How is your update going ?

[RustyGold]

I ran the Equinox at the beach today and did notice a change in its behavior. The bottle caps were producing more of a low end grunt and did not sound like a non-ferrous target. When I checked the targets in all metal, it really had a low end tone. I dug a few and it confirmed they were very rusty bottle caps.
I experimented with both FE and F2 and seemed to get good results in both settings. Search was in dry sand with damp bottoms.

 

[sandmartin]

Hey, you can go out and find them any time! I only have a week!

what part are you travelling to? In any case, good luck

 

[Rookster]

Its really not the machine. It's the conditions and your skills. Ground moisture, lack thereof, soil temperature, swing speed, air humidity, grass or foliage height, distance of the coil off the ground, iron or other mineralization of the ground. SOMETIMES the FREQUENCY of a different machine will make a difference, but I have gone behind myself repeatedly on some sites I have all to myself and have found very nice items. Sometimes it's even a matter of the "tilt" of the coil over the ground.

This is a very repeatable thing.

I totally agree.

 

[cudamark]

what part are you travelling to? In any case, good luck

I was in the Colchester/Manningtree area. Had a good trip and will post a few photos when I get the chance. Just got back last night!

 

[cudamark]

I was on another beach hunt yesterday. Just wet and dry sand, no water. There wasn't much in the way of wet sand as it was around high tide, but, I did find a few modern coins. I used Beach 2, 20 sens, 6 recovery speed, and tried several iron bias settings. Everything was stable and seemed to work fine. some of the coins were 8-10 inches down. In the dry sand, I used Park 1. I've tried the Beach modes and even the Gold modes there too in the past, but, I seem to get more depth and stability in Park 1. I was able to bump the sens up to 22 for most of the time, and kept the same 6 recovery speed. What I was most curious about was the ability to I.D. bottle caps as bad targets. I put it in F2 and tried settings from 5 to 9. I found a curious thing in 9. It works great on bottle caps. I scooped only one completely flattened and rusty one. That's not the curious part however. In 9, It also gave most melted aluminum cans (nuggets) and many pull tabs a sketchy sound too! That was a nice bonus. Nickels came though loud and clear. Now, I don't know what I'm giving up by setting the iron bias to 9 (maybe some masking issues? Depth? Not seeing small gold?), but, it made dry sand hunting nicer. I did dig a silver Washington quarter at 8" in some hard pan that rang out nicely, so, depth didn't seem to be affected too much. More testing to be sure, but, so far, it's working good.