Equinox Beach Hunt

[schoolofhardNox]

I finally had a chance to hit the beach with the Equinox 800. My first hunt was at a cellar hole. It did fairly well considering I did not study up on it. This past week was it's maiden voyage at a beach. I was a little more up to speed at programming it. The machine exceeded what I thought I would get on this hunt. The is a moderate to heavy EMI location with not a lot of shoreline to escape away from it. It handled the EMI a little bit better than the CTX or the GPX.  My very first target was a junk earring stud. Nice, sort of micro jewelry. A little while later a part of a silver chain. Hmmm. Then another tiny chain and heart. Hmmm again. Next a silver chain and small ID bracelet. OK what gives? Three chains from a beach I hit a lot and I never found one chain. But the Equinox had more surprises in store. 2 Buffalo nickels right in a row, and then a thin gold heart. Probably attached to something bigger originally. And at last call, it gave me a beautiful .583 gold earring w/ice. Probably fake ice, but ice just the same  Next week I'm splitting the day with the GPX and Equinox at a beach I have found close to 70 silvers in a relatively small area of about 120 x 20 foot section. All  around 14" deep. I will cleanse it again with the GPX and then see what small things I missed. I am anxiously awaiting beach day !!

[flakmagnet]

pretty impressive haul there. nice hunting...

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Not bad at all!!

What was the trash to keeper ratio?  I don't beach hunt much (maybe now I will that I have an EQ800!), but am curious how much junk you had to dig to get the old coins and silver & gold?

Nice start for sure.

 

[mn90403]

22 minutes ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Not bad at all!!

What was the trash to keeper ratio?  I don't beach hunt much (maybe now I will that I have an EQ800!), but am curious how much junk you had to dig to get the old coins and silver & gold?

Nice start for sure.

 

Wow!  I am just about opposite you.  Relic hunting has to have the most trash of all metal detecting.  Beach trash can be seen with a CTX and you don't dig it.  Most trash is seen with a Nox and you dig some of it.  The two main culprits are caps and bobby pins.  You get some lead and other stuff but you also get the good stuff.  The best detectorists I know at the beach use PIs and they dig everything wet and dry but they know where to go and they would have it no other way because they go DEEP.

Mitchel

[mn90403]

School,

Well done.  At first I thought you were describing a portion of a beach as a cellar hole and I had never heard that term.  I found gold within my first couple of hunts at the beach also.  It gets better if you have targets.

Well done.

Mitchel

[schoolofhardNox]

21 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Not bad at all!!

What was the trash to keeper ratio?  I don't beach hunt much (maybe now I will that I have an EQ800!), but am curious how much junk you had to dig to get the old coins and silver & gold?

Nice start for sure.

 

Hi Cal-Cobra, I dig a lot by choice. I have always been that way  Here's that days trash. I separate by ferrous and non ferrous. I feel it is one of the reasons I have been able to detect for 48 years now. But I must admit the reduced weight of this Minelab machine is a welcomed improvement

[schoolofhardNox]

20 hours ago, mn90403 said:

School,

Well done.  At first I thought you were describing a portion of a beach as a cellar hole and I had never heard that term.  I found gold within my first couple of hunts at the beach also.  It gets better if you have targets.

Well done.

Mitchel

Yeah, sorry about that. My very first hunt with the Equinox was at a beat up cellar hole. My first hunt at a beach was the one I posted. So it was my second hunt with the machine overall. Here's the results of the cellar hole hunt. I did about 4 hours at the cellar and 9 hours at the beach.

[schoolofhardNox]

Here's the rest of the beach finds from that hunt

[mn90403]

Those smalls at the beach remind me of one night I had with the CTX and the 12" coil.  I stopped using it after I got the 17 but I did use it then.

The Nox get more of them than the CTX so far.  Those pieces of jewelry and I've attacked the rake up piles once.  I think I could find things in them now.

[schoolofhardNox]

1 minute ago, mn90403 said:

Those smalls at the beach remind me of one night I had with the CTX and the 12" coil.  I stopped using it after I got the 17 but I did use it then.

The Nox get more of them than the CTX so far.  Those pieces of jewelry and I've attacked the rake up piles once.  I think I could find things in them now.

It's funny. The Equinox reminds me of an Etrac/GPX 5000 hybrid machine. It picks up small stuff like my GPX but has kind of an older Minelab multi frequency feel. Here's some of the small stuff it found at the beach that day. I had even smaller pieces but forgot to photograph them.