schoolofhardNox

19 hours ago, foreverteachable said:

I think I found one gold ring ever and I usually release my fish unless it is a batch of porgies. If I bring home some gold I bet my wife will tell me to go fishing more ?

There is a drawback to finding a lot of gold.... You only own it until you get home, especially if it is jewelry!

44 minutes ago, foreverteachable said:

Holy smokes that is awesome! You sure inspire me! Now I'll have to bring my metal detector to the beach when I go fishing or better yet I'll have to bring my fishing rods when I go metal detecting LOL

Bring both....Catch dinner first, then detect for gold  Thanks, but it's Minelab that deserves the credit for these finds. Even my other Minelab machines never found this much gold.

1 hour ago, Mark Gillespie said:

I'm debating on whether I'm taking my Equinox or TDI Sl to the beach. 

Either way you won't fail. If the beach has very few targets, then I would probably go with the TDI, but if there is a lot of iron I would take the Nox.

21 hours ago, bado1 said:

The steak lives on until next fall! Very nice work! I always enjoy reading about your hunts and enjoy hunting the beach vicariously through them. Thanks!

Dean

Thanks Dean. It's been a unbelievable end to my season, since I bought that Equinox.  Hopefully I can sneak in one more hunt. I guess home "to do" list can wait one more time

18 hours ago, steveg said:

VERY nice digs!  That half heart sure LOOKS to be gold...

Steve

Thanks Steve, I have to check the numbers of that heart on the machine again. It looks and feels like gold, but I'm worried it may be a recent drop. If it reads low than it's probably gold. Under 10 and I'll consider it possibly gold. Over 10 and it's probably plated brass.

Great hunt! The Equinox loves gold. It's amazing!

Nuke em, When I tried the 40Khz next to the train I was able to keep a decent sensitivity. Higher than if I kept multi frequency. I would have had to drop it down to 15 or less! in multi. Try 20 KHz or 40 KHz at about 20 sensitivity and let me know how it does. Hope you can find a solution, because sounds like you have some spots most people can not detect with great accuracy! As for the headphones cutting out, make sure your 800's volume is set to full . That way you can turn down your headphones, which may make it behave better.

3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Be careful what you wish for. Equinox is very high gain and that leads to increased susceptibility to EMI. Reducing its susceptibility to EMI will not come without a resultant lessening of sensitivity to desired targets, especially smaller targets and the deepest targets. There is no free lunch.

Since Multi-IQ is receiving multiple frequencies it is more susceptible to EMI. Terry is right in that the single frequency options offer some relief in many areas. In general, low frequencies receive more undesired signals than higher frequencies, and if you flip through them 5 kHz is often the main culprit. 20 kHz on the other hand is usually very quiet by comparison.

Yep, I used 40Khz the other day when I had to detect next to a train. Multi was not going to work anywhere near this train. 40 worked rather well. Like Steve said try 20 and also try 40.

1 hour ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Cool.  Only reason I asked is I showed this post to my wife and she loves the last two rings you found, if you want to part with them, let me know.  She loves the old style jewelry. 

Good luck getting them away from my wife. The down sides of being married, your gold rings are history even before you get home

2 hours ago, martygene said:

all i can say is WOW and congrats. those finds go a long way of paying for your machine.  

Thanks martygene. I've found 25 pieces of gold in 7 hunts with the 800. I may have just paid off the machine already

2 hours ago, strick said:

Great hunt! ...do you remember the ID numbers on the three un broken rings? 

strick

strick, I think the 2 rings with stones read 09, or close to it. Not sure on the nugget ring but it should be close to that also

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

Gets me excited to hit the beach even though my beach does not give up the gold and silver like yours do.

Chase, you may be surprised. These beaches were kind of stingy before I used the 800. They did give up some rings with the CTX and GPX, but not like this!!

8 hours ago, matt said:

Wow! Great hunt. That's a very impressive day for sure.

Thanks Matt. I love this machine.

8 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Nice digs for sure!  Wetting my appetite for beach detecting!!

Do you sell your finds?

HH,
Cal

Thanks Cal, I usually don't sell any of my finds. I did recently sell some early dog tax tags to someone who collects them.

8 hours ago, bado1 said:

Very nice! The X-Terra is my favorite multi purpose "single frequency" detector.

The streak continues!

Dean

Thanks Dean. I'm shooting for 8 in a row next week. Beach days are ending here soon, as the season opens up to the public.

8 hours ago, Terry Soloman said:

Amazing!!!!?

Thanks Terry. I swear this machine makes gold out of thin air

3 hours ago, Jackpine said:

Awesome hunt!

Thanks Jack. Never had a machine this good on gold.

Don't get too caught up in the numbers. Look for solid (2 axis) repeatable hits. They should sound good. Then look at the numbers. Iron will be very hard at first to not dig. It will sound good one way but will not the other direction (90 degrees). Except for large iron and flat stock, they usually sound pretty good. Don't crank the sensitivity either. Go fairly slow, but not too slow. I do a 2 second swing in one direction. But most important  - have fun!

Beauty of a dime  Especially an New Orleans mint!

It looks like a newer rosette. The back bar was bent causing it to break away from the attachment point

13 hours ago, SittingElf said:

That has been my experience as well.  I just hold if off to the side for a moment and return to target. 

Yep, me too. If you move quickly it goes very, very quiet, almost like it has the volume turned down to 1. But if you initiate the pinpoint and stay still for a second or 2 the full volume come on. Now if I can just remember to do that I will be fine

4 hours ago, TerryinHawaii said:

Your ring marked 585 is 14K.  The ring marked 14 FG is an old gold 14K ring that need to be cleaned. The class ring maybe 14K because most old class rings that are 10K will have green coating due to the copper leaching out.

Thanks Terry. The 585 ring is modern and looks like it was laser engraved with the style #, manufacturer and 585. I'm always leery of modern rings being cheap China fakes  I also had a ring on a previous hunt which I thought was too tarnished and actually rang up high on the CTX (12-31), so I thought it was fake. I tried that ring and the 14K FG ring (reads 12-19 on the CTX) on a stone and old acid test kit I had kicking around. The FG ring did not dissolve in the acid even up to 22K. The other ring did dissolve in the 18K and 22k, but not the 14K, so that one is real. Here are both rings. Thanks for the help on them.

Had a chance to do a beach that was not very productive last fall. I did not want to keep hitting the same beaches, as I would have to move on sooner or later, so I tried this beach out. I wanted to see if the 800 would get anything. This beach was heavily sanded in and only the light targets were shallow. The good stuff was deep. I knew it was going to be tough finding any gold so I decided to hit the beach early and stay late. 11 hours and I was able to get a partial gold (9k?) high school ring, and probably a 14K white gold ring (says 585). The other ring is 14K FG and is not gold. Two .925 rings add to the better finds. Rest is clad and junk. The Equinox made the hunt on one charge but was down to its last bar. I don't think it would have lasted much longer. Next week's hunt will have very bad tidal coefficient (between +0.5 and +0.7) on the beaches I hunt. Not a low enough tide to get the areas I like to hunt. We shall see what the 800 does that week. I still amazed this machine has kept me in the gold streak for this long.

Nice hunt! I'm guessing the 18GP =18 the silver/Amethyst =16 and the small thin ring = 8. How did I do ?

Coming off of the CTX, 17" coil, and the GPX, 12.5", 12x15", 17x21"coils, The Equinox is a breeze  9 hour hunts and no issues so far. Haven't had any issues with it being nose heavy, but that is probably because I'm comparing it to that 17x21" snowshoe coil.

6 hours ago, steveg said:

NICE!!!

While your gold cross is BEAUTIFUL, and you have some great silver coin success, you have some U-G-L-Y clad coins in that pile!  LOL!!!

Congrats on success despite the conditions!

Steve

Thanks! Clad coins do not hold up in certain areas of the beach...maybe if I tumble them they will look better

I hunted 9 hours on the beach and had the battery level  drop 1 segment. I also had the wireless headphones which made the whole hunt. I don't think there is any way to see how drained the headphones are though, but they made the complete hunt. I recharge both batteries every time I go out. So far battery life is excellent. We'll see as it gets older.

2 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Very nice finds.  Did you seriously find matched earrings?  The irony of finding the "Deus te Guie" medallion/charm with the Equinox makes me chuckle.

They are exactly the same diameter, but the wire is different on each of them, so they are from 2 different pairs.  I think Deus te Guie means God bless you, or God guide you or God be with you in Portuguese. Apparently that is how I found it  

1 hour ago, Cal_Cobra said:

Great digging!!

What kind of TID numbers are you digging?

Does the gold lock on as a solid TID?

Dug a solid TID 8 at an old site last weekend and it was a small grommet.

Most of the small gold  is in the 1 or 2 range. Bigger gold was in the 9-10 range. It locks on fairly well, but the items are not deep