13 hours ago, bklein said:

Oh so you’re the guy….

Nah I rarely beach hunt, I'm not really a beach hunter, but I've heard of others....

Nice job, persistence pays off in spades in this hobby!

For some odd reason a Barber half has eluded me.   I've dug a bust half, several seated halfs, several walkers, Franklin's , and a few Kennedy's.  Heck I've dug key date and semi key date barber dimes and quarters, but the dang half just doesn't want to show itself haha  Oh well, one of these days when I least expect it, it'll turn up.

11 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

And sad true story is the Deus 2 was promoted early on as being a Equinox killer on small gold. It took me less than 15 minutes with both to see that was not the case, so no surprises here for me. That’s not to say the D2 won’t find gold nuggets. It will, I’ve seen it with my own eyes. But it’s not setting any new standards in that regard, plain and simple as that, despite what the boosters said.

To say that the EQX800 raised the bar would be to state the obvious. 

It's interesting that everyone else is in catch up mode, some successful and some not.  With the Manticore around the corner, things could get really interesting.

A roll of U.S. zinc cents scattered about the beach would likely detour him from ever coming back 😂

2 hours ago, Lynk said:

Jeff - Thank you for all this work and sharing your results.  Also, I hope you heal fast and are back in the field as soon as possible.

GotAU - Great idea. I had a minute, so I took a crack at it. It would be great to see what your students produce, too. 

If there are any errors here let me know and I will fix them.

Nice job!  Reminds me of the days when @Mike Hillisdid all the great C$ charts and graphs 👍

@Lynk could you make this downloadable? 

6 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Thanks! For me, finding two whole silvers is an awesome hunt. The button has a stippled finish around the face like the clean pic I found. I think CPT_GhostLight has something about it being a chaplain's button. 👍

Nice to see the button in the clean.  Doesn't look like a military button, seems odd to use a soldier on a chaplain's (religious) button. Nothing says praise the lord more than a Roman soldier 🙄

Pretty good hunt! That last button almost appears to have writing on it in front of the soldiers face.  Could be a civilian button, but it's definitely an interesting one.

Nice testing Jeff 👍

Interesting that for the most part, the Legend and the EQX800 reigned supreme in your testing. 

Beautiful Barber quarter 👍

Great hunting Andy 👍  

We like the same kind of sites, I love detecting ghost towns.  Most of them (especially on BLM land) have been hunted hard, but they didn't get it all 🤠

Nice digs, and hey you found jesus 🙂

On 10/19/2022 at 8:43 PM, phrunt said:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/products/nrf5340

nRF5340System-on-Chip

Dual-core Bluetooth 5.3 SoC supporting Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee

 

 

Pretty robust BT chip, geesh with Zigbee we could network our Manticores together and w/NFC we could use them to buy lunch 🙂

2 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

You guys got me thinking I need to return to one I hunted not long after I got the Eqx (and 6" coil).  It was gnarly with overgrowth which discouraged me at the time.  The camp was supposedly not opened until the mid-1950's and I rationalized I wouldn't find much in the way of old coins, but I've since hunted several schools from that same time period which did produce silver.  Thanks for the reminder -- when the leaves are off the bushes I'll give it a go with the 5"x10" Nox coil -- it's due to produce something for me.  😁  I'm going to have to rig up a closed bottom cover (at least) for it, though.  The vegetation there will drive an operator with an open coil right up the wall (err., tree).

The camp/picnic site I mentioned was totally overgrown.  The first two trips there we hunted under trees that for whatever reason didn't have weeds/overgrowth (both of us had ten silver days on those hunts), but subsequent hunts required weed whacking, moving fallen trees and branches, etc.  Each time we'd clear an area, sure enough we'd find more.  Apparently we did a pretty good job, as I've gone back a few random times over the years, and returned with nothing to show for my efforts.  Maybe it would be worth taking the Equinox back, but the guy I hunted that site with was using an Etrac, so I doubt the EQX would find anything his Etrac or my F75 LTD would've missed, but then again who knows.  I did hunt it with the AT Pro at the end, and it's pro mode with iron audio helped me make a nice find that the F75 missed, and it was real oddball signal.  I wished I'd recorded more of our detecting experience out there, but this was eleven years ago and we weren't too into making detecting videos yet, but I did capture this particular one: 

By the time we were finished, it looked like the camp site could've been reopened for business 🙂

That's a really cool find!  Is that a pendant or a button or? 

Love finding this kind of stuff 👍

That's a great hunt, congrats on the trime!  

Your gilt button would probably clean up beautifully if you took a Qtip dipped in lemon juice and gently cleaned the front.  I've been amazed how well it's restored 1800's gilt buttons

On 10/8/2022 at 6:34 AM, JCR said:

... I have found a Navel Jelly soak for 24 hours is the best way to dissolve the crust on the Silver. .

Interesting, I've used Naval Jelly to decrust buttons, but haven't tried it on silver.   I'd love to see some before and after examples.  We have a few sites where coins can get crusted up, they're still fun to hunt, but frustrating when you find a semi-key date silver coin and it's all crudded up 🙄

It's always exciting when a new machine opens up a pounded site, congrats looks like your on the pay dirt 👍

Nice digs!  Your CW reb button is one we'll never dig on the left coast, congrats!

4 hours ago, deathray said:

Nautilus did. And yeah, I think Blisstool too. 

Ray did you ever use the Nautilus? 

Just curious how useful this feature is?

On 10/13/2022 at 2:35 AM, steveg said:

I am wondering if the mixed audio will be like running both "conductive tones" and "ferrous tones," as you could on the Explorers and E-Trac, but AT THE SAME TIME (one in either ear).  Now THAT could be interesting...

Steve

Didn't the Blisstool do that also?

It's a somewhat rare feature as far a detectors go.

7 hours ago, UtahRich said:

To make things more interesting is the new polyphonic audio.  Separate audio scales for the X and Y axis. So now i will have the audio and visual X-Y axis indicators to sort out multiple targets. 

 

That's interesting, I think there are very few machines that offer similar mixed audio, but to have mixed mode audio along with the target trace graph that could get interesting.   I think I'll make a user profile setup like I have my EQX800 to get my feet wet, and then another profile with polyphonic audio so I could switch back and forth to understand the differences. 

I wonder if in a sea of nails how that 2D graph will work out, graph all the nails and if a coin or button's hiding in the mix?

Nice digs, like the silver ring!