It seems to me that a lot of undue and unwarranted attention has been heaped on the new Equinox recently. It seems every other “Featured Thread” is “Nox” this and “Nox” that. Well, some of it may be understandable as the Equinox is like that hot, new foreign exchange student from an exotic country making her way into a new school in which all the attention will be drawn to her. However, I am here to say that just as important as the detector can be, I believe that the shoes that you wear to detect can be as important if not more! Yes the detector beeps as it goes over a target, but what gets you there? Maybe even leads you to the gold? 
Well that my fellow pirates is where your water shoes come into play! Today I decided to break out my brand new and unused Crocs. I bought them at a really good price sometime nearly 2 years ago specifically for detecting. They languished in the dark recesses of my closet until I decided last night that it was time for them to come out for a hunt.
I planned on another after work hunt again today, and again leaving a few minutes early. I arrived just at the peak of low tide around 2pm, not ideal but the best I could do. Surprisingly, I saw another pirate leaving and hollered over to him “Any luck?” He replies that there were very few targets and that it was very sanded in. And here fellow pirates is where knowing your beach, the one that you hunt REGULARLY, comes into play! In all my years detecting I rarely see other hunters there. I knew there’s "no way" to that pirate's statement as that beach ALWAYS has a lot of targets. It may not give up the gold regularly but it HAS targets! After I get in the water, I was working an offshore sandbar and came across a signal in all metal. I switch over to discriminate on Merlin and the sound is broken up amongst a few tones. I retrieve the target and
. At that time I was pretty sure the bracelet was gold. A bit afterwards the weather continues to degrade and I start to get pelted by raindrops and soon some thunder and lightning come into play. I get closer to shore and continue along the shoreline figuring that if lightning strikes me it won't take long for the lifeguards to get to me. 
At some point the in the middle of the hunt the junk earring is found and towards the end, the junk stainless spinner ring. I called it a day at 3.5 hours.
When I got to my car I put on my reading glasses and give a good look at the bracelet. I now decide that it was junk.
I get home and take all the finds out and examine the bracelet closely with my jeweler’s glasses. I see a very tiny “K” on the closure with a possible “4” in front of it. 
I think it’s probably dirty so I get “Bar Keeper’s Friend” and rub the entire bracelet. It gets nice and shiny and I look at the closure again. I see an unmistakable “ 4K”. I can barely perceive a “1” in front of the “4” as I move the closure with my thumb. I finally decided to sand the side of one of the small round discs on the bracelet to make sure and it passes the sanding test. 
I weigh it and it’s a very respectable 4.9 grs. Not a bad afternoon considering I didn’t have an Equinox at a “sanded in beach”. 
Well that my fellow pirates is where your water shoes come into play! Today I decided to break out my brand new and unused Crocs. I bought them at a really good price sometime nearly 2 years ago specifically for detecting. They languished in the dark recesses of my closet until I decided last night that it was time for them to come out for a hunt.I planned on another after work hunt again today, and again leaving a few minutes early. I arrived just at the peak of low tide around 2pm, not ideal but the best I could do. Surprisingly, I saw another pirate leaving and hollered over to him “Any luck?” He replies that there were very few targets and that it was very sanded in. And here fellow pirates is where knowing your beach, the one that you hunt REGULARLY, comes into play! In all my years detecting I rarely see other hunters there. I knew there’s "no way" to that pirate's statement as that beach ALWAYS has a lot of targets. It may not give up the gold regularly but it HAS targets! After I get in the water, I was working an offshore sandbar and came across a signal in all metal. I switch over to discriminate on Merlin and the sound is broken up amongst a few tones. I retrieve the target and
. At that time I was pretty sure the bracelet was gold. A bit afterwards the weather continues to degrade and I start to get pelted by raindrops and soon some thunder and lightning come into play. I get closer to shore and continue along the shoreline figuring that if lightning strikes me it won't take long for the lifeguards to get to me. At some point the in the middle of the hunt the junk earring is found and towards the end, the junk stainless spinner ring. I called it a day at 3.5 hours.When I got to my car I put on my reading glasses and give a good look at the bracelet. I now decide that it was junk.
I get home and take all the finds out and examine the bracelet closely with my jeweler’s glasses. I see a very tiny “K” on the closure with a possible “4” in front of it. I think it’s probably dirty so I get “Bar Keeper’s Friend” and rub the entire bracelet. It gets nice and shiny and I look at the closure again. I see an unmistakable “ 4K”. I can barely perceive a “1” in front of the “4” as I move the closure with my thumb. I finally decided to sand the side of one of the small round discs on the bracelet to make sure and it passes the sanding test. I weigh it and it’s a very respectable 4.9 grs. Not a bad afternoon considering I didn’t have an Equinox at a “sanded in beach”. Attachments
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You must be either one of my students or a South Beach tourist! 
It's easy to get him going now day's, we all know he's having Noxious withdraw 
