Two Gold rings for Equinox in tough beach conditions

[SoCARalph]

Equinox came through today finding two gold rings at the beach. Our beaches in Southern CA have been sanded in all winter with little to find. But after the heavy rain last night I was working a washout that removed a lot of sand down to a rocky area. It was filled with black sand and littered with iron. The equinox kept giving me good signals in a small area no more than 2 x 3 feet. I pulled out several nickels, quarters and sinkers. Nearly every scoop also brought up iron. I kept getting a good "14" on the meter and finally pulled up the 14kt gold wedding band. About an hour later (after more nickels and sinkers - good signs!) in the same general area, I got a solid "9" on the meter and pulled up the 14kt gold diamond ring. The machine is great at pulling good targets from a trashy area in the wet salt sand to boot. I did notice that deep large iron would give me a "39" on the meter but this became easy to ignore.

Really looking forward to working some more areas after some of this sand gets move - come on winter storms - it's not too late.

 

[Old California]

Nice Ralph,

Off to a great start, you're very fortunate to live near the Beach.

Congratulations!
Paul

 

[dewcon4414]

Ralph....... next time you are out .... do me a favor, when you find some of that iron that reads 38, disc out digits 39 and 40 ....... tell me what it does.

 

[bklein]

Hi Ralph, I don’t know if you saw my post below but your digging yesterday was the motivation for it. I’m not sure the CTX would have found those targets with all the iron in the concrete - plus just the nails from the firepits. I should have asked you when we were talking. Since you have a lot of time on the CTX, what do you think - would it have done as well? Congrats on the finds, (but really sorry I didnt get there first . ).

 

[SoCARalph]

Hard to say without trying both detectors on the same targets but the recovery speed settings on the Equinox sure does help in the conditions that I found all those targets. After I showed you the wedding band you wished me luck and said to find another gold - which I did!

 

[pan4au]

Good day at the beach.. Thanks for posting. Congrats on your finds

 

[squirrel1]

Nice finds.
Wish I lived near the coast.
Looks like fun. Sounds like fun too.

 

[UtahRich]

That's a great day in my book ! Very Nice.


Rich

 

[eriks]

9 on the VDI...wow.