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Wow!!! I enjoyed reading your post. You are a committed detectorist for sure. Congrats on your success !!!! What were your settings, if you don't mind?

Did you write this awesome poem? If you did, you need to copyright it. Put it on t-shirts or mugs, etc. Haha!!! Happy New Year to all !!!!!!

I have both units and have hundreds of hours on the 600. I hunt em both 50 tones (default tone pitch of 20) and I haven't seen any difference in depth/performance, etc. I'm pretty much using them at like-for-like settings since I don't care for the customization of the tone bins. But glad I have the 800 just in case I NEED A LITTLE MORE from the settings....but so far that has not been the case.

Unreal !!!!! Only in my wildest dreams. Between your and Phrunt's success with large digs on silver.... I have seen nothing like it. Congrats !!!!!!!!!

Good research Chase.... thank you You got a good one there Mark. Check it out on wikipedia. Virginia & Tennessee Railroad.

I love badges and had to take a spin through google but couldn't find anything on it.

Congrats on that gold ring Mitchel !!! I live an hour away from the ocean and 1/2 hour from the mountains where the gold is.... and I've never hunted either. Since day 1, I've only hunted parks & lots and permissions here and there. I dug a couple of nice gold jewelry pieces but would I have a much larger gold collection if I would have spent some time at the ocean? Just way too many MD opportunities out here, not to mention the great weather.

Thanks everyone for putting your time into this post. I know nothing about the CTX but I have heard that the tones ARE NOT similar to Explorer/Etrac/Safari. I don't know if this is true though. I do know the FBS machines and that's what I was trying to replicate, or at least come close. After all, Nox is not FBS. My 50 tone non-ferrous pitch is now set to 25 and it is noticeably higher across the scale than default 20.... I like it. I don't know if I'll keep it there however. I got a permission this morning to run through a small church field and aluminum cans were screaming at me. I've never run into so many whole aluminum cans in the small area I searched. There is so much iron there and with the rain coming down on me I could barely keep my focus on pinpoint and sizing targets. Normally, I walk away from this stuff. Rain is in our forecast this weekend so I'll have to wait it out to get back to my 50 tone tweaking.

Yes, I'm confused by this too. The default for 2 tones is ferrous=1 and non-ferrous=20. I wouldn't want to set my non-ferrous tone pitch to 12.

"Hook firmly set now" Exactly how I felt on my 1st silver. Congrats!!!!

You have a "prize" V nik there. I have a few but are not nearly as nice as yours. Congrats!!!!!

Thanks Cal but no worries, I don't hunt above the Los Angeles County line. Thanks Chase. If I were not hunting side-by-side with a couple of hot shot FBS users, I probably wouldn't have thought of tweaking the audio in my 50 tones. I don't want to miss the faintest high conductor squeak which is easily missed depending on how I catch the target....or not. But you said it in a way that confirms what I have been thinking...."it appears to just shift the non-ferrous pitch up by 5 across the board". Re the ferrous/non-ferrous breakpoint....I'll leave this one alone. I want to hear all non-ferrous targets on the default scale.

Has anyone increased their 50 tone pitch from its default setting of 20 to max of 25? I want to receive the highest pitch that I can to closely resemble the sounds of the FBS machines, etrac, explorer, safari. I don’t quite get those flutey FBS sounds I would like to hear but the adjustment is as good as it’s going to get, I think. I’m assuming this shouldn’t change anything in areas of performance, because all I’m doing is simply increasing the audio pitch up and down the TID scale. Or is there something else to this once you go off of default settings? I thought I’d put this scenario out here to hear feedback from those who are hunting 50 tones set at a higher pitch opposed to its default setting of 20. I appreciate your feedback.

Glad I don't have to worry about this. I have one of Steve's shafts and I love it. In addition to its light weight, sturdiness and choice of colors, it has made the task of shortening or lengthening the shaft quick & easy when I'm working the slopes.

Excellent finds dsrtdwg !!!!! Anything "old SP" is exciting to me. I now wish I hadn't of turned over my SP collectables to a collector. I'll be heading your way next month after some research. My hunting partner was born & raised in Calexico and hopefully has some sites for us to check out.

Yes, historicaerials is my go to site. I also use the USGS topo maps combined with Maprika for accuracy on older sites. The wood sites though, I haven't worked with it... I'm not sure how to research. It seems to me that the trees would be in the way of aerials pics so I wouldn't be able to see structures. Am I correct?

This 18k gold ring came in at 13 and so did the gold buddha pendant.

Congrats on that V nik !!!! Before I got my Nox, I strictly focused on silver and there were more than a few times where I got skunked because I couldn't get my coil over the silver. However, honing in on the Nox 12/13 TID range, I've dug several V's, Buffalo's and Gold. Those TID ranges really kicked it up a notch and added to the excitement of this hobby.

Hey everyone I dug this 1923s SLQ yesterday. It has a nik on the edge, came out of the ground this way....bummer. This is the second '23s I've dug in 2 years. This coin is one of the lowest of all mintages for this quarter. This first one I dug, I sold it to a friend for $200 to complete his SLQ collection. Thanks for stopping in.

Great idea !! I have hunted on & off with a guy who has a Lesche with a T handle welded onto it. It serves him well. I will buy one once it hits the distributor. I most likely would only use it during the wet months. Good luck !!

I do the same. I have a bright orange mesh vest that I wear in high visibility areas (Harbor Freight $6). People think you are a worker and belong there. Other than this, I won't hunt at nicely manicured parks anymore. Too much damage to the grass and does not justify for what I am digging. I stick to lot sites and sections of the parks that are not maintained and looks like a cow pasture.

I uploaded the update to my 600 two days ago when I received it from ML. I read the first few threads of the 1st post on the update and headed out to my fav relic/coin site knowing very little of what I was supposed to do to test the new FE2 feature. My site is heavily polluted with iron, aluminum, tin, rusty nails, pull tabs, screw caps, etc. Homes were demolished here in the 50's and they pretty much bulldozed the small stuff into the soil. Update was easy. Took 1 minute. The 2 backlight settings work perfectly. FE and FE2 work perfectly. I ran Park 1, 23 sens, iron vol 3, 50 tones multi, horseshoe on, rec spd 2, FE2, nc & gb. Since I know this site like the back of my hand, I noticed an immediate difference in FE2-2 (6 on the 800). The signals were choppy and sputtering. It seemed the Nox was having difficulties hanging onto targets. I'm assuming separation was under performing due to high concentration of iron/trash. It did however, hit pretty hard on shallow zinc'rs and screw/bottle caps. I was uncomfortable with how it was performing so I scaled it up to FE2-3 (9 on the 800). Again choppy and sputtery signals and I felt I was not going to lock onto deeper targets. Targets at the top though, no problem, it hit them pretty hard. I then reverted back to FE1-0 and went into my comfort zone. Immediately dug a 1919 S Wheat and a couple of clad quarters. Now that I've read a significant number of FE2 comments on various forums, I will have a different or more detailed approach going into my site the 2nd time around, ie; watch for the changes in positive/negative iron TDI's and whatever hints or tricks I can gain as the new FE feature is worked out by everyone.

For 600 users.... My interpretation from reading the updated manual is IB on FE is still the equivalency scale 600/800; 1/2, 2/4, 3/6 FE2 is independent and is 1/3, 2/6, 3/9 Big added difference here.

Congrats !!! Nice finds

Thnx for you input GB, Valen and Jeff I posted this out of haste I guess mainly in defense of the Nox. My fatherly instincts coming out in me. After I created this post, I took my Nox to the backyard and placed a dime between 2 average size nails and was able to pick up the dime signal in Park 1& 2, rec speed 3 and 0 IB. I then placed the dime between 2 long framing nail sleeves (used in a nail gun) and couldn't pick up the dime signal. I think this is due to the larger size of the iron objects against the size of the dime. The youtube poster used a couple of large iron objects too. If they had been nail size, he most likely would have picked up the signal. Why Beach mode? He states he heard or read others who run with these settings. Honestly though, I'm not a MD techie but I thought this would be an interesting post for comments.