Popular Post Momokahn Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Just like the college sports transfer portal, I too have decided to change my mind.😁 I was set on buying the new NM Legend. Instead I visited a local MD dealer today and had a chance to test drive the dealers Equinox 800. The Equinox 800 checked every box and then some. It will get me where I want to be in metal detecting. The dealer was pretty impressed on how I was able to navigate through the controllers menus and settings. It is on order and will be here next week. Now for the "goodies" getting thrown in for free. Both editions of Andy Sabisch's Handbooks on the Equinox 600/800, a Minelab Hat (I love hats), and any magazine, current or past editions that are in stock. And there are a lot in stock. Excited is an understatement. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valens Legacy Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Congrats on your new detector and may it serve you well. Take your time to learn it and you will be be able to find anything that you want. There is many on here that can help with most of your questions on it except for "What is the meaning of life". They tend to tell you finding good things. Just kidding, but we may be able to answer any question that you might have. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locator Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Yap, buy local is the way one should walk, but it's not practicable always. Congratulations on your new tool. Good Luck & Happy Hunting. 😄👍 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 May the Nox be with you ... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPT_GhostLight Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Congrats on your new detector! Andy's book is great and so are Clive James Clynick's books. One that helped me alot was "Minelab The Equinox Series from Beginner to Advanced". Amazon Link The key to doing well with any detector is to read the manual thoroughly and get out with it as much as you can. The more you use it, the more you will learn how it works and learn to hear what it is telling you. Happy Hunting! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mh9162013 Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 You're not the only one who was leaning one way, but went with the Equinox! Happy hunting! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick93 Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 You made a great choice, the old Equinox is hard to beat. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxkatt Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 On 11/23/2021 at 8:55 PM, Momokahn said: Just like the college sports transfer portal, I too have decided to change my mind.😁 I was set on buying the new NM Legend. Instead I visited a local MD dealer today and had a chance to test drive the dealers Equinox 800. The Equinox 800 checked every box and then some. It will get me where I want to be in metal detecting. The dealer was pretty impressed on how I was able to navigate through the controllers menus and settings. It is on order and will be here next week. Now for the "goodies" getting thrown in for free. Both editions of Andy Sabisch's Handbooks on the Equinox 600/800, a Minelab Hat (I love hats), and any magazine, current or past editions that are in stock. And there are a lot in stock. Excited is an understatement. Clive Clynick's books on the Equinox are much better than Andy's. Andy's book on the CTX3030 was very good, his Equinox book not so good and in my opinion full of filler fluff. Do not under any circumstances use anyone elses settings. Stay in the standard modes until you learn how to set up your 800 for your type of hunting and hunt sites. It does not take much to get a setting wrong on the 800 and totally ruin a hunt by using a badly tuned detector. That has been my personal experience with 3 years on the 800. Hunting coins in a park that is trashy with modern trash (aluminum) use park1 or par2 and switch to 4kHz. 80% of your aluminum trash is will be invisible to your 800. Some times pull tabs with out their tail and screw caps will still trigger the 800's roundness routine and report those as good targets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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