schoolofhardNox

Naw, your beaches are just stingy. That's why I stay down this end 😄 I may venture out to NH or even to Ogunquit beach if I feel like driving and checking out new beaches. I like the ones that have lots of rocks and high dunes mostly. The sandy, flat ones are harder to get to a layer that has what I'm looking for. The Mercs came from a 40's to 50's layer, so some of them should look fairly new. The beach dictates my quotas 😭 Them west coast guys are spoiled. 😄 I hear rumors that every park is loaded with rare "S" mint coins. Most time they just chuck them back. 🤔 Thanks for the info on the Merc, I didn't get a chance to look it up. This year is tough so far. Where I am, the sand just doesn't want to wash out to sea yet.

The Mercs were in an upper part of the beach where not much water hits them. Plus I tried a new method of cleaning them right as they come out of the sand. Eventually, I will have some chemicals in a vile to drop them into while I hunt, but for now I chose the unprepared man's version.... rub them with the sand to remove the slight oxidized layer. 😄 Not kidding 😲 Hey it worked. Get them before the light hits them and darkens them. The large token is odd. It resembles the 1787 Massachusetts Cent on one side and the other side uses other state coin verbiage, along with a landscape scene, reminding me of the Vermont Tensium landscape copper. I did not try it on a magnet but it read very poorly - thinking iron core. weird token for sure, looks gold plated. I wonder if I can turn it in for a new machine 😄 Don't feel bad for me not getting any gold, it's reserved for Joe!🙂 He has quotas to fill.

Beach hunt # 12 is at another beach I visit every once in a while. High EMI there and today was no exception. Decided to use the EQ 800 for a couple of hours to see if any tiny gold was around. None for me. I did get a 1936 Buffalo Nickel with it at about 6”. So, some sand did get moved around for that to be so close. Switched to the GPX for about 4 hours. Short hunt as it was raining on and off and getting a bit chilly when the sun starts to get low in the horizon. Still some issues running it, but I managed to squeak out a couple of silvers and another Buffalo, along with 2 wheats. The usual junk targets were found as well. This beach does not lose sand easily, so getting to the silver layer is very tough. Those 2 dimes did not come in well, basically slightly repeatable ground noise, while listening to slight EMI chatter. If somehow 6-8 inches of sand was to miraculously disappear, it would be silver and copper cent heaven. I’m always glad to get out and have some fun digging at the beach. The season is changing fast, so I’ve got to beef up my clothing very soon. Can’t wait for the next hunt. 🙂

I look at it this way: A lot of us have different brands of machines that we use to get treasure. You were simply using a "different machine" that day to find that chain. 😉

Happy Thanksgiving to all

It may just mean that they were overpriced because of hype and sales projections. Now it may be settling into where it should be, taking into account world issues as well as lack luster (I'm guessing of course) 6000 sales. The Equinox had to be good for them financially, but the competition from companies that can make a difference, may worry investors. Maybe there is just better stocks to put your money into these days.

Great finds!! Lots of good stuff there. I like the big iron ball. Wonder if it's military.

The 6000 is excellent for small stuff, but on the coastal beaches I do, the 5000 still wins for the deep coins. Lack of control options has me thinking it won't be a machines I can find settings that work for what I want to do with it. I didn't think the 11" mono coil would interfere EMI wise as much as it did, when I tried it on my favorite beach. The 14" DD coil is just not much (if any) better than the cancel mode or an anti interference coil is, on my 5000. So it sits until the archaeology work for next fall. I really should try it some more on other beaches. But time is limited and the travel time is @ 2 hours, so I need to maximize my time with the machine that works best. Lately, if it wasn't for clad I would have nothing at all to show 🙄 Thanks strick! I really needed something good to show up that day, and the ring was a real surprise. I actually thought it was another bottle cap, but when I grabbed it my finger punched the wet sand out of the middle of it. I was a nice end to the day.

In America there are so many different rules on detecting that it probably won't help you. This is the way every country is going. Without getting off topic and violating some forum rules about politics, I will just say it may be better to get people to voice the disapproval to politicians or vote them out. I don't think anyone there cares what America is doing with regard to their metal detecting laws. England may be a better example that may work for you. Also try and get the metal detector manufacturers to join in. After all, they should have a huge interest in metal detector regulations. Good luck with you efforts.

At least you tried it. Glad the suit worked out. Silver is not as good as gold, but it's not bad either 😄Beaches for me have been very hard this year, they just don't want to give up any sand. Maybe it would be good for scuba, since I think all of the sand that the whole ocean has, is deposited on the beach 🙄

Beach hunt # 11 was a final try for some silver from the grassy area with the E Trac. I’m of the opinion that there are very few silvers left there, even though it would take many, many trips to cover all the ground. The coins are just too shallow to miss the silver. Any silver found here is because the area is huge, so some will be missed, or it is co-located with iron. I worked it for 5 hours and finally found the silver Washington on the way back to the car. Now I understand how the copper cents can be left undug while being fairly confident that all the silvers are removed. Good for them over the years to cleanse this field of all that rubbish silver. 😄 5 hours digging dirt was enough for me, so I changed over to the GPX and did some selective beach hunting. Only 2 hours until the sun set, so I gambled a bit in where is the best area to go. Still sanded in, I opted for the fresh drop zone. No skill was involved in the recovery of the 14K gold ring, just the luck of wandering around. Great weather, hoping it lasts for a couple more trips, and then the full winter gear hits. Not a bad day with one silver and 1 gold. I have to think about next weeks hunt, as this beach is running dry. ☹️Great to get out and see the sun set in one direction, while the huge moon rose in the other. Until the next hunt…..

Let me help you there Cuda. The first symbol is your decision maker that tells you which way to go hunting, next is a speedometer, stereo system, music list, then "the eliminate the person" that is hunting my park, weather forecast, tide chart, the upside down speaker is the frequency interference system to blast out the competition, a reminder ribbon for chores, a "limit detecting" clock and finally, the hour glass is a detector shut off that your spouse can operate from her phone. Simple really 😄 We have been going through this since detectors have become digital. After a bit, you won't even glance at them. It will be interesting how good the detector performs and most important.... is it more durable than what is out there. I barely use my Equinox now and one of the reasons is durability. I can't wait to see what everyone thinks when they get some hours on it. Good for them in trying to put enough good features in a machine and not charge huge amount.

WOW, your spoons are so clean!!!! Now I feel guilty for not cleaning mine. 😄 I have a lot of spoons, so I just separate the pewter ones from the S/S and brass ones. I only have one silver spoon that I found beach hunting. For the future?? I guess they stay in the box unless I get into melting metals.

OH MY GOD.... a clock 😲 I'm tired of stick on clocks. They never last beach hunting. It may be worth that machine just for that 😄

What a great job being able to find all of that at the hunt. It just shows that you know your machine and had it set up perfectly for that soil. The depths you were getting in that red soil is commendable!

Awesome hunt. All look to be earlier dates too. 7 1/2 hours is a lot of digging, but well worth it in the end!

Oh no. Sorry to hear that. I wonder if Minelab can even repair that? Hopefully they can do something with it and maybe cut you a break. 🥺

Nice score again Joe. Tough call on where to go next. I would just pick one that day and forget about the other one. (or sneak out the next day to it 😄)

I wish I lived closer I would try and find something for you there. Maybe they are really deep and only a PI will turn them up. Or if you are lucky you can have them plow some of the field closest to where the people stood or wait out their crops and detect it then. Those guys took the easy stuff. You will have to fight for the crumbs.

Somewhere on there should be coin heaven. I would try to slow down and watch how the numbers bounce.They may be bouncing into the iron range. I would also try changing to a single frequency of 4, 5 or 10, just to see if it works any better.

I'm hoping someone that has an E Trac found a wireless set up that they really like. Not looking for ear buds, but something that blocks a lot of the external noise. I'm getting real tired of the cheap, thin wires that headphones come with. Lost 2 sets last week and had to finish my hunt with that improperly located E Trac speaker 😄 Thanks.

Nice area to hunt. What kind of race track was it? Nice score on the POD button. Do you dig iffy targets or just solid hits? Farm fields around my area are jam packed with targets, mostly trash, but with a decent amount of relics and coins too. I found a couple of those 3 Merry Widow containers. I think the names were Agnes, Mabel and Beckie. Imagine being a young girl growing up with one of those names and having to face the older boys. Must have been a lot of taunting and whispering about them. Hope you strike some silver there.

I can't help you on what pants to buy, but I use oversized vinyl disposable gloves and put them over what ever my favorite gloves are. That's what I use during my beach hunts. It keeps the winter gloves dry and keeps my hands warm. They are still flexible too.

Nice way to start the day! Great looking ring Joe. I can't think of a better hobby to enjoy.

You must have the same people cherry picking them campgrounds 😄 The E Trac is one of those machines that can still pull it's weight even though it is slow compared to today's standards. It has just enough options to give you decent control over different situations. It will always be good for deep silver and very decent target ID. It was fun digging dirt instead of sand. The half and also the barber dime were both co-located with iron. I had a lot of the iron discriminated out, so the silver came through after working the signal a bit.. They was just enough distance from the iron to coin to hit them in the direction I was coming from. The E Trac is very good, although not perfect, in telling copper from silver. I could have not dug those copper cents, but I was looking for some worn silver that would read just like Memorials do. On pull tabs, there are too many variations for me to pick out only the nickels. Some of those pull tabs read 12-13, 13-12. Too close to nickels (and gold) for me. Plus when they are bent or folded over and deeper they may read a bit different. I left a ton of those signals in the ground for someone else. I'm not sure how the E Trac works in regards to distinguishing low conductors vs high conductors, but it seems easier to tell the high conductors for me. I remember when I sold my E Trac and then realized I would no longer be able to just pass my cents under the coil to tell if they were copper or zinc.... I would have to now read every date in order to separate them ☹️ I really was excited that the E Trac pulled some silver from this field considering that I am very late to the game. I can only imagine the first person to realize that the field is loaded with silver 😲