Rick N. MI

Another great hunt. I like the car.

Orx is hot on gold. Nice finds.

Great spot to hunt! Good luck in the water. I'm thinking about get another 5x10 for my Equinox 800 :).

Also the Gold Kruzer is waterproof.

You can go to the library and get historical books of your area, old plat books that show old houses and things that went on your area. There is a historical map web site where you can overlay old county maps over a new map. It helps you find different things. http://www.historicmapworks.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwnZaVBhA6EiwAVVyv9K5SecYKk8eoi_RhHExxpVFLFqBWibwj53Iv9O5KUm6YltRQXHyI2RoC7gIQAvD_BwE If you are in a rural area, drive down 2 tracks looking for cellar holes, look for Walnut trees and in the spring, lilac bushes are signs something was there. Old 1 room school houses, old churches, ask permission at old houses, old campgrounds...Like was said beaches and hunt in the water. Maybe an old long gone fairground. There are many places.

That great, now you can see what you find 😀!

Incredible find! Congrats!

I enjoy your post. Great photos with your writing. It's still great getting out.

Nice job on the making the digger. By your finds it works great.

For the money the Legend is hard to beat. In my ground. I like the Legend over the Equinox 800. The Deus 2 is very good. More is coming for the Legend in the next update making it even better. You need to decide if want to spend more for the Deus 2. For me, I don't find enough valuable stuff to justify having the Deus 2. My vote is, get the Legend :).

You got that right. The lakes by me right now are 56F. Warmer in shallow water. I haven't went in the water yet. No big cities where I live. That's an advantage for me. Not much jewelry though.

That's impressive for the Excalibur. I know the the Equinox 800 w/11" coil and Xp Orx w/9" hf coil will hit hard on a 3.77 gram 14k gold ring at 14" easily in a mild sandy beach at a lake. I haven't tried deeper. Unfortunately I don't get a lot of gold jewelry in the northern MI lakes like you do on the ocean.

Yes, I would like to see an Orx 2. I expect one will be coming.

Yes, I adjusted the volume on the detector and headphones. Shallow target hit loud enough. I should have said I want deep targets louder. I would like the Legend to have an adjustment to set how loud deep targets are.

I have some hearing loss. With the Equinox 800 I can turn down the volume 1 or 2. With the Legend I have volume max on the detector and headphones. I could use a little more on the Legend. I think more volume is coming with the update. I'll have to try the vibration too.

I just saw Sawyer Permethrin lasts 6 weeks or 6 washings. That's great. I got the hiking shoes and leg gaiter coming and will be using Sawyer Permethrin now. I'll be all set against the ticks and other things.

The controls are easy to learn. Select a mode, a disc pattern, sensitivity and you can start detecting. The other main settings are Number of tones you want and Recovery speed. I use 2 tone, set tone break and "A" disc pattern. Do the auto noise cancel and ground balance and your off detecting. The other settings you can learn as you go. More will be added in the next update. Pitch tone, Iron bias, a third smf setting and something else new is coming in the update. I don't know what it is. I'm looking forward to it.

There definitely is a piece added at the spoon & handle on back. It looks like it might have bent at one time and reinforcement was added. I agree it needs more close up photos. Nice fine.

I decided to use permethrin. I ordered hiking boots and Lymeez Stretch Mesh leg gaiters with permethrin.

Great time out detecting. Good luck in the water.

I got the Sawyer permethrin and now I don't want to use it. I ordered Repel Tick Defense which has Picaridin.

I have both of them and so far I find them very close to equal. Right now I give the edge to the Legend because of how smooth it is running and most likely better waterproofing. I like how the controller comes off for the way I use it. I'm looking forward to the next update and see how it does. It is a great, powerful detector for the price.

I didn't know you can get a 3d printer at a low price. Did you use the Cad software that comes with the printer?

That is going to work great for you. Good job.

It does work and the sand will sift fine. I've used one with stainless steel with 1/8" holes for 2 years. I have one now with 1/16" holes to try and see how it works.