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Got these Fri. yard hunting.

Wow!! That 1877 Indian is like the key coin! Awesome find! Congratulations!!!

Awesome Hunt!! Congrats on some great finds!

GB, It's just a dodge token to the right of the halves. It's a 1928 Canadian quarter beside the Washington's. Yep, all Indians. It was considerably less than 2018 but a lot less hunting time (wife had a bout with cancer. They got it early and she's doing fine. Thank the Lord!!) The 92 s & o barber's were really neat to find. Looking for the 92 plain now..lol Both halves the standing liberty a barber some mercs ,several Indians one silver ring and a bunch of wheaties came from a side walk strip. We drove to a town with an old fair ground. Got permission to look at some of it...one merc and a few wheaties...a little disappointing. Light bulb goes off and we went to the sidewalks leading into it. The parkway's were really wide and obviously over looked. It was an awesome time. I had a three shield nickel hunt in a local park with a friend and his wife who came down from Springfield. That was crazy. (Four so far from that park.) Didn't get a lot of civil war stuff but I did get some. I'm diggin it md group on face book. I posted four Indians and five wheaties from today's hunt. Already had three for the month one was an 1864 fatty. My second copper nickel Indian(first with a readable date). That was cool. Feb. Has been good for Indians but only one silver(merc) I haven't found a seated coin for three years...I've been in some good places cause I've watched some friends get them...who knows it could happen tomorrow. lol Good luck and HH!!! Tom

That Sounds like a plan. I'm retired so my schedule is pretty flexible.

Here's some of the 2019 finds... still loving the nox.

I've heard several guys comment that the Vanquish has a more solid id on targets than the Equinox. Isn't that what you would expect from a machine running half the number of segments. I'm certainly no expert but that just seems to make sense to me. With 25 on the Vanquish and 50 on the Equinox. I suspect even less jumping on the 440 & 340. You just simply have a larger area to drop the signal into which given the opportunity might cover more segments if they were available. Just thinking out loud...🤔😁

Nice finds Steve!!

Congrats!! Bet you were doin some smilin! 😁

That's awesome!! Congratulations!!

Nice video abenson. That's the kind of video I like the best. Wild finds and seeing /hearing the responses from each detector. Thanks!! It seemed to me the Vanquish did ok... actually kind of what I was expecting. Seems to have respectable depth and good separation but not able to keep up with the Equinox. What do you think after hunting with it?

Chase, Regardless, I am interested in where more information on the folding shaft mod and the folding control head mod can be obtained. No information in that regard was provided that I could see. I'm not sure but it looks to me like it's the stock shaft just cut with the folding mechanism added. The control head is just swiveled by depressing the locking pin. That's the way I did mine when putting it in the case before getting one of the carbon shafts. Maybe...lol Tom

I think you're probably right. I watched the utube videos from iffy signals and bill ladd's dig fellas on the 540 and the simplex. One target that iffy signals showed (I think Bill edited that segment) was a large metal rod that the simplex was hitting when it was checked with the 540 it didn't reply in the high iron bias but did in the low iron bias setting. Bill laughingly commented something about oh you don't want to find big relics. So I think you're right about the 340/440 not being relic machines but the 540 gives you the ability to see or not see the big iron which the simplex cannot.

I hunt with guys that also use the Equinox all the time. All we do is noise cancel when we get close and that seems to work fine. We oft times hunt very close together checking each others signals and so on. You might have to put the coil behind you or off to one side when checking signals but it's not anything to be to concerned about. Good luck and have fun hunting with your friend.

The Equinox certainly does have a tell on lead!! Like he said he doesn't mind so long as he knows what it's saying. Thanks for posting that video Steve!

Congrats on the finds! I would have to think there's more around there to. Good luck and HH!

I think that pretty well says it. It's not an Equinox and never was supposed to be. It's a new minelab entry level machine with the main thing that made the Equinox special....multi IQ. The ability of a machine to see coins others miss. Not necessarily deeper just better vision. It Will be very interesting to see it in action when it gets in the public's hands and goes through their test gardens. Segments and notching...25 segments on the 540...50 on the Equinox. So a segment will be more than 1 number. On the 540 perhaps it's 2 compared to the Equinox's 1 Deep? I expect respectable but it may be deep or the depth could varry depending on the model. It's not an Equinox. For people wanting into a fun hobby without breaking the bank and swing a machine with multi IQ. I think it could be an awesome little machine. But only time will tell!!! HH!! Tom Minelab Vanquish metal detector Minelab Vanquish 340 / 440 / 540 Technical Specifications

They don't cover your ear completely but sound good.

I just bought these after my charging port quit working on the stock headphones. They meet all the specs...I think..lol I'll get them tomorrow.

Nice!! Bet that made you smile!😁

Good luck! Might be some old coins there!

Congrats on the Indian!! Looks like you are getting along nicely with your 800 . Keep it up! Looking forward to seeing you get into the 1800's! 😁

I've never hunted the beach so I don't know anything about that. I think you made the right move when it sounded good both ways and you dug it up. Good luck and HH!!

Sweet!! Congrats!

In the town I live there was a civil war battle/skirmish...depends on who you talk to. It started approx 7 miles north of town that morning crossed over a creek, a branch and a river then thru town before ending up on the SE parts of town at dark. We still have two parks that both had fighting take place in them. We are able to hunt the parks but with that said they are littered with pop tabs, beaver tails,ect. and have been hunted like most parks to death. Hunting with an Etrac in the past you got a tell by the ferrous number while looking for lead. We need all the info we can get. What we have discovered with the Equinox is the numbers will jump around on lead...a lot. The pull tabs will lock on solid but the especially smaller roundballs will hit both ways and sound good but the numbers will not lock down. My son just got his Equinox 800 yesterday and we did a short hunt in one of the parks. I just got a good hit when he arrived and he was able to listen to it before we dig it and out came a nice round ball. I ended up with 3 more but smaller ones. He called me earlier this evening with his first relic find with the Equinox. Just as before he said numbers all over but good sound both ways and out came a nice round ball. I was wondering if you guys had any similar experience with yours. I've dug quite a few round balls so far and you can just about guarantee when you're going to dig lead. A tell is a tell to me no matter how it works. Whether the ferrous number is a little lower or the numbers jump.around, I like it. The Equinox definitely has a "tell" for lead. Here's some of the lead I've dug the last few hunts in one of the parks. Good luck and HH! Still pk1 recovery7 iron bias 3