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I looked at my Equinox 800 screen when I heard it. This Sound had potential. It was not like the familiar sounds of pennies, quarters and even the nickels. The screen read 9 and that had Potential too. I swung over it in a couple of directions and it still had a solid 9. Then you dig. Still a 9 and a good sound as you go down 3-4-5 inches to the patch layer. Then it is in the scoop and you look down in the dim light and you don't see a coin. You can see a shape and the wire mesh too! That is real POtential. I turn on my light and voila it's a ring and its yellow! POTENTIAL! When I got home I looked it over. It is not the best ring that I've ever found but it was the BEST and only ring I found last night. It is 10k/RL/CZ/BOUVIA. Potential realized. Now, this is the rest of the story as Paul Harvey used to say. Last night was a hunt pattern that I have repeated before. It is a normal beach detecting pattern for me. I put my son to sleep about 8 PM and when he is sleeping a couple of hours I get up and detect the beaches for 4 hours or so. The beginning was the same with parking and beach entry. After walking about half a mile I could see a detectorist light up ahead working the beach. I could not tell which direction they were working but I knew this spot. It could be good but I was going to let them have it. I walked off the wet sand into the dry and avoided the spot for quite a distance and then I dropped back down to the beach. Someone had been to this portion of beach before me but they were gone or it had been the detectorist I avoided. I could not see them any more and no one was in front of me so I relaxed and looked for the clues. Pretty soon I found a coin. I circled and found another. I saw some recent (within 2 hours) unfilled dig holes and I included those in my pattern and then in my grid. The picture emerged and I could see the beginning and finally the end of the patch. It was a small patch this time but I'll take it. No one came across me while I was working this patch. There were no seagulls. I hope this happens for you on your patches.

Sometimes when you go out detecting the very first targets are the best and the remainder of the hunt you keep trying to do better. That was the way I felt last night. I headed out to a pretty much energyless beach and my first target was a heavy ring. I was thinking about Joe when I found it as it was 'trapped' in a little bit of soft sand just before the hard-pan drop off. I looked at it with my light, felt it and thought about it the remainder of the night. The title of the post was going to be "The First Target Was The Best!" haha Things have a way of changing as we detect. I headed down my beach and went a long distance before I found another ring. Once again I was not the first one on the beach. Someone had cherried the slopes a bit and I had to play clean up. This I did and to my surprise I found 3 more cheap rings. These were obvious to me. Then when I got to my turnaround spot I came upon the final ring. It was not really part of a patch but it was on a beach where I've found some nice rings so I'm careful and thorough when I'm there. It turned out to be the best ring but I didn't know it at the time. Now for the results. The first target ring had a golden color in my beach light and I thought it would be the best band I've found this year. It is heafty at 11.11 g but it turns out the color is platinum. It also turns out that it is 'white tungsten' which means it only has platinum plating. It's not worthless but certainly not a gold or platinum band. The other rings are still cheapies but the final ring is a 2.25 g/10k nugget ring! It was a pleasant hunt with reasonable results. The pendant says Dragonfly. And then there is the rest.

I got a chance to go out on a couple of hunts this week and the best things I found were this little 10K/1.28 g Gold Ring, a 4 g Silver Ring and this 4 oz Lure. I think the lure is the most expensive! The little ring was a challenge as it was down about 5 inches and I had forgotten I had my F2 on at 5 from an experiment. With that setting the quarters sounded funny and I was about ready to do a factory reset when I discovered the 'problem.' I was using the 15" coil so I consider it a good get for the small target that read 6. Mitchel

I've been using my Nox 800 with a 15" coil for a few months now, ears broke on original coil, and I find it too nose heavy. Yesterday I received the 11" Nox coil and parts I bought from Dan(NM) last Thursday. The parts are like NEW, just like he said. Dan is an honest man and great seller!!! So this morning I went out for some beach hunting. Been on a bit of a dry spell lately. First thing I noticed, it felt so much easier swinging the Nox. No luck in the wet so I hit the dry. $5.50 in clad and these 2 little beauties. Thanks again Dan, not only for the great parts but for the great Karma that came with them! Hoping this thread will bring you good Karma in return! HH

A short hunt just before sunset snagged this small 2.2 gram 14K in the salt water with the Nox 800.

I hunted a new (too me) spot yesterday for a couple of hours from ankle to chest deep water, settings were all metal mode, delay 10, sensitivity 8, and ATS 5. The detector ran well with some chatter but nothing overwhelming and similar to my TDI BH, it's probably a given as with other detectors that I find how the AQ runs differs from beach to beach and can sometimes be run hotter or has to be turned down. Anyways near the end of my hunt is when I found the gold ring, it took a few scoops to retrieve it and I would guess it was in the 10" range, at first glance I thought it was a junk or gold plated ring being that it is tarnished on the inside. After getting back home and assuming the ring was junk I didn't bother to look at it until later in the evening and upon inspection could see a 14k stamp inside the ring, I then tested with my GXL-24 Pro gold tester and it displayed 14k, this tester does distinguish between gold and gold plated/filled items. I've never found a gold ring that looks good on the outside but tarnished on the inside like this before, any thoughts or comments? BTW the ring is 7.0 grams, also can't seem to edit title to show AQ instead of Aq.

This is a very unique looking ring. Obviously it is hand made. Tightly wrapped silver wire with 14K gold wire securing the 4 amethyst stones. Not for everyone but it was for someone. LOL It rang up 23-25 on the Equinox. I am not sure what the core material is but it appears to be dark in color and has a piece on both sides. Anyway, just wanted to share this one. Pretty cool. Also dug a couple of 10K pendants and a really nice .925 ring with CZs all around it and a large center stone. Thanks for looking!

Hi guys! Hope y'all doing great! So, today I went to the beach again for the third time! Managed to pull these 2 beauties! Today I didn't use no discrimination because I was getting bored! Haha. Although I was All Metal, I avoided most of the high IDs, I don't really look for coins (did pull a few tough), my gold is to dig the low IDs and the iffy signals. It was fun! If you have any questions, let me know! Best regards

Went for an all-day water hunt recently and tried some different settings. I dug every positive TID for most of the hunt and wound up with over one-hundred bottle caps (threw some in the dumpster at the lake). I really focused on the TID's less than 20 and even skipped a few in the mid-twenties just to try a different approach and learn more about the detector. I dug every "1-4" trying to find another gold chain or bracelet but it was not to be on this hunt. There was a little more trash that is not pictured here so the overall trash to treasure ratio was about 3 to 1. Wound up with 3 gold rings (13 grams total) and 1 silver ring- the rest of the jewelry is cosmetic. I Instead of hunting in "Gold 2" mode like I usually do in fresh water I hunted in "Beach 1". The Beach mode is a lot smoother but not quite as deep as the Gold mode. This was a bit of an experimental hunt but wound up being pretty productive. I'm happy with the gold but I think that I prefer hunting the wet sand at the beach- it's a lot easier on the body! GL&HH!

Had a good hunt at the lake today, hunted for 6 hours and ended up with 5 pieces of silver, handful of clad and a pouch full of trash. 3 silver rings, silver pendant, silver chain and a couple of junk pieces of jewelry. Stayed on the dry beach today because the lake level is dropping. Ran the Nox 600 in Park 1... recovery 2... Iron bias 0 ...Sens 23 ..1 Tone, dug everything from 0 up.

Got out for another night hunt today, started at 3am and stopped about 7:30. I did a zig zag from the wet to the waters edge of the low tide and I couldn’t find a line to work no matter how much I tried. I decided to pick a line that has worked for me in the past and has kept me from getting skunked on a few occasions. This hunt was no different, my first crisp sounding target was a nice little 18k ring that weights 4.7 grams. This is my first 18k ring ever, for some reason I always find 10k gold when I do find gold. About 30 minutes later I found a dead/drowned watch. Towards the end of the hunt I found the iPhone, which I figured that’s what it was before digging it. It’s been months since I have found a phone and this one doesn’t turn on just like all the others. I was swinging the AQ for this hunt. It’s weird how sometimes it works like it should and others it likes to false, during the same hunt. Thanks for reading and happy hunting.

Quite impressed with the machine on this one it was chattery in close to shore with the waves so I went to Mute and got this still very deep--18" range and still pretty loud. (3.7 gr.) Good "sides" were a clue to dig this one amongst the caps and pins. (Something I've learned from the GQA2, CS6PI and TDI Pro. I know that with more practice this machine has the potential to be a very accurate pulse (there is such a thing...). cjc

Found a class ring, but only by luck I use a Fisher F75, and this rang up as 22-23, which was the same as the foil hot dog wrappers that were also in the stadium. I'm guessing it is a Josten's ring. I included a picture of the only stamp inside. ?Maybe a brand name for the metal mixed used?

Got invited to pick through an older church grounds so I thought I would brush up on my skills with my Tejon over at the local park. Only spent about an hour and snagged this ring. Included is my trash. Set my 2nd disc to break on a degraded zincoln for quick reference.

An earlier post by Compass has inspired me to show a somewhat similar find. Here is a heavy silver chain with attached ring and anchor, all silver. Weighing in at 96.6 grams, it is my heaviest silver score yet. Bob

A buddy of mine wanted to hit the low tide last night so I said why not. The only hard thing was deciding what detector to use this time. After I picked one I headed out and got to the beach by 11:45 pm for the 2am low. I wasn’t expecting much but within half an hour I had my first piece of jewelry, although it was junk but we were on the right track. At 1.5 hrs I dug the 18k pendant with real diamond chips. Another hour later I dug the 10k 18gram class ring. This is only the second class ring I find without a name. A few more minutes later I dug an unmarked 10k ring with some real diamond chips. The rest of the jewelry was junk but did get the heart pumping since it looked good at night. Dug about 80 pieces of junk not pictured and very little clad. My buddy dug quite a bit of lead and nickels but just couldn’t put his coil over some gold, I guess there’s always next time. We had fun and the weather was great to be out swinging. Thanks for looking and good luck out there.

I went out for a detect last night after dealing with some plumbing problems. That put me on the beach on a cut later than I wanted to be there. The cut was by far the biggest of the season. I started out in the normal fashion but every day on the beach is different. You can go to the same beach every day and expect different results. Before I got to any spot last night I noticed a couple of detectorists had been there first. They were coming back as I was going out. They must have had an epic night because there were dig holes all over the place. This was one of those events that by myself I could never have detected in one night. Who knows how far I would have gotten but I had to keep on detecting around and between the dig holes. The tide had gone out since it was detected so there was a reason to keep going to my spots. I'd never seen this stretch of beach so thoroughly detected. I was getting just a target here and there but these are good detectorists and they weren't leaving many quarters or anything. That was until I got to one patch where dig holes were on top of dig holes. I should have gone out sooner but once again I might not have made it this far. They must have had hearing fatigue because I heard a target or two amongst the holes. I dug a black ring. Whew ... something anyway. About 5 feet away I got another scratchy signal mixed with a 13. I'm standing in holes and digging a hole when I look down in the scoop and see another ring. This one had the chance of being 'real' so I was rewarded for seeing 200 or 300 dig holes. I couldn't read it so I had to just look at it and the stone in it. Who knows how many of those dig holes in this little 20x20 patch had been rings before I got there. I estimate a few. I had to look for more misses because I was at the end of the beach. I worked and worked and found one other cheap little ring on my way back. I got to the beach late. I was the second shift. I still got a goodie. The ring is stamped 14k, MMG, 3g and the diamond tests real and is about 6mm.

I've been reluctant to post some of my finds this year because it seems that many hunters are saying that they are not finding much due to stay at home mandates, beach closures, sanded in conditions and other reasons. One of my hunting buddies suggested that I wait a bit before posting my finds so that is what I am starting to do. Even though I didn't hunt for 2 months due to the pandemic the other 6 months this year have yielded some of my favorite finds in all the years that I have been detecting. One find in particular stands out. It came near the end of a pretty successful hunt that had already produced a beautiful, heavy, Italian, silver bracelet, costume jewelry and coins. It was a faint but wide signal, the kind of tone that usually winds up being a deep rusty blob of iron. As I repeatedly made attempts to retrieve the target from the wet sand it seemed that it was sinking deeper and deeper but I finally snagged it and up came a sight that I didn't expect. It wasn't a piece of junk. I saw a lengthy, blackish/gold chain but then saw a ring on the chain and a pendant as well! When the ring and pendant were first exposed to the air and sunlight, they were bright orange in color- glowing almost like they were heated up by a torch. I had seen this effect before but never to such an extreme. This must have been buried in the sand a long time. There were a lot of people around so I slipped the find into my pouch feeling pretty confident that it was a good one. When I got home I saw that the ring and "Star" medallion were both stamped "18K". With the chain being so discolored I was thinking it might be 10K but I located a "750" stamp near the claw and verified 18K with an acid test. I carefully scrubbed the chain with jewelry cream and a toothbrush and the beauty of the the chain was revealed. I forgot to mention that the chain was clasped all in one piece when I found it so it must have come off over someone's head unless they had it in their pocket. It may be 2 bucket-listers in one as I had never found a gold ring on a gold chain before and it is the first 18K gold chain that I have ever found with the detector although it was the ring and star that my detector was seeing. In a subsequent test my TDI BH would not detect the chain by itself. The silver bracelet was actually the first target I dug on this hunt. It looked so good and clean when I found it that I was thinking that it could be a fake but it must have been a fresh drop. Thanks for reading. GL&HH!

For sure a good start 22k 7.3 gr. Being told the emerald is dark and of good quality the type worn in the North of India Deli area and would belong to a "big family" owing to it's value. Very nice signal on the AQ sounding bigger than it was and very clean --really got a sense of the machine's optimization with this find. Also getting the hang of this "setpoint" type of Discrimination never really use my TDI Pro in the GB mode. Now to figure out the two Discrimination models (reject vs SAT). In the tone mode Im still a bit concerned about it "squelching" on some big 22k such as a bangle and will need to do some more testing. ...and a garbage heartstopper chain certainly looked good for a nanosecond... cjc clivesgoldpage.com

Took the Nox down to my local lake for an all day hunt on the exposed beach area. The lake level has been dropping all summer due to the lack of rain in central Texas. I spent most of the morning digging nothing but trash, mainly pulltabs and bottle caps. First good hit was the palladium ring, VDI was 15. Next keeper was the little silver rope pendant, VDI was 24. Last find of the day was the 10K ring which hit at 12. This is my first palladium ring, I thought it was stainless when I first saw it, but when I picked it up, it had some weight so I figured it was white gold. I was pleasantly surprised to see it was mark "Benchmark Palladium"

Scratch tested and stamped as 750, very happy with this! Bought a new detector with it 🙂 It's 3 rings in 1, land find. 2 together came up as a 17 on the Equinox and the loose one came up as a 15. The other finds in the area were just old .12ga shells lol

Hi everyone! Hope y'all doing great! Today i received a message from someone that i gave formation! He had the Makro Multi Kruzer and never had tried Minelab machines before... So i suggested the Vanquish 540! Gave him some lessons... These are his results in less than 1 month! Beach, wet sand! I'm proud!!! Have a great day! Best regards

Think I'm setting at 17 gold now with the AQ. Fully paid for and adding to the Bank account. I knew it would not take long for I needed deep......... and it is. Today's hunt was a get out no matter the conditions, been busy at home for a week now....... I checked the winds before I left and they were very calm. Water level is Insanely high, about a foot above normal. Conditions at this beach are fairly sanded in but there's always the chance for deep strays...First out .........things were very slow, but I came into area that held a few coins, slowed and listened. One hour and 40 minutes into the hunt I get a good strong deep signal. Six scoops later outcomes a Big boy, I figured 11 grams but with gloves I have a hard time telling. Happy I got gold ......I stayed a few more hours..... nothing much other than a Merc and rosey came up. What really gets me is how deep this stuff is...and for some reason it loves nickels, And I only hunt in All Metal. Delay was 10 today, ATS I did play with but ended up set on 7, sensitivity was around 6, volume 8, threshold I did play with some also. But ended up just below 5, audible. Just about all targets today were deep but gave good reports... I did chase a few ghost signals, which one turned out to be a dime. Only dug a few pieces of Iron, one I should have stopped....... after 10 minutes of digging ... Good Luck to all this weekend, Be safe..Joe

His words... Not a single coin today. The caps should not have been there. Things are moving now I guess. Ozark trail knife in good shape. Four other Hunters there. No gold for them. Times are tough. Chain is 14k...

All Metal hunting only Out yesterday, water was calm when I got there but by the time I was leaving white caps had started. Almost 4 hours, Not a lot of targets but seemed like the AQ was focused on all of the right ones. Never dug one piece of Iron which even I have a hard time believing. First gold came early in the hunt but the second gold ring was when the water started to changing. I got pounded several times by mild waves. Just big wide ones which really go over your head. Nothing like ocean waves where they rip your headphones off and take your scoop away....😳 And I am guessing some one is going to ask why did I not jump with the wave...Answer..I hunt with my eyes closed a good part of the time I am hunting.... not safe but I can focus on the audio fully.. Kind of funny, Rick had sent a email asking if AQ owners could post on Willy's question about the AQ coil and pinching the coil while the AQ is at full sensitivity to test it's shielding. I get to the beach. walk out to chest/waist deep and do the pinch test. AQ goes crazy when I pinched the coil..even my hand getting near it..I'm puzzled, maybe because my gloves are water soaked??.... ..until it hit me I had my lucky ring on, under the glove..🙄 Be out of commision a few days, grandsons visit before school starts. Maybe the last time I see them this year with the virus thing ....😞...they will be doing 2 day in and 3 days at home, online.