XP DEUS II Smackdown...

[TORRERO]

Went out with my friend today and we found an old Church yard to hunt, Pastor said HI, and no problem,
We spent 3 hours walking around this small Churchyard and found numerous coins.. but what surprised me the most was the numbers...
While my friend uses a Minelab 800, an admirable machine, and he seems to do ok with it. I use an XP DEUS II

I took 11 wheat cents from that yard along with 5-6 nickels and 3 dimes and probably 7-8 regular pennies... (no quarters)
My friend got more quarters than I did, which was 0 from the church yard, he got 2, but he seemed to have a problem with depth, although MOST of the signals I got he seemed to get (if he checked them) a lot of them he said he wouldn't have dug.

His take on Wheat Cents was ONE, where I got 11, we have been hunting for 20 years together... so lack of skill is probably not the issue.
Knowledge on how to adjust his machine maybe some... but clearly he wasn't getting all the same signals I was getting...

I can CLEARLY hear a good sound from a bad sound, he can't tell the difference just by the sound,
I can normally tell if a target is LARGE or not or COIN sized or not, but he can't and calls me over a lot to check signals for him to verify if a target is worth digging...

I'm LOVING MY DEUS II for coin shooting old sites..

Sorry to report that even after 12 wheat cents... there was NO sign of elusive silver coins... I kept expecting one to pop up, but none ever did...
The yard we hunted was relatively small, but the church property and surrounding properties have a lot more places to check...
We will be back !!

(8 Coins on bottom right are Wheats, I dug 11 gave 3 to the Pastor, and one my friend dug.. ) WHERE WAS THE SILVER ?

 

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[Gare]

NICE REPORT Torrero What program were you running ?

 

[TORRERO]

NICE REPORT Torrero What program were you running ?

I think pretty much basic, accept that I tweaked it, that or a coin program so
I was taking the higher targets and the nickel targets

 

[Gare]

For a long time on my Deus 2 I was only taking )digging_ higher number targets. When our ground here Thaws i am going back to most good NON Scratchy numbers

 

[TORRERO]

For a long time on my Deus 2 I was only taking )digging_ higher number targets. When our ground here Thaws i am going back to most good NON Scratchy numbers

You will dig pull tabs and SCREW cap tops, but you can clearly hear the difference between a broken iron target and a good metallic target,
You can also put it basically in all metal NON-IRON and as you scan pick and choose your numbered targets, the DEUS II does Extremely well with Target ID at depth, but with all machines the numbers can jump around depending on multiple factors ..
I personally think this might be an issue with my friend, because he is a "Hunt by numbers" guy.. so if a number isn't "SPOT ON" he doesn't want to risk digging it..
But for me a copper penny can be 89-90 or it can fall into a range between as low as 84 and as high as 92, if I get a good sounding target that's deep and its numbers FLUCTUATE between 85-90 but it SOUNDS solid, I'm digging it regardless... My friend says that's the reason I get more than him is because I dig EVERYTHING, that is NOT the truth... I cherry pick just like everyone else, I just decide WHAT targets I'm willing to dig, which are MORE than what HE is willing to dig... Plus I'm a very aggressive hunter...

 

[Gare]

Thanks Torrero Do you have any of the books you wrote left for purchase ?

 

[cudamark]

You will dig pull tabs and SCREW cap tops, but you can clearly hear the difference between a broken iron target and a good metallic target,
You can also put it basically in all metal NON-IRON and as you scan pick and choose your numbered targets, the DEUS II does Extremely well with Target ID at depth, but with all machines the numbers can jump around depending on multiple factors ..
I personally think this might be an issue with my friend, because he is a "Hunt by numbers" guy.. so if a number isn't "SPOT ON" he doesn't want to risk digging it..
But for me a copper penny can be 89-90 or it can fall into a range between as low as 84 and as high as 92, if I get a good sounding target that's deep and its numbers FLUCTUATE between 85-90 but it SOUNDS solid, I'm digging it regardless... My friend says that's the reason I get more than him is because I dig EVERYTHING, that is NOT the truth... I cherry pick just like everyone else, I just decide WHAT targets I'm willing to dig, which are MORE than what HE is willing to dig... Plus I'm a very aggressive hunter...

That's your friends problem, being too picky on target I.D.'s. If he would go by depth at an old site, he would do a lot better. Any solid sound at an old site should be dug, regardless of number.