Cal_Cobra

Thanks Noah! Was happy to dig it :)

Yep bummer on the condition, but still a thrill to dig. Thanks for taking a look!

Tom and I have detected this stage stop several times and were eager to return after our last trip there produced a rare $5 gold coin (tu) GL&HH, Cal

Very cool find, but whatever marketing genius that came up with the POMPEIAN theme, obviously had no idea that things didn't exactly work out so well for our friends in Pompei. What did the paper label look like? Pretty sure the last thing on this guys mind was a massage.

Gerry that's one of my favorite type of sites, congrats on the great haul of keepers !!!

Get the Equinox into the right site and it'll open her back up! Congrats on all the great finds!

You gotta love that, congrats on finding that!!! It reminds me of when I found a virgin scout/church camp and me and the guy I hunted with each found ~ 12 silver coins on the first couple of hunts, over the course of a month we dug over 100 silver coins, including four walker half dollars, couple dozen pieces of silver jewelry and sterling silver flatware, one gold ring and some cool relics. Unfortunately the camp site only started in 1940, but ended in the 1960's so there were very few pull-tabs and very little clad, often days your silver count was equal to your wheatie count ? Heck I'd run that 15" coil there, no idea how old your zoo is, but you might get some more barbers or break into a seated ?

Looks like the 15" coil is working find ?

Looks like you had a good hunt! Did you get a chance to test the 15" coil there yet?

I would not be surprised if this isn't based on a Fisher or Teknetics model as some of the Bounty Hunters are.

Very nice colonial era coppers!! I'd probably detected there all night ?

That looks great guys. The only thing that would make it perfect is if the Equinox control housing could fold flat onto the rod, but it's pretty slick as is.

Daniel not only does cow urine mess up a site for detecting, it also heavily corrodes a lot of metal objects, including silver coins. I've observed this phenomenon several times. I just detected a site that has heavy alkali soil. I've done well there in the past with my Racers and Impact, but they struggle, you have to try to coax a signal out of any little tick of audio you get from the detector to try to bring up a signal. Last week I was able to detect there with the Equinox. For about the first half of the hunt, I fiddled around trying to get my go to Field2 to work, but it wasn't cutting it. Finally I switched to Beach1 and what a difference, it started lighting up targets with clean clear audio whereas Field2 was getting tons of falsing, audible ground mineral feedback, and unless an object was practically on top of the ground it wasn't finding much.

My condolences for your loss. Super coins.

Ah ha! I've seen those before in antique shops, but never dug one. I have dug some Victorian match safes, and sifted a beautiful sterling silver Art Nouveau designed match safe at Tonopah.

Love the button, very hard to find in California although I have dug a few. I really like the 15" coil too, it's just as sensitive as the 11" from what I can see and it's impressive in sea of nail areas. I'd love to use it at my union army encampment, but the bushes would probably make it prohibitive. So on the one hand the bushes provide an element of challenge, but on the other hand it's so remote that there's very little modern trash. Usually end up digging a pull-ring and a bit of clad each hunt, but not too bad compared to most sites. Doesn't look like you get too many 3-ringer drops eh? Usually get a ton at the site we found, I enjoy digging them because their just not often found on the left coast, but I prefer buttons and other military accoutrements. Still hoping a belt plate, breast plate or even a bit boss will show up, which to be honest, I'm a bit surprised we haven't dug one yet. I do find the site to be exceedingly stingy with coins. Probably have been there between 6-8 times, and between the two of us, we've dug one seated half dime and a seated half dollar. I guess they just didn't bust out a lot of money in camp, yet they had to be doing something with their pay right?

Definitely wouldn't say the depth gauge is a precision instrument, but it did work better after the last update. I hunt mainly by tones, the audio does modulate once the targets get deep, nothing better then a faint high tone zip zip and a faint pin-point. At one particular park like site that has been hammered I was digging 10"+ deep silver coins and the depth gauge was pegged ? Beautiful country your in, but it does look pretty cold.

I have both the Multi Kruzer as well as the Equinox 800. The Multi Kruzer and Racers have been excellent for me in heavy iron! The largest drawback of the Equinox line is the lack of coil selection. How's that concentric 7" coil work on your Equinox? How about a 5"x10" that's been asked for since before the Equinox was even released? Their simply different tools for different jobs, there's a massive coil selection available for the Multi Kruzer, including after market coils. And then there's the Equinox with all of three coils, (all DDs) to choose from. Don't get me wrong, I've had nothing but success with my EQ800, but so too have I from the Racers, Impact, and Multi Kruzer hunting in iron infested ghost towns, stage stops, Spanish outposts, etc.

Looks like a great hunt to me!!

Great digs there! Great you got your little guy into it, hoping my daughter will get interested in it too when she gets older.

Just think if the computer industry had followed the detecting trends prior to the Equinox, we'd all be reading this forum using this "portable" computer that costs $2500!

Like the Barber, it was a squeaker, overlaps the 1916 Mercury dime introduction. Not sure on the buckle, but I like it. GL&HH, Cal

Although it's not really my thing either, I've done several. It's actually more fun then you may imagine, and it's quite competitive. For me the best way to hunt is to use the lightest detector you own! Use something that isn't an EMI magnet, with hundreds of other detectors in use at the same time in the same field, the EMI is insane, some machines will get totally blown out. God save you if some moron is using a PI machine, and no matter how low you set your gain, there always seems to be a a few detectors that you'll have to avoid hunting around or you'll get blown out. Nothing will be deep, usually they just kick dirt over the targets or throw them in the grass, so drop the sensitivity way down, that will help with EMI and you won't waste time investigating targets that were dropped a year ago and are now 4"+ deep (I'm always amazed to see people on these planted hunts digging 6" deep clad ? Some seeded hunts don't allow coils larger then 11"-12". I've seen several clubs do this to prevent people from using the Big Foot coils, as they don't make them for many detectors and some people felt that provided them an unfair advantage. If you're going to use the Equinox, I wouldn't use the 15" coil. It's a great coil, but the added weight will slow you down and any perceived coverage advantage will be lost as you slow down from swinging that big coil. At the end of the day, the faster you can run around to hoover up targets and not mess around with settings, EMI or investigating targets, the more targets you'll bag and the higher odds you bring home the tokens for prizes!

Does your camera have a macro mode? If so, perhaps post a photo of the hallmarks. The maker can make all the difference in the world. An auction house had a beautiful watch listed as a "14K TWO TONE GOLD AND DIAMOND HAMILTON LADY'S WATCH". Looked far nicer and different then any Hamilton I've ever seen, and when I looked at the watch, it was not a Hamilton at all, it was a Swiss HEBE INCABLOC watch, basically a $5,000 watch, ended up picking it up for a song ?

I would imagine you do find Dahlonega minted coins out your way? Perhaps akin to the Carson City issues out West? My hunt buddy found an 1849-D U.S. $5 gold coin at a trading post site we detected, and when he looked at the mint mark he muttered "Denver(?)" and to that I responded I don't think so, Denver mint didn't really exist until the turn of the 20th century....imagine our surprise when we googled it and found out it was from Dahlonega, Georgia!!