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I just used mine in a few hay fields with grass at different heights, in the woods, and in a brook and I found some great stuff. It is a great all round detector.

I hear you Steve, didn't have much detail but I was hoping it might be a military button.

It was a Great day trying the nox out in the fields and woods

Garrett carrot, it's waterproof too and you can prospect a creek with it if you want. It is tough as nails as well. In two of my science classes I teach a short unit on metal detecting at the end of the year and I have no worries lending out the Garrett pinpointer to freshman in high school ?

Great thread! I have not learned how to disc or notch out numbers with the 600 yet so have been using stock settings in park 2 and field 2 with either recovery speed of one or 2 since 3 seems to give me more random signals that often end up as iron so 2 works for me and I switch to horseshoe if in heavy trash and it locks onto targets just as well as recovery speed of 3. I also use 5 tones . I am having so much fun just digging 12-13 and sweet signals that bounce between 18-20 or higher that I have not messed around much with other numbers and my pull tab collection has not increased much at all. I am hitting my first old field that has been mowed in an area dating back to early 1700's tomorrow so I will dig all non ferrous signals and see how it goes. I am interested to see if it works better then my buddy's idx Pro which is the large cent King when it comes to searching old fields.

Good day Jin I am not a gold hunter so I can't help you there but I have been reading that people are happy with the Equinox at the beach. I have the Equinox 600 and am finding stuff in heavily hit parks that other machines/detectorists have missed so it will find coins and relics well. The price is reasonable so you could get another used detector as well. I have an AT Pro a buddy gave me with the smaller 8x6 coil and it does better in heavy iron infested sites than my Equinox with stock coil. I never used to carry 2 detectors but I have learned to bring them now. Purchasing 2 might be worth it. ALSO they are coming out with a smaller equinox coil so you may only need 1 ?

Good day all. I found this button at an old home site where military buttons and an old eagle sword plate dating back to the mid 1800s was found and never identified it since it is worn. IT could possibly be a 2 piece button because there is a ridge on back but might be one piece as well.Thanks!

Great digs and I agree with you on the buffalo nickle, they are awesome and it is really cool how you can be pretty confident that you have one when you get that repeatable 12-13. Your buffalo is in excellent condition. Thanks again and I still don't know how to tweak the disc. I watched videos several times but it still eludes me ? I need to find a fellow nox user nearby to show me how ?

Thanks Happa I actually found a buffalo with a date today, 1926, I rubbed it lightly to see more details and date rubbed right off ? I have only found one other with a date.

I found out old nickles read 12-13 on my Equinox and now have been re-searching spots I picked silver and wheaties from recently.

Great info. Thanks a bunch.

Great finds and prayers went out for your mom.

Thanks ;-) Trust me there are bigger ones in that creek :-)

Thanks Happa! It sure made my day.

He sure did. My buddy shared later that he knows him as a very stoic, refined guy and that it was really cool to see him act like a kid when he was finding all those coins, especially the Indian heads that were still around when he was a kid.

Wooooooooohoooooo awesome treasure hunt!

Thanks for sharing! It looks like fun. I have never travelled with my metal detector I usually just bring my fishing rods but I think I'll have to next time I go visit my mom in Florida.

That was really cool! Thanks a bunch for sharing and I agree with Phrunt, it was great quality as well. I always wanted to find gold but grew up in CT. I bought the same type of pan and took it with me to Colorado in my fishing vest. I had a chance to use it on Clear Creek in Golden and also brought home about 8 lbs of dirt for my nephew and my friend's kids to pan for gold at home. We mostly found mica chips that at first glance looked like gold but there were some fine flakes in there too. It is exciting as can be.

Thanks GB and thanks for sharing the tip. The second place I detected yesterday I had the settings really high and the ground was really moist and I was getting a lot of intermittent signals and when I pinpointed there were times nothing was there. I turn down the sensitivity or gain as you called it and I was still getting good depth but not the erratic signals. It seems that people are saying to throw out some of your preconceived notion of settings with this detector and trust that low sensitivity or gain will still get you great depth.

A friend of mine introduced me to his friend who is a fellow Marine and served in Korea. His home dates back to the early 1800's and every time I drive by it I dream of all the coins and relics. I had 4 detectors to share but began and ended with the Equinox 600. I detected a plateau on the side of the driveway first and found spme relics from the early 1900's but no coins so we focused on the front yard and my first coin was a 64 lincoln down 6-7". The soil was unconsolidated, sandy, and iron rich and I worried the older coins may be too deep. I couldn't hunt with the sensitivity over 22-23 due to interference so I thought I may increase depth and see through the tough ground by ground balancing. I forgot how and had to pull up a video. The manual ground balance worked and I found a 1960 silver dime down 7-8 " and then a 1959 dime. The finds were getting older as we detected across the lawn. A few wheaties later I received a mixed high tone that read between 18 and 23. I have learned to trust repeatable signals but the ground was mineralized and I thought it might be affecting the signals. I pulled up an indian head in beatiful shape. I handed it to the stoic old Marine and his eyes lit up and a smile appeared on his face. He said, " I haven't seen one of these since I was a kid. I then found a wheatie, 4 more IH's, and 2 more wheaties all in the same hole. I couldn't believe all the coins and the fabulous shape they were in. Most of my Indian Heads have been pretty corroded but these were clean. (Not all the coins were pictured since the homeowner left some inside.) I found a steady stream of wheaties and relics to keep me smiling all day. I really smiled widely and shouted loudly when I received a repeatable 32-35 near an old maple and saw the dark green disk in the hole. Just like almost all the other coins, I let the old Marine be the first to touch the coin. He asked what it was not having seen one in his 80 some odd years and turning it over I showed him where it read ONE CENT. It was an epic time with a great friend whom I teach Earth science with and a new friend who I was blessed to share some memories that will last forever. I gave the homeowner the coins and with an hour to detect I hit a local park and found a Barber dime, pendant, some wheaties, and my first nickle in 7 hunts that read a vdi of 12.

Thanks guys! I couldn't believe it was intact. I started digging old bottles as a kid behind our apartment complex and my mom always told me to keep the blue bottles so this one's going to her as well. I wish I had kept some of the other ones little did I know the dump dated back to the late 1700s. I left a ton of bottle sitting on top of the ground and as time went on somebody who knew what they were doing came in and cleaned it out LOL. I still have a couple spots people having dug too much yet and I bring my nephew when I go see him.

A friend who recently caught the detecting bug asked me to detect a worksite of his rental property in an area that saw activity dating back to the 1700's. The foundation had to be repaired and the house was off. I have detected some extremely trashy sites, many cellar holes loaded with iron, but this was by far the worst. My headphones were filled with an endless stream of burps, blips, and iron tones, including loads of signals from flashing and shreaded copper. I began detecting with the equinox and found a wheatie and a few relics but unfortunately no other decent signals, even with higher recovery speeds, horseshoe mode, and slow sweep speed. I know the Equinox is awesome but it definitely could use a smaller coil. I figured since my buddy shared his property and was detecting with me in the rain in his Tshirt that I better increase my chances and put some coins in his pocket. I grabbed the AT Pro with the smaller coil out of the car and it did the trick. I found the cool button, a 1910 wheatie, an 1896 IH, and while detecting atop the debris from the excavation I found one of my favorite bottles ever.

Good day all. I found this artifact on a town green along with coins dating back to 1873 in the same area with the equinox. It had a vdi of 15-16. And appears to be lead. At first, before I cleaned it I thought I may have a counterfeit since I have seen a few that were similar composition and had a similar rim near the edge but the ones I saw had the same details/strike as a coin. I couldn't make out any details on this one other that the indentations that don't go all the way through. Any ID'ers out there ?

Thanks Chase, and that is good to hear. I almost bought the Patriot but heard so many great things about the Equinoxes that I went for it. I am so glad that I did. In the area where I detect so many people have gone over the parks, old cellarholes, ballfields, and greens with all the top end detectors including other Minelabs. Going out I always had hopes for great finds but I pretty much knew I wasn't going to get any silver and was happy to find Wheaties and nickels. It is really nice to find silver again especially out of areas that have been pounded. It is probably because they're full of trash as well. This detector seems almost Magic.

Belgy, I had an hour and a half to hunt tonight and took your advice and used Park 2 since I had been using Field 2 with 5 tones. The only thing I changed from factory Park 2 was 50 to 5 tones. There was less falsing in iron than with Park 1 and less noise as well compared to Park 1. I only dug 4 nails compared to triple that with Park 1 my first 2 hunts. It seems similar to field 2 but for some reason tonight I liked it better. Perhaps it was the wetter soil or perhaps I just gave it a chance ? either way I don't think you can go wrong with field 2 or Park 2. The area I was hunting has seen a lot of fill over older targets and it gets somewhat flooded so I was trying to find areas of higher ground with a coin signal. When I finally did, just around dark, I found the 42 Merc and then the 41 wheatie. That makes five Silver's in six hunts ? I think that's more Silver's than the last 3 years of detecting before I took a break to pursue fly fishing ? ? ? I have never owned a Minelab detector before and I wish that I hadn't waited so long LOL. I guess not owning one at least gave me a chance to pursue another passion.