Sounds like a fun hunt Roger. Not sure why you wouldn't hear the nail. That particular nail might just been giving you a type of high tone falsing instead of a iron grunt. Which is pretty normal with deus and some large oversized nails. In my experience the deus never sounds off on iron the same as most other machines do.

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