Wendell Clark

I have covered maybe 1/10 of the area. I am using the stock 11, I am using Park 1 , iron on, iron volume set at 1, 50 tones, 6 recovery, 0 Iron bias. The small plate is a 1949 California registration plate. I went back today and hunted in an area that was covered in small demolition debris, slow going. Wheats and 4 silvers today, the charm was eyeball. I believe it will produce more silver but will be a tough nut.

My 800 works great for me also. I have only owned 4 other detector and the Nox is the best I have used.

I got out today for about 4 hours. A couple of old locals told me of an area near a WW2 air field that had civilian housing when the base was in use. During the 50's the county rented the cottage bungalows out. Small wood structures that were built on pier blocks. They were sold off and taken down by the early 60's. Looks to me to be a 10-12 acre area that had maybe 60 small units. Lots of junk but the area has not been razed. Looks like I have a new area to fiddle around at.

10 minutes ago, VicR said:

I am jumping in straight away to get a 6000. Im looking at it in another way - cost is $8000 AUD - i hope to get 10 years out of this technology as it is a big leap forward (especially for me as i dont have a GPZ or SDC) and gone are the days where we have a new GP/GPX every 3 years. So thats $800 AUD a year or $15 AUD a week - so for the cost of a weekly movie ticket i get to go to the best show in Australia - the gold fields - and try my luck.

Naturally this assumes i have 10 more active years left in me.🙂

I am not interested in the detector but your outlook is perfect!

F2 set at 0. I am not around a lot bottle caps and they don't seem to be a great consistent signal anyway. Old rusted tin can pieces are a pain no matter what I do.

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.

I found this Mexican 1925 10 centavos a little over a year ago. Dug it at an old SP stop that was very good to me. It sounded like an IHP. Solid 19 on the 800. As small as it is I am surprised that more have not shown up. Show some small silver.

I have been trying to locate a school house site in a small farming settlement that was abandoned by the late 1920's. The settlement had a few houses scattered about, a rail stop/ post office and a 1 room rural school house. Everything was razed years ago. Yesterday I located a privy hole that was cased with an iron pipe so I figured that must be the area. Meager finds that are par for the course here where I live with the exception of the Chinese coin. It is the first I have found, so I was pretty happy with that. 

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.

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.

I have been hunting an old desert SP stop that is heavy alkali , so heavy that the top of the ground is a white salt crust. The park 1 and beach 1 settings have produced the most favorable results for me and at this point seem equal. The sensitivity level I run varies as chatter annoys me. The settings I have been using are 50 tone, Iron ON with volume set at 1, 0 iron bias and recovery at 6. There is a lot of garbage in the ground. I recall Brian Cal-Cobra posting about hunting in similar conditions and am interested in his take (as well as others) on setting choices. The Morgans and the lock came out of the worst of the alkali mud and were completely encrusted. All three were good dig signals but none deeper than 6 inches.

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.