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And I am so thankful for it!!! Even with one of those high falutin shovels that I gave 79 bucks fer, the one that comes with foot pads, I was having to pound that thing to get even a half inch into the ground. Good heavens!!! We can get more signals dug now. I SO wanted to hunt this afternoon but I am sorting out all of my finds today and putting them in plaques. Alot of them are just personal
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Oh, I keep my finds. I bought a whole box of glass fronted plaques at the onset of my addiction to this hobby. I am pretty sure that I was in Deus Fast but I very well could have been in my new 3 tone, Disc 0, program, My new program is a mutation of the +How to get more depth from your Deus" thread that started on another forum and that was also displayed here with a link to that program.
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Wow, I am just coming to my senses. This find came out of the infamous bed of nails that I have mentioned so much on this forum!!!! There wer nails in the same hole as this Martingale. I kept them too, to use with my testing. Heck I didn't even know what I had!!! I just thought: It's agot an eagle on it. Must be something. I then went to the Huddle House and had the waffel platter.
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Thanks for the test Daniel. That IS impressive and the all metal mode set up would be what I would use in the woods and fields that I have permission to hunt near a major battle field. Sadly, the site has been pounded to death since the 70's/ The reson I know that is that metal detetcorist found two Confederate soldiers in very shallow graves. They were exhumed and transferred to the US Park
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
goodmore Wrote:
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> You need to give it more time. If you are looking
> for that perfect machine out there let me tell you
> it does not exist. I had the At Pro. Loved it for
> what I spent on it. But I sold it along with my
> Sovereign GT to fund the Deus purchase. Detectors
> come and go and I have yet to find one th
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Thanks for the replies guys. I have taken the Deus on about ten hunts, each hunt being an average of 4 hrs each. So I am a youngster when it comes to the Deus. Heck, I am a youngster when it comes to detecting!!! I started in March of 2011. And I have been savagely hooked every since. It's the only hobby that slowed me down on my airgun hobby. (I enjoy tuning anmd shooting German breakbarre
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I just got through with the umpteenth head to head comparison (I use the term loosely) between the two detectors I own. The XP Deus and the AT Pro. It is just NOT possible, it seems, to get by with one machine when you hunt like me. I hunt square nail beds. (I prefer they be square nails and not round nails as that tells us it is likely older). But I also hunt some open woods and fields that ma
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
My Deus will detect a Minie Ball at 7 and 9 inches. But the one that I buried at 8 inches, it won't detect. I don't know. I just don't know.
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
And I'm the one who sold him the Omega!!!!!!!!! I may be getting another. Jury still out on the Deus. I buried 3 three ringers yesterday. One at 7 inches. One at 8 inches. One at 9 inches. It hit's the 7 inch and 9 inch one good. But will hardly touch the 8 incher. It may like only odd numbers of inches in depth. But bear in mind that I may have adjusted something and caused thi
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Yes, I have lost my " I just got a new detector" giddyness. I am going to try it with two tones at site where fired bullets and buttons have been found. I made a new test garden. You are so right on the VDI numbers. I will go one farther: It shows bullets, and a buried Eagle I button, and silver dimes and quarters at 98. Everything seems to be 98 in the ground if its a hi tone. But a
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Daniel. great testing. Your credibility is excellent. You are one the guys who I know doesn't exaggerate but tells it and shows it like it is. Thanks. Kevin
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
goodmore Wrote:
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> My first real hunt is tomorrow. I know what you
> mean about the menu system. It will take time
> remember stuff. I have an idea of how I want to
> run the Deus. I did play with a few settings. But
> until I get out there I just don't have a clue of
> how hot to run it. The Deus can be set very
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Man this unit is awesome. At first I was intimidated by the menu, I still am about the expert settings, but I read the menu settings portion of the manual. I already see one mistake I was making. I would power up the unit next to the car or anywhere without being mindful of the instructions to power it up with the coil AWAY from metal so that it would calibrate during those twenty blips of the c
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Yes the dry spell is here as well. The ground in the fields are as hard as asphalt!!! Cold asphalt! The woods are much better to dig in. In fact, I much prefer the woods (more shade, better ground ususally). Yes, I am impressed with the power although mosts stuff that I fis 3 to 5 inches. As in, true inches. Ya know, 5 inches in the ground is pretty deep when ya look at the hole.
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
As I stated in another post in another thread, the XP Deus was easily able to acquire all the targets in my very unelaborate test garden. My garden consist of several silver dimes and quarters, and a few Minie balls, buried at varied depths. The deepest bullet being 11.5 inches. So far my favorite factory program is #2 (GM Max???). The 11.5 inch bullet gets a clear and repeatable hi tone but n
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Okay guys. I know that I admitted to being an exaggerator on the mend the other day, but I really found these and am proud of them. It's not often that I get to go and hunt on a hayfield and woodlands that was also a battlefieild. It was private land owned by a farmer who is sympathetic to our cause. Many acres of heavily hunted acres but there;s still some goodies out there. The Deus will g
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Kevin B
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Everything is charged and I took it out to my test garden where, after I groud balanced, it hit everything there. So far it has got my attention in a positive way. I am heading to one of my sites now and see if I missed anything. I'll be using one of the factory programs.
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
XP Deus has been delivered and has been charging for a couple of hours. How long is this gonna take!? LOL I'm ready to hit the test garden and then my classic square nail site.
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
A detecting buddy and I went to some property that borders a major battleground today. Like all other bordering property, this place has been picked over for years and years. As soon as we cranked up our detectors this morning the action started. I ground balanced my machine (85) and started swinging. I hadn't gone 5 yards when I hit a signal that was among some iron signals. It hit arou
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'm glad that there was some good information gained from my orginal post. My original intent was to come clean with you guys about exaggerating. About six and a half years ago I made a decision to start trying to live the way God wants me to live according to what I read in my Bible. Now in no way am I trying to cram my beliefs down your throat. But I am duty bound to call myself out about
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Okay, first of all, I have always been an exaggerator. I have struggled with that tendency every since deciding to live according to a higher standard. This has to do with me saying that my AT Pro air test a silver dime at 12 inches. Well, it does.......BUT ONLY in Pro Zero mode with iron disc not run up at all. At twelve inches it will give a very faint, but repeatable, hi tone at just under 12
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I just went ahead and bookmarked my UPS Tracking page so that I can watch the Deus as it CRAWLS towards me. Reading posts about it and watching videos of it just makes it worse. I really do think that I have a detecting addiction. Or else, I'm addicted to buying and trying the latest detector. I have got a 58 cal Minie Ball buried at 10.5 inches just waiting for it. So far, nothing has rea
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Daniel Tn Wrote:
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> The Omega you sold me is hitting an 8" Quarter
> every sweep now with the DD coil and in disc mode,
> red dirt ;-) And correctly IDing a silver dime
> and correct VDIs for a minie ball at 6 inches
> every sweep. It now air tests a minie at 13.5
> inches and a eagle button at 12 inches....in
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I don't know how far one would have to drive to find good dirt to hunt in. Maybe across the Mississippi River, but that's just a wild guess off the cuff. Heck, I'm getting used to it. Most, if not all, the stuff I find is well within detection range. Even little 22 rifle casings and bullets. But I do know that there are good places that have about 3 inches of fill dirt on top that
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Kevin B
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum