Headless Lead Soldier in Chicago

[Bharpring]

This weeks business trip was to Milwaukee, but stayed in Chicago last night. So I hunted a few parks last night in Chicago and saved some history. This time I took my XP Deus HF Round Coil to compare to the Equinox 800 on deep targets. Even though deep targets (in all kinds of trash) were tough with the Deus I still managed to have fun and save a few keepers.

 

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[dirtdigginfool]

Bharp, great stuff!! You obviously have an awesome site there, those Barber quarters are hard to find, and the Indian and V-nickel are in super shape! That tag is very interesting too, would like to know more about it. Congrats on your successful trip. Ddf

 

[dirtlooter]

you seem to make your business trips into decent fun trips as well.

 

[Brendan75]

Hi, wow some nice finds you found there. Congrats

 

[ToddsPoint]

You're hunting parks in Chicago at night? You are either very brave or very... Hmmm? Gary

 

[Trezurehunter]

Looks like another good Chicago trip.

 

[Hawks88]

Wow some real nice detail on that Indian head. Nice silver. Congratulations on all those nice finds.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice coins and cool relics!

 

[CRUSADER]

So in your opinion which is the deeper machine?

 

[Bharpring]

So in your opinion which is the deeper machine?

IMO the Equinox finds deeper targets.

I based this opinion on setting up each machine to hit the deepest targets with the best separation.

So for the XP Deus HF Round:

Start off in Deus Fast present and customize

3 Tone program and customize the tone settings
- 1st tone 202 kHz conductivity 10
- 2nd tone 202 kHz conductivity 57
- 3rd ton 945 kHz

Discrimination 10
Iron Volume 1
Sensitivity 93
Notch 0
Audio Response 5
Frequency 14.4 kHz

For the Equinox 800

Start off in Park 2
Uncheck all of the discrimination from conductivity numbers -9 to 0 (so I hear all of the iron)
use a 5 tone program
set the first tone to conductivity 0 and volume to 1 (so you barely hear the iron)
Recovery Speed 5
Iron Bias 0
Sensitivity 20 or 21 (higher numbers lower performance IMO)

Running these machines in these settings gives the max performance in high iron and modern trash sites where good targets are +8" deep IMO.