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It was cold this morning with the windchills in the teens but the sun was out for the first time in a while! Dug this 1801 Draped Bust this morning. Was happy to get a date off of it. I had my doubts when I saw all that dirt stuck to it.

Same old story. Pounded site (are there any other kinds these days?). Looking at my records I haven't pulled a copper from this site in 5 years and I've hit that site a lot. On Saturday I pull this Draped Bust ten feet from the cellar hole ! It took some extreme settings though. Reactivity at...

Sniffed some mid-conductors out of the iron today including this little flat button. I almost tossed it into the button bucket but decided to rub the dirt off and was surprised to see the remains of an eagle with shield holding an olive branch in its talons. I thought it might be be military...

For you Deus 2 users.....I had to laugh when I dug that 1827 Matron. I was in Sensitive Full Tones and had dug 5 or 6 .22 casings etc. All mid tone finds. After a while I decided to make a Tone bin from 71 to 88 and put the volume at zero to eliminate any falsing, just relax a bit and maybe pick...

I was surprised to dig this one out today at around 9 or 10 inches. 1827 Matron. Not an uncommon date, but it's one I didn't have. Jeff

Beautiful day in the woods today, started out with temps in the 20s but warmed into the 40s. I hadn't found a coin at this homestead site in several years. Easy targets are long gone. I had dug a couple of small broken pewter buttons and a couple of .22 leads and was about to call it quits when...

I constantly marvel at all the stone walls that I come across while out detecting here in the woods of New England. It always made me wonder why anyone would even want to try and farm here in the first place if there were that many rocks to deal with. Interestingly, when the first settlers...

Dug these a few weeks back at a small remote colonial site that I hadn't been to in some time. No foundation, just a hole in the ground. Not even any stone walls. This is an older site. Looking at my records, the only two coins from there were a 1722 Rosa and a 1723 Hibernia. The site has given...

Picked up a second coil for my Deus 2 so I no longer need the Deus 1 as a backup. My D1 is well used but everything works just fine. Still a top of the line machine. It comes with the 2 controllers, the X35 11" coil and cover, the HF 9" coil and cover, and the original 11" coil. All you need is...

The D2 is so customizable, it just isn't healthy for an inveterate settings tweaker like me to use one. ;) Tried something different today and managed to sniff out another handfull of nonferrous items. Nothing spectacular but the fact that I can still squeeze some goodies out of these sites is...

I can't for the life of me find any info in any of the button databases or anywhere on the web about "Fellows & Young". Dug this last weekend and I don't have any other by that manufacturer, or product line. Anybody heard of them? This was from a site that started in the early 1700's to about...

Interesting video by Sharpshooter. Shows that in the STOCK programs with STOCK settings, that V7.1 was less prone to falsing over the V1.0 or the beta V1.01. I guess that's why a lot of folks don't like the update as they just run with stock settings. XP will need to learn from that. But in my...

Was out the door early to get a couple of hours in with V1.0 before the rains came. I went with General Full Tones again, but with the new upgrade you can change the top frequency. Since I wanted to see if I could squeeze any high conductors out iron, I set it to a max of 14 kHz. First thing I...

I had to sign up for a new account for some reason but once I did that it was easy to update the controller. For the WS6 headphones, I turned on the remote first with the headphones off. Press the headphones button on the controller, then turn on the headphones but hold the power button on for...

Hit another old favorite site this morning. Really surprised there were this many non ferrous targets still there. Once again, General, Full Tones. Was using a Reactivity of 0.5. Safe to say, these were not iron masked targets. But some of these tiny buttons and bits of pewter and lead were...

Finally made it out to a site that I haven't been to since I had the D2. I used to call the site the "button factory". I pulled well over 100 buttons from this site with the D1 and DFX, most from a strip of land about 60 feet long by 20 feet wide. Picture a colonial era clothesline in the front...

Pretty much the same as last 4 hunts. I've settled on General, Full Tones PWM, Sensitivity 98, Reactivity 1.5 to 2.5, Disc 0. I've tried several things to stop the iron falsing including upping the Disc, but the only thing that helps somewhat is to notch from 72 to 88 and who wants to do that...

Got out for a couple of hours this morning before the rains came. I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but once again I went to an another old worn out site that hasn't given up hardly anything in years. Once again General in Full Tones sniffed out a dozen or so nonferrous targets. Most...

Well maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration but my experience over the last 5-6 weeks have got me thinking about the D2 in a whole new way. It started with trying Sensitive Full Tones at a few worn out sites and being surprised to dig a half dozen or so buttons and other nonferrous at each of...

I tried the Sensitive Full Tone program last week. It surprised me by sniffing out a few buttons from asite that hardly ever gives up a nonferrous target anymore. One major negativefor me with this program though was the iron falsing. It was very distracting particularly because it would show...