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I thought I would go to the creek today to do some metal detecting because of the heat. I took my Equinox 800 because I have a small coil for it. But after submerging the control pod in water a couple times it flooded and I got a ER 61 fault. But I was able to make some nice finds first.
A brass lighter ?
1933 chevy baby moon hubcap
And a very large caliber bullet [ head stamp saids RA 42]
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Great finds - sorry to hear about your Nox !

If the 50 cal. round is live it can still go off - I've had it happen with 30.06 rounds we got off a 1918 shipwreck.
I'd either get rid of it or take it to a gun shop and have them pull the bullet off and dump the gun powder out.
The bullet fell off and I emptied the remaining powder. Took it to the State police down the street from where I live and the police told me to just dispose of it in my trash.
 

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I just took a 20mm live round apart. I just grabbed the bullet with some plyers and twisted it apart. Dumped the powder and put the shell casing in my brass recycling bucket. It's not a bomb or hand grenade. It's not going to go off unless you hit the primer with the proper force.....and that assuming it's still sound and will actually fire.
 

I thought I would go to the creek today to do some metal detecting because of the heat. I took my Equinox 800 because I have a small coil for it. But after submerging the control pod in water a couple times it flooded and I got a ER 61 fault. But I was able to make some nice finds first.
A brass lighter ?
1933 chevy baby moon hubcap
And a very large caliber bullet [ head stamp saids RA 42]View attachment 2093191View attachment 2093194
Nice!!! Congrats!!!! Sorry about the flooding😳
 

Nice!!! Congrats!!!! Sorry about the flooding😳
Thanks Digger RJ. Hopefully Minelab was able to fix the issue with the new Equinox & Manticore🤞
 

I'm loving that cool old lighter!
 

I thought I would go to the creek today to do some metal detecting because of the heat. I took my Equinox 800 because I have a small coil for it. But after submerging the control pod in water a couple times it flooded and I got a ER 61 fault. But I was able to make some nice finds first.
A brass lighter ?
1933 chevy baby moon hubcap
And a very large caliber bullet [ head stamp saids RA 42]View attachment 2093191View attachment 2093194
Nice finds sucks this happened BUT this is why I just picked up a exterra pro. Beach mode runs multi frequencies. Ocean and I will meet soon
 

Nice finds and hope you get your Equinox repaired and back to hunting!
 

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