Thanks for taking the time to reply, and share your cat out of the bag testimonial
You testing the Equinox is a confidence booster, as is Brandon. As you likely know, I mostly detect ghost towns, stage stops, old home sites, Spanish outpost type spots, and similar early types of sites, primarily in California and Nevada. Most of them have been detected since the dawn of detecting, yet they continue to yield finds for those patient enough, and willing to dig in some of the worst possible conditions (thick iron and being that many of them are in gold and silver bearing areas, they can also be highly mineralized). I have high hopes for the Equinox 800, and you and Brandon are sharing similar thoughts. I know that Brandon also frequents the same type of sites I enjoy detecting (heck even some of the same ones), honestly I don't know if you only detect for gold, or also are a relic hunter?
As I mentioned before I've never gotten into prospecting, mainly due to having my hands full detecting the type of sites mentioned above. Now with a detector that's fully capable of being a solid VLF gold machine, and multi-freq beach, park, relic machine, it really opens up options for someone that's arsenal is mainly VLF relic detectors, along with an old multi-freq CZ70 that gets used once a year at the beach when a good erosion event occurs. I think it's time to thin out the heard, and follow your lead
Thanks,
Brian