My EQX 800 arrived last week. After about ten years of not detecting. My old machine that I did use for ten years before that, was an XLT.
I only have about 14 hours on the new machine and at least 2 of those were just in my old coin garden. Running in five tone.
No amazing finds yet, but the first site I tried it I got a 1956 dime amongst a carpet of iron trash (horse shoe nails). Second site I tried I found a spent (and sadly, smashed) .56 Spencer case - and, my best find so far with it, an unfired .44 Henry (about a foot from the Spencer).
I've been feeling like I need to be staring at the numbers a lot. Staring at them and interrogating the !!!! out of stuff has been working, quite well, by my standards. I'm just not used to paying so much attention to the screen.
Just got back from taking it on a 90 minute hunt at a very trashy park very close to the house. I decided to try 50 tone.
I think I'm going to like 50 tone. Lots of noise in all that trash, for sure. But it felt like I was getting more target info out of the sound. Found myself able to swing the detector without feeling like I needed to see every number on every signal.
Nothing but scant clad and one fired 9mm slug, but almost all the trash I dug I was expecting trash.
Curious how popular 50 tone is among seasoned EQX users?
Really liking this new machine though. And I think I'm going to keep using 50 tone until I feel a reason to change again.
Some finds from the first day.
My first silver with the 800, from an abandoned ranch site.
That was only about the fourth hole I had dug with the new machine. I feel like it was largely dumb luck. Lot of iron nails at that site. Numbers matched a deep copper penny in my garden at home. Turned out to be a .22 shell, a .250-3000 case and a 1956 dime all in the same hole.
The ammo was found at an 1880's mining camp that only lived for about three years. Only got to dig there for two hours. But dug zero modern trash and nothing less than about six inches. Mostly rusty iron. Lots of horseshoe nails, especially. But the site feels like it has potential to me for some old coins.
Looking forward to getting out to some more ghost town type sites before the snow flies.
- Dave
I only have about 14 hours on the new machine and at least 2 of those were just in my old coin garden. Running in five tone.
No amazing finds yet, but the first site I tried it I got a 1956 dime amongst a carpet of iron trash (horse shoe nails). Second site I tried I found a spent (and sadly, smashed) .56 Spencer case - and, my best find so far with it, an unfired .44 Henry (about a foot from the Spencer).
I've been feeling like I need to be staring at the numbers a lot. Staring at them and interrogating the !!!! out of stuff has been working, quite well, by my standards. I'm just not used to paying so much attention to the screen.
Just got back from taking it on a 90 minute hunt at a very trashy park very close to the house. I decided to try 50 tone.
I think I'm going to like 50 tone. Lots of noise in all that trash, for sure. But it felt like I was getting more target info out of the sound. Found myself able to swing the detector without feeling like I needed to see every number on every signal.
Nothing but scant clad and one fired 9mm slug, but almost all the trash I dug I was expecting trash.
Curious how popular 50 tone is among seasoned EQX users?
Really liking this new machine though. And I think I'm going to keep using 50 tone until I feel a reason to change again.
Some finds from the first day.
My first silver with the 800, from an abandoned ranch site.
That was only about the fourth hole I had dug with the new machine. I feel like it was largely dumb luck. Lot of iron nails at that site. Numbers matched a deep copper penny in my garden at home. Turned out to be a .22 shell, a .250-3000 case and a 1956 dime all in the same hole.
The ammo was found at an 1880's mining camp that only lived for about three years. Only got to dig there for two hours. But dug zero modern trash and nothing less than about six inches. Mostly rusty iron. Lots of horseshoe nails, especially. But the site feels like it has potential to me for some old coins.
Looking forward to getting out to some more ghost town type sites before the snow flies.
- Dave