The 800 continues to amaze me when I find older coins that are not all that deep, but have trash in the same hole. This usually happens to me at least once or twice a day. I have several parks where I have to have raw depth to get to the older coins. Finds are getting few and fewer in these parks so to find one or two coins is a good day.
I have come to recognize how these extremely deep coins sound on the 800. There are no numbers. The audio is a quick, repeatable "whine". I always check these signals in all metal. If they are rusty iron, it is a complete grunt. Yesterday, I got the first of these signals and was hoping for a silver coin, but saw a nickel sized coin at 9 inches. 1900 V nickel. There is no tone ID with coins at these depths so it is mostly a "luck of the draw" experience. Today's extreme depth coin sounded almost identical, but was an inch deeper than my Garrett Carrot. I was totally amazed to find a green Indian head penny. This was my deepest coin yet with the 800.
The 800 is not all about depth and my last coin proved how good of a coin detector the 800 is. I got a scratchy 24-25 signal that was quite loud. Four bars on the depth meter. This type of reading usually is a coin in the 4 to 6 inch deep range. I found a wheatie about 5 inches deep. Since is was so scratchy, I checked the hole again and got a one way iron signal. Being curious, I pinpointed a dug a rusty two inch nail that was about two inches off the plug. Not in the same hole, but close enough to make the coin signal scratchy.
The Equinox has set the standard for coin hunting. It is extremely easy to use and one can get real good real fast with either the 600 or 800. I talked a buddy in to getting one two weeks ago and I spent exactly five minutes explaining the settings I use. In three hunts, he found 4 silver dimes and 16 wheat pennies. He said he only dug clean sounding, not "iffy" signals. Now his other hunting buddy is getting one. I guess I should keep my mouth shut if I want to find anything decent in the future.
I have come to recognize how these extremely deep coins sound on the 800. There are no numbers. The audio is a quick, repeatable "whine". I always check these signals in all metal. If they are rusty iron, it is a complete grunt. Yesterday, I got the first of these signals and was hoping for a silver coin, but saw a nickel sized coin at 9 inches. 1900 V nickel. There is no tone ID with coins at these depths so it is mostly a "luck of the draw" experience. Today's extreme depth coin sounded almost identical, but was an inch deeper than my Garrett Carrot. I was totally amazed to find a green Indian head penny. This was my deepest coin yet with the 800.
The 800 is not all about depth and my last coin proved how good of a coin detector the 800 is. I got a scratchy 24-25 signal that was quite loud. Four bars on the depth meter. This type of reading usually is a coin in the 4 to 6 inch deep range. I found a wheatie about 5 inches deep. Since is was so scratchy, I checked the hole again and got a one way iron signal. Being curious, I pinpointed a dug a rusty two inch nail that was about two inches off the plug. Not in the same hole, but close enough to make the coin signal scratchy.
The Equinox has set the standard for coin hunting. It is extremely easy to use and one can get real good real fast with either the 600 or 800. I talked a buddy in to getting one two weeks ago and I spent exactly five minutes explaining the settings I use. In three hunts, he found 4 silver dimes and 16 wheat pennies. He said he only dug clean sounding, not "iffy" signals. Now his other hunting buddy is getting one. I guess I should keep my mouth shut if I want to find anything decent in the future.
