Cal_Cobra

You had a great hunt, nice going on the walker!

What settings are you running? 

Nice work, like that Barber quarter!

Nice work!  I have a hand plugger built by local detecting legend Mike Walding that punches down 10" per punch, pretty much at the end of the detecting depth of a VLF on a coin in most ground.  

Bucket lister find for sure, congrats!

Congrats on the seated!!!  That looks like it was a fun hunt, little bit of everything, like the big token too 🤔

Nice variety of colonial finds there!! 

Not sure what the mystery item is 🤔

I've watched my hunt partner scratch a few silver AND gold coins 😲

Nice job, what a great story with a happy reunion ending! 

Too bad W&E went under, they'd print this.

Sorry George.  Went through the same thing a few years ago when both of mine went back to back.

On 1/24/2023 at 11:34 AM, Jeff McClendon said:

Just received my check from Midwest Refineries.

I mailed them my 10K and 14K scrap gold jewelry finds and my .925 silver scrap jewelry finds for the last 18 months for processing. I removed as many gemstones as I could before mailing. It all fit into a USPS Priority Mail Small Flat Rate box. I added some extra insurance.

Midwest received and processed it on the same day and I have a check in my hands for $2,400 or so after a one week turnaround. They paid 95% of melt value on the gold and 90% on the silver with no additional fees. Very easy to deal with, no questions asked, just follow their instructions. The amount they sent me is within $200 of my estimate too, so very happy.

Jeff doesn't Midwest return the stones?  I thought they used to 🤔  Always heard positive feedback on Midwest.

I always felt that W&E was a class act, but the writing was on the wall when they went digital only. 

As much as I love technology, I kind of lost interest in W&E when they ceased a paper magazine, as the online forums have been just as interesting, if not more at times.   I'll really miss their Best of the Year issues, I was fortunate enough to have some items published, some best of the year finds, even an Ask Mark submission a few times over the years 👍

That belt plate is a bucket lister find, congrats!

10 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

 

Thanks! That's exactly what it is. A post office box combination knob. 👍

Now what the heck was it doing in the middle of a farm about 10 miles from the nearest post office? 🤔 🤣

Always amazes me what we find and where, lots of head scratchers out there haha

8 hours ago, strick said:

Yep at least with the 800 I knew when I got a 13 it was either a nickel or an ax head 🤣

strick

Well there is that, but you could sometimes tell as a nickel or similar conductor sounded bright and "excited" vs. an ax head or other large iron implements that tend to have a dull sound.  Either way I still dig 13s 🎅

Great buckles!

Your dial is reminiscent of one of those old mailbox combination dials or something along those lines.

Congrats, love the treasure pile! 🏆

If beach hunting was always that gratuitous, I'd be a full time beach hunter 🤠

2 hours ago, beyond the FLOT said:

I'm curious to know what number in the cue for any of the other kellyco buyers, anyone care to share? Checking the Cabelas website all day and night is making my wife wonder what im really up too. "No one can get that excited about a new MD machine"

There was a MC on Cabelas yesterday...and EQX900's have been in stock since they came out. 

7 hours ago, JCR said:

The new Nokta bottle cap setting may only be effective on modern shotshell heads that are plated steel,(as noted by Jeff) not on older all brass ones that TID about a 5 Cent Nickel or a little higher. We will see.  I've dug a lot of very old corroded ones that bounce around just like the corroded V & Buffalo Nickels do also.

This is also right around where the U.S. $5 gold coin IDs as well, so we dig shotgun shells.  They (and other small arms discards) are to relic hunters what pull-tabs are to turf hunters 💣

On 1/9/2023 at 10:21 AM, abenson said:

I'm not a fan of the 99 target ID's to begin with, I liked the compressed Nox 800 ID's better. But that just my preference. On the Nox 800 you could expect of spread of 2-3 at the most. But on the 900 I'm seeing as much as a 10 number difference one way or the other.

I was perfectly happy with the TID setup on the EQX800 too. Shame ML didn't offer a user option to select either the original Equinox TID layout, or the new expanded TID layout. 

3 hours ago, Carolina said:

... It once was my go to beach machine and did put lots of gold in my pouch, but the tones are just terrible. Arron had a special made tone Tarsacci that was the bomb, so I asked Dimitar could he do that to my machine? No was his reply so it and all my other past machines sleep in one of my spare rooms. I never could get the hang of that trade up concept haha. Good luck everybody.

The Tarsacci has been a machine of interest,I lurk on the various Tarsacci forums and the audio is the #1 complaint I've seen on the Tarsacci. 

If Dimitar would just offer the alternate audio option I suspect the Tarsacci would be far more popular.  IIRC it's just an EEPROM or something similar re-flashed with an alternate image from Dimirar.

On 12/11/2022 at 10:50 PM, phrunt said:

To me the best is the one that needs the least tweaking, the one I can turn on, select the mode to suit the area and type of detecting and use it and get the best results with a broad range of targets in a broad range of scenarios.  Not one I've tried to tune to give the best result on the target that I know is there. 

So all this fiddle with this setting, adjust this setting and tweak this setting and stick your tongue out and hold it to the left with your right eye closed and you'll pick up the target better to me is a fail, I don't want to have to do that.

 

I'm with you there.  After using the EQX800 since it was released, I'm almost thinking I might be happier with the EQX900 vs the MC 🤔

29 minutes ago, Dan(NM) said:

I e-mailed my dealer yesterday, he's heard nothing about any shipment coming to him. Here I sit at #1 and they won't send my guy 1 stinking machine 😞

That's where I was on the first shipment 😞

25 minutes ago, Dan(NM) said:

A dealer posted on Facebook that they received 6 Manticores today. Hopefully this means more are hitting other dealers soon.

Mine came in the second batch, just waiting for my dealer to ship it.  He got zero on the first round, and only one on the second round, so their trickling in....more like slow drip 🐌

Nice digs George! 

I finally dug a cannon and mortar coat button a couple of years ago, now I need a Phoenix ball button 👍

Wow what a great haul!  Love the counter-stamped reales 👍