AQ Limited Small Gold Tuesday

[Joe Beechnut OBN]

Got in 4 hours Tuesday AM, started out with rough water but by 11 am things were calming down. Took me about 30 minutes of messing with the controls before I got it to run stable and under control, then I slowly adjusted the setting as the water calmed. Started out with the settings ....delay 11.5 (15) Sensitivity 6, ATS 8, All metal , volume I ran high the whole time with the threshold just audible.. ( The settings that really seem to calm the AQ in rough water is the delay and ATS ) And by end of day I cut the delay down to 11, sensitivity 4, ATS 6, all metal, volume 9, and threshold 4/5 just audible.  It was purring like a kitten. Dug a lot of nickels, no silver coins, one nickel / silver ring (my first marked that) and one 1.5 gram 10k..

This spot I have passed thru with the excalibur a few times of late, I've yet to find targets the way the AQ does. Shallow targets here are trash so I keep on walking on those..I only dig faints here...and the ring was maybe 12/14 inch's? The AQ loves the small gold rings.  

First time out this year with the drysuit, It was 60 degrees with winds early am. I hate being cold...Plus on one of the other forums some one posted about some flesh eat bacteria and I had cuts on me from working in the yard Monday so best to be safe. All worked out good and glad I went that route.

Video of..........cam has been on the blink of late, I think the problem is moisture inside of the Go Pro. As you can tell by the frosty video. I checked to see if i got the gold ring on video, it did, then I stopped the recording..... then it would not restart. Once home I checked and it started to work again. I just dropped it in a bag of rice to see if that will draw some of the moisture out.

 

[okara gold]

Another great score for the you and the AQ!

[Elbert]

Nice rings. Great granddaughters love the heart ring best.

El 

[dewcon4414]

It will be interesting to see how the Fl hunters use this machine Joe.   We have more of a recent drop situation........ which with the AQ could change to be much like winter hunting here.   Those users will have to change how they hunt to cherry pick like you do.   Skipping shallower targets for the deeper/weaker ones would be like asking a dirt digger to just listen to med. tones for gold hunting in a park..... many will still want to dig it all which is time consuming except in the winter.  Thats when you take the time to work an area.   Very few PIs being used here so VLFs leave us a lot of junk that gets buried not to mention those who "CATCH AND RELEASE" targets........specifically bottle caps at these party beaches like say Ft Meyer where you have the river mud mixed with sand or even CWB.   BUT.... IMO, most hunting doing a lot of time out there will want to have this machine to hit beaches that appear cleaned out.

[mn90403]

Big to ME.  Good job again Joe.

[GoldmanMike]

Wow Joe those are old.  Im going threw my junk ring pile.  I cant believe how well those cleaned up.  Ive got some that look similar but figured they were junkers.  

[dewcon4414]

I think we are still on the same page about wanting a 9 or 10" coil out there.   Not that the 8" wont sale......if thats whats offered.   The 8" makes a good dive coil.......but remember the Xcal had an 8"...... and now we dont.   They just didnt sell well for salt water hunting.....but this is a PI and you may not loose very much depth like you do on a VLF.  Let me know how it goes Joe when ya get one.

[Mikeguard01]

Nice hunt Joe. I hope you get the moisture out of the camera. This temp drop is probably making it worse.

HH

Mike

 

[schoolofhardNox]

Two nice rings that look fairly old. You can tell they were not recently dropped! Beauties! The AQ seemed to run very smooth on your video. Looks like you have this machine dialed in for your type of hunting extremely well. I think it will be in your detecting arsenal for a long time to come 😄