Happa54

Thanks for your comments everyone.

My learning curve is a long one even though from looking at the minimal and simplified options on the Nox dashboard....still, there are options where one outweighs the other depending on the type of hunt and where you are hunting.

I see valuable information in each of your responses and I will work with them on my next outing which this Sunday will be my first "all day" hunt with the Nox. As with my Safari, I like to run my machine to the max in every aspect. I basically operate between AM and iron disc because I like to hear as much as I can under the coil. 

The 600 at recov speed 3 is equal to recov speed 6 on the 800. It also works on the same scale with Iron Bias. So, even at my highest Nox speed setting, it's overwhelming when compared to the other ML FBS machines. 

I hunt off & on with a couple of Etrac and Explorer HOT SHOTS who out-hunt me 5 to 1 on silvers & wheats and pretty much all good finds. They seem to move along at a good pace while I lag behind, (although I have a much faster machine) sifting through all the signals/targets. And this is why I struggle with “to disc or not to disc” with my Nox.

As a side note: The one thing I noticed when in Park 2 is that I pick up itsy bitsy pieces of metal which takes up too much time to look for. Hence, why I use Field 1.

Although it seems that I have some things to complain about at this point, I am also appreciative of my finds thus far given the short time I’ve used the Nox.

A couple of the silvers in the pic were buried under large nails but their target ID and tones were mixed in with the nails. I can’t say I remember digging silver with the Safari under those conditions, but I could be wrong…and I got a good amount of silver last year.

Now SteveH !!!!!  You just threw me into a headspin, and a big smile too. You have guts to hunt with just those nickel signals opened up. I would have been afraid to thinking the Nox wouldn’t perform satisfactorily under that kind of aggressive blocking. Man do I have a lot to learn. If you can remember, what was your deepest nickel that day? Some appear to have come from depth.

Hey everyone...

First off I'd like to say that coming from another popular forum, I find this one to be the most educational, informative and administered. I have followed enough of Steve H's wisdom in this hobby to know that this forum is now at the top of my list for all around metal detecting, no matter which brand. 

This is my 2nd post on this forum so I hope I'm in the right place with this.

My question is with discrimination with the Nox 600. We've mostly been taught that Minelab machines perform at their best when discrimination is at a minimum. Thus, I've been running my Safari with iron only disc'd out. Now with the Nox, I'm reading articles/posts where others say the Nox will handle a significant amount of disc'ing with no notable differences in performance. Do you find this to be true?

I only have approx 30 hours on mine and I've run it in all 3 modes and I have played with the disc settings somewhat. The 2 times I have run with high disc I notice the Nox gets faint on the signals almost as if it's having a slight power failure or is struggling to identify targets. I've seen a couple of youtubers running it with more disc than its default settings and it looks to be running smoothly.

I hunt some of the trashiest parks in Los Angeles and my ears get a serious pounding with zinc, pull tab, and iron signals. Coming from the Safari and into the Nox is like being under machine gun fire with the signals. I've set my machine to disc out iron up to +11 and 14 - 19. Basically I only want to hear nickels and high conductors (only in super trash parks). When I disc out this way, is when I lose all confidence in the machine due to the change in its operation. Maybe I'm backing off too soon and not giving it a chance to work its way through. 

Of the modes given, I like field 1, GB 0, sens 22, 50 tones, multi freq, iron bias 0, speed 3. I toggle back and forth between modes and field 1 thus far seems to work best for me but this could change as I get to know my Nox. 

Anyone have comments or examples to share using high disc is appreciated.

As always HH everyone.  

Sorry for the late response. In case you didn't find the right small coil for your Safari... Try the Detech SEF Bufferfly 6x8... it's awesome at separating in the trash. I use it on my Safari.