Lacky

I'm sure videos from the US are coming. It just looks like people in the UK got them a bit quicker. 

Welcome aboard! My favorite uncle lives in Hobart. I've always wanted to visit.

Deus came in a solid 3rd, your safe from that video. It might have you buying a simplex though. It was kinda funny. They did the simplex first and clearly thought the equinox and deus would do much better so kept playing with the settings on them to dial them in better.

Short summary would be "simplex did just as well at 1/3 price in mild ground on coin type targets buried deep. Surprised testers"

Interesting.  If the simplex does as well in a variety of conditions it should be a heck of a deal. Even if it doesn't it will be a heck of a deal for some people in mild grounds.

6 hours ago, phrunt said:

eeeekkkk! I live in Park 1 and never changed the tones setting.  Sounds like it's time I take the next step and change to 50 tones, by the end of my football field I'll be used to the tone change.

I'm exactly the same. I originally planned to learn it in 50 tones from the start, but then I just went detecting in stock settings, mostly in park 1 or gold 1 and didn't get around to changing anything. I agree it's probably time to pull up the manual and figure out changing tones and just set them all to 50 and try it for a long while. I should probably scale back the iron bias too, as that is still in stock settings (along with everything else).

Lol, nevermind, you already did

I agree it should be included on the list just to put it in the range of options for someone trying to pick a first detector that doesn't know much about them and may not consider it otherwise.  A multi purpose detector that performs on par with the gold monster is a very solid choice, and is probably the best choice for someone just starting out nugget detecting and may migrate into other types of detecting anyway.  The guide is mostly there for beginners so it makes tons of sense for it to be there (in my humble opinion).

Edit- I realize it's a slippery slope, but the equinox does seem to be the exception in multi purpose detectors performance wise on gold.

I'm looking forward to you trying it and telling me.

I suppose you could just pull the lower shaft out and lay it alongside in the case

Oh well, I won the tools!

If I lived back east I'm sure I would feel differently. If I dig a minie here it is just as likely to be from a muzzle loader hunter 30 years ago as it is 130 years ago, and no real way of knowing. I've dug some Henry rifle brass which was cool, cause I knew what they were and that they are 1800's.

Interesting concept,  but I rarely ever use the hand trowel,  almost always use a root slayer type shovel, regular shovel, or sand scoop. My local parks dont allow any type of shovel or I would probably use it more.

So basically the round coil broadcasts a larger field that penetrates deeper?

Edit-wouldnt that mean the bigfoot type coils, long and skinny, would suck at depth, or do those follow different rules?

Interesting.  I wish I could get excited about digging old bullets. I like finding old (100+ years) brass cartridges, but lead is lead in my mind. I dig bullets pretty regularly,  so it would be nice if I could convince myself they were something other than lead scrap.  

Thanks Steve!  For whatever reason I couldn't download it from minelab.  It would download 70 or 80% and say it reset the connection and start over at zero. I canceled after about a dozen cycles a couple different times. So this is the first I've been able to download it.

That prompts me to ask...is there any advantage to having a round DD coil? Since the main detecting area is where the coils overlap isn't a round coil just wasted material?

Honest question,  so if there are advantages please explain. I dont pretend to understand the specifics of coil design.

Edit to add, my Lobo came with a round concentric (or a bought separately,  can't remember)  and an oval DD, so I just kinda assumed that was the shape of DD coils up till I bought the equinox. 

4 hours ago, phrunt said:

Wouldn't Cobalt be magnetic? Have you tried to put a magnet to it?

Yes, it's magnetic, just checked. Sigh, fine, I'll stop procrastinating and get a magnet to put on my pick 😒

39 minutes ago, Busho said:

Hi mate. Yes, those illegal ones, and some have been around a while too, have done some serious damage and a few still do. It saddens me to see it. But you know what. I'm glad those in power have put the brakes on Bush claims. The amount that left them after working was an utter disgrace to say the least here in Vic. Pushing outside their claims, destroying tracks, burying rubbish. I hope they never let anyone ever again here have a claim in the bush, ever. 

So what is it now? Just open to anyone detecting or closed to everyone?

While I expect aussie gold hunters  has been good for detector sales, its probably been bad for all the things your describing.  Most of us come to gold detecting from a love of the outdoors so we keep it nice by nature.  If you come to it from love of a tv show and/or greed it's a very different attitude.

Ah, yeah, I didn't read it lol

7 hours ago, 2Valen said:

One of my friends who lives on a small farm was saying the exact same thing about his yard. He has a Whites detector and a few days ago I went out to his house and did a little detecting with him. I spotted and he dug. By the end of a few hours he had dug up several coins from the early 1900's also a 1891 $1 gold coin. Granted there was a lot of trash from farm animals and farm equipment that he dug up also.

One can never know what is there until they try to uncover whats below the surface.

Indians did trade gold up until the 1900's and they made jewelry from silver, so you never know what to expect.

Yeah, I hear ya, and it isn't impossible that there could be something good. Its just far less likely than lots of other places I have researched. If I was under house arrest then yeah, I'd search the hell out my yard. But that not being the case pretty much anywhere in the older sections of town is more likely and close, the river is more likely and close, lots of parks, playgrounds, etc. My house literally sat in the middle of a field, not close enough to the old roads for a house or yard to have been there, just the middle of the 640 acre block of farm fields. I've just decided my detecting time is better spent other places. At some point maybe I'll be bored and stuck at home for some reason and be pleasantly surprised though.

1 hour ago, Aureous said:

Yeah I know, the damned thing is stuck there and cant be turned off.....huge annoyance. But I love my cap cam and it works so easy with a click of a button. 😊

No worries,  I dont care, but if you're wanting to gather general public viewers they wont know the 24k was just released and will assume it is old footage from 2013 😃

Sage brush was there. Boise only started 150 years ago. We are a pretty young state. Prior to the gold rushes in the 1860s it was mostly only Indians. The outer areas of boise (not the old areas) were sage brush till irrigation enabled farming, then farms till the growing population caused the fields to be turned into subdivisions. There are some small townsites that have been absorbed,  but they weren't where I'm located. On the east coast/older areas it can be a big mystery what was there before. Here it's a very boring answer.

I'm jealous,  my subdivision was built on farm fields in the late 60s.

The gold monster or equinox 800 could also be solid choices for around 900 euro depending on the soil, the gold sizes and depths. I admit I know absolutely nothing about Tanzania.