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  1. That's what I bought my Ace 400 for! ? It was right after a roof replacement. It found them all and I've never had a flat. It's a good detector but not a great one. No ground balance, and discrimination is good but knowing about and having an Equinox sends the Ace to gathering dust. I tried the Simplex and had exactly the same reaction to it. It's good for what it does and is well made. I'm looking forward to its successor in the SMF category. Funny post! ?
  2. You should see what they're pulling out of the ground in Thailand. ? But the people I saw were using a GPX. Thailand has temples that predate the pyramids. I'm sure they are off limits but metal detecting is mostly legal there (or not illegal anyway). Jewelry, pottery 5-800 years old, you name it. The detectorist was saying most of the really good stuff is 10-20" plus down tho. ? Sounds right to me in a country that probably gets more rain in a week than we get all year. It's not on my bucket list, but it is fascinating. Well I'm out, thanks heavy hitters for jumping in. ? I'm not up for the deeper stuff yet. ? just testing what I know so far.
  3. Gotta say first it's kinda moot to get in a deep or high level discussion about an inexpensive detector, but I understand what you're getting at here. The faster you sweep, the more inaccurate the results would be. I can always tell I'm swinging too fast with my Equinox, because I will often hear a high tone when passing iron. The Equinox has an extremely fast ability to identify a target but there is a limit. A lot of people turn down this "recovery speed" in order to maximize depth. That's great when you can do it, but in my case most of the areas I search are so iron-laden that I have to slow the swing down and use the highest recovery speed. When I hear a high tone I stop and check again. I use a sweep at an angle (~45-90 degrees) to the target to see if the result is consistent. If it is I dig. Now to get straight to the point. I knew early on by reading this forum that if I wanted to be more successful I would have to get a better detector than the Ace, particularly one that would "ground balance". My budget constrained me to the following: Ace Apex - advertised and hyped but not available multi-frequency with ground balance Nokta Makro Simplex+ - inexpensive but feature packed waterproof Single frequency and ground balance Minelab Vanquish series - multi frequency with relatively low prices and better features but no ground balance Minelab Equinox, multi frequency with ground balance and "waterproofing" I went to a local detector shop (local is an hour and a half drive one way), and the shop owner asked me where I am going to detect most. He knows my area, and immediately told me to "bite the bullet" and get the Equinox 600. It was about $200 more than what I was willing to spend, but I am glad I did because of what I find on almost a daily basis. It was great starting out last December with the machine, and has only improved. You are entering this hobby at a time of a shift, almost all manufacturers are about to release an SMF (simultaneous multi frequency) detector, from the sublime to the ridiculous price. Depending on where you will be most (and why I suggested you introduce yourself) you will have a choice of new machines next year, and some this year. Here are the companies (the most common, not necessarily in the order) you want to pay attention to, and read up on here: Garrett for the Apex or its successor Minelab for the Equinox or its successor Nokta Makro for the successor of the Simplex+ XP of France for the Deus 2 if you have a big budget. Or, you can go out right now and get an Apex, Simplex+, or an Equinox. The used market is insane, so forget about it. ? Just for the fun of it I watched some videos about metal detecting in Thailand, a country with massive and fascinating but not popular history. I gleaned that pulse induction detectors work better in places there, as targets sink deep due to the conditions. That sort of detector is very expensive. HTH
  4. Hey Strick, Copy the text, go to Google and type Translate in the search box. You get the automatic translator, it can figure out what you copied. What the person wrote was: I often go to the swamp! There are many treasures in there! It is recommended that you use 800 15-inch discs! very useful!
  5. I'm very much looking forward to that. ? I was thinking that it might be a slug punch out from an electric box, though who knows why it would be on a beach. ?
  6. Always cool to see your posts in this thread. You got a whole $1.89! The GPX will pay for itself in no time. ? Seriously, I'm sure you'll come across a great spot. This southern nor'Easter probably won't do you much good, it tore the beaches up from VA to Miami. I'd like to get to the beach but driving there is a nightmare. They have "no" signs as long as your arm too. ? It's November. Something will happen. You have a round thing in your iron/stainless, is that interesting? Dug a live Mauser round recently myself. ?
  7. Way to go Dan! Nice coins. Seems odd that the shovel would break on the billet, but your friend really fixed it up. From the photos it looks like things are a bit dry. ?
  8. Welcome to the forum! Aside from the obvious jokes about the ad (I prefer MD2020 myself ?), it looks like you do have a metal detector. It's 6khz according to Amazon, and I'm pretty sure that is a concentric coil. While I am sure it will detect metal, it probably won't make your life easy. My first detector was a Garrett Ace 400, for sure a contender in the low end, but it wasn't 5 months with it before I got an Equinox. I quickly became tired of not really knowing what I was finding. Luckily for me I live in an area of the US that is loaded with history, and found some great stuff on my first go in my yard. Yours is a simple machine, really. Others can weigh in about the differences in coils and such but I can tell you you are limited to 5 Discrimination settings which will, for the most part, cause you to miss interesting finds. Sensitivity is another fairly deep subject but it doesn't really relate to threshold. I would just set it so that the detector doesn't go nuts when you swing it over the ground. Try to find a silent spot at first, and then turn it up until it starts to make noise, them turn it back to the edge of silence. You will find metal, lots of it - and the bar along the top will help you somewhat to decide whether to dig or not. The Ace I have has the ability to notch out or "not hear" more parts of the ID spectrum, but I never used it much. I don't notch anything even now after a year with my Equinox. You best bet at first is to "dig it all", you get a sort of reflexive skill after a while. "Practice makes perfect". Even the most experienced detectorists on this forum dig junk. There appear to be some videos regarding the machine, and here is a link to a review which may be of help: https://www.techmetalsresearch.com/metal-detector/amysports-md3030-review/ I found it by simply googling "MD3030". I wish you luck and success with the machine, we all start somewhere and please let us know how you do. I think if you find any good stuff you will be hooked. Do familiarize yourself with local and national law regarding metal detecting, you don't want to end up in jail or getting a fine. Remember everywhere but your yard in most places requires some sort of permission! We may be able to help you more if you put a post in Meet and Greet - general descriptions of where you are in the world and what you hope to find. That goes a long way on this forum! ? Luckily I went to a local detector store and got great advice for my second detector. By the way our Asian friend above is saying he/she can't find the manual. ?
  9. Sad thing is almost all these places drop off to a deep ravine where the tree line is. There are a couple of places have a 60+ foot drop right behind the trees! This is why they push the houses off the farm instead of carting them away. If I can I'll get a photo sometime. What I did was zip by the tree when the wind calmed down ?
  10. I've pretty much narrowed the pointed bullet down to .44 Colt, ca. 1870s.
  11. The worst part about black walnuts is not so much being hit on the head but the nasty permanent brown stains you get on your hands and clothing when the outer shell decomposes. You remember the hit but your clothes are toast. They're not so great for lawnmowers either, they can bend your blades. I've never seen a mahogany tree. We also have gum trees with those spiky balls. I remember having fights with them when I was a kid. ? I'm hoping for a great detecting season (November to April) this year, last year was incredible for my first. Hopefully it will be a mild winter again. I have a lot of places to revisit and some new ones. Here's hoping the new location for you has some history! ? ?? And parks and beaches ?
  12. Thanks. That means a lot. ? I'm glad to be finding relics again, it's been coins all summer. This area is 200 acres, most of which shouldn't have been searched, it was planted in the time when the other people were here. The areas I'm gridding now only amount to about 5 if that. However, it will take breaking it up into smaller search areas where there "might" be something. From scouting experience the detector stays quiet but for an iron blip now and again. I'm also hoping they will at least do some tilling to knock down the corn stalks, they turbo tilled the other farm but it's a long way from here, and they'd have to transport the machine. Chase and I pretty much cleaned the other place out once it got easy. No site is ever hunted out supposedly but the pickin's are slim now. Same here in the high probability areas. I have 3 farmhouse sites I want to visit with the 10x5. All three I went over with the 11", but I know now I will find much more. It has proven that many times over. It all depends on what the farmers do, I really dislike corn stalk hunting, and know that I'm still leaving stuff behind under the roots.?‍♂️
  13. You were the first person I thought of when I discovered that fragment in my hand. ? Knew you'd appreciate the difficulty, and yes, the Coiltek 10x5 was probably the reason I found it. There are so many iron targets in this spot I have to use F2=3, and still pulled a V nickel as well. If I left F2 at 0 I would never have finished the field. Wouldn't even want to show all the trash I dug even with high iron balance, there are cat food cans buried everywhere that come up a solid and loud 29/30. Suffice to say it's a lot. Thankfully there aren't many pull tabs but the ones I do dig are "vintage". I did find a 2" round steel wheel of some sort that should have been dug by the people there before me. Guess they threw it back in the hole. No big silver here. ?
  14. Went up to the racetrack again yesterday, thought these finds deserve a post of their own. There is a small plot of land next to where the house stood. It had a barn and the cemetery behind it. It's about a half acre. Lots of corn stalks ? At first the going was kinda risky, the wind was blowing about 20 mph, big low off the coast. I had to search under trees in the background and these were falling everywhere. If any of you have ever been hit in the head by one of these Black Walnuts, you know what the fun part is. They were coming down like rain. I suppose I could have waited a few more days but hunting season starts soon. The trees are about 50' or more, and they get a bit of velocity. ? I really didn't expect to find much at all, a scout search last spring gave no indication there was anything good here, but I was determined to grid something out of it after my finds from previous days. This is another example of "persistence pays off". All of these relics are very old. A pistol ball, an as yet unidentified fired ~45 cal bullet (the sharp end is throwing me off). The first button says "Gilt Colour" and something else on the back and still has some thread. Second has a triangle on the front and possibly some other marks, and says "Plated" on the back. The third is my favorite, an ancient convex Tombac with some off-center engraving. It has a square shank boss on the back. By afternoon someone was shooting a handgun in my direction, must have fired about 100 rounds. I didn't hear any "snaps" so I presumed the shooter was on a lower elevation and hoped there was a backstop. ? Guess I'm gonna have to get a boat horn. ? Another bit of excitement was coming across two of these "little" guys building webs across the corn stalks in front of me. The Yellow Garden Spider can grow to 1 1/2 inches in body length. They rarely bite but if they do you know it, those fangs flip out. I'm glad that metal detectors are out in front. ? I let them both carry on... ?
  15. Thanks! I did too, searched around for quite a while. Noticed the clipped sides had dirt on them, so I probably won't find the rest, and knew I didn't break it. It was either used to make change or broken.
  16. Way to go GB! ?Great finds all, and I appreciate the details. Good to see some "S" coins making their way east. ? I'll have to look but it I think I dug an S penny yesterday. Still gotta get me one of those Barbers, tho. ?
  17. I've got my fingers crossed and have knocked on wood, but I've never had a problem with water intrusion despite replacing the shaft. Maybe flexing the control pod over time will also cause a problem I've still got two years' warranty in December. ? What makes a difference to me is the field results, laugh if you want but local famewhore YouTubers I watch every week have switched to the Equinox from Garrett and use them river hunting as well as in the field. I believe a couple of them drowned their ATs. I'm glad ML's response time is fast, I'd hate to go through withdrawal?
  18. I tried that at first, but grew tired of having it always attached to me. Relegated it to water hunting after my arm got used to the weight, and my elbow stopped hurting ? I have also never used an arm cuff strap, It saves on recovery time.
  19. I'd say it was about 4". It was really hard to find, I chased it everywhere with the pinpointer. Funny you almost know you have a coin when it's hard to find. Or a buckshot ball ? Settings: Park 1, 5 tones, sensitivity 24, IB F2=3(max on 600) recovery 3 (max on 600) I'm using the Coiltek 10x5. Killer in places like this. There are a couple other sites I'm going back to soon because of how good this coil is at sorting trash. It was an odd 11/12, with a random 26. Thought I got another V nickel. Ground moisture is really high right now, we have a nor'Easter sucking the moisture upwards in the ground. Wheats were 19/20.
  20. I do when I use it in the water. I have a Limbsaver detector sling. The rest of the time I use that ring attachment to keep the detector from falling out of my golf cart. There is a harness strap that we use for the dog. Going across fields gets bumpy.
  21. Way to go Cap'n! ? Bringing home the gold. Are there any other marks on the nugget ring? Looked like there might be. Also, what is the token-looking thing near the keys? This looks like a beach hunt to me too. What was the ID on the plastic dog? ?
  22. Went out yesterday and today grid searching the racetrack area and the old farmhouse. Yesterday I didn't find much, a couple of old wheats and a pistol ball, a pocket watch adjusting weight and a very small button, what may have been on a shirt or shoe. I let the person that was shooting know that I was going to leave a flag out when I am out on the field near the gate. This morning I went out again, another blustery fall day. Didn't think I'd find much more but boy was I wrong. Today I hunted an area behind where the farmhouse was, there were two sheds as well. All is gone but the well now, luckily they filled it in because it can't be seen. The area is only about an acre. About halfway through the day I noticed I was already down a third on the Equinox battery, so I flew back to the house and grabbed my PD battery pack because I started finding coins and wanted to finish the field. I bungeed it to the shaft. It doesn't weigh that much so while the detector is charging I can drive on. It will charge the machine fully at least twice. It was a great day. Got an 1897 IHP, a 1908 V Nickel, 3 old wheats (1917,1919,1920), another old button, an iron hunting overall button marked "SWEET ORR", a musket ball and an adjustment tool of some kind not shown. The tiny thing at the bottom was the big find of the day, 1/3-ish of an 1852 Trime. It's difficult enough to find a Trime, but at least I got the good part! It appears to have either been clipped or broken, I could not find any of the other pieces.
  23. The "B" is explained here: https://www.pcgs.com/news/what-does-the-b-mean-on-barber-coins Great coin in unbelievable shape. ? Best photos I've seen in a while!
  24. Good to see someone out there digging! Excellent as usual Dan. ?
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