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  1. 3 hours ago, Tom_in_CA said:

    Yes they were so small that they were only a trickle .  You could step across them if you were merely a pedestrian on-foot.  And the opposite banks, was only ~ 5 ft. tall, that a pedestrian can ascend no problem.  But the margarine consistency mud banks was a problem for our super heavy e-bikes .  Even in broad daylight, so that element wasn't a problem-only for dark-issue.  We found ourselves having to man-handle them through the margarine ascents .   🤬

     

    Not sure I'd say they were simply a "trickle".  Some were somewhat wide, but the deal breaker was us trying to make it to an old dirt road on the satellite map that could get us close enough to our vehicle, and once we finally got to the road, it was completely washed out, with a good 15 foot wide creek of unknown depth, and the opposite side was an easy ten feet high with a 90 degree angle to ascend.  Even without the ebikes, that simply wasn't going to happen, so we ended up wondering through the night, blindly searching for an easy way back to the vehicle, which just didn't exist.  So while yes the water shed caused the bulk of our challenges, biking in the dark was what really killed us (well almost me), you simply couldn't see animal holes, quick sand, low bushes, etc. 

    Moral of the story, never cross-country ebike in the middle of the desert in the dark 😡

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  2. 16 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

    Thanks! Wish I found the whole thing, but it probably wouldn't have been there, kinda hard to lose one that big. 😀

    You'd be surprised.  Years ago I found a GIANT skeleton key at Golden Gate Park.  No idea what it went to originally, but it's one of my favorite keys I've dug and in beautiful condition with a nice green patina.  

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  3. On 12/11/2022 at 1:56 PM, deathray said:

    Yeah. Was my home turf. Probably spent hundreds of hours there. Your buddy Tom didn't like it,  ha

    Tom and NIghtRay used to talk about it.  Tom claims he dug a test pit there and found oldies.  

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  4. 56 minutes ago, George Kinsey said:

    I would have thought you would dig a 2-piece California buckle in the gold fields.

     

    I've only detected one time in gold country. 

    I found a couple at a trading site we found that turned out to be a bit different then initially anticipated, but in a positive way.  Turned out to be late fur trade right into the G.R. era and then ceased to exist.  TomCA just dug a nice G.R. era tongue and wreath buckle, got just dug a star buckle at one of our sites that appears to have fizzled out by the mid 1850's I'd say.  Anything you dig there's going to be something old, but not necessarily awesome, but it'll be old, even if it's camp lead 😏  I dug an eagle buckle at this camp on our first time, dug both sides a few feet away and managed to loose the wreath half.  Surprised we haven't found it, or if we have it got mixed up with another tongue.  Oh well.

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  5. 17 hours ago, strick said:

    Great videos thanks for posting them...very impressive depth and speed...looks like its finally time to cull out the CTX 3030 and at least one of the nox 800's I'll keep one just because...

    strick 

    Given that the original Equinox coils work on the Equinox refresh, I almost wouldn't mind the EQX900 as a Manticore backup.

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  6. On 11/25/2022 at 3:03 PM, phrunt said:

    I guess a new revised Equinox would make sense, it's been a troublesome detector build wise so much so that the competition was using it's quality problems as a way to market their better built detector.

    If they did an Equinox 600 and 800 v2 with the leaking fixed and other problems resolved it might be a good idea, at the moment the competitor has a better value detector clone of the Nox built far better for less money, more for less as their marketing says.  It must be making it quite hard to sell the Nox for more money with less of a quality build and performance that is so close to the same.

    They could strengthen the ears without a total redesign so older Noxes could fit the new stronger ear coils, that way they wouldn't need to make two sets of Nox coils and keep them compatible with each other, and the Pod could just be replaced with the waterproofing method they've learnt for the Manticore.

    To really annoy the competition they could incorporate Bluetooth LE into it so it has the better audio than the competition and then they could ditch the WM08 to help keep the cost down.

    I wouldn't be surprised if they did a Nox2 or EQX1K that just addressed the issues that've been a thorn in their rear since it was released (rod, weight distribution, headphones, leaks, etc).  Question is how many are will to pay say slightly more than the current EQX800 price?  It would have to make business sense for them.  I'm sure they have a 10% warranty reserve from each Equinox sale, and while they probably have a higher then industry standard defect rate, they can still siphon off the warranty reserve to fix platform failures before the warranty times out.

     

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  7. I received this message from my dealer:

    Manticores starting shipping to US warehouses yesterday.... You are number  1 on the list..You still wanting to purchase  ?

    Response was yes please, just take my money...

    Great email to receive!  Unfortunately it doesn't sound like I'll have it in time for an upcoming detecting trip, but that's okay I want to bring something I know well to uncharted territory.  The Manticore will get a good workout at a particular Spanish outpost site that I think could be a good fit for it with plenty of time to experiment with the new settings.

     

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  8. On 9/7/2021 at 4:12 PM, GB_Amateur said:

    Even if possible without a hardware upgrade, would it make financial sense for Minelab to execute such a 'free' change?  Have they ever made such a significant change via software upgrade?  From what I've seen over the last several years, they don't even add new coil options and seldom do they allow aftermarket coil makers to do that.

    Doesn't the 25+ year old Fisher Gold Bug 2 still the have the highest operating frequency (option) of any ground balancing IB detector?  If Minelab were to develop a detector for which a 100 kHz ground balance capability has significant application(s), would they even include it first as a selectable frequency option on a simultaneous multifrequency detector?

    Considering that a special HF coil would be required, sure it could make sense as they can now sell you a $300 coil.

    That said, given Minelab's lackluster coil portfolio for the Equinox, they're clearly not in the coil business, so I doubt this HF coil and upgrade will ever see the light of day. 

  9. On 9/7/2021 at 3:37 PM, ☠ Cipher said:

    With Nokta Makro intending to compete directly with the Equinox 800, and outdo it in build and features, then considering Minelab is title sponsor of Detectival, I wonder if it will force Minelab’s hand to go to a 4.0 update with more features for equinox. It sounds like there’s a good chance of hearing something about NMs SMF this weekend. Will Minelab respond in kind? The hosts of Detectival said on a recent UK podcast “there are a few surprises coming.”

    Very unlikely.  The Legend is a great machine, the XP D2 is a good machine, but these machines effectively just caught up to the four year old Equinox. 

    With the Manticore's imminent release, I'm sure it's all hands on deck at Minelab to get that machine into production. There's almost no incentive for Minelab to update the Equinox.

    What updates would you like the see on the Equinox?

  10. Interesting idea.  I've always thought that detecting vendors should make the angle adjustable 15 degrees in either direction to accommodate everyone's differences in physical build. 

    I've seen people cut a piece of those foam "noodles" and put it under the control pod so your thumb isn't smashed into the control pod. 

  11. On 11/19/2022 at 7:01 PM, longbow62 said:

    I pre-ordered Aug, 27th. so I should be at the very top of the list. Unless we have a harsher than normal winter weather I detect quite a bit in December, January, and February.   

    Those are prime detecting months out west, as many of our sites get overgrown come spring, and then the ground turns to cement coupled with 100F + temps in the summer usually keeps us at bay until the next fall/winter/early spring returns. 

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  12. 14 hours ago, abenson said:

    I agree, I was just telling one of the guys I went with that I could drive 3 hours from my house and dig more stuff in a day than I dug all week. However, I can't find much Confederate stuff out west. Some of those Confederate bullets can fetch a few hundred bucks a piece.

    I guess that has to be the angle, I didn't realize some of those Confederate bullets were that valuable.  I see guys back south with 5 gallon buckets of dug bullets.  We don't find rebel relics out west, and I'm surprised we don't find something, buttons, buckles, or whatnot. A lot of Confederate soldiers migrated west after the war to start a new life, entire townships were started by them, so one would think rebel relics would turn up, but I've not heard of anyone finding anything.  Odd.

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