brianc053
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- Location
- Sussex County, DE
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Equinox 800
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- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
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Hi everyone. Recently my family and I spent a week at the beach in Delaware, and I took along our Equinox 800 to use it for the first time on the beach.
I have to say: I was incredibly impressed by the sensitivity of the machine! Check out the very small items it found in the lower left-hand corner of the picture!
The picture includes most of what my son and I found during the week; we only detected about an hour a day, and the beaches there are pretty clean. I did throw away bottle caps - and we found a lot of those - but I kept some of the other trash, especially the old pull-tabs because those had been in the sand for a long time.
You'll see on the left that I found my first beach jewelry, a little earring. I'm not sure if it's silver; it does NOT say 925 or Sterling, but it's very small.
I was also impressed with the way the detector differentiated between bottle caps/similar trash and real targets. It didn't take long to learn how to "listen" to what the detector was telling me, and I got good at telling a bottle cap before I even dug it.
Anyway, no major treasures but I did want to mention how impressed I was with the sensitivity and the accuracy!
- Brian
I have to say: I was incredibly impressed by the sensitivity of the machine! Check out the very small items it found in the lower left-hand corner of the picture!
The picture includes most of what my son and I found during the week; we only detected about an hour a day, and the beaches there are pretty clean. I did throw away bottle caps - and we found a lot of those - but I kept some of the other trash, especially the old pull-tabs because those had been in the sand for a long time.
You'll see on the left that I found my first beach jewelry, a little earring. I'm not sure if it's silver; it does NOT say 925 or Sterling, but it's very small.
I was also impressed with the way the detector differentiated between bottle caps/similar trash and real targets. It didn't take long to learn how to "listen" to what the detector was telling me, and I got good at telling a bottle cap before I even dug it.
Anyway, no major treasures but I did want to mention how impressed I was with the sensitivity and the accuracy!
- Brian
