Skate

Thats awesome Steve. I can't wait to see what you uncover. I'd definitely be taking the day off tomorrow in preparation to hunt.

Well capitalism isn't a bad thing and I bet you could make a nice profit by reselling it via here in the classifieds or ebay.

This is the main issue here, speculation. I'm number 5 on my dealers list and he got two so now I'm 3 behind. Unfortunately ML hasn't told him a thing when shipment number 2 is coming or what to expect. All we've heard is speculation coming from everyone else except Minelab who knows exactly what is happening. If every dealer got between 1 or 2 and KCo got 6 then the picture of the pallets of Nox's should have pretty much been all that ML had to go. I love ML's products but this is not the way to endear anyone new to the party.

I'm actually envious of you. I live in Southern California where my taxes have continued to outpace inflation. We took a trip two years ago to Amelia Island and i fell in love with it there. We day tripped to st. Augustine as well. It was summer and hot but to me it was perfect. My wife hated it though due to the same weather. Something about her hair and humidity.

All these were dug in a 130 year old park in the open grass area near a baseball backstop and what i would describe as the throwing lanes. I'm using my Deus with the 9.5 HF coil at 14.4 for my frequency. I used my gold 14k wedding ring as my base (TID at 65) and a bunch of my wife's gold jewelry that I had bought for her over the past 30 years (TID's from 48-75). Nickels ring at 58-59 in this setup so I was digging signals in this range of 48-75 and discriminating them based on sound. After 10-15 of a certain type of pulltab I could tell what it was so I stopped digging those and concentrated on a range of 58-68 and dug most of the rest. I know you're trying to help and I greatly appreciate it. I dug way more rings period when I had my etrac which i sold to get my CTX which I sold because it spent 3 out of the 6 months I owned it at minelabs repair facility. I've read Clives books and own nearly all of them. I hunt where he says to hunt and i've had a lot of success at the beach especially with my Excal just not in the parks. My huge number of pulltabs is likely a combination of myself and my detector and the fact the park is loaded with tabs. I'm hopeful the Equinox will help eliminate a lot of useless digging. Only time will tell.

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I would imagine that the stock setups/programs are going to allow you to be successful 90% of the time. The engineers built the equinox to work in most locations and situations given it's a worldwide product. To me the word "most" describes 90%. If you're in a park the "park" program should give you success most(90%) of the time. As you get 100 hours or so on the machine in a variety of environments you should have the knowledge to begin tweaking it for those times where you need that extra 10%. You will only find things if you get out there and put your coil over it. Your sweep speed, how fast/slow you cover an area and your willingness to dig a lot of crap targets will teach you most of what you want to know.

From what I understand bout beach hunting in Florida is that you will have plenty of competition. I would PM Dewcon here and see what he can share as he's a known master of the Florida beaches.

Here's today's finds at a local park. I was only hunting for gold rings.

I use the XP MI6. I bought it to pair with my Deus but never have. I like it, it's waterproof and has a mad 90 hours of run time between charges. I had a garrett carrot and a regular garrett but am happy I made the switch.

Goats eat everything. Your return search should include some #2 and you'll probably find the 2. Best of luck. I work with the Ringfinders and boy do I get some strange calls about lost rings.

If I get it on a day with a minus tide I'm going to the beach. If I get it in the afternoon I'm going to my ranch permission If it comes UPS it'll be here after 5:30pm and if so I'll go to my favorite 120 year old park and bring my headlamp because it'll be dark before I decide to quit for the night. Until then I will detect my wife's purse for clad after hours and use my deus and excal everywhere else.

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Ok, tot lots have always baffled me. Even though i've been detecting for years I have only detected a tot lot once and it was more because I was detecting with someone not because I chose to. My question is how big a ring (and how valuable) come out of tot lots? I'm envisioning 2-5 year olds running around and they don't seem to be the type who carry bling with them. What am I missing?

I've been through the books. I guess what i was hoping to hear was places that folks here have had success in terms of volumes of rings. I've been told the perimeter of the basketball courts (grass area), at the top of penalty area on soccer fields etc. I'm trying to treat my ring detecting as if it was a math problem of probabilities. If I do x and y the probability for success is z. I know it's not as simple as that but I'm trying to make my gold detecting time more successful if you get my drift. It's like when someone asks how to find more silver the first thing we tell them is you have to hunt older properties, etc., etc. It seems that most detectorists stumble onto rings and gold rather than actually hunt for it so I'm hoping to develop a plan to change that.

I've primarily been a beach hunter and a coinshooter in the dirt but I'm looking to add parks and fields to hunt for rings. I'm curious where everyone finds the majority of their rings especially in park/sports field type settings. Over the years I've heard several things about where most rings are to be found in parks but never tried to prove them true. Since this is a forum dedicated to learning I'm hoping some of you ringmasters might share the best places to look. Thanks Skate

Thanks Tim. 2018 is my year to dig the gold or at least I had hoped it would be once my EQ gets here. It is amazing how many different pop tops there are out there in the ground. I'm hoping to have a ratio of around 75/1 pop tops to rings. I have no idea if this is possible or not as I've never really hunted exclusively for rings.

so this is the reason dealers are only getting one to start.

That would make sense if you hadn't already pre-ordered one and if you were just jumping onto the EQ train now. That's a lot of $$ compared to what we're paying in the US but I haven't a clue what the exchange rate is. Best of luck whatever you decide.

I just sold my Surf PI and I'm down to my excal II and my xp deus. If the Equinox works out for me as I hope I will sell one of the two and purchase a second equinox as a back up machine. I envision a day when I can have an equinox in both automobiles so I can be ready to detect whenever the opportunity arises.

Because I can. Or at least that's what I tell myself when my wife isn't in the room.

I like the kind of videos that simply give clear instructions how to change settings or how to hunt for particular targets and how to set up your tone bins. I want my silver to scream and my gold to give off a mellow tone mid tone. I could care less how a certain detector stacks up against another one. Detecting is about attitude as well. The last thing I want to do is be shown that all the money I just spent is beaten by the XYZ 5000 under 'X" conditions etc. I want to see how I can use my detector to better my hunts and those that I can help along the way.

I went out the past two days. Day one was a beach in oxnard shores. I was looking for a lost ring for a client. I had waited for a good minus tide (1.8) and there had been some recent erosion. I barely got a target and I think in 2 hours I dug 6-7 pieces of aluminum and a couple wire clippings. Sand had returned to the area since our last storm in the low tide zone. I didn't even need to drag my scoop to see where my tracks were. Yesterday I hit a beach in Ventura that has produced for me in the past. Again sand had returned and this time I dug over 30 aluminum balls. I scored 1 quarter and one dime and two zincs. I was feeling so down the quarter inspired me to keep swinging for the gold. Alas, nothing turned up. It's 80 degrees at the beach but the water is still 57 so most deposits will in the dry.

If you're going to hunt for gold rings keep in mind they ring in around the nickel as do a ton of pull tabs and pop tops so if you set your nickels to sound off as a high tone similar to a merc you're going to be digging a ton of trash now along with your targets. Just a thought.

I'm in Ventura county. PM me when you get your machine and I'll help you get started with anything you need.