Tenspeed
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I have been enjoying my Equinox since I got it and love the speed of the processor over the E-Trac. I haven't touched my E-Trac since I started hunting with the Equinox and now will just leave it for backup only. The Equinox has been good on the beach and in the red clay I mostly hunt in.
I have been revisiting some of my most difficult spots to see what I can sniff out because of the ability to hear every little bit of iron in the threshold and the good targets in between. I am primarily hunting with the stock coil and haven't had to pull the 6" out but a couple of times so far.
I have had one or two spots that were hunted so thoroughly with all size coils and all methods (Conductive, TTF) plus different brands of machine that there wasn't much there, but other spots that we may have only hit a couple of time are yielding great rewards.
I found a tiny silver ring at 8" in a yard in Rock Hill, SC that I have hunted many times and very close to where I found a 1930's Merc about 5 years ago. I have been recovering silver coins in places that have been gone over several times (some I can say may have just been missed, but others were clearly masked by iron).
Another very difficult place south of Hillsborough was the site of a home built in the 1830's that was moved to a museum. I have pounded this place in every angle with every coil of the E-Trac and have recovered an 1864 Indian along with large and small silver and many wheaties. I recovered 4 wheaties and a Mercury dime in my first visit with the Equinox.
This weekend I went to a historic area in a yard near the old Hillsborough Military Academy (Hillsborough, NC). I had hunted it in both directions several years ago and remembered it being difficult. I only had about an hour and only got to hunt about 40% of the yard, but recovered an 1847 large cent at 8" (don't know how I missed that one before), 3 wheat pennies that squeaked between the iron), one flat button, and 2 tootsie die cast trucks.
Needless to say, I am sold on the Equinox. One weakness is that it loves aluminum bottle caps, but the is a price you pay for all of the other targets you can find.
HH
I have been revisiting some of my most difficult spots to see what I can sniff out because of the ability to hear every little bit of iron in the threshold and the good targets in between. I am primarily hunting with the stock coil and haven't had to pull the 6" out but a couple of times so far.
I have had one or two spots that were hunted so thoroughly with all size coils and all methods (Conductive, TTF) plus different brands of machine that there wasn't much there, but other spots that we may have only hit a couple of time are yielding great rewards.
I found a tiny silver ring at 8" in a yard in Rock Hill, SC that I have hunted many times and very close to where I found a 1930's Merc about 5 years ago. I have been recovering silver coins in places that have been gone over several times (some I can say may have just been missed, but others were clearly masked by iron).
Another very difficult place south of Hillsborough was the site of a home built in the 1830's that was moved to a museum. I have pounded this place in every angle with every coil of the E-Trac and have recovered an 1864 Indian along with large and small silver and many wheaties. I recovered 4 wheaties and a Mercury dime in my first visit with the Equinox.
This weekend I went to a historic area in a yard near the old Hillsborough Military Academy (Hillsborough, NC). I had hunted it in both directions several years ago and remembered it being difficult. I only had about an hour and only got to hunt about 40% of the yard, but recovered an 1847 large cent at 8" (don't know how I missed that one before), 3 wheat pennies that squeaked between the iron), one flat button, and 2 tootsie die cast trucks.
Needless to say, I am sold on the Equinox. One weakness is that it loves aluminum bottle caps, but the is a price you pay for all of the other targets you can find.
HH
