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Sounds like you are definitely learning the unit -- 14" to 16" is impressive depth!

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Been on one of my trash infested beaches again today for 2 hours.

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Trash to useful finds ratio:

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Not too bad for that beach out of season. Even found a 2 pence peace.

 

NOXi seems to love them 1€ coins. They're plenty deep most of the time:

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11" no problem..

 

This thing nearly gave me a heart attack :biggrin::

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Pulltabs still suck. Maybe I'll test some settings tomorrow.

 

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Listen to the audio - aluminum pull tabs and screw tops sound a lot more hollow to me than coins.  It is something that just clicked for me this weekend when I was dealing with a lot of melted aluminum slag and aluminum trash.  Yes the VDI's are similar but there I am looking for VDI stability more so than the actual number and listening to the audio, does it sound pure and sweet or hollow and/or scratchy?  It takes some number of swing hours for this to click in.

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I know what you mean - with the fisher I can almost always predict a square pulltab by its sound.

But in Beach1 on the NOX, 2€ and some pulltabs (even some square ones) sound exactly the same and have rock solid IDs .. trust me.

The only way to get rid of them, if you are all about coinshooting, seems to be running the NOX on the lower frequencies in single mode.

At 5 kHz in Park1 f.e. the 2€ coin moves up to ID 21, while the pulltab stays at 16. I didn't measure - but by the feels of it, you loose a good bit of depth in single mode.

 

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Maybe you already do this, but can't you just save one mode in profile and use the other to hunt?  Example: hunt in your preferred mode and store the 5 kHz Park1 in the profile.  When you get a promising 2 Euro candidate, switch over to Profile and see if gives you the ID=21.  In the case it's too deep to signal at 5kHz you can then decide if it's worth digging.

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4 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Maybe you already do this, but can't you just save one mode in profile and use the other to hunt?  Example: hunt in your preferred mode and store the 5 kHz Park1 in the profile.  When you get a promising 2 Euro candidate, switch over to Profile and see if gives you the ID=21.  In the case it's too deep to signal at 5kHz you can then decide if it's worth digging.

That is one possibility I am aware of, but on our trashy beaches I'll end up needing a new control box, because the buttons are worn out from switching modes on every ID 16 Target :happy: /irony off

 

I have very limited time hunting, so I'll end up saving a 5 kHz profile and decide beforehand which one to use. You could change it afterwards on difficult targets anyway.

 

 

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Another night on the beach - great weather, didn't even need a jacket :cool:

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Here are the finds:

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Finally 2x silver!

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Found both on an trashy 50m² array. The bracelet had Aluminium foil in the same hole.

It came in at 18 and the crab type thingy at wonky low 20's.

 

Find of the day was that old Browning 6,35mm half round cartridge.. still some World War stuff on our beaches :angry:

 

Seems I am getting a hang of it

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The weather will be bad for the next few days, so I took the chance..

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First target first beach:

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What's up with those cartridges.. I really don't want to know what lies in the water then .. :blink:

I even found musket balls there last year.

 

Headed to another beach where they're rebuilding the promenade.

Hunted an 100m² area with wheel loader tracks..  Uuhh-Ooh :laugh::

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The 1905 "10 Pfenning" is probably the oldest coin I've ever found on the beach and for its age, it's in a pretty good condition!

The 1937 is not bad either!

 

Rod play is getting worse and I've only gone through 2 battery charges by now :ohmy:

 

 

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Couldn't resist and went out again before they put the beach chairs back in place this week.

When I arrived, they've put fresh sand on the beach and plowed everything :ohmy:

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Been there for 2h and only did a 10mx80m stripe. Didn't expect to find anything.. but:

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This thing is a coin magnet for sure! Still struggle with 2€ peaces but managed to find one :cool:

I went waaaay slower than I normally would. It seems like you have to really slow down on trashy sites to hear all the good stuff.

Could have keept diggin' the whole night long, but .. hard day at work tommorow :huh:

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Gotta love those sundowners on the beach - that alone is worth coming along. The phone pictures really do no justice:

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Not too bad, since we still had no beach-weather:

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I'm digging pretty deep holes all the time.. probably cleaning up, what the others have missed :rolleyes:

Got some junk-bling bling, too. Not sure what that golden colored earring is made of, but the little heart-shaped one is 925 silver!

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That thing is friggin small .. had been laying 2" deep maybe.

 

On monday I've been to the probably most trashy beach ever - no fun with the nox there and I would have missed that earring for sure. Iron discrim doesn't work pretty well in those locations and I still get headaches from those damn bottletops!

Who can explain, why the Nox can't handle them? MF or single frequency doesn't matter. Is it the coil design?

I've dug countless bottletops the last two weeks .. some of them have a pretty stable ID and while I know the "tricks" to recognize them, it always wastes plenty of my time! I have beaches with 5 false bleeps per swing in certain spots.. that's no fun at all. My fisher is completely silent if I discrim iron only.

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