Sven
Well-known member
Woke up at 4:30am today to beat the crowds that won't show up...LOL
Calling for rain, managed 4 1/2 hours as the dark clouds kept rolling in along with some nice cool wind. There was rumbling in the sky, not much to worry about at the time.
At 10am it was time to pack up, sky was getting really dark and it did look like the clouds were was to downpour any minute. Wouldn't you know, 30 minutes after getting home, the sky lightened up......aahh, rain is still forecast for this morning. Only one other treasure hunter with a Troy X-5 showed up around 7am, he left for better pickings at another beach. I think he was intimidated by the Minelab armrest cover cloaked over the Omega's armrest, then maybe not.
Had the Omega out for it's first spin thru the sands using the 8" round coil. Ran the machine full bore most of the time, sensitivity at 95-98%, disc around 10, 4 tones.
Did back off on sens a number of times to see what the results were. Found the Omega to be pretty stable, had a few minor EMI issues in a couple spots. Changing frequency to #2 took care of it. Balance was excellent as well as being lightweight enough that my tendentious in my elbow didn't object to hunting with this machine. Ground balancing was just too easy, bob the coil and push a button.......
I hunted in my normal "grid-get it all" fashion and covered 75% of the beach. Bottle caps everywhere as well as foil and pulltabs. Most of the caps came in at #39 low-mec tone, pulltabs the kind found here usually came in around 59 or so. Foil mostly 39 and below with a high tone and or with numbers that bounce all over. A bunch of foil did come in under quarter with a high tone, can almost tell if it actually is foil. One reason I like taking anew machine to the beach, you can learn the junk pretty fast. Have to tell you the Omega works pretty well hunting Canadian clad. Some dimes and quarters will try and fool you into thinking they are junk. This happened to me a number of times, got a target by all signs sounded and ID'd like junk. But, there was something about it that was different that made me stop and dig. Low and behold a dime or quarter popped out. Couple times a fast almost silent high tone would break thru the nasty sounds indicating "maybe", better dig target and be sure. Felt like a Ying-Yang effect, being one with your machine. That was weird. last time I felt like that was in the 1970's when I owned and hunted with a Garrett Master Hunter ADS Deep Seeker.
The Omega did handle the shoreiine trashy area extremely well. Found some coins amongst the washed up foil and lightweight trash.
The 8" round concentric search coil was a joy to use and pinpoints quickly dead center of the coil.
Next time out will attach the stock 5x10 elliptical coil and see how it does. Wouln't mind trying a 11" DD coil if anyone has one they want to part with.
Overall I like this detector, seems to simple to operate...kind of miss a bunch of control knobs.
Todays haul from the well hunted beach:
No jewelry
Found and pictured
1 Toonie
11 Quarters
11 Dimes
3 Nickels
16 Pennies
Some of the caps and tabs
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$6.16
Calling for rain, managed 4 1/2 hours as the dark clouds kept rolling in along with some nice cool wind. There was rumbling in the sky, not much to worry about at the time.
At 10am it was time to pack up, sky was getting really dark and it did look like the clouds were was to downpour any minute. Wouldn't you know, 30 minutes after getting home, the sky lightened up......aahh, rain is still forecast for this morning. Only one other treasure hunter with a Troy X-5 showed up around 7am, he left for better pickings at another beach. I think he was intimidated by the Minelab armrest cover cloaked over the Omega's armrest, then maybe not.
Had the Omega out for it's first spin thru the sands using the 8" round coil. Ran the machine full bore most of the time, sensitivity at 95-98%, disc around 10, 4 tones.
Did back off on sens a number of times to see what the results were. Found the Omega to be pretty stable, had a few minor EMI issues in a couple spots. Changing frequency to #2 took care of it. Balance was excellent as well as being lightweight enough that my tendentious in my elbow didn't object to hunting with this machine. Ground balancing was just too easy, bob the coil and push a button.......
I hunted in my normal "grid-get it all" fashion and covered 75% of the beach. Bottle caps everywhere as well as foil and pulltabs. Most of the caps came in at #39 low-mec tone, pulltabs the kind found here usually came in around 59 or so. Foil mostly 39 and below with a high tone and or with numbers that bounce all over. A bunch of foil did come in under quarter with a high tone, can almost tell if it actually is foil. One reason I like taking anew machine to the beach, you can learn the junk pretty fast. Have to tell you the Omega works pretty well hunting Canadian clad. Some dimes and quarters will try and fool you into thinking they are junk. This happened to me a number of times, got a target by all signs sounded and ID'd like junk. But, there was something about it that was different that made me stop and dig. Low and behold a dime or quarter popped out. Couple times a fast almost silent high tone would break thru the nasty sounds indicating "maybe", better dig target and be sure. Felt like a Ying-Yang effect, being one with your machine. That was weird. last time I felt like that was in the 1970's when I owned and hunted with a Garrett Master Hunter ADS Deep Seeker.
The Omega did handle the shoreiine trashy area extremely well. Found some coins amongst the washed up foil and lightweight trash.
The 8" round concentric search coil was a joy to use and pinpoints quickly dead center of the coil.
Next time out will attach the stock 5x10 elliptical coil and see how it does. Wouln't mind trying a 11" DD coil if anyone has one they want to part with.
Overall I like this detector, seems to simple to operate...kind of miss a bunch of control knobs.
Todays haul from the well hunted beach:
No jewelry
Found and pictured
1 Toonie
11 Quarters
11 Dimes
3 Nickels
16 Pennies
Some of the caps and tabs
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$6.16