phrunt Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 14 hours ago, midalake said: Equinox, Horseshoe on I can hunt it in 21-22 sens, without driving me nuts. When I look at a fringe targets and go to 23-24 sens there is rarely a target that does not ID better. Be it ferrous or nonferrous. But there is no way possible to hunt the Equinox in 23-24 Sens, full time, as well for the Deus 2 at 94-95 sens. In my ground the Nox runs perfectly fine at 24, 25 is starting to play up a little but not much and indeed Target IDs are best at higher sensitivity, deep targets can identify as iron in lower sensitivity when in 24 they give a near perfect ID. If someone was in a higher EMI environment or worse soils, I can see that situation even reversing as they'd never find that deep target anyway and will mess with targets in their range. The Manticore had me fooled when I got it as something like 20 sensitivity on it seems like the Equinox maxed out which coincidently is the default sensitivity setting for the Manticore, and then 20 to 35 is going into unstable territory, not so much for the detector itself, more for Target ID's. As they say 31 to 35 is extreme sensitivity, which the manual says can be counterproductive as targets may be masked by noise. 31 to 35 is great for tiny gold hunting in remote spots with no EMI though, even just flicking to it to help recover the target when it disappears which happens a lot with tiny gold, disturb the soil and the slight move of the piece can put it out of range. I can run the Manticore with complete stability, no EMI chips and falsing yet it's Target ID's are still worse the higher the sensitivity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIbeach_hunter Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 3/21/2024 at 7:22 PM, Bill (S. CA) said: Many good, valid points here. I'd like to add one more: learn your detector. Hunt with it a lot. They are all nuanced and have their quirks be it by sound or TID. Dig your first 1000 pulltabs and I guarantee you will start picking up on subtle differences between them and potentially good targets. For many years I was a one detector guy. I'd save up my finds and then move up and buy another detector. But only one because that's all that I could afford. Now I'm spoiled and have too many choices. If I was totally honest I'd have to say I haven't learned any of them to the degree that I learned my detectors back in the "I only own one" days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIbeach_hunter Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 Very good advice for the newer detector users. Learn your detector. There are so many variables out there that the more you understand what the detector is telling you the more good targets especially in tough ground conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 I rarely turn the equinox sensitivity above 20 unless I’m hunting a spot that’s been beat up and slow down the recovery speed. Even then I find that it runs more stable and gets better depth at 20. When in an iron patch I’ll turn it down to 18 sometimes less. But with the VDI only going to 40 on the Nox. It will get less jumpy VDI than a machine with a larger scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MV Searcher Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 So many variables so who knows? One of the things I like about my D2 is its very stable and repeatable visual target identification. Perhaps it's my settings or mode or the mineralization but I have no complaints in the regard of target ID. I am not really a jewelry hunter but mostly coins and relics. Coin ID is mostly excellent on the ID meter display. I can almost always tell when I have sensed a coin based on the excellent VDI. Each metal detector has its own unique characteristics. Learning them is a big part in becoming successful with it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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