Goldpick
Chris Johnson
Thought it was time to start a new topic for the new year, this time covering finds from both the Deus and Equinox to see how they compare over the course of the year.
First trip was brief thanks to howling winds down at the beach with the Equinox in tow, unfortunately our local beaches aren't the best for decent finds, though thought it be a good idea to try the new detector. Depth performance was certainly good, picking up a few very deep sinkers, only coins I managed to find were a couple of 20c and very thin 5c pieces. The software up-date has made the screen brightness on the 600 much more acceptable at night over the previous single setting, definitely need to get some wireless headphones as the wired ones are a real pain and are hard to hear over the noise of the surf.
The next couple of locations I took the Equinox to try out were an early 1900's site and a Victorian era site. The first site only provided one coin, a 1916 penny, though I did unearth plenty of junk left in the ground from previous trips with the Deus. The Victorian site was a bit more telling, I couldn't locate a single non-ferrous item other than a brass rivet after gridding from different orientations, and even that was a marginal target. If anything it does highlight how thorough the Deus is over such sites.
The latest trip was back over the border to the silver honey hole, and yet again it paid off handsomely using the Deus with the 11" coil. It is such a large area that you can spend hours of either walking over plenty of targets, or possibly missing good targets by a few feet. Even working areas that I previously detected from different angles has provided more coin targets. Once again I dipped into the 1800's with an 1883 shiling and a Vic penny, and after a few previous junker rings I got my first solid silver ring.
Did real well on the silver tally with 17 all up, though was offset with plenty of BB's to help wear out the knees. :argh: Next trip I'll probably give the Equinox a run once I have replaced the wired headphones, a least the Equinox gets along fine with the MI-6 pinpointer.
Offloading the finds at 5.00am!
62 coins all up = one pair of sore legs!
Non silver crucifix.
Pick of the bunch, still requires a bit more cleaning.
First trip was brief thanks to howling winds down at the beach with the Equinox in tow, unfortunately our local beaches aren't the best for decent finds, though thought it be a good idea to try the new detector. Depth performance was certainly good, picking up a few very deep sinkers, only coins I managed to find were a couple of 20c and very thin 5c pieces. The software up-date has made the screen brightness on the 600 much more acceptable at night over the previous single setting, definitely need to get some wireless headphones as the wired ones are a real pain and are hard to hear over the noise of the surf.
The next couple of locations I took the Equinox to try out were an early 1900's site and a Victorian era site. The first site only provided one coin, a 1916 penny, though I did unearth plenty of junk left in the ground from previous trips with the Deus. The Victorian site was a bit more telling, I couldn't locate a single non-ferrous item other than a brass rivet after gridding from different orientations, and even that was a marginal target. If anything it does highlight how thorough the Deus is over such sites.
The latest trip was back over the border to the silver honey hole, and yet again it paid off handsomely using the Deus with the 11" coil. It is such a large area that you can spend hours of either walking over plenty of targets, or possibly missing good targets by a few feet. Even working areas that I previously detected from different angles has provided more coin targets. Once again I dipped into the 1800's with an 1883 shiling and a Vic penny, and after a few previous junker rings I got my first solid silver ring.
Did real well on the silver tally with 17 all up, though was offset with plenty of BB's to help wear out the knees. :argh: Next trip I'll probably give the Equinox a run once I have replaced the wired headphones, a least the Equinox gets along fine with the MI-6 pinpointer.
Offloading the finds at 5.00am!
62 coins all up = one pair of sore legs!
Non silver crucifix.
Pick of the bunch, still requires a bit more cleaning.