Minelab Equinox 800: Deep and Iffy Signals - Civil War Relics
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- If you watched my last video, this is a follow-up to it. I went back to the same site with the Minelab Equinox 800 to do some more detecting prior to receiving the "NEW" detector. My goal was to try to find the deep and hard to find signals. Some think the Equinox will not detect very deep; well, I'm not one of them.
This was a very tough day to detect as the wind would almost knock you down. I tried to edit out as much of the wind noise as I could, but it was not easy.
I didn't edit out much of the digging as I wanted you to see what a difficult time I was having finding the targets. Since my hearing loss, the wind is not my friend.
Even with the adverse conditions, I was still able to come up with a few Confederate relics. My next video will be the unboxing of this "New Technology" metal detector. Then, I will go back to this same location to see if I missed anything; it should be very interesting.
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What a hunt! Nice dropped bullets. Well done. On the Deus Pin Pointer, windy days are a bear for me too. You can change the tone. Pin pointer off, turn on and hold button until you hear it beep. press one time. You will have a much louder tone than the vibrate/high pitch. It will be much more distinct. This is 1st tier programing the pin pointer.
It was a pretty good hunt. I've found a lot of bullets and a few good buttons on this site over the years. I've been using the XP Deus pinpointer almost exclusively for the past 6 years. I believe it is on all of my videos; I love it.
That day in the wind was terrible; I reduced the wind noise considerably via software. If you noticed, I made a lot of changes off and on with the pinpointer throughout the video. The ground was so hot that I had to keep de-tuning it. With my limited hearing, it doesn't really matter what the tone is set to. In conditions like this, vibration is the only option for me. I was using headphones with the right ear flipped up so the viewer could hopefully hear the detector. That left the other ear covered so I couldn't hear the pinpointer anyway; especially in the wind. I love that pinpointer; especially when using the XP Deus where I have more settings and can hear it through the headphone. thanks so much for watching and your suggestions. Happy hunting to you and good luck.
Good job Larry thank you for sharing
Thanks Jimmy and thanks for watching.
Enjoyed your video. Those bullets were deep. I have exactly the same problem with my ears. Can't hear anything out of my right one. And I have tinnitus. A little aggravating, but can't keep us from relic hunting. Keep em coming. God Bless Pap
I feel for you as I've had a tough time since my hearing loss in 2005. I lost my hearing almost suddenly. Many trips to the specialist and the prognosis was the worse case of tinnitus and hyperacusis the doctors have ever encountered. For about 9 years, I rarely got to go detecting. I've learn to adjust to it now. I hear sounds from beeps to the mountains full of Cicadas 24 hours a day. I'm sure you know exactly what I am talking about. But I'll keep detecting as long as I'm able. God bless you as well and thanks for watching.
Hard work paid off. Nice Minie balls. Can't wait your hunts on the new permissions. Good Luck
Yeah, it was a little bit of hard work, but a whole lot of fun. I love to find bullets. I'm sure some of the new permissions will be the best sites I've ever been on. I hope to make some interesting videos and to find some unique relics. My goal since I've been detecting is to find a virgin site and document all the locations of the relics via GPS coordinates and photos. Of course, I always document what I find that way, but it would be nice to see an entire camp layout according to the location of the finds. Thanks so much for watching.
Great video, Larry. Those bullets made you work for them.
They sure did, but this gentleman didn't give up. Thumbs up.
I'll have to say that I had a terrible time that day. The signals were not that great, the wind was terrible and my knees were killing me but I persisted. When you're partially deaf, wind noise is not your friend. But I'd do it all over again for some Confederate dropped bullets. I must have found all the Gardner's and Enfield's years ago but every now and then one will turn up. Thanks so much for watching.
Thanks Roland. I have had better days. Thanks for watching.
Good hunt mate. You killed the 3 ringers 🖒 I would like to find just one. Keep swingin'
I love to dig the bullets. I was strictly a coin hunter for about a year until I found a Civil War bullet near an old house place I was hunting. Then I was hooked. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching Jimmy.
Nice looking bullets.
Thanks and thanks for watching.
Awesome finds!!!
Thanks. I've done well with the Equinox on this site, but the signals are getting scarce these days. Thanks for watching.
Looking for historical items dropped by our ancestors is so interesting. It’s a treasure hunt that pays off more frequently than gold!
Very well said. That's why I go to the pain to record the GPS coordinates of all finds. It's amazing to look at a map with everything marked. The history of the lost item is more important than the relic; it is the true treasure. Thanks for watching.
Larry, I was right along with you in this hunt or at least it felt like it. Roots, a sixty year old's worst nightmare. Or at least they are for this 68 year old. I will say one thing however, seldom am I disappointed when that target under the root is in my hand. Usually it pays off.
Good hunt my friend.
I'm glad you felt like you were right along with me; that is always my intention. Roots are tough at any age. That particular shovel is great in fields, but not so good in roots. You'll see me go back to this site soon with a different detector and shovel. I can't remember how I did, but I didn't get skunked. Thanks so much for watching and your kind words.
Larry, I love your videos... but... it would be nice if you told us what battles may have been fought in the area. You know the local history you're saving but I don't! 😃
I'm glad you like the videos. Sorry about the "but", but I've had too many places I've lost by divulging too much information. It takes many hours to research places to detect and it's very difficult to get permission on a lot of sites as well. Sadly, there's a lot of detectorist that will move in on your spots if you're not very careful. I didn't know it was like that until I had lost permission on many sites and had many of them detected to death because I told someone about them. I wish it wasn't like that.
Early on, I found a ridge that the soldiers had really used the back side of to get out of the line of fire. I don't know how everyone had missed it. My buddy and I checked it out after I had done the research and got permission. We found a lot of bullets and percussion caps. We were both very new to detecting. I had someone ask me where we were detecting and sadly I told him. A couple of days later we went back and without exaggeration, there was hundreds of holes that had been dug. None of them were filled in and any trash found was either in or next to the hole. The "experts" had went back and all but cleaned it out.
After this, I started being very careful when I left the house because often, I was being followed. My buddy and I made a game out of it by going different directions every time we went out.
I researched and found another camp near a road and it took me two years to get permission. I had to end up calling the owner on the phone, something I don't like to do. He gave my buddy and me permission with a stipulation. We had to notify him to let him know what day we were going to be there and that we were not allowed to bring anyone else with us. The second time we detected it we kept seeing a small car drive by; at least half a dozen times. A couple of weeks later I called the owner and he denied us permission. He said we had broken the agreement. One of the adjacent landowners had called him and said there were 6 people in the field digging. He thought we had went back and brought a bunch with us. He never let us or anyone else detect the site again. We rode by after that and it looked like a bunch of hogs had been rooting around. No telling what all they found.
I found another site and got permission and had another detectorist walk into where I was, without permission, to see if I was finding anything. As he walked up I dug a dropped Enfield bullet. The next day, I rode by and he and his buddy were digging the site. They went and got permission and wore it out.
This was all when I was new to the hobby. I thought everyone was like me and respected others permission and sites they may have worked hard to find. Also, when you're trying to record the history of a site and the relics end up going in dozens of different directions without anyone knowing what exactly was found or where then so much of the history is actually lost.
When I started metal detecting, I knew very little about the Civil War. I was just interested in finding coins. When I accidently found my first bullet, I was hooked. I knew a few people that metal detected, but I had never discussed detecting with them. I buckled down and started going to the libraries, the internet and any where I could to learn about detecting and the Civil War. I found old diaries, TOPO maps and worked extremely hard to figure out where some camps and or battles may have been. It took me a lot of time, but I started figuring it out. Later, in talking with some of these relic hunters, they told me of sites they had tried to find for years but couldn't. I had already found many of them I later found out. I learned that I had a knack for figuring out the past. Of course, I had picked up arrowhead all my life; I was in my 40's before I started metal detecting. I had explored over 500 caves and had hunted and fished all my life. I had a vast knowledge of the surrounding 5 counties and already knew a lot of landowners. All this came in handy when I started my new hobby.
Sorry for the long post, but I felt I need to give you a good explanation. I have always tried to help others in everything I do and I try my best to be honest all the time. All my videos are real live digs; most of the time, you see it when I see it if you're watching my videos. I don't ever "plant" anything or recreate a dig and say that it is live.
As far as saving local history, to me all history is local to someone. The history is not in the relic, it is in the location where the relic was found. For example, hundreds of thousand Civil War bullets have been found over the years. By looking at the bullet, we can usually tell what type bullet it is, its caliber, whether it was shot or fired. Heck, all that information is available online or in books. But the one thing you can't find online is the location where a particular bullet or relic was found; that is its history. So if the location where the relics was found is not recorded and a way to keep that information associated with the relic down through the years then all of its history is lost forever.
Dave, I'd love to tell you exactly where I'm detecting, but I hope now you understand why I don't. I have all the GPS coordinates, photos, etc. in a database that shows where almost everything I've found came from. Even if the numbers I assign to all the relics gets destroyed as long as my records and photos remain, a diligent person could still match everything up with its information as recorded in the database.
I really appreciate you watchin and liking the videos. One more thing about this particular site. I have written permission to detect on it and as far as I know I'm the only one who detects it. Of course, others have slipped in from time-to-time, and/or detected it before I'm sure. I know if something happened and a lot of people started bothering the landowner wanting permission, I may even loose my permission as well. I'm too old to take that change. lol
@@SavingLocalHistory thanks for your reply Larry, I certainly appreciate how much work it takes to find the old camps etc. I really wasn't looking for specific locations just more like a general Manassas or Seven day battles areas. Just a thought
@@dalefandrich1582 I understand, but if I mentioned the battle or skirmish location it would be flooded with request to detect. All the areas I detect were not very big engagments so the relics are scarce. Later on, I'll revel much more.
Hello sir. I also have a equinox 800 and love the hobby. I was wondering how do you do your research when it comes to the site to hunt? Where do you go to find out the history of the land ? Thank you for your help and god bless.
That's a very complex question. Here's a video I did a while back that should give you a lot of ideas:
ua-cam.com/video/Cwm_GGd0q0U/v-deo.html
Let me know if it helps you at all. Thanks for watching.
for civil war relics do you prefer the small coil or the large one ?
I prefer a large coil if I'm in open fields and there's not an overwhelming amount of trash. The larger coils give you more coverage area per swing and a little bit more depth. If I'm hunting an area that riddled with nails and iron trash or around an old house place, I prefer a small coil. Thanks for a great question and for watching. Good luck.
What are your signal numbers?
Most of the time when I'm searching for bullets the ID usually shows up between 16-20. But, you should never rely soley on the target ID with any detector. There are so many variables involved. I go by the tone mostly with all metal detectors. I've been meaning to put a generic video together trying to explain my understanding on target ID. Here's a link to a video you may find very useful. It's basically a training video on ther Tarsacci Metal Detector, but most of it will relate to any VLF detector. I hope you enjoy watchig it as I put a lot of work into it.
ua-cam.com/video/_yJ2iRp5Ggg/v-deo.htmlsi=BPOqOge8nMZUc4vK
Thanks so much for watching and good luck to you.