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I'm not an expert here but most electronic items (especially ones with a processor) malfunction periodically and require a restart. My computer, my ipad, my iphone, and my stupid amazon fire TV all require frequent restarts and shutdowns. I can only assume sophisticated detectors like the equinox suffer from the same issues. The equinox is basically an $800 computer on a stick so brain farts are likely going to be an issue no matter how many firmware updates are done. Electronics are built to fail unfortunately.

A great detectorist is also a great detective. Think then swing! Great recoveries Mitchel. beautiful ring.

If money isn't an issue keep the ATpro not as a backup but as an extra detector for someone to go with you. You have been through so much and the best thing about having an extra detector is that you can always bring someone along and teach them about our great hobby. If you ever get to Ventura county i'd consider it my pleasure to take you to some cool hunting spots. I look forward to hearing about your finds with your 800. God Bless

Great job on the first hunt. My daughter lives in Manhattan and I've always wondered it would be like to hunt some of those parks. I look forward to seeing how your hunts continue.

The color and clarity of the coin just leaps off the screen. Like TNSS said, this is what metal detecting is all about. Pretty much ends the bucket list and at such a young age.

Your success is infectious Tim. It's really a treat to read your reports, it's like I'm looking over your shoulder as you're digging them out of the ground. Reports like these have got me thinking, when was the last time people had this much fun metal detecting? I'd have to say the hype of the equinox has been met with an equal amount of success in the field.

The key to metal detecting is digging. I'm sure this sounds redundant and obvious but it's the truth. Since you have limited time to dig you really have the best of all worlds in front of you and under your feet. You have a great Equinox classroom and you're the only student. Clean the area out as best you can and take some notes along the way about VDI's, depth and tones. If I need to clean out an area I'll take 4 cones and mark off a 10'x10' area and dig it all and sweep it N, S, E, W. The key to finding great things is to hunt areas where there was or is a ton of activity. It sounds like you have just that place but it takes the patience of Job sometimes not to want to give up and wrap the detector around a tree due to all the trash. Take the site apart in reasonable chunks based on what you can do. Ice is definitely not your friend but don't fight what you can't change and see if there are other ways around your situation. If you treat this as a learning experience where head knowledge is the end product it will set you up for the next subsequent hunts. There will always be a good hunt for you in the future and ones you wish you had back. Best of luck.

I've professionally been with the Ringfinders since last May but have been finding people's lost jewelry by word of mouth like most of you for sometime. It seems that other MD'ers either like us Ringfinders or they hate us. I'm ok either way but one of the complaints is that we have an easy task in that we get told where the ring was lost and and anybody could find a ring like that blah, blah blah. I got a call last Sunday when i was out of town about a guy who'd lost his wedding ring somewhere in this general area. 1. Camping spot at Pt. Mugu State park 2. Knoll overlooking Neptunes Net in Malibu 3. Somewhere on the trail to Sandstone peak (tallest peak in Santa monica mountains at 3114 elevation) 4. On sandstone peak Since I was out of town another ringfinder checked the campsite but evidently declined to go any further. That's where I came in. I got to Neptunes net this morning and met my client who informed me that the place he possibly lost the ring was no inhabited by a homeless woman who had started a small fire and was chanting something. He explained that he was sitting where she was at and so I proceeded to check the area around her all the while she's sitting there chanting. She then looks up and accuses me of fornication as I'm using my pinpointer to probe the grass area and the rocks and asks me if i want to search her as well. Seeing as how my 15 year old dog had more teeth than she did I concluded our search there was over and he said to follow him to his next spot. Little did I know it was going to include climbing to the top of Sandstone peak. After a 45 minute hike and a 1,000 foot elevation gain we arrived at the top and I proceeded to scramble all over the area with my pinpointer (the Equinox was useless) looking in every crevice for where this ring may have fallen. The ring was nowhere to be found and we dejectedly decided to end the search and head back down the trail. Altogether my attempt at finding his ring took 2 hours of driving, 3 hours of hiking and looking and one crazy old homeless woman who accused me of having sex with the grass using my pinpointer. For my troubles I got $40 which helped put gas back in the tank. No ring was found today but I made two new friends and I'm going to try and help one of them get a teaching job in the future. We don't always find the ring and nobody seems to want to share about the ones they didn't find so I thought I would.

Jamie at Minelab is rock solid at getting things done and providing help where needed. jamie.moeller@minelab.com

That is so awesome! I know you give a lot of credit to the Nox but you had to choose to dig it. The only problem you have now is topping it. I've been passing up those 2 numbers as they've always been junk. Time to go back.

I really like the wireless headphones Minelab included with the 800. The sound is great, comfort over the ears and sunglasses is good and they don't seem to sweat as much as my other headphones have. I also picked up a pair of earbuds by Edelin (got good reviews on Amazon) and they work flawlessly and the buds block out all extraneous noise. I needed an option so I can wear a bucket hat of sorts to keep the sun off my face. I don't say all this to be a shill for minelab and the 800 but rather just say that they really did a good job of putting together a package for detecting that just works in a simple and effective way. You don't need anymore than what was in the box to go and hunt.

In my best Paul Harvey voice, " And now, for the rest of the story."

That is a beautiful seated and congrats on each recovery. You likely had the place to yourself if you hadn't shown him but I'd have done the same thing for sure. I'm sure he had other great advice for you as well.

If you're truly a newbie then stay in one of the parameters already set up for you. I'm anything but a newbie but when in the dirt I have stayed in park2 the entire time and have upped the reactivity(recovery) to 7 from 6. That's it. As for getting it all, you won't that is unless you investigate every inch of ground from every direction and how you control your coil will determine what you find. Your ear needs to be attached to your wrist in that it will dictate where you swing again to check signals. GB is right that in the time you have do some bench testing not for depth but for sound. You have to learn the sounds, over and over again. If you're looking for low conductors figure out a sound that resonates well with you so that when you swing and you get a target between 3-12 your sound is one that will stand out to you. To many folks run the sounds with little or know difference between them and they start to melt into one another. Maybe go with 2 tones, a low for 3-13 and disc out 14-19 and run a high tone for 20-35. Above all have fun. You're going to get fooled a lot but every dig is a lesson.

Great having you here. Congrats on buying an Equinox. You're going to have a great time.

That is so cool to have so much history under your feet. There are so many stories in all those 3 ringers and buttons. Great job on the recoveries.

Welcome sir! Glad to have you on board. Lot's of smart people here.

On one hand it's great to see people of all walks have great compassion for metal detecting and metal detectors but on the other hand we have to realize it's just metal detecting and metal detectors. That said I hope I'm the only one in a 50 mile area that owns an Equinox. Just saying

Excellent finds! What's the ring made out of?

I have yet to look at the depth target as an indicator to dig as I got used to listening to the sound with my deus and I still am in the habit of doing that. The targets I've had that read over 35 have so far been junk. Last week I got a sweet sounding 35-36, thought I was going to pull my first silver dollar out and it was a piece of crud. I do get fooled though on ferrous that reads at 28. I had 3-4 great sounding 28's last hunt, the target ID never moved off of 28 and it was always a rusty something. I also got junk on target ID's of 24. If it stayed at 24 it was always junk.

Great plates! Unless you live here people don't realize the sheer number of people that live here. Between where Mitchel lives and I live there is approximately 4-6 million people and 3 times as many cars. The % of people that will know he's carrying a detector is measured in the .000 category. You and your license plates should be featured by minelab on Treasure Talk. I think it's really cool and I wish I had thought of it first. As a side note on the car issue, this is what I was getting at. My neighbor next door is married no kids but has 4 cars. The lady that moved in two houses down is single and her 20 year old daughter is living with her and her boyfriend. Between the 3 they have 7 cars all parked in the driveway and street. It makes no sense.

very well done. It sounds like you are understanding what to do and how to do it. Don't feel bad about the pairing of the headphones, I struggled with it for a bit before TNSS shed the light I needed. I even paired a set of earbuds the other day.

Just tell her I said that the 6" coil will not only change lives but quite possibly save lives and marriages. You don't actually need stats or facts just this type of powerful language will do. Trust me.

The depth issue may be a problem on the relic side as I admit I'm only a relic hunter when I pull something up (that's not coins or jewelry) and someone smarter than me says that's a great find. For coins it's going to be like having a holographic scope on the end of your detector.

I was just wondering if anyone had heard anything new on the 6" coil. I've heard we may be a month away give or take a week. I know I'm not alone in saying this but the 6" is going to just kill it in parks and old trashy homesteads.