DigsAlot

Out done by Steve again lol. At least i get out done by a Jedi master.?

Little bit of a tease Steve. I checked the thread hoping to see a new PI. Maybe next year.

The dealer is wrong lol. Now the other guys will be by at some point and they will say the 3030 has a place in the line up. That is true. Now my point of view; Nox is cheaper and just as good, only better in many cases. Try this point of view. I can go from Tahoe lake silver coin shooting, to my local part looking for some V nicks on my way to rye patch to nugget shoot and not change detectors. After all that if I have strength left I can relic hunt the ghost towns on my way to McDonald's. If the dealer told you that the 3030 can do that trip with the same level of ability the Nox can, then I have a bridge in AZ I can sell you. Nox is king of all around detectors and the price point is a grand low. These are my view points only.

Good starting points for a GoldiNoxs trip Steve. I left mine in auto tracking ( letting the unit do the work). I also bump my response up to 7 and 8. I found it makes target id better. The .5 grain I found was hiding in hot ground. Just my two cents.

All metal means no disc at all. You can turn it on and off with the horse shoe button.

Thanks Steve. I hope to try it out again.

I go every year as it is my club that puts it on. Sidenote, thank gooness Steve is not swinging lol. Leaves some for the rest of us.

I am sure there are threads on this subject. Good news is, Steve will pass by soon and may have the links. He is good about that. Wait till you find some nugs don' even show up lol.

Guilty as well. I ment to Check the Nox on a target before digging it. But failed. I had to put my other unit in the truck lol.

Jim, sorry for the late reply. I have been tied up with work. I thought you had a few questions but I don't see them now. Did you get your answers?

So today I chose to test another aspect of the mighty Nox. So to set the stage I had 4 to 4.5 hrs to detect. It was out in the Nevada desert around lovelock/ rye patch area. The area is dry for the most part. Which means we can run hot on the settings. I ran the Nox on gold 1, all metal, 22 on the sensitivity. So I also had my Gold Racer with me to test my replacement 7.5 x 4 coil. I started with my Gold racer as a way to test the new coil and find a target to test the Nox on. I found a target in about 3 mins. Was a 1.1 grain gold nugget. I then tested this nugget with the Nox and it hit on it hard. Now I did have to put it back as I first recovered it with the Gold racer. The ground was dry and not really packed so putting it back was the same as finding it with the Nox in the first place. The area was dry and the nugget was about an inch down maybe a little less. Now this area has been hit hard by me and others with my gold racer sniper coil, the gold monster sniper coil last time I went out. Plus gold bug2 and a SDC2300. In the hands of people that know how to use them. This is our claim so we know it well. Yet this one was missed after 2 seasons of heavy detecting. Right near the surface. The Nox hit on this nugget harder then my Gold racer did. I used this target to test the other modes on the Nox. I found that park would not hit on it. Nor did beach. I tried out the fields as well. They didn't really want to hit on it solid like. Last mode I tested was gold 2. It hit on it but was kind of weird on the sound side. TID bounced around a little, but so did the gold racer. Fact is i dug the target only because it repeated and on this claim you dig what repeats period. That is about it for this target. I placed the gold racer in the truck and went full time with the Nox. I scanned the rest of the hot spots on the claim, finding nothing. So I went over the ridge to our other claim which has been pounded harder then the first. Got down in the wash and on the bedrock. It is shist bedrock. Think thin Domino's shoved against each other standing on edge. I got a good hit. The TID was hitting -9 -8 with a 2 mixed in. But the sound was a clean zip, both directions. I cleaned the over burden of the top, taking it down to close to clean bedrock. The sound got louder and the TID stayed the same. I was starting to wonder if it might just be a good hot rock. But I cleaned a few grains of dirt out of between the schist and there was a little yellow flake. It weight .5 grains. That is a flake (check the pic). It was an inch down and between schist fingers. After taking out the nugget I scanned the area again and still had the hot rock signal. The nugget was sitting on top of a section of hot schist. That is impressive. Remember I said this was a heavy detected area. I personal used the gold monster over the top of this area. As did my gold buddy with his SDC2300. Less than a month ago. A few other things I wanted to note. I found that you can tell a hot rock by moving the coil slow in two different directions. A hot rock or mineral ground will zip only one of the two directions. But a nugget will zip both directions slow or fast swing speed with the Nox. Bottom line, would I replace my gold racer with the Nox probably not. But if I could only keep one detector I own, it would be the Nox no question. If you are truly looking for a one detector unit it has to be the Nox. If you want to be able to swing on the beach one day in the water, the park that evening and the gold fields the next morning, all with the same detector the Nox fits that bill. The fact that the Nox can hit on a .5 grain flake in schist under an inch of overburden, Is awesome and it was not a weak sound ether.

Thx

Are they making a 6 by 10 gold coil? Or was that wishful thinking.

I am on the bandwagon, hard not to be.

Pssst your shovel is broken.

Elf thinking about getting into the printing biz ....

Agreed those are a good number set. You will find the real pennies hit 25 all day long. The leave them in the ground zinc hit 19-23. This is some what ground dependant.

Lol. Steve likes the links lol. They are good reads. I settled on park 1 myself. I might mess with park 2 later if need be.

Noise cancel, then ground balance. I balance by pumping and a little side to side sweep after. Just to see if the balance number will change. As Steve has said lower the sensitivity. I run at 15 alot, some times even at 10. Even then I am punching down 8-10 inches easy. I find that the target id is a little more stable at 15 vs v 20. That could just be me, but it works. Also don' jump between park and park two. Stick with park 1 for a awhile. You will get less frustrated. 5 or 50 tone i find is best. You should be able to call out what you are digging before you dig it. The Nox is that good. With the exception of the nickle range, that is a crap shoot.

Lots of help. Thank you all.

Went out for about an hour pulled 2.80 in clad. I used Steve's notching setup to do it. I found a few 70 coins and two 60 coins. I pulled out a 65 quarter and though I had a silver? then I remembered it stooped in 64.

Got one, thank you for the info Steve and others.

So I did a search and didn't find what I was after. What I would like to figure out is how to find old places to coin shoot. I guess parks would be a easy point to start. 1. How to find the age of a place. 2. How to find old places that might be abandoned or reused. 3. General techniques of selecting a place to look for old coins. Example I live in Reno with Steve ( probably why I don't find good nuggets or coins). Steve got some great coins as of late and I can't find older than 70 decade. Now I could go to tahoe but that is a drive and I would like a few local spots to take my kids that like treasure hunting, that is what they call it. So I tried figuring it out, no dice. I don' mind doing the work, just need the formula. I was hoping that the veteran shooters had a method to their research and selection process. Thanks for the help.

Good thing you cleared it up. I was starting to not like you lol. As it was making my 5 dollar average on a three hour run look bad. Therefore breaking up my hopes and dreams of keeping up with you.

Does that happen often?