Metal Detectors

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★DΞICIDΞ★ May 20, 2022

What do you have or recommend? I’ve never had one but I want to buy. At the same time I don’t want something cheap that I will soon replace anyway. Any recommendations?
ℒꙩຣཇя May 20, 2022

I have the minelab equinox 600, it’s new technology and works like a beast
OttoNorse May 20, 2022

༼།༠༦༣༩༽ wrote:
I have the minelab equinox 600, it’s new technology and works like a beast

Metal in general or gold? (I’m only interested in gold…I do a lot of panning and sluice and keep wondering about detecting)
ℒꙩຣཇя May 21, 2022

OttoNorse wrote:
༼།༠༦༣༩༽ wrote:
I have the minelab equinox 600, it’s new technology and works like a beast

Metal in general or gold? (I’m only interested in gold…I do a lot of panning and sluice and keep wondering about detecting)

The equinox 600 finds gold very well. If you’re looking for tiny nuggets then get the 800 it has a mode for that specifically. I find jewelry quite often but there’s no small nuggets where I’m from.
OttoNorse May 21, 2022

Cool. Will check it out. (Lots of tiny nuggets here but really tiny. Lol)
ℒꙩຣཇя May 21, 2022

OttoNorse wrote:
Cool. Will check it out. (Lots of tiny nuggets here but really tiny. Lol)

The gold prospecting mode on the 800 is designed for just that. A group I’m in on Facebook has found nugs the size of a pencil lead or smaller… if you are not prospective though the 600 covers it all. They are both multi-frequency which helps determine what it is better than most machines. If you wanna go super expensive there’s the ctx-3030 and the gold monster but they are like $2k where the equinox is around $700-$900.
Get a good pinpointer to, it will save a lot of time. The Garett carrot is highly recommended. Around $110-120
★DΞICIDΞ★ May 21, 2022

Thanks! This is helpful, funny the equinox was the first on my list to dig into from google.
ℒꙩຣཇя May 21, 2022

★DEICIDE★ wrote:
Thanks! This is helpful, funny the equinox was the first on my list to dig into from google.

Its definitely worth it