schoolofhardNox

48 minutes ago, Sinclair said:

Crazy.. I didn‘t manage to find a single goldring in 2 years 

But an earring.. and some silver.

Do you hunt in the water, or on the dry?

 

We have no tide here.. so no wet sand hunting possible  I imagine that would bring up some more interesting targets.. 

I hunt both dry and wet, and I  do move around quite often. I haven't hit a very low tide yet or went in the water past my knees.

Gorgeous nickels!!! What a sweet spot you have there.

I try hard not to watch others because I think the same way. I have been hitting silver coins at 14" in one spot on a certain beach. Almost 100 silvers in a 20' x 120' span. I watch this older couple do an area I see as very sanded in and I have written off that area as boring and unproductive. As they grid back and forth in a frenzy, I did silver  How dumb are they? Not very dumb at all, as that area that I wrote off actually has been producing silver and gold for them for months....all shallow. Apparently the tides rip this section apart and expose these coins and then lightly sand it in so it looks like a deep sanded-in area. I had to hit it the other day since I wanted to look for chains with the Equinox and that should be a clean area, just micro jewelry and chains since the clean out all the junk for me.  I couldn't believe the Mercury dimes at 3" that I found, along with 4 gold items.........Yep they were the smart ones. Time to eat crow for a while

5 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Impressive!  Hurts my eyes to see what the salt water does to silver coins.  At least gold is inert enough to not be bothered.  Don't think I could do 10.5 hours straight.  Hope you get more chances this weekend.  Weather is finally springlike here and my pinpointers are already vibrating.

Thanks, I'll be trying again Tuesday I think. Small beach with a lot of interference, so we shall see how it goes. If I get gold the 4th straight beach hunt, I will be totally amazed at the Equinox!

5 hours ago, mn90403 said:

What a haul!  Let me see ... when was the last time I found a silver coin at the beach ... I can't remember but not with the Nox.

Did you do any 'dual' checking of your targets or was it just GPX or Nox?

Mitchel

I don't cross check any settings since I have no way to keep both machines on the beach at the same time. It's just not practical. Plus being tied to the GPX would make it very awkward to use a second machine. People think I'm nuts enough as it is, swinging the back-pack GPX

7 hours ago, Mark Gillespie said:

Awesome finds, silver and gold, you must have a very good site.

 

Any old beach will do. The coins are deep, that's for sure.

8 hours ago, Richard Williams said:

Amazing. What settings were you using?

I used the stock beach program for most of the hunt, but I did play around a bit with the sensitivity, iron  bias, and recovery speed. But ended up back at the preset settings.

19 hours ago, SittingElf said:

Awesome!  I'm excited to work some of the beaches near me that may hold those kind of treasures!

I see you have the Equinox 600. It will do the same as the 800. Just use the stock beach setting and dig every signal (including bottle caps) until you get a feel for what is what. When your 800 arrives you can tweak the settings a bit, but most likely you won't have too. Good luck with it.

19 minutes ago, bado1 said:

Death by gold! I like it!! 

Dean

The only way to go.   I bet those Minelab engineers are grinning from ear to ear on how well this machine is doing all around the world!

4 hours ago, kiwijw said:

Wow....That was an awesome hunt. Congrats & well done. What coil did you have on the GPX & did you dig all signals & was there much rubbish? The EQ 800 would have helped you no end with its discrimination & VDI reading abilities. You must be fizzing with your results. Life is good......

Best of luck out there

JW   

Thanks. It was my 3rd good beach hunt with the 800. Gold every time out so far. On the GPX I used the Detech 12.5" DD coil. If you listen carefully you can hit the clay layer and find coins on average at 14"  There is always a lot of rubbish on our beaches. I will dig a lot of junk while I am learning the Equinox. With the GPX you have to dig it all because it's all deep in the area I was hunting. Here's the junk targets from this hunt.

On ‎4‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 4:58 PM, Norm S said:

I am now the proud owner of both the Equinox 800 and 600 and I no longer have any use for my E-Trac, My E-Trac is 2 yrs old and has no extra accessories. I do have a cheap harness I bought for it but found it to be more trouble than it was worth. Does anyone know what a used E-Trac is worth. 

You can test the waters by putting a high price on it or just start the auction at the lowest price you are willing to sell it for and see where it goes. I never thought I would sell my E Trac, but I did. Now that I have the Equinox, I'll be selling my CTX. Some say it's crazy but nothing beats being stuck with an aging detector and watching it lose value. That's what happened to my Vista Gold. There it sits, with a broken boost switch, 3 great coils and it just collects dust.  Just my way of looking at it but I would sell it and just keep the money aside or buy some other things like a great scoop, or something else you may have wanted but never bought.

35 minutes ago, Norm S said:

Our beaches aren't the best but most people that detect on them are tourists and usually have inexpensive detectors. I have seen them waist deep in a hole next to a steel storm sewer line. The won't listen when you tell them it's the sewer line they are getting a signal from. 

I am pretty sure I am the only guy with an 800 within 100 miles from me and I also have a 600 for back up

I am used to digging tabs, cans and bottle caps on the beach

Dig all signals that are number 1 - you may be pleasantly surprised. And leave them tourists alone... if they want to dig that pipe and lose their rings at the same time....let them   

4 hours ago, BeachHunter said:

Congratulations on the gold! 

Thanks. I usually don't hit gold this often  I'll see next week if the trend continues.

4 hours ago, Norm S said:

What did the gold ring up at? Just curious I am going to try next weekend

Most of my tiny gold has been ringing up as 1. Sometimes bouncing a little to 2 or 3, but generally steady at 1. Aluminum foil is all over the place in the low digits.

5 hours ago, Sinclair said:

Jealous of your beaches - ours didn‘t have many visitors the last season, because of the weather. When there‘s nothing to find you aint gonna find something.. if that makes any sense 

I would check your state web sites to see if they give any history, and most important  -  attendance figures  - for all of their beaches. But my reality is that our beaches here have never been hunted for micro gold effectively. Since I dig a lot of holes, my odds increase of finding something that may be masked too. So maybe the small stuff is still there in all the beaches you hunt??? Think about being the first person with a machine that finds tiny gold. It only takes one small earring stud with a HUGE diamond in it, to make your day

On ‎4‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 6:22 AM, Chase Goldman said:

Do a search on Pinpoint on this forum and you can get an idea of the spectrum of issues regarding pinpoint volume.  As Steve has said, some of it may be "real" as in an actual "volume" bug (that seems to happen while going into or out of pinpoint) and some of it may be imagined, because people are not used to how the pinpoint works on this detector where the volume appears to have to "lock on" to the target before it gets louder.  It is something ML is probably looking into for refinement because it does appear to be a little quirky.

Thanks, I'll search it. Mine is definitely and intermittent issue. I'll see if anyone else has the same exact problem. But this machine is a killer on small gold!!!

On ‎4‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 3:33 AM, Judy said:

Wow a bit surprised you saying the 5000 doesn't pick up small chains . We  get them regularly  and unmistakable target . Maybe the different sands . Now using the Nox but I do pull out the 5000 as I love the machine . 

The time I tried it on gold chains it did not hit on them. Silver it hits on just not gold. Maybe I didn't have the correct timing chosen or maybe because I was testing it indoors with lots of EMI. There is a bit of black sand and other purple looking sand here. Also not sure on how high the salt content is. I can hit small targets like tiny stud earrings but not those chains. I will have to try it again. Thanks Judy

3 hours ago, Terry Soloman said:

Congrats on the beach finds. I am cleaning up on Long Island, and New York City beaches with my NOX 600. It paid for itself in gold the first month. 

Nice to get it paid off. That was fast. I have always like my E Trac, CTX and GPX, but this is the first time I can say one of their machines has clicked with me this quick! It's just a pleasure to use.

3 hours ago, Norm S said:

The few little quirks I noticed with my 800 were chalked up to inexperience with the 800. Things such as pinpoint going silent and then coming back. I read as much as I can from those that know detectors well and extract what I can learn from them. I am getting my 800 back on Thursday but have no idea what they did to repair it. What I do know if it would have not totally quit working I would have kept using it. Hopefully whatever they did to fix it can be used in a firmware update later on. 

To be truthful my biggest take away from watching the experts and reading what the experts have posted is the  preloaded modes by Minelab are close to perfect unless a person is in an area where the soil is highly mineralized. Everytime you tweak a mode to get what you're seeking you give up something to gain something else. That's my observation only. 

Hi Norm S, If you find out what the issue with the pinpoint going silent is, can you please report on it here. Mine goes silent when I pinpoint but suddenly comes on after a couple of seconds, or sometimes I have to pinpoint a second time to get full volume. I'm not sending my unit in...... I just got it LOL It's finding gold and my beach season ends when the crowds get there at the end of May. I'll double pinpoint for the duration if I have to. Just curious on what that issue is.

On ‎4‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 8:30 PM, GB_Amateur said:

That sure is a motley collection of coins.  Is that typical of the condition coming out of salt water in your area?

In particular, though, I'm curious about the middle (I'm assuming copper row) Memorial.  The diameter is quite a bit smaller than its neighbors, but it isn't eaten up like a typical Zincoln.  Is this unusual?  What piques my curiosity is the possibility that it's a wrong planchet strike.  (For example, penny dies striking a dime planchet.)  Those are extremely rare and valuable (although as always, condition of dug coins can really hurt the value).

My computer is really been odd lately. I answered this the other day and now my reply is gone???? So sorry for the delay - Yes this type of corrosion is typical for New England beaches. The Memorial in question is a copper one and has been eaten away both in diameter and thickness. In some flat lying beaches this is what happens to the coins. Some get a hard black crust that needs a hammer to break off, others just wear away like this one did. Silver holds up better but can degrade also. That is why I vote everything (including pull tabs) should be made of gold.....problem solved

19 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Well, you reported Bill Southern saying end of May or June. Since everything in detector land is always late, I figured why even bother with end of May, just call it June. That said, all I am doing is reporting what you reported which other people are now reporting me as having reported when in fact.....

'they are here when they are here and not a minute before!'

I just need one before I die  That's all I ask. Soon would be a good option too!

The picture below is from my hunt yesterday. I threw out the trash before your reply. The trash was minimal yesterday with a few small "hot" rusted iron objects, about 15 or so trash items in total. I understand about digging everything, as I use a Sovereign GT in all metal pinpoint mode. I get the fact that depth and sensitivity go hand-in-hand. But if the Nox is concentrating too much on small items at the beach this may actually be a drawback. So do not get mad at me but I would not rather see and dig little stuff...especially stuff that goes through my scoop holes.  By the way 367 pesos 151 coins in total and one lousy bracelet [no other jewelry].

Definitely do what ever you like to do. No one should get mad about someone else's way of detecting. I'm a firm believer that metal detecting is therapeutic and should not be a chore. Your finds prove that your way is best for you.  For me, I enjoy learning what each signal brings. Some of those deep faint blips are good targets, as are some of the tiny hits. In the end nothing I find gets wasted, since I scrap metal too