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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...

Early yet, but it looks like it might be a winner. Calabash who admittedly is just learning the machine, has a video of him using the Manticore at an iron and trash polluted site. It looked pretty impressive pulling some nonferrous targets out of all the junk. That "2D" screen is pretty...

After playing with Park mode for a while (and even Beach Sensitive), I went back to Deep HC on Sunday's hunt. Not nearly as cool as Drew's coin purse find, but I had a very similar scenario. I got a hit that screamed iron but also a decent peep of an 88 to 99 tone ( I was using 5 tones). The XY...

Hey Drew, I was in Waterbury today on business and took the scenic route home to avoid the Rt 95 evening traffic mess and drove through your home town. It reminded me I wanted to pick your brain about Deep HC. I have used it and it has lived up to it's name. BUT as as I have griped about before...

Another of my sites that has not given up a copper in years gave up an Matron today along with a watch winder. I'm still experimenting with variatons of the Park program and it does seem to have some good unmasking abilities. I ran the Silencer at 3 to deal with the small iron and cranked the...

A few weeks back I uses Park and it sniffed out a few buttons at a worn out site and that got my attention. I wasn't sure if it was just the frequency range or something else. I hit another site today to see if Park could unmask anything in the iron and was really surprised when I pulled out a...

I had never detected with the Park prgram because it uses a lot more filters than I am used to hunting with. I thoughtmaybe it's useful in modern trashy sites but not likely good at colonial ironsites. But I saw a post recently where some guy says he really likes it at hisiron-laden colonial...

I think we got a real winner with this machine. I took it to my most pounded colonial site. It's a small little site and I've been lucky to pull a cuff button from the iron every now and then at this site over the last couple of years. The D2 managed to sniff out 6 additional buttons and a knee...

Snagged a few items last week. A TINY pewter spoon handle, two piece button with a drilled shank, and some old timey cufflinks. Back side of this whatsit leads me to believe it was a harness decoration of some sort ??? Jeff

I hit a cellar hole site that must have been a camping spot back in the 1970s. I've avoided detecting in that area of the site just because I don't like dealing with modern trash if I don't have to. You guys that hunt yards and parks have all my respect. Anyway, I sucked it up and ventured into...

I have no idea what it is but the XP video says it is coming! Time to crank up the rumor mill!

Haven't gotten out much but here are finds from last few hunts. Eyeballed a nice gun flint and little medicine bottle while digging holes. The copper on the right is a toasted William III. Pretty sure it is a 1699. Any guesses on what the black object on the left is would be appreciated. It...

Found this site about 12 years ago with a couple of buddies. I am estimating at least 150 buttons have come from this site but only 2 coppers! A KGII and an early DB. This cellar hole was in between 2 other sites that produced a good number of early coppers. So we hit it hard with Whites and...

Finally got out for a hunt Sunday. I am feeling it today. I hiked to a cellar hole and was hoping to find the last piece of a fancy broken shoe buckle that I have been finding pieces of over the years right near the lip. Found a rusted iron shoe buckle instead along with a rusted blade, fork and...

Seems like a year but it's been a month since I have gotten out to swing the coil. But we got rain here in southeast MA yesterday and most of the snow is gone and none predicted for a week. I'll be heading out Sunday. My detecting muscles have atrophied and I am sure I will feel it but I need to...