schoolofhardNox

I do a lot of hunting for round ball and have probably dug near 600 of them from various 17th and 18th century sites. Fields can be tricky for the Equinox, especially if plowed. I use gold 2 , but if takes some getting used to. Otherwise the field modes work well. I'm in MA. We can have some odd dirt sometimes. The larger ball are not usually an issue. Set recovery speed to 3 and hunt slow and steady. The smaller ball, under 40 caliber, can come in spotty and vague sometimes. Dig iffy targets in the lower number range to make sure you do not miss the small shot. If there is too much EMI switch to 20khz or 40khz. Good luck and let us know how you do. As a side note, if you have a GPS, try recording the round ball you find to get an overall picture of how they are dispersed.

I'm looking forward to seeing what Minelab has in store for us in the 6000. I'm eager for some details on whether the 6000 is going to be a beefed up 5000 or whether it will intermingle some form of GPR. So all eyes and ears will be on Minelab's released info.

I'm surprised you didn't opt for making duel, side by side, battery packs. That way you can swap battery packs with the flip of a switch. Solves the limited detecting time and they make a great stand when out of the water. 🙂

I wish the GPX 6000 was housed in a excalibur housing, as opposed to the CTX/GPZ style housing. Just make it waterproof (for real 😄). If they just made the EMI mitigation better, then I would be happy with just those two advancements. Adding some extra depth to it would be icing on the cake for me. I know it's a gold machine, but acknowledging the fact that it is a great relic and beach machine would also boost sales.

Beautiful hunts. Sometimes you just hit it right and have great results. Other times you try very hard and just get clad 😄 That's the fun of detecting for me. Waiting for that gold moment is addicting.

I do a lot of recycling of metal in my local area as a side hobby. I received over 15,000 pieces of magnetic stainless steel flatware from a company that does the cleaning of restaurant cloth napkins, aprons etc. Restaurants do lose a lot of flatware! But talking with local restaurant owners, I found out that lost flatware, broken glasses and dishes are put into the budget as part of normal operations. So I was going to re-sell the flatware I received, but found out that the restaurant's suppliers sometimes get them free flatware as a thank you for their business. In my area there would be zero interest in that machine. No one would pay an employee to find flatware. But in high end areas where actual sterling silverware is used it may get some attention.

Great ring!!! I wonder if the owner actually found that stone? It seems he had it hand mounted as best as he or someone could. Very crude setting. Who knows how old it is. I'm assuming the signal was fairly quiet but wide and steady?

All White's has to offer for sale, is their name, any patents they hold current, any production machinery, possibly their building ( if they own it), and any ideas that were in the works, and that's about it. Their people are all probably gone for good, as the new owners may not even be in the USA, so will probably sell off assets and only be interested in intellectual property. The building and machinery is of marginal value unless you plan on manufacturing there. Just my thoughts on it.

GPX's rock on the beach! Nice hunt and you were definitely at the right spot.

If I get what I want for my selling price then I will buy you one 😄 Seriously though, I'm hoping I have some time on my beaches before everyone gets one. 7 hours (2 batteries) is my minimum limit, so I'm not real disappointed about that. If it pans out for me, I too will get the new one and keep the other for a spare.

I'm just worried that they are now able to produce the new version very shortly. I was thinking we would not see the final version before the spring/summer 2021, so I bought mine for my fall/winter hunts. I hope that's not the case since I believe we would all have waited if we knew it would be produced soon. Maybe 8 is all they will do and then the new ones come out. In that case I'm putting mine up for bid (only 1 of 8 known) for a meager starting price of $1,000,000.00 🤣

That Eagle Spectrum was one of my favorite White's units. Very easy to adjust and you could get some great depth with it.

This happens on my 800 as well. I think it's a flaw. Not sure if the updates helped with that, as I kept mine original with no updates. I did find a trick to help on the audio. It works on my unit and some others as well. See if it works on yours as well. When you press the pinpoint button do not move the detector while you press the button. Keep the machine still for a second while and after pressing the button. Usually it comes in loud if I do it that way.

On the Nox, I found that big iron hits well around 14 or 15, and sometimes again in the mid to high 30's.

I'm guessing he probably meant finding larger iron while still discriminating most small nails. I used the GPX and recently tried the AQ while searching for iron case shot and large cannon ball fragments., I did get one case shot with the GPX.

I will take any coil between 7-9". I would ask for a 6" but I don't think that would happen, so I'm shooting for 7-9". Anything larger and I might as well stick with the stock coil. Hopefully a small coil would be great in heavy iron, wet sand conditions. Mute mode I would assume.

Nice. Standing Liberty Quarters are far and few between. And the gold cross is sweet.

Thanks. Not too worried about it. Summer hunting never appealed to me. I would not even be hunting them if it was not for the release date of the AQ. It will have it's place in the fall/ winter for sure. 7 hour hunts during those months. If I had 3 batteries I would be there longer. But I'm NOT buying a 3rd battery 😄 Yup, that lure was the first target dug there. Fairly deep at @ 10" Forgot to post a picture of the 2 nails I found too. I guess it was a day for finding big stuff. No doubt. 😄 But the machine was never intended to be sweeping the dry sand after huge crowds. That is VLF territory all day long. I got bored covering the wet sand with almost no hits, so to get some exercise, I figured I needed to dig more targets. Yup VLF all the way. Yes the footprint is bigger on the long targets, but probably so would a big gold chain. I could also guess they were bottle caps since the targets appeared very loud and a bit larger than a deep target, but I'm guessing so would a big man's gold ring at shallow depth. That's for sure🙄 I would not be caught dead drinking any of those beers. With small breweries everywhere now, I want to enjoy some quality beers from now on. I gave Budweiser enough of my money in my youth! That tropical storm may be heading too far inland to have a huge impact, but what I've learned you can never really tell until you get there. Thanks. Hunting for fun now. Going to try some dirt hunting with it maybe this week. Interested in trying it at some inland EMI areas. I have two spots that I know well and have been hammered. I want ti see if it can pull any non ferrous out of there. plenty of 34 caliber (and up) round ball pulled from this field. WE shall see.

So I wanted to go back to my favorite beach since this time I would hit it at low tide. Not a great low tide, but enough to expose a good stretch of wet sand where I am dying to try the Tone (and Mute) modes where there is a decent amount of iron present. Today was not that day. Completely sanded in so I will have to wait until this beach gets ripped up a bit. It does not help that they groom the beach every morning. Last time the grooming guy came out of his way to circle me, trying to intimidate me into leaving I heard almost no iron, so I knew it was deeply hidden. 2 1/2 hours flies by and I'll probably have to wait until my good season hits this fall. I guess I'll have to cough up some cash and buy that Xtreme scoop so I can maybe hit some lakes with it. I'm not strong enough to handle those rough waves at these exposed beaches like you veteran water guys are The surfing dudes will be scraping me up out of the water. I'm not disappointed in the machine, just in the beach conditions and of course the short time allowable to hunt.

I'm having similar results on my second hunt. At least you hit cobble. My beach is so sanded in, all that remains is more shallow targets(under 12") and a lot of open space and smooth threshold. If your hitting cobble you should hit gold if it's there. Pull tabs sound nice when they are deep I don't know your beach conditions, but sooner or later some sand should move and the targets will light up. Looking forward to your next hunt.

How about just getting the same size round neodymium magnet and just let it attract to the magnet on the bottom of the one you bought?

Me too. They may not make the full 99 units. On the other hand if there are major delays, they may extend the limit past 99 right?? Either way, if the machine pans out for me I may get the other one too. That way I have a spare for a friend to use, and if they out-do me with it, I just have to wait 3 hrs for their battery to run dry.

I need 10 hours battery life just in case 😄 Would be nice to not have to swap out batteries during a hunt. In my area, if you move from your spot during a good low tide, someone swoops in and is there in a heartbeat 🤨

Should we be running the sensitivity as high as we can get it for that kind of depth? I'll be doing wet slope and wading in the water for now.

Some people really need that alias to protect them and all the GOLD they find. 😄 Not mentioning any names of course 😊