I wasn't and am not interested in the Deus. At least from some bench testing I have done so far. I've mainly been using the 9" X35 coil hitting urban Coin & Jewelry Hunting sites, and at this point, that ORX / 9" X35 combination is likely going to remain as part of my urban Coin & Jewelry Hunting Team and the ORX / 5X9½ HF combination will be in my Relic Hunting Team and also likely going to be the one first-grabbed for gold nugget hunting. So, I got my brand new ORX w/5X9½ HF coil, then bought my pampered original ORX back from Kickindirt, but with the 9" X35 DD coil.
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but had to listen to him talk about the X35 coil, plus I followed it on Gary B's Skill School videos. So, I ordered another brand new ORX w/5X9½ DD HF coil. He sold the coil and lower rod to another customer but still hadn't used my ORX but I really like the HF elliptical coil for the Relic Hunting sites I like to work. I bought a brand new ORX w/5X9½ DD HF coil the first week of June and used it almost exclusively but traded it back to my dealer friend in mid-September when I was readjusting my Detectors Outfit. I'll try and get a 2 or 4 seat RUV to help get me back into some area near three gold mining era ghost towns I hunt just to try some modern-day nugget hunting. Your posts here and elsewhere have encouraged me to spend some of this wintry down-time working with the Gold modes and my coils to be ready for spring and summer of next year. I used to get out for gold nugget hunting from time-to-time in the l'80s and early '90s, but declining mobility and health issues have limited my ability to work into some worthwhile potential sites.
It was the most fun and success I've ever had at this site AND I found some nice gold too. I dug everything that was not screaming iron or frozen.
Gold 1, sensitivity 90, frequency 54, threshold 7, reactivity 2, disc IAR 2, iron volume ON. I was not exhausted when I got to the prospecting area and I didn't have to swing a 3+ lbs detector for 5 hours in rough uneven terrain either. It was so light that I didn't know it was in my pack.
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Getting to backpack the ORX was awesome since my hands were free on the hike in to hold something other than a detector in case I slipped, tripped or just got clumsy and fell. I got to take the ORX into the Colorado mountains this week above 9,000 feet in cold, snowy, steep hillside conditions to an area that I have hunted before with other detectors. Also, the ORX does a great job giving easy to identify audio variations to differentiate most hot rocks from good targets. But, the ORX also has a very big numerical target ID screen AND a big Iron Probability bar which is used in all four of its factory preset modes.
So, with these two improvements over the Deus alone, I can forget about the remote and just hunt very successfully by ear if I want to. It also has a dedicated steady threshold tone that has volume adjustment.which will clearly waver over tiny or very deep targets. It has Iron Tone/Iron Volume adjustments and Iron Amplitude Rejection which basically turns the ORX into a 2 Tone detector in Gold 1 and Gold 2 and creates a low iron grunt VCO tone for iron and medium/high VCO tone for non-ferrous. The ORX on the other hand has four features that the Deus does not have in Goldfield which make prospecting (and relic hunting in my opinion) much less stressful and much more successful. That screen was usually pretty hard for me to see and it slowed me down.
I usually had to use the XY Graph screen so I could have more information about ferrous and non-ferrous target identification. IAR set above zero would somewhat break up audio responses of iron targets which was very helpful. Raising sensitivity and/or adjusting the Audio Response does create something of a threshold tone volume control which will null on iron if I set the Iron Amplitude Rejection above zero, but it is very hard to hear the nulling at least for me and the threshold tone was so unsteady in high mineralization that it did not help on tiny target detection very much. I liked it BUT, Goldfield does not have Iron Tone/Iron Volume and it doesn't have an actual volume adjustment for its All Metal threshold tone. I originally used a Deus in Goldfield for prospecting. I actually sold my other specialty prospecting detector made by a different company instead. The rolling down hillsides is less of a problem due to the shape of the HF round coil. I reconsidered my decision and purchased another ORX but with the 9" round HF coil. I sold my first one with the 9X5 HF elliptical coil because I thought it was no better than the gold prospecting specialty detector that I already owned, I often prospect in very uneven, steep, rocky terrain and the ORX was constantly falling over and rolling down hillsides, hitting trees or boulders and I hated the audio.