Cletus]

congrats on the finds. I have never raised my reactivity above 4 just remeber the higher you go the more depth lost.

sorry guys. I had the audio response on 5. the reactivity was on 2

 

[vferrari]

OK that makes more sense. But the reactivity question is valid. Also, if really trashy Cletus, you can push reactivity to 3.

 

[Calabash Digger]

going back to what you said veffari I find when I do raise the reactivity to 4 the signals get faint and I can miss them with audio respon on 3 so Ive st
arted readjusting audio responce to make those faint deeper signals pop a little more. I set it on 4 but might even raise it on my heavy iron program to 5 so those little squeekers pop more.

 

[vferrari]

going back to what you said veffari I find when I do raise the reactivity to 4 the signals get faint and I can miss them with audio respon on 3 so Ive st
arted readjusting audio responce to make those faint deeper signals pop a little more. I set it on 4 but might even raise it on my heavy iron program to 5 so those little squeekers pop more.

Thanks that makes sense and you told me before to push audio response up, so that is what I'm gonna do. You only have to tell me 4 or 5 times before it sinks in.

 

[Cletus]

I'm about half deaf so i like running the audio response a little high.
vferrari i understand what you are saying about the reactivity.
kinda wonder how it would be to raise it in a real trashy area. especially one that you will have the opportunity to hit several times with deeper programs.

 

[vferrari]

Yeah, I haven't played with reactivity much primarily because it is such a pain being linked with the Silencer setting and all, but it might be worth it to see if it makes the field "look" any different.

 

[Calabash Digger]

you will find some masked targets if you raise to 3 or 4 in those trashy sites. You would be surprised at how good it unmask in thick iron remember the audio changes when you rasie the reactivity to 3 or 4 a 6 inch target will sound like a 10 inch target with it on reactivity 2, I use a high reactivity in thick iron it makes the machine perform in that situation in a way where you can sift the non ferrous out of the iron. I have a video on full tones that shows a high reactivity in a trashy area I will post a link. I had it on 3 in the video.

 

[Calabash Digger]

heres a video of thick iron trash hunting a reactivity of 3 or 4 and you can lower tx to 1 or run it on 2 if its thick iron a tx of 1 gives a better audio sens 86 tx 1 and sens 90 and tx 2 those are the 2 ways I run it in thick iron and trash a disc of 1 so iron is the baseline. Those are the only changes from relic program.

 

[rick67]

I was trying to guess the objects before you dug. Got the small cal. shell.

 

[Calabash Digger]

that site is tough because it has so much modern trash on it but wait till you get
t on a OLD site with not much modern trash.