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I've hunted places such as yours with etrac. It's very difficult and tedious. Turn deep OFF and fast ON. Be sure to run disc all the way down to 27 and go slow. I had good luck in conductive mode. You really can't sweep a spot like you're describing with etrac regardless of which coil you try. You really just randomly move the coil very slowly listening for any high tone
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Good info. What about a dime? Would be interesting to see results. And also a quarter and dime colocated with iron/lower conductor with comparisons. Also did you use both combine and conductive with CTX to see if one was better than another?? Also, where you using stock coil on etrac???
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I never liked 2 tone ferrous and here's why. According to etrac's manual a high tone will only be reported with a ferrous number 17 and lower. That's no good for me. I dug several good targets using my etrac with ferrous numbers of 25 and 2 real nice silver finds in a nail pit reporting in at 27 ferrous. Would the targets in question have reported a high tone in 2TF. Don'
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Looks like a 30" wot, less the gorgeous orange color! One could almost detect the entire state of Rhode Island in just one sweep. LOL
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Pulltabminer, I took my 3.0 deus for a spin also. Used 4 tone with disc of 6 on a site I've been hunting hard. The 3.0 version seemed quieter in the iron patch with same disc set using the 2.0 version to me. My echo sound with big iron didn't seem to have same echo though. I had my audio report setting at 7 then tried 6. It may have had something to do with the fact I'd upped
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
For me, my CTX doesn't outperform my deus on low conductors or in heavy iron. I don't own the 6 inch coil for the CTX. Maybe in the worst of ground the CTX wins, but my soil doesn't quite fall into that department (t's not great though). I know for a fact my deus outperforms an etrac with sunray 5.5 coil. I'm finding too many finds at a site I pounded with just abou
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Went out last evening and this morning. Running 12 khz setting, 2/3 reactivity, 3 tone with breaks at 35 and 70, disc at 5.5, silencer at 2, iron vol at 0, auto gb tracking balancing around 72/73, sens at 95. The only real differences to my detection scenario is the ground is drier now than it's been so far this spring. In a small section I dug 13 good targets (2 small musketballs, 5 butt
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Running in 12 khz freq setting, disc at 5, reactivity at 2, silencer at 1, tracking auto with ground balance at 73. Iron vol 0. Got a tone real raspy. Would have almost bet deep iron. Vdi ringing in at 97, turn 90 degrees and all I got is a series of short clicks. Now I'm really thinking iron, but the tone just sounded a smidge too good plus the deus was giving real consistent hit with
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I would stick with what you have for now. And later get a deus. It appears an 11" coil will become available some time this year. I have opted to stay away from the big coil XP makes. My soil has some mineralization and I think I will get a little more depth with the 11" vs the 13" coil, plus the weight factor really won;t come into play with the 11" coil. With what you a
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
With etrac which I no longer have I liked conductive better with a disc cutoff at 27 ferrous. Found some good deep finds in the nail pits. One has to work real slow though. With my CTX I like combine better for the higher conductors and conductive better for the low conductors.
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Interesting read. Must not be too long until V3 actually materializes. I read thru it pretty fast. I notice 5 tones, normalization of vdi linked to 18 freq readings, and a few other newbies. The notch ground looks interesting. Thanks for posting. Looking forward to giving it a try. Luv my deus by the way. It's a killer in the ole rusty iron/nail beds. I am impressed every time I tak
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I'd plant myself in that site for a while. Take a deus user with deus along with you. It seems the place has seen little detecting unless someone cheey picked the silver. Good luck. Look forward to see what else you find.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I've never used one but from what I've read a Garrett AT Pro is a nice detector to start with. It also has good resell. Many have stated it's no slouch in iron for the price you pay plus it's weatherproof. You may or may not like detecting. I know for sure you won't if you don't find very much. Maybe some will comment on how user friendly the AT Pro is. User fr
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Don't underrate this detector. I was in a patch this morning that I've pounded with etrac with multiple coils, V3i with stock coil with mulktiple settings, F75se with both big stock and small stock coil. I had even pounded this site with deus using both the 8 and 12 freq settings. This morning I ran in 18 freq setting and made 4 good finds: old ink pen, button, 2 small copper rings(v
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I've had more than a few try and tell me my CTX is nothing but a waterproof etrac. Wrong, dead wrong. I know because I've found some good finds in small sites I pounded with etrac with a multiple of coils attached. And most weren't that deep either. Actually only one silver dime was deep at around nine inches. Three each rusty nails were recovered in hole before dime was disco
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
What settings were you using????????? Sensivity especially and disc setting??? I hunt an area that gives the F75se fits with 7x11 coil and it rural as it gets. The Deus does fine up to sensivity setting of 95 any freq/ reactivity setting with stock coil. The only place so far that give my Deus fits is a yard with an electric fence box installed on porch of old house.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'm glad you like your Deus. As far as I'm concerned you have the best open field hunter/woods hunter made. I take it you haven't got one of those mouse whisper strikes yet. The Deus gives those at times on deep targets. A nice uniform gradual increase in the whisper signal as you pass over the target. I'd say when the weather gets hot the Deus will be even more enjoyable
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I love my CTX. The only thing I don't like is the tone for the higher conductors. It doesn't have the silver ringing tone like the etrac. I have made some good finds in areas (small) that I pounded with etrac. I think is is more attributed to the faster recovery and the higher levels of stability especially when runnning higher sensitivity. I have seen the ferrous number go as high
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I was detecting today in a field. Settings were as follows at the time of this target discovery: Sens 95, 0 disc, reactivity 0, notch 00-06, 8 freq, 3 tones (tone 1 200, tone 2 200, tone 3 791 with the break set at 40), auto tracking all with stock coil. I get this signal, sounded pretty good but read 4. Switched freq to 8 and same thing read 4 with most swings. Dug the target and it was abo
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
They will ring in low. And expect to dig a lot of tabs in your quest for gold. But jewelry rings in low too. Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Get a deus. It's light as a feather. Can be used by kids, women, and men. I ran my deus 8 hours yesterday and this morning notta pain anywhere. And for iron pits/old house sites the weight of the deus is super. I swept and reswept spots yesterday with varied sweep speeds and settings. If you're gonna play, you gotta pay. The deus is a relic/beach hunters dream come true. See if
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Yep, the number one reason more silver IMO is dug with minelabs(on a per capita basis) is because folks are digging a higher percentage of holes with silver in them. One doesn't realize how much time can be taken (maybe wasted) in digging holes with can slaw and nonsilver items in them. Just think for a moment. Take a church site for example. Here's comes a gent with an etrac who kn
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I swung my CTX today. I have been swinging dues for around 3 weeks pretty regulary. The CTX is a tank after you get used to deus. I have a funny feeling your CTX will be sitting a whole lot in the coming weeks. And some say the back phones are junk. I disagree. Just today I swung the CTX for a short while at 9AM this morning while wearing full headphones. The sun was shining and I'll
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Goodmore, the deep 98 tones were funny sounding, almost like iron, hard to describe really. Sorta a cross between a good fluty tone and the deep bellows big iron provides. I also noticed in clean ground running reactivity at 0 or 1 the deus doesn't seem to be very swing speed sensitive for locking on the deep targets, so one can cover a lot of ground. If I get what I think is a chopped si
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Don't let anyone tell you the Deus won't get down in the ground with the stock 9" coil. I will admit I don't have a lot of experience with it yet but I'm learning real fast. Hunted a field today that has gave up some nice buttons in the past. I had the Deus set up as follows: 95 sens, 0 disc with 00-06 notched out, freq 12, reactivity 0, silencer 1, audio report 5, tra
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Curious, how low did you drop your sensitivity and what reactivity setting where you using? I suspect 3. And yes the ole deus is a bloodhound in the nail pits for sure. Its ability to handle EMI pretty well are a bonus too when hunting in towns/cities; especially now with all the electronic gadets that are plentiful today in use unlike say 10-20 years ago. Great finds by the way. It would
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