Nox 800 and older wine bottle screw caps?

[CoinHunterAZ]

I just ordered my Equinox 800. A quick question for those who already have one...regarding aluminum screw caps. How do they ring in and sound like with the default setting like Park 1? One of the places I love to hunt is absolutely corroded with them. My ATPro brings them in at 79-80, which is just a tad lower than a dime at 81-82. When they are flattened, they almost always fool me. Iv'e cleaned sacks of them out, but there's a lot of sacks still hiding in there, as I'm sure more silver coins. Any input on this one will be helpful!

 

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[smokeythecat]

You have to dig them all. There are too many good targets in the range to skip them.

 

[CoinHunterAZ]

Yep, that's what I was thinking. After digging 50 or so of these stupid wine caps, I'm pretty much toast. I have no idea how many acres this place is...but it's huge. I'm just gonna roll up my sleeves, put my big boy pantalones on, and go for it. Iv'e hauled a whole lot of silver out of there, and cherry picked it pretty good. Looking forward to putting the 800 through it's paces, and see what I may have missed. I'll probably have to post some pictures of all the wine caps I have dug!

 

[toddbbq]

Agree with Smokey.. you gotta dig them as there is no way to separate them from a good target just like a poptab or pulltab could be a gold or silver target. Part of the hunt lol

 

[Rookster]

Like my Deus in Fast. It give your u a different tone on bottle caps but not on pull tabs. I guess if it were easy everyone would be detecting.

 

[CoinHunterAZ]

I got to where I felt I was pretty good at “ear discrimination “ on them with both my Tesoro and the ATP. Thing is, I know for a fact that there’s much more good stuff there. It’s being masked by junk.

 

[smokeythecat]

With my Deus, I can pretty much tell when I get one, but don't take chances. So far, the machine has not been wrong...but.

On my one Civil War sites, I dig the flattened pieces of iron ration cans. After the 1000th or so, buttons started coming out of the ground where they had been. It's the same principle. Dig it all, let God sort it out. Those ration can pieces were hiding good items.

 

[Butler]

Ahhh, flattened caps! Music to my ears! I like it best when they are little rusty. whooooeeeee what nice sound! Wish they were worth something, cuz I'd be rich!

 

[vferrari]

I think folks are mixing up wine bottle screw caps (typically aluminum also on liquor bottles and some older soda bottles) with beer bottle crown caps. The latter rust and are easier to discern, the former don't rust and sound really good unless you listen closely. Too close to call, so you have to dig 'em.

 

[CoinHunterAZ]

Yep, it's the aluminum screw caps from wine bottles (think Thunderbird). I think that they were "deposited" at a later time (70's-80's) than the silver coins that were lost at the site. The site I am referring to was used for close to a hundred years by the native Americans for "Pow-Wow". The screw caps didn't come until later and they have been my arch nemesis, there's literally millions of them and they suck.

 

[dirtlooter]

I use the dig em until you get tired and then ignore them for the remainder of the hunt principal but... I still dig em the next trip there and thin them out as best as I can. I agree with Smokey, too many very good things to be missed. I was referring to anything from pull tabs to ammo brass and ammo lead (modern)..trashy targets in possible good sites

 

[cudamark]

Yeah, good 'ole screw caps......on my machine they are usually right above zinc cents.....22......right where I find lots of keys, tokens, wheats, and big gold rings!

 

[secondstar]

I have found plenty of those and man do they sound good! I frequently hunt near streams and the moving water creates too much background noise for me to differentiate between trash and a coin in some cases so I dig any decent sounding target. I picked up a T-handle shovel last year and can now dig much faster than I could with a handheld digging tool so I don’t mind digging more holes. I wouldn’t risk missing a coin just because you’re not sure. When in doubt, dig it out!

 

[pulltabfelix]

agree with most. sound too good to ignore, but almost always fool me. With my 800 bottle caps are easier to ID. Old soda can tops sound good, but pinpointing will reveal their size.

 

[pulltabfelix]

My conclusion with the 800 if you get a good repeatable signal in the coin range and you use pinpoint to rule out larger round targets it is likely to be a coin. Dig it. Anything else is likely to be a relic or junk target so dig all of those signals.

Hmm, sounds like the dig em all crowd's theory.

 

[cudamark]

My conclusion with the 800 if you get a good repeatable signal in the coin range and you use pinpoint to rule out larger round targets it is likely to be a coin. Dig it. Anything else is likely to be a relic or junk target so dig all of those signals.

Hmm, sounds like the dig em all crowd's theory.

If you just want U.S. coins (except zinc cents), you can disc out 10 and below and 14 to 21. That eliminates most of the junk targets (and lots of gold items too).

 

[pulltabfelix]

I have found plenty of those and man do they sound good! I frequently hunt near streams and the moving water creates too much background noise for me to differentiate between trash and a coin in some cases so I dig any decent sounding target. I picked up a T-handle shovel last year and can now dig much faster than I could with a handheld digging tool so I don’t mind digging more holes. I wouldn’t risk missing a coin just because you’re not sure. When in doubt, dig it out!

I hunt near streams and rivers. I use earphones and that solves the noise problem.

 

[Iffy Signals]

I got to where I felt I was pretty good at “ear discrimination “ on them with both my Tesoro and the ATP. Thing is, I know for a fact that there’s much more good stuff there. It’s being masked by junk.

You guys that can hear tone differances with the Tesoros impress the hell out of me!

 

[CoinHunterAZ]

It’s not really a tone difference, but more like a clicking sound difference. Hard to describe, but once you have dug as many of those things as I have you can pretty much tell what they are unless they are flattened.