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Ahhh grasshopper, you have begun to let the machine teach you. You are now on the upward learning curve of what that machine can really do. Most never get to that point. I'd venture to say 90 percent never do then they trade it for something better they think. You have opened up a whole new world for yourself. Keep at it and you will see those type audio signals are the norm. Lots of stuff t
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A buddy and myself want the DVD he made on the Deus. Can't get one here in the US it seems. Anyone have any connections or ideas how we can get a couple.
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Three + year ETrac user here. Absolutely superb machine for "finding coins". I loved mine...... If you are in "highly" mineralized soil, Minelabs do not work to their fullest in those conditions. We have a lot of black sand and Ga red clay here in middle Ga. The machine did not care for that at all so I avoided it. Good luck and it will find the coins like no other.
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Here's what is going on gents. A couple of years ago you had just a handful of sellers/dealers. Most all of the companies they get their detectors from to sell as a dealer have a price clause, selling price stipulation, don't go under it in other words. A few dealers came on the scene a little later and just slap undercut the ones trying to do business the way it was supposed to be don
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Fisher just paints them and adds curb feelers and calls them a different model with a huge hype an advertising to get the customer all worked up. They actually get more money for that.
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Basic 1, reactivity@1, silencer@1, disc@10, 12 khz, iron volume@1, sweep speed about 4 seconds one way. In a beach setting the machine is a beast imo. Mineralization doesn't bother it anything like it does my minelabs. My minelabs have been over this same area several several dozens of times. Exact same area.
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Love that Deus! So much mineralization my ML's couldn't find these either. At times the mineralization scale was pegged out on this beach.
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I would in no way want the iron wrap around to go away in the V 3 update. One thing you can believe about this machine is if it is giving a conductive then a ferrous signal on the apparently same target they are both there, something good and something iron. I've been hunting with mine exclusively on the freshwater beaches and the machine is telling you something, not wrapping. I dig anythin
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Jack Flynn
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I've got a yearning and want to fix it! I've read articles and watched videos. Tell me about it first hand in depth if so, dang that itch!!!!!!!
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GT for both dry and wet and not digging any iron "once you learn the machine" It will false on iron but the feedback tells you to dig or not. OAN I have been having superb experiences with the Deus. It handles black sand and iron superbly, don't know about the salt wet sand side of It though. My GT of going to be lonely this winter. Both are about learning the machine however.
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I've posted many times about this small beach I have been detecting. Red clay under the sand, quartz and a lot of black sand and iron to boot. Since January of this year or thereabouts I've gotten a lot of rings and silver off of this beach. Not hardly anything in the water per the lake is 12 ft low. I'm hunting the normal pool line and where people would have swam when it is at fu
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Aaron Wrote:
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> Looks like a old ring, 1st guess would have been
> it came out of the water. Did you find it on the
> surf?
> Congrats!
Dry freshwater beach sand, well, wet from the many inches of tropical rain from the hurricane.
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Got another ring today, silver insignia ring, some clad, greenies, and a bunch of old pulltabs, a bracelet like thingy too, hit hard on that at 4-5 inches. I've hunted the heck out of this place more times than I care to tell. Any one of these pulltabs could have been a ring :cool: Lightning fast reactivity, I love it! Great depth.........
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That makes gold ring number 12 from this small area. The recent rains have moved some of the sand and did a lot of washing all over the sloped area. Got some clad and some very small pieces too. I'm tickled at the tiny stuff and the depth I'm getting it at. Running dry beach with reactivity of 3 and 96 sensitivity in 18 khz. Really taking a shine to this machine
The ring is stamped
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The point of this post is I didn't see this with none of my other detectors. pull tabs and nickels and the other stuff could easily be a ring. Like I said I would have bet money this was not in the ground. I'm impressed.
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Carried the GT and the Deus to a place where I have literally ran a coil many dozens or more times on an old freshwater beach, dry sand and red clay with quartz and pebbles. It's a spot not much bigger than a double car garage. I have ran the ETrac, Excal, GT in disc and several times in all metal. I was shocked at what the Deus pulled out of this little area. Lots of nails in the ground fro
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Set it and it and it doesn't change until you change it again. Nice pinprointer and well have to wait and see beyond that. I had three Garrett Pinpointers. They all went back to be desensitized, you could hold them over your head and they would be going off lol. Airplanes and flying saucers I guess....
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Notice how well it does, also notice at 3 or so minutes it starts getting real sensitive. Also any denomination bill in America is 6 inches long.
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Yep that's exactly about what the ETrac will read on most all you charted. I know you didn't find all the rings you had listed, with the ETrac? Best coinshooter out there, does not like much of anything but coins not unless you are a dig it all guy. If so I commend you. Nice excel spreadsheets...........
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Jack Flynn
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CH I traded the ETrac for a second Excalibur II about 6 months or so ago maybe more. Got the GT about a year ago and the ETrac sat motionless for a long time. The GT is my detector of choice and is awesome for any type of hunting, ESPECIALLY the beaches. Ain't nothing any better imo. Now I am going to see what my Deus will do on the freshwater beaches I hunt. That should be interesting......
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CH as long winded as you are I like your thoughts and ideas you post, I get deep into them. That is exactly what made my finds of gold and silver go up this past winter and early spring with the GT. If it makes a click or clack or any kind of conductive noise it got dug period. I was going to find out what gave the signal. Much to my surprise I came away from one small old freshwater beach with 1
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Another 3 CTX's popped up for sale today, eeek. Won't be long they will be affordable on the used market............... Reminds me of my last passion for years, Adult Precision Airguns. You can spend some money there boy's. The price got high and the Americans dumped on the airgun mfgrs. It's tough to lose 5 bills in a month just to try a machine, you have to pay to play. I s
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Well I got in about four hours with the Deus this morning. At first I wondered, what the hell am I doing going back to these same places I destroyed with the Etrac? I purposely picked some very small areas that I had no joke, covered dozens of times and was still pulling coins with the ML until it dried up. I mean nothing to be found! Very small 10x20 or so areas that had a lot of coins in them.
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Tom right now 2 Excal II's, Sovereign GT, and just got an XP Deus. Ran an ETrac for the last 3 years and was very proficient with it. I really think it's the best coin shooter out there. Just it doesn't give you the info the GT and Excal's do. I'm hunt with my ears. I'm a Minelab guy that just went astray with a Deus. ML needs to start listening to us, the American c
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