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Nice work...happy smiles strick

This motivates me to head to the hills maybe next weekend! Thanks Mitchell for digging a 1 on the equinox strick

Thanks Chase I forgot about that advice in the manual... l will try it later this week when I get back there....and tracking also.. Strick

I have not tried tracking yet...I find myself auto ground balancing often which seems to make the machine run more stable. Yesterday I was hunting a beach for a couple hours here in the Delta...full of black sand..I could not get the machine to GB at all. Still found lots of targets as there was lots of erosion present. Small coil needed please Minelab! strick

Very nice..... that gets the ole heart a thumping! strick

Thats fine. Frankly I don't need to spend any more money on detectors...what I have seems to find stuff to my liking any ways... finding the time to detect and getting the coil over gold seems to be the problem... Hopefully I'll get to the high country soon for some fun in the Pine forests. I'd better charge up the GPZ as I have not looked at it in months lol strick

Thanks guys! Ray when I first seen the ring is was sideways to me and all I could see was the notches which resembled a serrated edge of a coin from a distance...The last thing I expected to find was a gold ring out there... a gold coin would be more probable. Jim- some of those Chinese coins are older then we might think. A buddy of mine showed one I found recently to his wife (who is Chinese) and it was made in the 1600's ! I guess thats why some of them are disintegrated. GB- There are no markings on the ring...it appears to be crudely made of high k gold. I'd like to think it was dropped by one of the Chinese miners or their wife...Or maybe the head of the Chinese mining company that came to inspect their work...lol. At any rate there was a small community living in this area long ago and everything I've found so far is Chinese. Those Beer caps have got enough publicity on their own lately and I think I might have left one on the ground for the next hunt strick

I had intended to go to the beach today...easy and relaxing digging is just so irresistible. Last night I had readied the Equinox 800, CTX and beach scoop in my shop in preparation. During the night as I slept voices kept telling me "Screw the stupid beach and take the Equinox to the foot hills and try it out in some real dirt" Gold nuggets and relics were calling for some reason. I didn't expect to find much...mostly lead bullets etc.... maybe a Chinese coin if I was lucky. And to tell the truth I was not in the mood to dig bird shot today so I hunted mostly in field 2 and Park 2 I put the 800 in gold mode 2 for maybe 5 minutes then switched back. First came the Chinese coin...nice to get one intact...I'd dug one in pieces a few minutes earlier. Then I decided to hunt some tailing piles and I was elated to get the powder flask...an hour or so later I was hunting near a creek so I could retrieve an ax head I had dug last year and left it on a fallen tree. A solid 12 on the equinox...at first I thought I had a small gold coin due to the serrated edge... But hey i'll take a gold ring any day. This sucker is old...the Chinese mined this place and I have yet to find any silver coins here. There are gold nuggets few and far between plus the place is riddled with lead shot of all shapes and sizes. Grass was tall which made for challenging hunting. The ring came from the other side of the creek near the tree in the middle. Good luck and HH! Park 2, Auto GB, Sens 22, reactivity 6, iron bias 0 I had to auto GB often due to soil. Pic with the Sierra is a toast to the old timer before I covered the hole strick

Wait...I thought you detected in Flip Flops? AF1QipNhamfjDbsaxTf8xM7SyTu4fjOYhJmlXQmm4a9L strick

Nice! Next time your in California give me a buzz... I'm 2 hours north of Monterey strick

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

Believe me you are not alone..The Nox has plus and minuses like any other detector. Bottle caps have been discussed in detail. They can be avoided for the most part with a little detective work but you will still dig some here and there and that cant be avoided. Do a search on this site for more info on bottle caps and the Nox strick

How about the back yard? did you try the back yard area? strick

Good hunt. Lucky 13 I call it..The engineers at minelab must love that number. I'm learning to kinda recognize the sounds that nickels make...much different then a fresh bottle cap which is a much broader sounding target. I have not ran my CTX since I got the nox but will soon. I never dug bottle caps with the CTX use "Doc's Ferrous coin " and "Indians and Silver" programs. I'm thinking the Nox is a great machine for coin, beach and relic hunting...Trash infected parks are a another deal.... if your looking for gold you better be in shape. strick

Great report and thanks for the numbers that will help when I finally get mine in nugget country. BTW I like the hybrid scoop your using strick

Best of luck with your surgery!...and quick recovery so you can get back out to the gold fields.. strick

loving it...Nice dime...been killing myself trying to find one of those.... How about ole Tom? Did the Nox wake him up yet? strick

There is no doubt the equinox is deeper then the CTX. I noticed that right away. Yesterday I hit an old park that I have not been to in a long time with my equinox. I have hunted this park a lot with the CTX. There is a little grassy knoll where previously I had found some coins and two junk rings with the CTX. Perfect spot for people to picnic. I got a faint deep signal with the 800 reading in the 30 and above range. My Lesche digging tool was almost maxed out after a long struggle to get the target free out pops a silver half dollar 1963. I know that I covered this area 4-5 times (20x 30 foot area) with the CTX and missed this nice find. I dig a little more crap with my 800 then the CTX but I'm learning to live with it. strick

You will dig more bottle caps with the Nox for sure but it's the speed that makes up for it. If you dont like digging bottle caps the CTX will completely ignore them. Choose the right machine for the environment you target. strick

Pin point responses are the pretty much the same as my CTX...maybe a little more aggressive on the 800. I've considered this normal for the 800. Pinpoint has been pretty much dead accurate so far. strick

That is normal...think of it as a kinda zeroing in on the target type of thing. It's the same with the CTX 3030. You will get used to it hopefully. I only use pinpoint on faint deeper sounding targets... strick

Last paragraph of what Steve said. My 2300 is not going anywhere..(it's actually my wife's) .Vacuums up those tine nuggets that are hard to pin point with the 7000 strick

Guess I'm lucky...switch works fine on mine...just a little hard to find sometimes. strick

Thanks for the update..Being from California I find it hard to believe that parks are off limits to detecting in so many places on the east coast. I've only ran across one park that specifically had a sign that said no metal detecting in an uppity neighborhood... Hope you find something good soon.. strick

Way to sniff out a great find! strick