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On 8/17/2022 at 4:12 PM, Jeff McClendon said:

I am basically a beginner saltwater beach hunter or at least I don't have as much experience (around 100 hours) hunting some east coast and SoCal west coast beaches with the Equinox. I have hundreds of hours hunting freshwater beaches and too many hours to remember turf hunting and gold prospecting with the Equinox.

I agree with some here and use Beach 1 as long as I can. When salt/black sand noise levels get overwhelming in wet sand and shallow surf, I switch to Beach 2.

I usually use 2 tones, low tone for ferrous with iron volume just loud enough to hear and the other tone with volume on max for all non-ferrous targets. One tone has worked for me too. 

I hunt with the horseshoe button pressed so that no detectable target responses will be discriminated. I have dug some 12" deep silver and gold rings and coins that had mixed ferrous and non-ferrous audio responses all the way down to -9. The same goes for some very shallow micro gold jewelry which may give mixed audio responses between -3 and +5 or so and will give their actual target ID only on the surface.

For a total beginner you might want to dig as many targets as you can to learn the detector's behavior at the beach you are hunting. If trash levels aren't too high that should be easy. If they are, you will learn fast what each trash target especially iron targets sound like. Collect a good sampling of trash targets and the targets you are after, take home some sand from the beach and practice.......

Do you use F2 or FE? 

34 minutes ago, midalake said:

I hunt in Beach 2,  horseshoe mode, 1 tone. 

Thanks 😉

1 hour ago, midalake said:

Not doing anything wrong, but I would make some adjustments. 
> If you are in the regular Disc mode gold will NOT come in with negative numbers.
>If you're in solid wet sand contact, I would run beach 2 and your Iron Bias to the regular F-6 or 5. This will allow you to run a higher sensitivity setting. 
> Try to always work your low tides. 

If you want to try something, use your horseshoe mode to listen to everything. It will go deeper than disc mode. If your target single rings solid 360, the target is nonferrous 95%, if the target double rings or breaks down on a 360 look is is ferrous.  GL, HH  

 

Thanks,

I use all metal (horseshorte enabled) FE 00 e F2 00, 00 DISC.  

1 hour ago, Compass said:

I'm sure that others will chime in here on your settings but here are my 2 cents. Sometimes you can be doing everything right and still not find gold. I have had hunts where I have dug several hundred targets and not found gold or even silver. I am not a fan of the "beach" modes and that is why I prefer to use my Excal or pulse machines around salt water. I don't usually dig TID's predominately below "0". If by "plumbs" you mean lead fishing weights then I would say that that is generally a good sign that you have the machine tuned right but do a lot of adults swim at that beach or is it mainly used by people fishing? Beach orientation, sand movement and timing are also important.

Hi,

yes is used by people swiming adults and childs.  I never thought about beach orientation. But in this photo the beach has the best condition because the waves washed a lot of sand, you can see rocks or shells that i only see 1 time per week maybe.

Best regards,

1 hour ago, F350Platinum said:

The lowest ID I ever got for a gold ring was a 1.

There are those here that say deeper gold may be a negative number, but I don't get out to the beach all that much and have never found gold at a lower ID.

You'd have to dig it all to find out. Since my beach time is limited I focus more on pillage. 😀

Thanks for your tip 😄 best regards,

1 hour ago, Badger-NH said:

I've seen fine gold chains that ID between 1 and 3.  Generally, gold in the single numbers will be very small to micro in size and will usually be a lot less common than the heavier gold targets that ID in the teens.

You should be using Beach 1.  Sensitivity as high as possible as long as it remains quiet.

There's no substitute for experience. We all learned by digging.

 

Thanks,

You use 2, 5 or 50 tones? Im trying to get a an average setting to use 😄

Best regards,

Hi,

Does anyone know if in wet sand, on the beach it is possible for gold to be hitting values below 0....? I don't take a single gold object with the nox in wet sand on the beach. Beach 1 or Beach 2.

BEst regards,

Hi People,

I have serious doubts regarding equinox. In wet sand I don't find a single gold object. I dig everything above VDI 0. Do you mine gold below 0?

Settings:
Beach 1 or 2
recovery 6
Sensitivity 20-22
FE F2: 0

My beach attached, and my path line horizontal and vertical...(I found a lot of plumbs)

Best regards,