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First Equinox silver coin...

sgoss66

sgoss66

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Well, I made it out with the Equinox today, for the fifth short hunt since I got it. All five hunts have been to the same park -- it's a park I have hunted to death over the past 7 years with my Explorers, and I can rarely eek out even a wheat cent anymore. I have hunted it HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of times, and so I know it so well that it's a great place to bring a new machine to learn how it behaves -- it's almost like a great big "test garden."

Anyway, the first few times out learning the Equinox, I managed a few wheat cents, a buffalo nickel, and some clad coins, plus a piece or two of junk jewelry. Today, the two-hour hunt yielded my first silver coin with the Equinox, and the first silver coin in probably a year from this particular park -- a 1944 Washington quarter.

This coin was only about 6" deep -- not totally sure, since I dug the plug and the first target I recovered was a deep, bent rusty nail. When I recovered it, I thought that it must have been what I heard, so I re-filled the hole and was ready to move on -- but swept the now-repaired hole one more time, and I still heard the high tone! So, I re-dug the plug, and this is when I located the coin!

I know for a FACT I've swung over this coin multiple times over the past several years; it was near a park bench in a small patch of lawn bordered by sidewalks, and I have hunted this patch dozens of times, pulling a few silver coins and several wheats in this time. This one must have been hidden enough -- altered in tone and ID by the nail, apparently, for the Explorers not to have recognized it...

The EQUINOX did!

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Steve
 
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I had a similar experience yesterday--found a nice 1943 mercury dime in a place in a trashy lot I've been over multiple times before with my Etrac. However, ground was wet this time, which may have made the difference; although it was only 4" deep, or perhaps I approached from a slightly different angle, so hard to be sure it's the Equinox. Anyway, my first silver with the Equinox. Otherwise, a few copper pennies, plenty of clad and a lot of rusty nails and aluminum tabs and foil. I don't find the numbers very reliable compared to the Etrac. I'm still liking it, though--light machine, bright display, easily-understood settings, and it just may be finding some things the Etrac missed--what's not to like?
 
Nice find!
 
Thanks all!

Always Curious -- as far as "numbers not reliable," I understand what you are saying. I am used to the superb ID of FBS machines also. I wonder though, if part of it is the speed of the machine. If there are 3 or 4 targets under the coil, the Equinox is seeing -- and IDing -- them all. So, I think this is part of why the numbers sometimes seem "jumpy." For instance, I hit what I thought was a coin today, but it was "bouncy" on the ID; it was showing 2-3 bars deep. I dug a plug, and got a 4" copper penny. HOWEVER, I then found a very small threaded copper piece (possibly from a lawnmower-type engine, or something) about an inch deep in the plug, just about directly above the penny. The only reason I went looking for "another target" with my pinpointer in the plug, is that I was sure a 4" deep penny should have been a perfect, steady 25 or 26 ID, but it was not -- it was bouncy. SO, I went LOOKING for an explanation. That's the only reason I looked for another target in the plug. Had I not went looking for that very small copper piece, I can see how someone may have concluded "gee, this machine can't even give a solid ID on a 4" deep penny..."

Just speculating, but I think this is a part of what's going on here. We are used to the way FBS does things...this is a whole different animal.

Steve
 
Sgoss66, you could be right. For sure, the Equinox is seeing things that the Etrac couldn't seperate--and this is with its stock 11" coil. When I hunt those trashy areas with the Etrac, I usually have a small coil. It will be interesting to see what the Equinox can do with a 6" coil in those places.
 
sgoss66 said:
Thanks all!

Always Curious -- as far as "numbers not reliable," I understand what you are saying. I am used to the superb ID of FBS machines also. I wonder though, if part of it is the speed of the machine. If there are 3 or 4 targets under the coil, the Equinox is seeing -- and IDing -- them all. So, I think this is part of why the numbers sometimes seem "jumpy." For instance, I hit what I thought was a coin today, but it was "bouncy" on the ID; it was showing 2-3 bars deep. I dug a plug, and got a 4" copper penny. HOWEVER, I then found a very small threaded copper piece (possibly from a lawnmower-type engine, or something) about an inch deep in the plug, just about directly above the penny. The only reason I went looking for "another target" with my pinpointer in the plug, is that I was sure a 4" deep penny should have been a perfect, steady 25 or 26 ID, but it was not -- it was bouncy. SO, I went LOOKING for an explanation. That's the only reason I looked for another target in the plug. Had I not went looking for that very small copper piece, I can see how someone may have concluded "gee, this machine can't even give a solid ID on a 4" deep penny..."

Just speculating, but I think this is a part of what's going on here. We are used to the way FBS does things...this is a whole different animal.

Steve
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Steve
One of the Barber dimes I dug the other day didn't high tone until I cut a plug then It screamed rolled the plug back in the hole and it went right back to 24 25. Every detector I have used in the last 10 years will do the same thing, some numbers go down some go up. The important thing is I found it :)
Laplander
 
The separation the Equinox has with the 11” coil is very impressive. Congrats Steve on Silver quarter.
 
Congrats!I'm at one silver so far and about 7 wheats also. it was a roosie at about 6 inches surrounded by pulltabs and it was in the most obvious spot to hit ,I have hit some if the hardest hit areas local to me 3 times for about 2 hours and have yet to try some other settings to see if it makes a difference,park one and I had iron bias at 2 and recovery speed at 4 and the tone range fully expanded on 50 tones but going to poke around there again with a slower recovery and iron bias on zero to see what happens
 
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