Wendell Clark

I use the Bluetooth exclusively.

Untethered detecting is a pure joy, I could not go back to being corded. I do not feel the supposed lag time hampers me in any way. I never used the WM08 because I did not have quality headphones to begin with, so I can not truthfully say if I like it. I was good with the supplied BT phones but have since started using Avantree phones.

A supplied treasure map with X marks the spot and a parrot that repeats pieces of eight!

Your research paid off. Great job and even better finds!

1 hour ago, Tony Downs said:

I am new to detecting but have about 400 hours of YouTube detecting experience 😁. I got my equinox 800 about 3 weeks ago and have dug at 3 places old school (war nickel and wheat penny),  60’s abandoned house (clad dime and memorial copper penny} and an old farm house/boarding house built in 1890’s ( GOLD ring, Mercury dime, 4 Buffalo nickels, 1 war nickel, 8 1945-48 nickels, 35 wheat pennies and 5 memorial pennies. I am very very happy with my less than 1 month of digging but somehow I feel I’m missing silver at the old farm house. With that many coins from to 30’s and 40’s and only one Mercury dime and 1 silver nickel I’m not sure but wanted opinions as to what I am missing or is it just coincidental that no silver is popping up. I’m running park 1, all defaults with noise cancel and ground balanced out except yesterday I slowed recovery to 4 and decreased FE to 4. Thanks for the add and looking forward to suggestions. Tony

With only three weeks in I would say you doing great! Congrats on the finds and the new detector.

All great stuff...that quarter is over the top though

Congrats and great find..... finding big silver is always sweet and rare.

great hunt... thanks for taking the time to show us!

I second Cal's motion! Big Congrats!!

I do not notch out anything. Good targets at depth can have very different or no VDI reading. My usual start settings would be Park 1,Iron (horseshoe) on. NC, GB, 50 tones iron volume set at 1,no threshold, recovery speed at 4, 0 iron bias. Sensitivity seems more like a throttle to me, 19 or 20 to start but can be adjusted up or down depending on conditions. Basically unfiltered....I read it here a long time ago and it has worked for me. Oh yeah, I hunt as though my shoelaces were tied together.

Congrats on the nugget Randy. It is cooling off down here, time for more!

funny thread as the 81 and older cent and the nickel are the only currency with intrinsic value......and this being a forum with focus on GOLD PROSPECTING

I ordered another yoke and am going to buy another telescoping shaft to do my 800. This can be done without altering any of the original equipment. That telescoping shaft is the answer to the question I never thought to ask. Makes everything backpack/easy transport ready.

The easiest solution is to get one of the GM1000 broomstick rod repair extras that comes with the monster. I just put tommy tape on the lower for the time being. Best would be a 2 piece thin plastic insert that would allow the monster repair piece to exact fit to the lower rod. And yes I am going to replace the metal hose clamps with the plastic type, they were not available in my area, special order type stuff. Thanks for the idea Steve, this rod will be the way to go....at 50 bucks its a bargain.

Join the SPMA, lots of claims from S.D. county to Yuma Az. If you also relic hunt I would like recomennd a book by Chris Wray called The Historic Backcountry. It covers SD and Imperial counties. Loads of information.

GB: Thanks, have found dimes but the condition is so poor that it wasn't worth showing. The lock reads Southern Pacific Co.Roadway and Bridge Department.

Steve: I have been running sensitivity like "low beams in the fog" particularly in difficult conditions, I like stable. The beach 1 mode is the best in the alkali mud for sure as I have toggled back and forth to park 1,the most reliable signal is beach. I am sure this place has been detected multiple times over the years, the Equinox being the advantage. The site is giving my friend with a T2 fits

Thanks. Yes they are trade and tax tokens.

Nice video, thanks for posting it. Gave it like !

dsrtdwg1......I have used this ID on all the forums that I am a member of. All were off road dirt bike forums to begin with, then any other that I happened to participate in. Kept it simple, I have fallen on my head more than once. My name is Wendell Clark, no I did not play hockey.

I read the entire thread this morning. My 800 has the update,with the 6 on it I am digging a bit more iron at depth.

The flip side is that it finds previously missed high conductors in high trash areas, thats a fair exchange in my book. There seems to 

be a difference in tone quality, a slight shortening or clip when it falses.I am keeping mine as there are no cellar holes or CW battle fields

here in Southern California.

11 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Apparently your settings are working well and I would use them for a while. If you are done with an area (I would grid the most productive area), then you can redo it while changing settings and see if anything else comes up. Otherwise the other way to do it is, when you get what you think is a very deep iffy target, don't dig it. That is the ideal time to, one by one adjust settings to see if you can clear up the target or not.

I like the idea of marking the potential target and trying different settings. I will take some golf tees with me next time.

Today I tried something different, trying to cherry pick only deep high tones. Had the 6 inch coil on my 800, very trashy small 100+ year old park.

Set  it on Park 1, noise cancel, manual GB, 5 tones with the first 3 segments set to 0 volume 1 tone the last 2 were both set to max volume and tone,

set the recovery speed at 5 and 0 iron bias. My question to those that  know is, am I losing depth with this kind of setting? It seemed to work well, I have been 

trying to figure out  how to park hunt deep silver,.All the pieces in the image were only giving tone, no numbers and were all carrot deep. Suggestions?

On 11/15/2018 at 4:10 AM, dewcon4414 said:

ha ha......... or i lost my diamond ring did you find it?.........and what you looking for?

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