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I will be taking the Nox to my claim which has been picked over a lot. If I find something in a certain area it will close the book on the Nox question.

Yes them too. I have to tell you I rather find old silver I mean 1900 type and other things in that area, then gold rings. I give the rings to my daughter she likes them. Course my son expects the silver stuff. Great news, I get to keep the clad lol lol.

Thanks for the info guys. I will try this out next time. Steve I hear you on the target id bounce. I have learned to use it to tell dime from penny.

Thanks chase. I read the nickle tab thread as well. Was hoping someone had a technique to limit the tabs. Looks like I am digging tabs and nicks lol.

How do you tell if it is round? Care to pass on your method?

My third trip was today. I did well I think. I found 5.87 cents lots of dimes nicks and near 3 dollars in quarters. Same park I went to for my first trip. I noticed something. If a coin is on the surface it sounds like a double signal. Has anyone else noticed this? Also how do you guys tell tabs from nicks. They ID the same. It seems to me like a 50/50 shot. I have learned to tell between a dime and penny that both hit on 25. I watch to see how the number jumps around. A dime most times will bounce up then down. A Penney never jumps up, it will hold or go down. Anyone else have another way to tell?

So a quick update. I went out last weekend for a couple hours. The choice of my hunt was a park in the city. Rancho San Rafael Park. My understanding of this park is that it is a old ranch that was given to the city. I am also believe that it is one of the harder hit parks in our area. Steve feel free to add or Correct this info. So the point of the above info is to explain that it is a hard place to hunt. Filled with nails and other iron trash. Very little new surface targets to be had. Fact is I didn't find a single newer target. I did find about 50 cents in Nicks and pennies and a single dime. All of them where deeper or in a hole with a nail. All older dates 60's. So I know they should have been found. While I didn' find alot, I think what I found and the circumstances speak volumes.

Thanks Elf. Helpful tip, don't touch the horny toads on Tinker. They are GPS tracked and they will come for them. But the bass are great in the rear pounds fyi. NOW BACK TO THE HOTEL. That is a song lol. Means I am going for another round of sunburn and Noxing. Steve call your peeps and tell them to hurry up with the 15 coil. I think I can really clear parks with it.

Any word on the 15 coil?

Good info

So after my debacle with Cabela's, I finally got to give my Knox a run. A nickle shy of 5 bucks the first time out. Penny, nickle, dime, quarter, half dollar is what I found. I started the day following the advise of one of the members. A very good post about touch nothing, except sensitivity, ground balance, noise cancellation. I also dug all targets to start understanding the tones, Park 1 has 5 tones (plus I don't want Steve to ban me for breaking golden rule 1). This went on for awhile, unsure the exact time frame. But after a time I made a few tweaks nothing major. I turned on 50 tone towards the end of the run. Did this to see what was what. It is different I can say that. Not sure I need that many tones but I will give it time. After awhile I started to skip over trash that I knew was trash after digging it repeatedly and monitoring the display. This went on for awhile till I was sure I had a handle on things. The Nox target id is superb. Then I broke the don't touch anything rule. I did this by pushing up the reject number to ten. I went back to swinging for a little longer. Then I figured in stead of mentally ignoring 14 and 15, which was always cans and the like. I notched them out to see how the Nox would handle it. Excellently is the answer. I know there are valuables that peg that range, but not in this park. Plus it was about "can this unit cherry pick". Boy can it!!! I forgot to mention one of the first things I did was back down the sensitivity to 10. That was after digging foot deep holes in a park. Not my cup of tea. I save that for my nugget hunting. Even at setting 10, I was still picking things up 8 inches down regularly. So yep even at less than half power the Nox KO's targets. The last thing I changed was target ID speed, I moved it to 7. That is the only thing I noticed with the Nox. I hit a few pockets of coins. The Nox registered the higher Target but not the other targets. Only after removing the higher Target AKA quarter did the dimes register. This might just be a learning thing. Now to what matters most. I can say without reservation 95% of the time I dug a Target I knew where it was and what it was, before I removed it. That is what makes a GREAT DETECTOR. All detectors find stuff, that is not what makes a detector good to me. What truly matters is that you can pickup a detector and in a reasonable time frame understand it and be one with it. This is why I like Makro stuff. It is intuitive, simple, effective and right price point. Minelab makes great stuff not saying they don't. But what I am saying is they have been king of the hill for so long that they can and do, produce a detector the way they want and force the customer to adapt to that methodology. This makes it hard to change brands. Minelab's can be hard to run. I picked up a monster to see what it was all about. ( Steve pre warned me, I already had a great unit and that they where about the same) but I had to see. The short of it is, I didn' like the monster or trust it. I never knew what I was digging. I never once had the eureka moment with that unit. How does this apply to the Nox. Simple, each coin I hit was "cash register sound going of in my mind". I dug far less trash today then I do with my Racer 2. I punched too deep, at times lol. After only a few hours I am confident with this machine. I have used the 30/30, etrac. This unit is far better, for the price, ease of use and ability to pocket the targets you want to pocket. It is the best minelab I have used hands down. Not to say the others are bad, they are not. But I have done alot of hunting with the same people using those machines. The Nox is intuitive, quick to learn, excellent price point, there's more power then you need. I will take this unit to the gold fields and Tahoe soon, just to see if it holds up against a Makro gold racer or a 30/30 in their respective niches. I truley believe the little Nox can. silver coins and gold nuggets are bucket loads of smiles and I can't wait to start smiling. I couldn't sleep last night for the excitement of running The Nox. I kept waking up too early. Like going to Disney World as a kid. Hopefully this post will help the next person that is on the fence, landing them on the Nox buying side. Sidenote, go big. Don't get the 600, the 800 is worth twice what they are selling it for. You don't get a little more, you get buckets more. Those fine tuning abilities make all the diffrences. Better yet don't get a Nox, I love having an advantage on the other guy swinging.

I ordered it on May 1st from cabela's. It arrived to the local store on the 8th. Now I didn' get it till today. This is because the store didn' check the box to see if it was a in store pickup. And the online didn't send me updated tracking stuff. They made it right. Gave me a gift card from each department, so two 50 dollar cards. Plus the store matched my minelab military discount. So in all it worked out.

Update, So I went out again Friday, same place. Went to use the sniper coil as I have dubbed it. When I turned on the machine it went in to the overload sound. I Turned it off and back on same thing. Hooked up my 5inch round coil and it worked just fine. Detected with the 5 inch for a while, then retired the sniper. I got the exact same effect. Any thoughts? Could it be a bad Coil? Steve, thoughts.

I got my new coil and played sick at work to run this thing on our claim. So the claim has lots of desert bed rock and very small gold on it. I have picked it over with the makro and the monster. Others have done the same with a sdc2300 and gb2. So, needless to say the pickings are slim these days. Matter of fact I have been skunked the last two times. Both of those times with the monster using the small coil. Not so this time out. I only found one small nug. It is .8 grains it was about 1.5"-2" down in a bedrock wedge. I am very happy with this coil. I really like the size and shape. I feel I could go toe to toe with a gb2 sniper coil, with this new setup.

Still waiting for my unit to ship and this is not helping any. The weather is great right now too.

Thanks Steve. I saw this thread lol lol

Bummer. Do you have family in the lower 48?

Those are nice finds. I just got my 7.5x4 coil in for the racer. Been wanting a gb2 sniper type coil for some time. Can't wait to use it. I might not ever take it off.

My detecting partner runs a SDC2300 and is deadly with it. He found a .5 GRAIN in moist soil in the patch area. That says alot about that unit. Something I have learned from Mr. H there are holes and some times they don't make sense. If it can find a small half shot piece you are good. Round vs flat vs Swiss cheese style targets also effect the size and depth it can find a target. Best advise is ask phase if he has one and if he could setup a test parameter for you. He did this for me on my gp3500.

Steve clean up lol. No need to have this thread elf is right first page works. Just alot of threads.

Thanks for the info

I have just ordered a box 800. I have been going through treads for awhile now. I was thinking it might help to have a single source thread with links to the must read threads. Such as Mr H's review some by our new Zealand guys. I was hoping Mr.H could kick this off with the top 5. Any thoughts?

Hmmm I had mine sent to the store I just had to pay for it over the phone and that was today.

Good looking out, I grabbed one. Thanks?????

Macro gold racer is a beast. I have one and love it. I was able to keep up with a gold bug and a sdc2300. Found stuff they missed and they would ask me to check there holes lol. Great unit and a good price. I too am waiting for a macro PI unit.