microsniper Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Hey all, Just got back from a couple days in Gold Basin on my way back from Washington. Weather was cool enough to enjoy a couple days camping with my sweetheart and try out an equinox 600 that I picked up recently. Iv head of lots of people having success with the 800 but not too much said about the 600 accept a few things that Steve over at DP had writtin. So I figured Id share my experience using the 600 with the 6" coil. We went back to an old patch there where Iv had luck before did a little scraping and viola! picked up one with the SDC right away. So we pulled out the 600 and did some more scraping and picked up our 1st nugget with the equinox! We spent all day there picking up dinks, and some really dinky dinks, which I thought was darn impressive... Anyway, my set up may not have been ideal as Im just learning this machine, but I thought I would share what worked for me there.. Field 2 Sensitivity 17-20 -9 through -1 blocked out everything else accepted 2 Tones Tone break at 0 iron bias 0 Ground Balance manual recovery speed 3 I didnt know what to expect from the 600 vs the 800 but since i had no experience with either it didnt matter.. But now I am fully convinced it (600) will find small pieces of gold with ease.. (under the right conditions of course) I didnt try the park or beach programs, but would toggle over to the all metal every once in awhile but otherwise just kept it in field 2. It was stable at sensitivity 17-18 but if you watched the numbers the hot rocks were bouncing all over the place from 6-12-26+ with an erratic tone. But when a 1-2 flashed in between and locked on it was surely a small piece of gold. (only one bb and one piece of lead out of 20 targets, yay!) Since id already cleared any bigger easy nuggets/trash from this spot I had no problem just ignoring anything other than a 1 or 2 on the Target id. We had a great time out there in that beautiful spot, and my sweetie had no problem finding nuggets with it! The smallest lil nugglets are tiny, it took 3-4 of them to make a grain. BTW Bill if you read this: Thanks for posting your vids using the equinox, kinda the reason I decided to give it a try. Hope everyone is getting out there now and enjoying the almost fall weather! 12 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 very nice...great detecting! fred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Great finds!! Congrats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 good bit of detecting 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azdigger Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 great detecting and working the machine 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Soloman Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 WoW! Congratulations on a Great trip! The photo is gorgeous! The gold ain't bad either! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtimehermit Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Nice swinging ! your two ruled that zone, thanks for sharing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 WTG Mike! Nice gold and great scenery. Had to get back to warmer weather? Tom H. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Great Job with the 600! Beautiful photos as well 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Well, that's showing us you don't need a gold mode! Very nice collection of little nuggets there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownnugget Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Nice post thanks! We’re you driving a yellow Jeep by chance? I saw a couple fellas out there hunting recently🤷🏼♂️ Brownie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Very nice Gold and great picture !! Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wygold Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Very nice 👍🏻. That gives me hope that it is possible to find gold nuggets w/the NOX 600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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