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On 3/2/2019 at 2:19 PM, afreakofnature said:

I am trying to see how deep folks are finding gold in parks.

The area of the park I found it in was wet and also gets a lot of foot traffic.

2 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

I always wonder when I find a coin spill (here in your case):  how does someone lose 9 quarters in one spot, at the same time and not realize it?

I was thinking the same thing when I was pulling them out.  I also thought it was odd for them to be stacked together. 

11 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Congrats on the gold, but from a detector standpoint, I would like to "sink my teeth" into getting more information from you on the coin spill.  

Specifically, some folks have "mouthed off" on the Equinox as not being sensitive to shallow bulk high conductors and have shown that before the firmware update, that the Equinox had trouble giving a high tone/TID on edge-stacked quarters simply pressed into the ground.  I replicated this for myself and confirmed a marked difference in how Equinox responds pre and post update with this particular target situation (post update you get solid high TIDs and tones).  Since I was unlikely to encounter such a contrived target situation, I chalked it up as a curiosity more so than legitimate performance concern and filed it away in the memory banks.

Bottom line, would like to "grill" you on what the signal sounded like (and TIDs) over the quarters, mode settings uses, depth, and whether the quarters were all co-located in the hole or scattered about at different depths and anything else of note when you recovered the spill.  

Thanks and I hope I didn't bite off more than I can chew on this one.

 

Thanks.

This is a picture of the actual quarters before I picked them up.  Some were loose and some were stacked, but the were all very close. I think the TID was jumping around between 30-35, but it was a very solid hit. I was using park mode 2 with the sensitivity on 18.

As far as being able to compare the pre and post firmware updates, Icant, because Ive only used the detector post firmware update.

2 hours ago, afreakofnature said:

Out of curiosity, how deep was the grill?

It was about 4" deep.

I meant to put 7 grams and not oz.

I messed around in my backyard last night, with the 6" coil, and was able to pin point a staple. It seems to work really well.

I ordered one today from Amazon and I cant wait to try it.

I made it to the park today for some practice and found a ton of targets. Finding the coins was as easy as could be. The problem I am having is figuring out what the tone or number should be for rings and such.  I buried my wedding band in the backyard and I could hardly get a decent hit on it.  My band is 18k white gold and is fairly large. 

What are recommended settings for parks to find rings?  I feel like I passed up a ton of targets today that could have possibly been something good.

Thanks for the responses.

I made it out to the foothills last weekend and found some targets.  The equinox had no problems finding some lead, copper, and an old hand shovel. I feel like lead definitely made a cleaner and more consistent sound.

I plan on searching a local park for a little more practice this Friday.

I finally broke down and bought my first metal detector. I caught the gold bug while working at my last job.  I worked for a company that sat on huge piles of dredge tailings and  it also had a creek that ran through the property.  I used to pan the creek sometimes during the week and pick up some minor gold. The whole process was very enjoyable and it got me started on the path of researching old CA gold mines.

I bought the Minelab 800.  So far it has been a bit of a learning curve, but this is the first detector I have ever used.   Im sure it will probably get better with some practice.