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Thanks for the positive ID, Cal. 👍 The brass plate does have a bit of the grip left on it, I've seen the "President" part before on the forum. Appreciate the help!

Today Chase came down to hunt a new permission with me, a turn-of-the-century farm not too far away. The farm has 3 houses on it, two Victorian and one modern. The landowner is a person my wife has been friends with for years, he catered our wedding. Near as I can tell this place has never been hunted. The main field is about 67 acres and surrounds the large house, there is another of about 30 acres across the highway with a smaller Victorian house and the modern one. I'm looking for something for the owner but he is allowing me to keep everything else. 🙂 I brought my Equinox and the Deus 2, the EMI was pretty rough near the highway where we started so I ended up using the Deus all day. I was using my modified General program, which Chase introduced "Full tones" to, I was running it with 5. It became quite a bit easier to distinguish some targets but the objective today was to dig anything that gave consistent good tone, be it aluminum and even falsing iron. I dug a horrendous amount of trash. 😵 This is just the aluminum: I split it into two photos. 🤬 Some big falsing iron and the usual suspects, bullets, shotgun shell ends, junk copper and an old Schrader valve. While searching the large field on our way to a remote barn we came upon a spot that gave up some pretty good finds! It was a house or a tavern, there was brick and pottery, and lots of brass. I dug these large pieces Top is a barrel tap, next what may be a rifle buttstock plate, a musket ball, a large brass foot of some sort, an ox knob, and what I think is a brass insert for a glass door knob. Heavy stuff! We went way back in the field to find a barn, found the spot but nothing else except for a swarm of bees in a nearby hollow. We decided to go back to the productive spot. There I found some interesting smaller items: A small broken horseshoe charm, it was gold plated. A 1920s lipstick tube, "Kissproof". A broken button with what looks like grapes on it, very old. A small bracelet piece with a flower design on it and a few links. One flat breech button, and a large token that says "Leonard Refrigerators" on it from about the 30s: Not sure what the object is, but it's the punchline of my corny title. 😀 Chase had to leave so I came back later for a bit, and got my find of the day along with the Tombac in the finds photo: 1831 Matron Large cent, in fairly good shape. 🙂

Very nice post, thanks for being so detailed on the settings, and which program you based it on. 👍

I have one. Kicks like a mule but it's a heckuva rifle. Mine was made in 1955 😀

Looks like a broke six-gun to me, pretty cool find for falsing iron. 🙂 Unless you can find lettering on it in a restoration attempt, identifying it specifically would be difficult.

I think you'll find every Equinox will have the same "problem", and yes, even in a high EMI place, I can find an angle to the source that doesn't affect the detector much, as you allude to. I forgot to mention Noise Cancel as the first option I try BTW. I'm assuming you use that first as well. I have this one place I hunt where there is a huge cell tower blasting into the field from a quarter mile away. 10kHz works sometimes, 15 others. As I get further out I change back to Park 1 Multi. A campground I like to hunt forces me to 5kHz some places. Batteries just don't cause that sort of interference. 🤔 Wherever you got that tip sure wasn't from someone here... DP eats "restroom lawyers" for breakfast. 😀 Cool name you use, is it related to "Mosin" by any chance? 🙂

The Equinox is a hot detector. 🙂 When faced with EMI issues, the first thing I do is try to find a program that isn't affected as much, next switch to single frequency and find the one unaffected, last turn sensitivity down. I'm in a rural area so it's not as big a problem, but when I go other places that's my order. IMHO it's voodoo to think that switching out the battery would solve the problem, it would be introducing other risks like making the detector less waterproof, or worst rendering it inoperable. If your Equinox lasts 8 hours or more on a full charge, the battery is not a concern.

Yes in some cases, depends on what program you are using. Relic program does it a lot. You're in a different country which has much older history. The oldest iron we will find here in the US is about 400 years on average. UK history is much older, and iron is far more plentiful. My advice to you is to rely on more positive/reliable signals and IDs, rather than driving yourself crazy or wasting time chasing deep iron, unless a heavy bag is your thing 🙂 it's so much more likely that you are digging deep for iron than coins. You may miss a few, very few, but IMO you won't regret it knowing the alternative which is carrying 20+ pounds of iron. Good luck and get those good ones! 👍

Now that's a relic hunt! 👍 Nice badge, kinda hard to tell what it reads but Chattanooga always invokes railroads to me. 😀 Do you use historic aerials? Seems to me an old topo might show you where other houses were. I have similar houses in one of my permissions, some are still standing, others gone. Don't find much around them but I did dig a '25 Merc in front of one. Mostly junk , liquor containers and "butt cream" tubes. 🤣

I still like books, but yeah, I googled 🤣

That's usually big iron for me. Every target I bothered to dig that deep for was a large chunk of old farm equipment, or a rusty lump. Best bet is to find one or two of them to learn not to dig them. 😀 Sometimes it could be a good one but that would be rare. I saved a somewhat modified Relic program next to my somewhat modified General program. Relic goes really deep, it was designed for a coil swung high above the ground. I switched to that and it will go to iron. Problem solved. If it's still a good signal I'll dig it but it still turns out to be iron.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_the_right 🙂

Spanish silver is pretty common in Virginia, and apparently in the West. 😀 I've only found Seated Liberty coins recently, and one Walker. Standing Liberty and Barber coins are still on my list, although a friend found a Standing Liberty at one of my permissions early on. I'm still trying to figure out the progression from seated to standing to walking, no such reference exists. 🤣

Nice finds UT Dave, I've been detecting for nearly two years now in lots of old places but Barber coins still elude me. We have no parks here however. 😀 Great stuff, and congrats on the silver and gold! That 800 is killing it. 👍

Great title and cool finds. They say the Equinox has trouble with chains, you're living proof it doesn't. 👍 Cool!

Always looking out for Bahgains... 😀 After I get one I'll let y'all know 😁

That's the one I'd like to get but it's a month out at best from Ukraine. 😵 At least there's an alternative now. 🙂

I don't use an arm strap but I can see that! 🙂 Dunno if XP included an arm cuff pad, I didn't see it. The cuff gets sticky on a hot day. Neoprene is great.

I like these covers, I really wanted to get the way cool embroidered Ukraine one, but this is instant gratification 🙄 They reduce friction and are very tough. 👍

Recently listed, grabbed one this morning. 😀 Happy Mother's Day all you Mothers! 🤣 https://www.ebay.com/itm/115368938014 I bought one from this person for another detector, it's still going strong after a year. 🙂

I just got back from the beach in Savannah. I used both my Equinox 600 with the 10x5 and the Deus 2 with V0.71. I noticed very little difference in depth between the two and am fully convinced there are no depth issues, I dug many targets with both that were very deep, sometimes a much as 12". The only nod I give the D2 is the fact that it is much lighter and far more adjustable than my Equinox. I think I dug less trash with the Equinox but that was directly related to my experience with the D2. Of late I can say I'm approaching the same level of coordination with the D2 now, it's different enough to have the learning curve become steeper. The effectiveness of a VLF detector in my limited experience seems more a function of coordination (ear, eye, hand) than the concept of depth. Once proficient in learning the way a machine identifies a target, the rest is left to coordination, repetition and perseverance. 🙂

You can email @steveg directly, he is very attentive and helpful. 🙂 This is a very interesting post!

I wanted to test Windows 11, I have it on a small laptop, but that laptop battery swelled and messed up the mousepad so now I have to use a mouse in the only USB port left. 🤬 Kinda makes it hard to do. It has a USB C port but the charging/data cable doesn't have that connector. I ended up using an old PC I use for storing photos, it has huge solid state drives and Windows 10 Enterprise. Luckily it is new enough that the front ports are USB 2. 😬 It worked flawlessly. I can't upgrade it to W11 because of the processor. 😵 I would go out on a limb and say It should work with W11, but do be careful to follow the instructions to the letter, and make sure your USB ports are at least USB 2. I'm afraid "computer illiteracy" isn't a badge of honor anymore. 🙂 To use stuff like the D2, it is better to know all you can.

I think it's fascinating to imagine what the relics and coins mean that I find in any specific place. That's a very large nail! I could probably rebuild the Brooklyn Bridge from all the nails I pass my coil over (and avoid) 😀 Have you checked an old topo map to see if there was an old house nearby? It could be illuminating. Topos had squares where dwellings were until the mid 60's.

😀 Lots of detectorists are like "oh, a token 🤬". Tokens can be more valuable than coins in some cases. The Cascarets' token is an 86 on Numista. Probably not very valuable but rare. I just wonder what sorta hole it plugged... 🤔