Eq800 5th & 6th Hunts Field2 & Park2

[Cal_Cobra]

A little background on this particular "test" site that I take every machine to that I've owned over the past 12 years since I got my first detector.  The site has both mineralized soil, and mild EMI, which some machines handle a LOT better than others.  First I tried a Fisher C$ and Minelab Sovereign, and maybe got one wheat penny (C$ was shut down from the EMI).  I figured there had to be more there, but it wasn’t until I got the CZ70 that it opened up.  Someone had cleaned out the top 6” of targets, so anything left there was either deep, masked or both.  First trip with the CZ was like Christmas!  After 5-6 trips the CZ played out.  Then every new machine I got I’d take there, and see what it could find.  The first few trips there with the F75 did well, took my Etrac there and only got one wheat and a maverick bakery token.  Then for about three years it petered out, it would take everything I had busting my butt to eek out one IHP or wheat, but silver dried up for about three years.  I still figured there had to be more.  When I got my Red Racer,  I did a shoot-out between it and my (at that time) beloved F75.   I first detected it with my F75 LTD2, and got nothing, only iron grunts, zero conductors.  Then I switched to the Red Racer and pulled two silvers, an IHP and wheatie.  It was an eye opener, first silver in three years, and not one, but two AND it was on basically my first hunt with the Red Racer.  Then each subsequent trip with the Racers the site was back on, and not all the old coins were deep, several were masked with iron that prevented other detectors from getting them, but thanks to Makro's world class unmasking capabilities my site was back on.   Matter of fact I had my best day there with my Racer2, something like 12 period coins in one hunt including four silvers, it was simply unbelievable to me that my pounded site, that I'd practically gave up on,  produced this many coins in a 3 hour hunt. 

As you all know these sites don’t exactly replenish themselves with period coins, so for the Equinox to do what it did this weekend is beyond impressive, eight DEEP period coins in a three hour hunt is fantastic!     For this site I used Park2, and ran it hot with the gain between 22-24, even was able to run it at 25, but found it started to like deep nails at 25.  By the way, this site is loaded with old square nails.  The original building that was there burned down in the mid 1800's, and I suspect that they razed the burned remnants around this site, and dumped fill dirt over the razed burnt remains when the built the replacement building went up,  as once you get down to around 10" - 12" you seem to hit a sea of square nails.  Never have found a seated at this site, it's certainly old enough to have them, but I suspect they are beneath this sea of nails. 

 

This was a deep mid conductor signal tangled in heavy tree roots.  Little did I know how deep this would turn out to be!   Between my Lesche shovel and digger, and a lot of patience (and a few curse words thrown in for good measure!) I finally pulled brought this sucker back to life, it was a dateless buffalo nickel!

This is what was in that monstrous 10" deep hole!

Total take for this hunt (3 hours) was five teens wheaties, a dateless buffalo nickel, 1902-S Barber dime (yeah!!!), 1936-S Mercury dime, some kind of silver button (that sucker was DEEEEEP), a poppers wedding ring, DEEP civil ware era (?) two piece Navy cuff button (this thing is going to LOVE buttons), and two suspender buckles/clips.  Now I will say that the non-modulated audio on shallow stiff is a major PITA for deep turf hunting, so I did dig some zincolns, and shallow clad

This was my second hunt, which I did in Field2.  It's a little fresh water beach area that I've pounded over the years.  Haven't found a ton there, few wheats, mercs, some rings in the water, and some 1800's relics, but I love the history of the site, and figure detecting it will eventually pay off with something really good (that hasn't happened yet, but I know something really good has to be hiding out there, probably in the water though!).

I've never dug this many wheaties there in one hunt, and I love the wheatie with the iron fused to it!

Also got a nice antique looking sterling silver ring and a 43' silver war nickle:

As I was heading back to the car, I ran into another guy detecting there with a White's MX Sport.  Was a pretty friendly guy, and we started chatting.  He knew about the EQ800 and said that would be his next machine.  He was hunting in the turf, not the beach.  I told him I was hunting the beach and he told me that I wouldn't find anything there because he'd already cleaned it out Now truth be told, I was a bit impressed with his MX Sport as he'd just dug a 9" deep merc when I came up on him.  He said he's mainly a prospector and had done a lot of dredging in California but when they shut it down, he moved to Alaska.  Interesting guy to chat with for sure. 

HH,
Cal

PS - I did encounter an odd issue.  About an hour or so after one hunt, I powered down my detector and headphones to take a health break.  When I went to power everything back up, the headphones refused to power up.  I'd charged them up the previous day, so unless when I did a quick hunt little hunt the evening before, the headphones didn't get powered off and drained down, then I can't quite understand what happened.  I'd get no response at all from the headphones when trying to power it back up.  I plugged them in to my charger (iPad charger) for a while and they came back to life.  Odd

 

[Cabin Fever]

Great report and impressive results!  Just a great bunch of finds for a hammered location..  And just think how few hours you have on the Equinox..  

love that Wheat with iron stuck to it!  Kind of says it all..

Bryan

[IdahoPeg]

What a great hunt! Thanks for sharing. :-)

[bado1]

Great hunt and great report, Cal. Many thanks!

I discovered my head phones to still be on one morning after a evening hunt. I know that i had gone through the motions of turning them off but somehow failed to do so. Now I check twice to make sure.

 

Dean

[Tometusns]

Awesome job Cal Cobra!! 

[Guest Tnsharpshooter]

Extremely thorough reporting.

Nice finds Cal.

Thanks bunches for sharing.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

1 hour ago, bado1 said:

Great hunt and great report, Cal. Many thanks!

I discovered my head phones to still be on one morning after a evening hunt. I know that i had gone through the motions of turning them off but somehow failed to do so. Now I check twice to make sure.

 

Dean

That must be what happened, I'll have to keep an eye on them.  I'm surprised they don't have an energy saver mode and automatically shut off if they loose pairing after a preset amount of time. 

[strick]

Nice period stuff there...glad to see the nox is working well for you. So which program do you like better P2 or F2? 

strick

[Steve Herschbach]

Very nice hunts Cal, really appreciate you posting. More and more I see results that are duplicating what happened to me with Equinox on sites where I was not having much luck with other detectors. Its nice to see I was not imagining things. 

I am seriously not trying to pump Equinox up either by saying it has been a long time since I have seen a new detector producing so well for so many new owners on their early hunts. It’s way past being just a lucky few now but a real trend, especially with gold finds. Been some real terrific coin finds also. Should be lots of awesome reports coming up in the next month as the next wave of machines gets delivered. Those of us with machines already in hand - hit those easy obvious areas now. You might be surprised what that little park just down the street still has left in it. You know, the one everyone gave up on twenty years ago!

[mn90403]

Cal, nice hunt as has been said.  I'm from down Jacksonville way so I can understand your videos pretty good too.  One thing I have to ask about is that name, Cobra ... how did you get that?

Mitchel