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I bought a cheap bag of colored golf tees to do that with....I got out all the brighter colored ones and took them along and would put them a little ways in the ground to mark my spots. Well...it didn't work as planned as I ended up not re-finding most of the targets due to the golf tees not being visible enough lol had to go back over the same ground and find them with the detector again.
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Kevin -- Look up my videos on YouTube. I done one at my bullet site using the F75 as locator detector and then checking bullet signals with the Tejon with stock coil. I will say that earlier this year I did get another Tejon to play with that came with stock coil and a brand new SEF 10x12 DD coil. I did notice a touch better depth with it but nothing to write home about. I would be interested in
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Some of the TDI specific forums I use to visit had several coin hunters on them that were very successful with the TDI for pulling deep silver in parks and such. Their method was using pulse delay set on 15-17 micro seconds and wherever it ground balances at that setting. I'm not sure what they discovered by that setting but most of them seemed to utilize that particular setting. Similar to
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Keith -- ahh that explains it....I have seen some of the first generation ones that seemed to be a heck of a lot more sensitive than the current models. Carl said they have continued to evolve the platform to make it smoother running....thus smoother running usually means less sensitive. Some of the early ones can't even be hunted with at Max gain...too unstable. The last three that I had...
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I don't like hunting in the rain either. But heat? No sir. Give me the cold anyday!! When it's cold out...you can always put more layers of clothes on and stay comfortable if it gets too cold....but when its hot out...there's only so many articles of clothing you can take off...and that still don't mean you'll stay cool. I've gone to this Under Armour Heat Gear
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Tennessee River @ Loudon. Upper part of Watts Bar. I'm not a big catfisherman so I don't know the cats well...I just know we couldn't beat them away from the shad. Caught 16 of them and only two of what we were after....rockfish aka striped bass.
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My problem is I have too many hobbies I enjoy doing. At the start of the year I got heavy in bow shooting...was gone about every Saturday off shooting tournaments some where and then shooting constantly in my yard for practice. I burned myself out on that...so now I've got the fishing itch. Especially in the summer months. Like this kind of stuff from yesterday:
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Kevin,
When you say TDI...do you mean target ID? You confuse me when you do that....TDI is a metal detector model....TID is what we refer to as Target Identification
I know your question is Deus specific but I wanted to point out something. I think you are right on about the nails. Thus why you see me in all my videos, circling the target. I've learned over the years that PENDING
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Daniel Tn
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There's quite a bit of stuff all around there though. A bunch of my buddies and I have started digging some decent relics up near Loudon, Tn. They camped all in and around Strawberry Plains, Tn. From Strawberry Plains to Kingston, and over to Tellico and back down my way....relics are all around and plenty of farm land to hunt. It is being crept in by subdivisions and concrete but still
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Daniel Tn
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As a young boy, I was fascinated with things most young boys are....fighting wars with stick guns and that sort of stuff. One summer we had driven to west Tennessee to visit a place called Land Between the Lakes...my parents deer hunted there and I was still too young to go with them on the hunts...BUT I could go on the scouting trips with them during the summer. Out at Land Between the Lakes,
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I would have bought it myself had I had extra cash and or if you had a layaway plan lol. Don had a used one come in and I got it because I could pay on it when I sell some archery equipment.
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Wow if you're TDI can still pick a coin up at 10" set like that, you better hang onto it. All it really does is change the break over point of the nails/iron and makes it change to a high tone while coins still give a low tone...since you can have only one audio channel selected, you don't hear the high tone the nails now give but can hear the low tones of the remaining high conduc
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Jerry -- I use AVG anti virus on my PC with auto updates and scans. I've not had any problem thus far and this is the first I've heard of anybody else having one too.
Keith -- It reminds me more of the Shadow X5 than it does anything else. The tone pitch has an adjustment on it....it's at its factory preset right now...I've thought of playing with it and making it higher
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
No the GPX isn't as bad as you might think. It gets a bad wrap for an iron digger..mostly by people who have never used them or if they have, it wasn't for very long. It is the more user friendly PI machine on the market. The ONLY downside to the GPX is the price. It comes stock with a 11" DD coil and an 11" mono coil...the mono coils you CANNOT discriminate with...only the
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I will Vouch for Kevin. Great guy and this is a great price. I wish I had the extra money right now because this would have been gone quick, fast, and in a hurry.
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Daniel Tn
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Blisstool for sure = #1 pick. Once you can pick the "mellow" sound apart from the raspy and sharper sounding targets, it is indeed an iron killing, deep seeking VLF machine. I hunted about 8 hours with mine last night at the same site I hunted last week where I was digging so much iron. After getting the mellow sound in my head, I was able to go back in there and hunt that long and o
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Daniel Tn
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I can't say it's about the relics or the money for me. I have dug a few decent relics in my time hunting for them, and some of them I have had friends that just oogled over them, especially if they were there when they were recovered...only to turn right around at their birthday or something, and have that relic in a box for them with a note saying something to the effect of "good
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Just out of curiosity...how many of you full time Deus guys would have dug those signals like what we had in the video? I didn't know the Deus at all prior to me picking it up and going after Don plugged Keith's settings in. I ran a bullet over the coil to hear what it sounded like and off I went. I was just listening for signals. The Deus behaved VERY similar to the T2 and F75 in how
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Daniel Tn
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We've been hunting at night to get away from the heat. The only part I don't like is: its harder getting permission to hunt but if folks are cool about letting others hunt raccoons and frog gig at night...usually they are open to relic hunting too. I went from having zero need for a probe....to it being crucial to have. I love the light to be able to see what you're digging and whe
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To my knowledge, nobody has them currently in stock. I sent a few folks to Don to get them and he ended up selling his demo model to one of them. I hope Keith don't mind...here are the settings he sent me that we used. We tried bouncing between the 12 khz and 4 and 8 khz on some of them to see if it made a drastic change in target aquiring but it didn't seem to make that much noticib
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Video from the hunt with Don:
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I'm not savvy on the Deus...Don did all the programming for it with Keith's settings. I know it gave GB numbers in one field at 73 and in the field I videod, it was 78-79. I'm not sure what that means though. It w
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Met up with Don Dodson today from North GA Relics. He brought the Deus and CTX up to play at my bullet hill testing site. We battled the rain for the first few hours of our hunt but it sure didn't help the ground conditions any...still bone dry and hard digging. Don spent about 95% of his time on the new Minelab and I got to run the Deus for a little while and mostly the Blisstool. Many
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Dew -- It's a long story. Goes back several years now. I was a member over there until I went on one of the hunts they put on. The site we went to was near Fredericksburg, VA and was a very small piece of property. After hunting around til lunch on the first day and not finding anything, I figured I was just in the wrong spots. I came back to the truck for lunch and ran into several friends
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Shambler Wrote:
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> I think the real story here is that people still
> use Treasure Depot. (couldn't resist!)
Now ain't THAT the truth!! lol. All that's left over there are the ones who think they are the elite diggers of the world and the ones who honestly don't know any better.
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Don @ North GA Relics asked them when he went to the shindig they had for the training and revealing of the CTX, and they told him "sometime this year".
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And I tell ya what....if anybody is impatient and wants a Blisstool right now without the wait, I will sell you mine for....$2,300 shipped :-) I will gladly go to the end of the line to wait on another....I mean I'm just trying to be considerate for those who want it NOW NOW NOW. I have one and can have it ready to ship. Just broke in good and trained to sniff relics. Heck, if you're
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It is either in the manual or the Blisstool UK forum where I got that piece of info (if it makes noise when trying to GB, it's telling you the sensitivity is too hot). I have always heard it described as the "high beams in heavy fog" analogy when running too high of gain. Now that I think about it, that's the analogy they used to describe the very thing...can't remember
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Speaking of learning experience...let me relate a story from my hunt yesterday. I am still a newbie on this machine...I have now logged about 26 hours on it...most of that coming this past week, in which I was off for 5 days in a row.
I went early Wednesday morning before it was too humid and hot to breath, and was hunting along enjoying the morning at the site I first took the Bliss to. A
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