William P

Good looking loot there!

Thanks, Kac! That lock appears to be early 1900's, easily - https://us.yalehome.com/en/about-yale/our-brands/

I'm starting to think that buckle is some old horse tack after some research.

Howdy All!

A week or so back I was hitting a backyard of a small preschool over the weekend when nobody was around. I got permission from the school after researching that the old house was the original farm house there from the late 1800's. Using my Nox 800, I found the usual sea of trash, lots of toys, a ton of modern clad and a few cool relics. The old Yale lock pictures below is pretty neat and the arm still functions (won't lock though, too much wear and tear) The buckle is something that I am trying to figure out.. I'm not sure if it's old or pretty modern. Any help would be appreciated! 

Thanks in advance !

Wow, that is a stunning find! Thanks for showing us.

-Bill

Welcome to the party!

-Bill

Wow, fantastic that you found the ring! Nice work ?

-Bill

Great finds here! My 15" arrives today and my brother in law has secured a site a few towns away where where a large farm has been in the same family for a number of generations. The ladies father died a short time ago and said that her folks and their folks never let anyone detect on the land...but she's going to let us since we're friends.

The 15" will complement the stock and 6" will and always travel with me in my backpack for a quick field swap-out when needed.

-Bill 

Your fathers is looking out for you, my condolences on your loss.

-Bill 

As others have said, welcome to the forums and the Minelab Equinox fan club ? I have the 800 and Steve's info has been invaluable !

-Bill

Welcome to the party !

-Bill

Park hunting is a tricky task. The last thing parents with little kids  playing or folks walking their little dog want to see is someone carrying around a wicked looking shovel. To get to the left over silver coins in this town, you can expect to go pretty deep and doing that with a hand digger just seems to take too long (I'm looking at that Raptor though and thinking about giving it a spin). The two hand diggers I alternate depending on the location and soil are an authentic HoriHori and a MocDoo digger (seen here). I've had a few people even look at the Hori Hori and back at me like I was an axe murder or something 

My compromise for park hunting is the 18" Lesche Mini Sampson (seen here) in combination with the T-Handle belt holster (here). I have yet to be asked about this small shovel while in the public parks and when not in use it hangs off you belt and doesn't look very imposing. If anything you look like a city worker walking around with things hanging from your side ? .

All that said, if there's a lot of people and kids milling around in the park, I typically will go someplace else and not chance the negative feedback that may hit me. However, using the 18" Sampson and belt holder I listed, I have never been asked to leave or justify what I was doing. 

-Bill

Stunning coin, congratz!! ??

-Bill

The only time I switch to a single frequency is when there's enough interference in the area with power lines or a strong electric fence in the area and a noise cancel doesn't do do it's thing enough.

When that happens, I switch to my old friend, 15KHz and after a fresh noise cancel, I'm usually good to go for that hunt.

Good luck!

-Bill

This is probably a noob question and I'm sorry if it's already been answered somewhere. 

Is it necessary (or a good idea) to do a factory preset when switching coils? Just wondering what you all do.

Thanks in advance and Happy New Year !!

-Bill

Enjoy! I have been loving my 800 since I got it a few months back. It's so awesome to go back to previously hunted grounds and find all the stuff that your previous detector must have missed ?

-Bill

I'm using Multi about 80% of the time with 15KHz being a solid 20%. 

I usually always go over the entire ground I'm hunting using Multi and of course, always have luck with that. If time allows, I go back over the ground running 15KHz and always seem to pick up a few coin signals that I either missed using multi, or just passed by for whatever reason. 

While the update has helped with coins sitting on their side using Multi, I still seem to have better results using a mid range frequency at picking out coins on their side. 

I just see this as a fantastic feature that Minelab has given to their customers, the ability to switch frequencies and personalize their hunt. If you haven't tried it, you might consider going over a a previously searched yard using a single frequency,, you might be surprised at what you find ?

-Bill

I've been enjoying the stock wireless headphones that came with my 800. What's nice is when you get the 800, you also get the WM 08 module. During the hot summer months, I often used that with a good pair of wrap-around ear buds and had zero issues with it. The stock headphones will be nice in colder weather for helping to keep my ears warmer.

Like a lot of headphones, the stock units are not the strongest on the planet, but using common sense and a little care, they should last a lifetime.

That is a fantastic find, Andy! It couldn't happen to a nicer individual as well. ?

-Bill

Love all that beautiful shiny ?

Welcome to the forums !!

-Bill

I found something like that earlier this year at an old park. I'm still not sure if it's from the actual era, or if it's from a grab bag off Amazon (you can buy them in bulk on there, seen here)

Either way, nice find! Sure looks old ?

I'm still happy with the update, but there is one thing that's been bugging me. For the last three-five days, EVERY "13" I dig up is either a beaver-tail pulltab, or a small piece of aluminum. I've dug about 11 pull tabs to only 1 nickle.  Who knows, maybe I'm just being tested, but I didn't have this before I updated.

I'm still happy enough that I'm going to play with the settings a little and see if there's a small work around. I always noise cancel and ground balance at every new site as well. 

-Bill

Looking forward to seeing the treasures you find ?

-Bill

Stunning rings!! Thanks for sharing!

-Bill

Howdy folks!

I could use some help, I was out detecting last night on a portion of my wooded property that I had not been to yet and found this little buckle about 8" down with the Equinox 800. I was using Field 1 with mostly stock settings, minus a few volume tweaks, and it came in at a constant VDI of 20.

It's only about an inch long and a half inch in width. It's interesting because it has some "fancy" around the border and is kinda unique in it's shape. 

I've been trying to find some possible timeline info on it and keep striking out. Once decent site I found on buckles may indicate that it's from the 1660's-1720's, but that can't be right (or if it's right, that would be pretty cool!) - http://mdgear.com/buckle-guide/

if you've seen one of these before, or have some ideas, please post and thanks in advance!

-Bill

I feel your pain, Andy. Living in Indiana, you may have a fantastic day detecting and then a few days (or more) of just digging up iron and garbage. I've felt let-down a number of times since starting this hobby only back in Feb of this year, but I always try to keep the perspective going that "Maybe tomorrow will be the big day". Often that's not the case, but I keep finding interesting things and plenty of clad to keep the hobby fun and interesting ?

For me, just finding a silver coin or even a few wheat pennies can equal an outstanding day. My town has been picked over pretty hard (minus permissions) so it doesn't take much to make me do the happy dance ?

A typical good day for me is finding a good amount of modern change, maybe a few interesting older relics and meeting new people will out detecting.

I don't think I've had "bad" days detecting, just getting fresh air and exercise keeps the feeling of bad away. Moderate for me would be finding less clad change and a lot more iron, aluminum, pull-tabs, bottle-caps and other random rubbish. It happens and I just chalk it up to being part of the hobby. 

Just keep thinking that tomorrow could be the day you find that awesome diamond ring or huge silver coin! That keeps me going ?

-Bill