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That's awesome! 🙂 No feel free to chime in anytime ha. I love talking about metal detecting and I still have a lot to learn. I've found 3 hallmarked rings and I just all the time wonder if I am missing something. I want to make sure I am set up to find just about anything metal out there lol.

Sure thing, no problem at all 🙂 I was just wondering. I run horseshoe on always. Does that "remove" discrimination technically? I am wondering if it would pick up the gold chain with horseshoe. Yea definitely it seems complex. So weird, my 800 will pick up the SMALLEST targets I am noticing. I have heard similar things about missing gold chains and I was always wondering why since it seems to happen a lot.

Haha thanks for the advice 🙂 I'm still digging a lot of foil just because its so easy to move the sand around and getting a feel for it. Wait, it didn't pick up the chain at all? Even going over it? Was iron bias the reason? Or was there another reason as to why the 800 didnt pick it up?

Very awesome picture though! Wow that is crazy to have that ring up as a 1, I guess because of the weight being light and gold being not very conductive?

Haha dang, that is certainly crazy. Everything that I get to ring up as a 1 or 2 on the beach is crumbled up aluminum foil (like the kind in candy wrappers or mints)

Is anything worthwhile ever going to ring up as a 1 or 2? Like, could you find a gold ring at 1 on the VDI on the equinox 800? I was just wondering if these ultra low conductivity numbers will be trash or have a chance at being gold or something of value? It's right next to the trash range so just checking to see what everyone things. I do beach detecting if this matters 🙂

Hi everyone, I just had a question as it seems like the goal is to detect deeper targets, so it would seem that you would want to achieve as much depth as possible. When I lower my recovery speed from 6 to 5, I should be getting a little bit deeper measurably, Is that correct? WWould increasing sensitivity get me more depth as well? I was just wondering their comparison between lowering recovery speed and depth, versus what role does sensitivity actually play? Does sensitivity just help amplify targets and not really get you any deeper? TThanks so much.

Hi Everyone, What is the best advice/tips that you can give to a beach detectorist to find jewelry or other valuable targets? Just curious because I know that years of experience beats all in most cases. Have a great day!

Ok and when you said "a break down in the signal", - Something ferrous will have a "break down" which means the signal will like, sound differently or sound like iron? - But a non-ferrous target will sound completely the same as you circle it from all angles? Is that right? Or can you elaborate on what a break down is of signal? Thanks for your time, sorry to bother you, I just want to learn everything that I can.

Thanks for the info. So the 360 look, this terminology is a bit new to me. So when you investigate a target, sometimes its better to move your coil in a circular motion instead of side to side? Can you explain?

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation and kind words 🙂 I am feeling a lot better. Such a great community here and I feel very welcome in the forums. Thanks again for your time, I am obsessed with learning more and more about this, I feel like I can't stop reading. I detect during the day on my off days and then read every night about detecting. It's a very fun hobby.

Ok thanks for the tip :)I am very new to the terminology, what is "IB"?

Does ground grab mean "auto ground balancing"? like does that mean to hold the accept/reject button and move your coil? After doing this, do you still need to put it in tracking ground balance mode too on top of that?

Same here, 4 gets super chatty underwater. Very odd. Maybe I could lower sensitivity next time at 4 and give it a shot.

Thanks that makes sense. Do you know what causes the wraparound stuff? I've noticed that if I scan a ferrous target, It will sometimes ding higher in the range unless I go very very slowly over the target. Is it because there's some conductive content in there? Or is it just kind of like you said a glitch to where it just happens to break squelch before it realizes that it's ferrous?