Tell me about the XP Deus

[Deft Tones]

The problem is you cannot set up any brand metal detector to match all kinds of grounds. That's why any detector should be turned to match particular ground and match particular task. There are no universal settings exist. Deus could be tweaked and turned to match ground conditions and tasks as well. RU Deus detectorists do such tweaks via engineering menu and discuss them openly.

It's strange to hear this from Deus guru. The worse in said above you refuse to use your detector at its full potential. If you think, it's a bash lets stop.

Exactly true on the first point.

Ummm.... and the second point... bulls-eye! Unfortunately that's how I'm reading it also. An interesting method of teaching people about the Deus.

Nevermind all that mess - just make a video!

 

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[Deft Tones]

You have some serious jealousy issues.

Please publicly tell me what I'm jealous of. I'm serious. I'm a big boy and if you need to attack me to communicate a point I will not be offended. I always accept criticism <gasp!> so I can understand, learn, and perhaps grow. Imagine that!

So please do tell.

I think I see the source: the field of work I mentioned....I should have used "employment" instead of "work".

 

[Deft Tones]

Deep targets are the targets those produce weak signals living in hot rock zone, and iron sector that is close to ground zone. These signals are masked by a stronger prevailing ground signal.

Here is a brief video XP Deus vs ..., both detectors are running low frequencies
https://youtu.be/vOIpxltDr9w

Nice video, but I'm still a skeptic. If I may, I didn't like the camera leaving sight of the target. I also would like to see both machines set up for the demonstration. And last, but not least, could we see the screens in operation while demonstrating. Unedited continuous demonstration would go a long way with me personally.

With those things in place you can speak any language you want or none at all and I will be far less skeptical.

If it takes some time to produce...I can wait. We Deus owners are used to it.

 

[SuchMuch]

RE:
Ummm.... and the second point... bulls-eye! Unfortunately that's how I'm reading it also. An interesting method of teaching people about the Deus.

Deus is engineering device and it's stupid not to unleash its power. If I were a deus fan boy I would learn how to tweak these settings. Better understanding yr detector means more finds in yr pockets. That's simple

My detector does have engineering menu as well and I tweak it on a regular basis and benefit from this

Nice video, but I'm still a skeptic. If I may, I didn't like the camera leaving sight of the target. I also would like to see both machines set up for the demonstration. And last, but not least, could we see the screens in operation while demonstrating. Unedited continuous demonstration would go a long way with me personally.

With those things in place you can speak any language you want or none at all and I will be far less skeptical.

If it takes some time to produce...I can wait. We Deus owners are used to it.

Subject video was produced for Russian guys by ru deus guru who hunts with non deus detector nowadays just to show 4 kHz vs 3 kHz rejection vs true gb. I have been asked for a video and I posted one. Not going to post others just to avoid bashing.

Since I hunt with other metal detector I do other vids. Or do you want me to make video my detector vs my friend's deus? It would be unfair video with predictable results.

Right video is: deus guru sets up his detector and compete, for instance, with me and I set my detector the my way. That would be fair. All these vids with 1 guy testing many detectors and then concludes which one is the best are just rubbish. There should be confident users from both sides. That would be a fair competition.

calabash digger is welcome to St.Petersburg and "I dont need to set my deus up via engineering menu I can make it outperform most detectors already."

 

[Deft Tones]

Subject video was produced for Russian guys by ru deus guru who hunts with non deus detector nowadays just to show 4 kHz vs 3 kHz rejection vs true gb. I have been asked for a video and I posted one. Not going to post others just to avoid bashing.

Since I hunt with other metal detector I do other vids. Or do you want me to make video my detector vs my friend's deus? It would be unfair video with predictable results.

Right video is: deus guru sets up his detector and compete, for instance, with me and I set my detector the my way. That would be fair. All these vids with 1 guy testing many detectors and then concludes which one is the best are just rubbish. There should be confident users from both sides. That would be a fair competition

I understand why you wouldn't want to post videos. I was not intending to bash the one you posted. Sorry if that came off that way.

You're right about needing two operators well versed in their respective machines to make any comparison as equal as possible.

I'd be interested in other videos if you want to message a link. I don't speak any eastern european or russian languages but I am observant.

And last, I'd like to respond to your post #84 but will wait until I have access to a keyboard. Good post!

 

[SuchMuch]

I'd be interested in other videos if you want to message a link.

I'll send some tomorrow (it's late evening now in RU)

 

[Tnmountains]

When buying a new detector read the "Todays Finds" and see what the seasoned hunters use that are successful and hunt the items and the way you want to hunt. Then come here and start researching your machines. I am not going to buy any machine just because someone knows every nuance. I say show me you can hunt and then I will look at what you are using. I have a friend very fancy machine and he does nothing but read and decipher the screen all day as I dig targets. It is good to see that Deus has a loyal following and many members like it. When I see in todays finds I look at what tools someone uses and see deus often.
Good discussion and cheers!

 

[jadocs]

The problem is you cannot set up any brand metal detector to match all kinds of grounds. That's why any detector should be turned to match particular ground and match particular task. There are no universal settings exist. Deus could be tweaked and turned to match ground conditions and tasks as well. RU Deus detectorists do such tweaks via engineering menu and discuss them openly.

It's strange to hear this from Deus guru. The worse in said above you refuse to use your detector at its full potential. If you think, it's a bash lets stop.

Are you confusing the "engineering menu" with what we call "Expert Settings"? It's impossible to decipher your list of "engineering" settings because it's in a different language. I suspect they are one in the same. From your description concerning tuning the Deus to the ground and type of target to be hunted....that's exactly what the expert settings do. That's exactly what Calibash does to maximize the performance of the XP and is why he is so successful at what he does.

If the "Engineering Menu" is different than "Expert Settings", how are you accessing it? You never answered that question which makes me suspicious. It's either one of two things:

1. The engineering menu is expert settings and you don't realize that we already use this feature to maximize our machines.

or

2. You have to hack the control box in order to access it.

So which is it?

 

[dandut46]

I don't no what all the skill talk is .you have to here a target to decide if you want to dig even if it's just a little disturbances in the force it's up to you.now there's guy that use the same detector for years and really no there machine where the could blow someone with you name it away. I can see a younger person doing better cause of stamina.as far as going into the guts.I thought developers hag guidelines when designing a detector .I don't no if it's aviation or radio waves or maybe that's old school.point is if you redesign something you might be braking rules someone els has to follow.

 

[glocks&gold]

Calabash is basically the Deus Guru on this forum and he doesn't just type up great sounding posts but actually has a lot of hours in the field and the finds to back it up. So what I am saying is you can take his advice to the bank and cash it. Regarding two questions you had:

Gold - not sure if you were talking gold prospecting or gold jewelry. Re gold jewelry - you will find the gold jewelry with the Deus if it is in the ground under your coil, no problem. I found three small gold bands this summer at two different beaches. Re gold prospecting - it does have gold field program and can operate at 18 khz which is consistent with other VLF gold focused detectors out there such as the AT Gold, Fisher Gold Bug, and Teknetics G2. It is not a dedicated Pulse Induction nugget prospecting machine like the Garret ATX and Minelab GPX machines, but it can get the job done and as others have mentioned, XP is trying to get a higher frequency coil out there for more sophisticated gold prospecting capability.

9" vs. 11" coil - You can't go wrong either way. I have both and like the smaller coil for general purpose use because it is just more convenient and I don't think you lose much depth at all. I just seems more tightly integrated with the Deus control box, but I think that may mostly be my imagination. The only real advantage of the 11" is that you can cover more ground per swing, but of course it is heavier. I use the 11" as my backup detector to the 9" or as a second detector when the kids are beach hunting with me since one coil can be paired with the headphones and the other can be separately paired with the control box (and you can plug wired headphones into the control box). You can also adapt the WS4 wireless backphones control module to a headphone adapter or marry it to any of several third party aftermarket over the ear headphones. My point is, that if you are going to get the Deus, I would suggest getting the WS4 lightweight headphones vs. the fixed WS5 over the ear headphones because the WS5 module does not detach giving you less options. Good luck.

hey thanks alot for the great info bud i really appreciate it so go for the ws4 headphones huh got it thanks again!

 

[glocks&gold]

yes I love the thing .I'm a user and I use what works.now the first time out with the deus I went to a cellar hole that been hit hard and I actually never found anything there with the etrac or at pro and so on.I used the deus in a setting like the sift mode but a little different ,I had the reactivity set high for a faster swing speed, but I thought it was set low so I was swinging slow and digging them iffy targets then I got a nice repeatable soft hit in iron and dug up a nice tiny cuff button with fancy .I never even used the deus in basic mode always custom settings .I'm used to the 11 inch coil cause the etrac came with one .I did like the etc a round cellar holes .you have to go slow and watch the Id , but got sick of getting my head phone ripped off my head .now in my opinion the deus goes deep ,you can cover a lot of ground and swing it all day .you are going to dig well at least I do which everyone knows if your not digging a lot your missing stuff for me to get.

hey thank you for replying sounds like a great machine!

 

[SuchMuch]

Are you confusing the "engineering menu" with what we call "Expert Settings"? It's impossible to decipher your list of "engineering" settings because it's in a different language. I suspect they are one in the same. From your description concerning tuning the Deus to the ground and type of target to be hunted....that's exactly what the expert settings do. That's exactly what Calibash does to maximize the performance of the XP and is why he is so successful at what he does.

If the "Engineering Menu" is different than "Expert Settings", how are you accessing it? You never answered that question which makes me suspicious. It's either one of two things:

1. The engineering menu is expert settings and you don't realize that we already use this feature to maximize our machines.

or

2. You have to hack the control box in order to access it.

So which is it?

Some firmware versions are supplied with engineering menu and it seems such firmware versions are passed to testers (?) In any case manufacturer keeps this in secret. Usually these firmware versions are released in French language. In order to access engeniiring menu firmware version 1.1 press buttons "+", "-" and "on" at the same time. I read briefly info about engineering menu and it's present in firmware ver. 1.1 and 2.0 and it seems it doesn't exist in firmware version 3.2 or ru deus detectorists failed to obtain it. It looks like firmware ver 2.0 is sold by ru deus gurus may be it could be downloaded for free. In any case I cannot advise where to buy it (should it be for sale) or where it could be downloaded.

I'm not a deus fan boy, so let yr gurus do the rest job.

 

[Deft Tones]

Interesting post number 84 Suchmuch, and deserves more than just crickets.
I’m going to address things as if we’re on the same page and I understand you. I’ll try to give my understanding. Please do not take things personally as I have a tendency to switch pronoun use out of bad habits.

- rejection type of GB -> signals located close to ground zone are lost. It's approximately 20 degrees are lost (10 for non ferrous zone and 10 for iron zone). That's is why XP Deus is not capable to detect small iron target producing -86 (deep large copper) and non ferrous target producing +85 (deep large copper) should these targets be placed in ground/air/whatever. Probably XP think these zones have more falsings than targets and in order to bring more comfort, they prefer to cut them. It must be mentioned if Deus is tweaked via engineering menu properly, these "cuts" could be avoided.”

Are you talking about wrap around? (Deus Guru please provide the appropriate Deus term)

The Deus will wrap good targets at depth into the rejected areas. It’s well known that the Deus does an unusual thing and pushes VDI UP instead of DOWN as you approach the limits of its depth capabilities. It makes sense for its success in that niche; after all it was designed to find low conductive hammered coins among iron. So what happens, as one example, is those deeper valuable high conductive targets like silver coins, or say a shallow coin spill of silver, they are pushed out of the upper VDI range and up into the GB range… and then you’ll never hear them!

On a more conventional machine the signal is driven DOWN into a lower VDI range… and you find silver dimes in the middle to upper-middle conductivity range, or silver coin spills in the high conductivity range. This is a problem only if the Deus is your only machine and you are UNAWARE! This is one major reason why the Deus is not suitable for the U.S. coin-shooter thinking of running in the optimal 18 frequency seeking deep silver. <cue NBC’s, ”The More You Know.” to the reader >

I’ll allow Deus Guru’s to offer a solution to wrap around.

If you want more depth and better ID in the high conductivity range, just like a coin-shooter would, then simply expand the upper range by selecting the usually accepted optimal frequency available for the task-4khz. Operator beware that you are now forced to use TX3 without choice in the matter. Hope you brought a field charger, or a back-up machine for those long light-weight hunts!
The experienced Deus user and detectorist knows this high power too often comes with its own problems – unusable at high EMI sites being an obvious one. Anyone else wonder why Deus saw fit to lock you out of certain controls? Perhaps an assumption by them that you are not fit to be manipulating them? But I can in the other frequencies - I wonder why they do that. I had never considered they were insufficiently powered for the frequency, but XP does seem to have added 4khz as an afterthought.

This is pretty much leaves only 8 and 12 frequencies for any serious US detectorist seeking deep targets. Your 4 frequency selectable detector is sometimes hobbled into 2. What a deal!

High swing speed: Swing fast and you will miss targets. Fact.

Watch Deus operators swing and on average – too fast for any depth, unless you’re in a choice test garden of the sweetest soil variety… which I’m not! (I’m often guilty here on purpose) When I swing too fast, like I will be hunting jewelry, depth takes a significant hit in every frequency. I’ll swing too fast to intentionally cut depth while maintaining sensitivity to jewelry at speed and never do I pull coins from depths beyond 6 inches swinging like that. It’s a valid technique if you are AWARE of the depth hit. Most Deus users swing too fast... but, whatever, enjoy!

Sorry I’m getting tired so I’m going to be direct to the point.

The water hunting is a joke. The expense of coils and lack of sniper coil options sucks. (I can detune my sniper coils even tighter) The batteries and brains in the coil make me very nervous and I’ve often wondered about how they dealt with that. Charging clip is as fragile (that’s a French word!) as a soufflé!( x2 who-hoo, on a roll now!) The clips mechanism holding the WS-4’s puck on to the backphones is weak and prone to break. I’ve almost lost a rolled steel pin from a cam lock, but perhaps the Deus could have found it. At this price I expect more durability and quality in a flag-ship machine.

After one year - sorry, XP, it’s a good machine but not worth the $ IMO. There may be are better options for the money.

"And now you know the rest of the story" - Paul Harvey

 

[SuchMuch]

Are you talking about wrap around? (Deus Guru please provide the appropriate Deus term)

That's why I added link. The explanation is provided there in details.

The Deus will wrap good targets at depth into the rejected areas. It’s well known that the Deus does an unusual thing and pushes VDI UP instead of DOWN as you approach the limits of its depth capabilities. It makes sense for its success in that niche; after all it was designed to find low conductive hammered coins among iron. So what happens, as one example, is those deeper valuable high conductive targets like silver coins, or say a shallow coin spill of silver, they are pushed out of the upper VDI range and up into the GB range… and then you’ll never hear them!

On a more conventional machine the signal is driven DOWN into a lower VDI range… and you find silver dimes in the middle to upper-middle conductivity range, or silver coin spills in the high conductivity range. This is a problem only if the Deus is your only machine and you are UNAWARE! This is one major reason why the Deus is not suitable for the U.S. coin-shooter thinking of running in the optimal 18 frequency seeking deep silver. <cue NBC’s, ”The More You Know.” to the reader >

I’ll allow Deus Guru’s to offer a solution to wrap around.

That's not deus, that is the quality of high frequency (12 kHz, 14 kHz, 18 kHz, 20 kHz, 22 kHz). High frequency has zone responsible for low conductors extremely stretched and zone responsible for high conductors extremely compressed. These peculiarities of high frequency are valid for any brand high frequency detector. It's very easy to loose high conductors with high frequency coil, high coductors @ high frequency produce VDIs very close to a ground zone. Deus cuts sector with ground signal and all other signals present in cut sector (falsings, hot rocks and high conductors, especially deep and large). That's how comfort is acquired. No falsings, no hot rocks = happy detectorist The solution is quiet simple: change frequency to a lower one. There is no sense to hunt for high conductors only with high frequency, low and mid frequencies should be preffered especially if ground tends to be mineralized.

Deep low conductors do fall into hot rock zone and then disappear in ground zone. I pick up Russian hammered coins using high frequency coil (18 kHz) (they are several times smaller that European ones) with VDIs located in copper zone (+76...+80). Shallow RU hammies produce VDIs +5...+55 (depends on silver quality they are made of)

As to EMI sources. EMI issues are naturally suppresed by high frequencies. The higher frequency is, the less detector is liable to EMI sources. The another tools to suppress EMI is higher (outgoing to coil) amperage and reduce overall detector's sensitivity. Sometimes high amperage could be used as a weapon to generate EMI issues on detectors located nearby (Dirty tricks and tactics on rally digs) No link, sorry

I do believe US targets should be picked up with 3 kHz and 7 kHz, personally I'd prefer 3 kHz only. Those guys who hunts for "rusted iron" (pistols, rifles etc) should stick rather to 1,5 kHz

 

[Deft Tones]

Yes, I concur. Seems I'm understanding you just fine. Your English is very good. We're on the same track I think.

If version 3.2 doesn't have the engineering menu then our resident Guru wouldn't have a clue about it. I'll check it myself in the morning.

I forgot to ask you about the batteries below freezing. This is something I have done. What's the consequences of sub-zero cold to these batteries?

 

[SuchMuch]

Yes, I concur. Seems I'm understanding you just fine. Your English is very good. We're on the same track I think.

If version 3.2 doesn't have the engineering menu then our resident Guru wouldn't have a clue about it. I'll check it myself in the morning.

I forgot to ask you about the batteries below freezing. This is something I have done. What's the consequences of sub-zero cold to these batteries?

Li-ion type of batteries is used. The consequences are common for Li-ion batteries used in sub-zero temperatures.

Many ru deus guys (those hunt for low conductors) somehow prefer firmware ver. 2 to ver. 3.2

 

[Calabash Digger]

7kh will hit deep silver ,I dug personally one in the field 9 inchs and it hammered it. As a matter of fact 12 kh will nail them too. What do most popular detectors run in today? t2,f75,at pro, etc. why? I tested the depth of the deus againest the ctx on land and the deus had just a little edge on it and yes I had the ctx setup correctly so the machines would be even. You guys are using all this technical talk and thats fine I cant compete with that ,im not that gifted in lingo. I can put what your saying to test and I havent found what you guys are proclaimng to be true where I live. You say the deus loses depth if you swing to fast slow down your swing,what reactivity do you use on your deep program ? mine NEVER goes below 2. What machine out there can you swing like a rocket and get any depth? You should NEVER raise your gb to 95 or above in doing so you will knock out your silvers. I mean I have seen personally and done so myself dug deep coins in the field and other deep targets and alot of that has been where OTHER machines have pounded. My ground balances at 86-87 ,but I dig targets the vdi to 98 . According to what you said I shouldnt be able to do that correct? You dont like test gardens but I have deep coins there that push the vdi up like you were saying above ,why can I still here ALL of them with diggable tones? According to what you said above I should not be able to hear them correct? WITH ALL THAT TECHNICAL TALK YOU ARE USING YOU MUST BE CLEANING HOUSE ON KILLER FINDS PLEASE TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE FOUND LATELY WITH THOSE SUPERIOR DETECTORS YOUR USING. GO CHECK MY NEW VIDEO OUT WE BEEN CLEANING HOUSE WITH THAT OLE OVER PRICED JUNK DETECTOR YOU GUYS ARE PUTTING DOWN. OH YEAH MY BUDDY DUG A DEEP FLAT BUTTON YESTERDAY A DEEP ONE JUST SO HAPPENED TO BE A VERY RARE ANDREW JACKSON BUTTON MAN ITS A WONDER HE GOT THAT ACCORDING TO WHAT YOU GUYS ARE PREACHING. The guy above had a valid point about todays finds go look at what people are finding and judge from there about them and their detectors. I see this all to often a avatar full of detectors and no finds to go with it they can tell you how the thing works and so forth and so forth or how it doesnt work but still no finds to show how good they are or how good the detector they use is. My friend down close to charleston just had dinner with a group of professional relic hunters who travel the country doing so, and they have finds that will blow your mind 8 out of 10 of them were using a deus ,I guess I need to send them here so they can read what you and suchmuch are saying so they can get them a better machine . btw one those guys is gonna have his on t.v. show before long I guess he just needs a lesson about detectors from you guys and he will be set. You attacked rick 67 about his 40 experience ,HAVE SEEN WHAT HE FINDS? REALLY !

 

[SuchMuch]

1. The country I live no one believes dig reports especially when they are done by manufacturer's representative. I don't say you represent Deus, but I noticed no criticism from you forward Deus. There are no flawless metal detectors, 1 or 2 disadvantages should be present at least. If you are a Deus guru, why haven't you mentioned them so far?

2. Sorry, but you and yr UK friend cannot give a lesson that ru deus guru, since he sets deus via engineering menu and you don't. He is able to set up deus very flexiable thus it can compete even with Sig MFT. Frankly speaking, I thought you knew about hidden deus features.

3. No one knows what he missed, he knows what he picked up only . Any field cleaned by one brand machine will produce finds for other brand machines especially if it's a trashy site being ploughed annually. That detectorist who is able to pick up finds on sites cleaned to death many times by others could be named experienced one.

4. You make videos with other brand detectors and bash them with Deus and make conclusions. And all those are done by 1 person! That's not fair. There are lots of tricks how to make abnormal depth for any detector. I don't say you practice tricks or whatever, but why not to invite US truly experienced minelab guy or whites guy or garrert guy to test detectors face to face? You operate deus, he operates ctx3030. That would be fair. When statements are loud guys meet and test detectors in the very same conditions. Like this:

AKA Signum vs Minelab CTX vs XP Deus vs Minelab X-Terra 505


5. Practice + Theory (understanding how it works) rocks. By the way, metal detecting not a rocket science.

 

[Deft Tones]

OK. You guys are tugging my ego with a straw man.

Why are my finds not relevant, IMO?

Not relevant because we all know site is key to finds, correct?

I do not have access to historic sites where I live. Either it never happened here, or it’s long been paved over and built upon with sky-scrapers. Even the rivers and streams no longer run the original course in most places. You can bet your I would be pulling items with the best of you if I were on the correct sites. I’ve been detecting enough to know my primary machine very well.

Furthermore, there are many reasons individuals have for not showing off their finds and it isn’t because of lack thereof, correct?

There are many reasons one brand user may post their finds more often than another, like perhaps there are just more of them, correct?

Years of experience often mean nothing. The real question is how many hours field time has someone racked-up with a particular model and also in total?

Then how many hours did you actually have your “head in the game”? Eh?

I think that is more telling of potential experience. Who knows what one has been doing all those 40 years; life gets in the way sometimes, correct?

I've done this full-time for years when tracked man hours are totaled annually. How many hours do you detect each year?

Because I started virgin with a V3i having never detected before, nobody to teach me, and no bad developed habits, and I hunt primarily public parks, my finds the first year were pretty lame looking back. I intended to be a coin-shooter until I got my first gold ring in the beginning of my second year. Then it was on!

To appease your ego, not my ego, here are the finds I bagged from the second year’s V3i use. I stopped bagging anything not a precious metal – silver, gold, platinum – after this season because I am lazy in that aspect of the hobby. My kids can sort through this dirty crap.

This is just a sample from the second season, actually, I’ve given away many of the larger silver coins and several jewelry items from this container. I remember I found about 4 gallons of clad that year. The stuffed bags of dirty coppers – about 40/60 IHP’s and wheats from one single “hunted out” park here in town.



In this photo I also have the jewelry finds from the second year. (oops..the watch is a v3i find from this year. My kids were playing with it and it’s found its way into the available container apparently) There are junk pieces that were interesting because of signal response mixed in there, but also antique jewelry, a few trade rings, gold w/diamonds, silver w/diamonds, and stuff I haven’t even researched. These are now just my test subjects. (who knows, even the baby sitter could have snagged something from it and I probably wouldn’t know it) This pile is all items valued at $250 or less and is available for anyone to handle that is a guest in my house. I’d be surprised if something wasn’t brought to school and lost, actually.



The really good finds are in the safe or have been sold off to fund my new Minelab Sovereign GT.
Nobody gets a peek at those, tough cookies! I’m not an idiot! (do you even realize what you’re seeing in that H2H video Calabash? Should I narrate and blather my opinions? Let the machines speak.)

Now, what do I do with my current finds many seasons later? You would cringe!

If it isn’t gold or it does not hold gems it’s not making it into the safe or my house (except for photo ops on occasion). It either goes into a stacked five gallon bucket in the garage, covers a picnic table in my back yard (my wife is wanting to kill me), or goes in the trash. I probably throw away, or have thrown away things that would make a relic hunter puke.

I treat non-key silver coins, old copper and nickel finds like clad. All coins (including non-key date silvers), and interesting lead, brass tokens, etc. –dumped into a bucket to be sorted probably never. All iron and unidentified interesting pieces dumped into another bucket to be sorted probably never. I clean items very rarely. I’m sure there are historic items in there somewhere as not every place I hunt is a park. And I am admititadly poor at relic identification. I do like to mix it up though so I can round out my skills and not be so one dimensional of a detectorist... I just want to master the game for me.

You want me to go outside and take photos of that stuff too?
I’ll sort some of those things when I can’t hunt, but they add up faster than I can sort them.

Don’t like my style?

I don’t care. I’m being truthful. Perhaps you’d prefer I lie or be dishonest.

Put me on your worked-out sites and let me have a stab at cleaning it up ….PLEASE!

I have a whole video of me digging nothing but iron – just me targeting iron only! Who watches that kind of dig? That’s me being a REAL relic hunter. Those are my study tapes. No need to waste bandwidth uploading it.

LMAO! Avoiding iron and thinking you’re a “real” relic hunter. That’s a non-ferrous relic hunter, really. Isn’t it?

I have V3i video (learning how to make videos) of me just strolling around a trashy suburban park calling the shots, then by chance, all but calling a ring at the edge of a trashy pavilion slab. What does it prove?

Means nothing to my ego, that’s why you haven’t seen it.

I’ve provided photos of a sample of what any guest has access to in my house. Is that enough?

Do I qualify as a metal detectorist now?

Can I be part of the club?

Elitist much?

Come on!

 

[Calabash Digger]

I love this thread SUPER SECRET NINJA SETTINGS AND SUPER SECRET NINJA FINDS MAN YOU GOTTA LOVE IT! btw if your ever down this way I got some sites you can go dig iron on.