Sold the Deus 2. Back to Deus I

After I took my Deus II to Montenegro for the underwater detecting at the beach, I traded it for some cash and a Deus I with HF coil. The reason is that I just can’t get along with how it sounds. In Montenegro i did take it underwater, but when am i going to snorkel again and find stuff to pay back what it cost ?
The sounds are so confusing to me, like when I was on Sutomore beach a lot of the targets turned out to be very small molten aluminium blobs, while everytime I thought i had a bigger target. I tried all sound settings and I’m tired of having an expensive detector and getting annoyed by it. Also I had a really bad year on the fields here, not justifying having this high-end find-it-all detector. I really liked the old Deus and used it in 2014 to wade in the sea and I found plenty so I’m just going to do that again. I’m not waiting to have a superdeep detector for the underwater part of beach anyway since i can’t dig that deep. I didn’t get my Sovereign GT sold for a decent price so I’ll use it again here at the Belgian coast

Here’s our photos from the 5-day trip in May 2022. The beaches of Houlgate and Villers-Sur-Mer had close to nothing to offer because there weren’t many people that time of year. I found 10 cents lol. I didn’t detect that much anyway.


I did a very stupid thing after swapping my own Deus II : i told my mate I wanted to buy his deus II because he offered it too cheap. I put it for sale and found another guy to trade his deus I and some cash.. and then it turned out my mate didn’ have the WS4 headphones included. So that’s what you get when being presumptious. And stupid. So I guess i did a bad deal there and I’m still trying to fix it as much as possible.

This one I’m selling now for 700. Found someone who wants to give that but I have to drive to there in a week. I have another WS5 and white coil from the other trade i did (moron). I thought I’d keep the WS5 because no one wants to spend more than 150 to that, which is almost what they’d pay for a WS4 too. But then again, I rather have 150 and use my own corded headphones if i ever need them (which is rarely). Today I detected the field and I can’t imagine I’m missing tones because everything is very clear and I’m not a person that digs the tiniest of whisp.

Today I went out for an hour on some grass/Weeds with the HF coil. Not sure why people like it that much. I had it before and alwyas felt like it found a lot less. My mate would find 18 coins for example, with his 13″ black coil and I’d have like 4. Plus he’d have the smallest silver coins and I didn’t have anything. Not lol :p So I got rid of all whites and x35 and kept my 28cm old version and I was very happy with it. One of the last times I got to go on a well known trampled field and I got an average of 1 target dug every 2 minutes. It’s amazing.

My setup for today’s first hunt of the season. Trying to see what everyone is tlaking about. Again. Will try next time with big black coil. Probably I’ll sell the white again.

Beach Ring Number 4 :D

It has been 3 months since I went to the beach and I was so desperate to try the new Deus. So last weekend I headed there and within two hours I had a new gold ring ! Un Believable !
There had been severe storm winds in the last weeks, plus the high tide and I had seen some had found more than before due to the sand being taken away.
I put my Deus II on Beach Sens, full tones (which i can’t work with now somehow but on beach it was totally ok) and sensitivity on 99. I had A LOT of very small copper bits. Tried finding a gold/silver chain that way but nope. Lucky enough I had a few 1-2 euro coins. Some were even quite deep. Weird but not so much smaller money and lucky not a lot of older coins that I can’t use in the parking :p Oh well. The local parking meter spits out my beach money and I have to start over again every time until i use clean money. Gotta find a way to clean the coins.

THe Spring vacation just started and in combination with the sun finalyl coming out after months, a lot of people were on the beach and a lot of them asked me what I was finding.

Just when I saw the gold shining in the pile of sand, a couple passed and teh guy jokenly asked if i found ag old ring. I said ‘As A matter of Fact, yes’ and showed it to them.

The unbelievable Roll I’m on:
Oct 2020: golden pendant
July 2021: ring with glass
Dec : wedding ring and hollow stamp ring
Dec 31: pendant in the field..
Feb 2022: Stamp ring

I have been detecting since 2010 or so.. Only found gold in Montenegro beaches in 2014 and a broken Roman coin here in 2018. Two rings in a playground later on. Weird.. why is it all happening in the last years ?? Also, Why can’t we find much in the fields??

Yesteray I was on a semi-stublled field in another city. It was hell to figure out the new Deus. Then we moved to a more flat field and I put it in Mono on 25khz and reactivity 3. It worked like a charm (high freq and react always give a nice signal). I had a good hunt here and there with the basic program and some customization of it, but on other occasions it just seems to chatter or give false signals. I tried using Beach like I did on the actual beach last weekend. And also Mono. To no avail. Maybe I should stick to my mono/fast reactivity for a while. I always thought I just need the multifreq on the beach. Did some tests, several times even, and always got confused with results. No fun. Well can’t complain about my beach life though lol.