midalake

OK That video!  Well let me tell ya! That coin would have blown my ears off on my GT. I need stability in salt and MOVING SALT WATER!

Dave

I don't FB someone translate.

2 hours ago, Cabo Chris said:

As a shallow water hunter who travels to hunt, I'm finding the NOX 600 attractive.  First I travel with 2 machines and will need 2 sets of waterproof headphones... this as back-up.  Imagine arriving at your final destination only to discover your machine quit!  The price of 2 600s and 2 sets water phones is less than the price of 2 800s.  

ML says on a wet salt beach the prospecting mode will not work.  So do I need it or any of the other 800 extra bells?  Perhaps?  If the NOX meets my expectations, then for the first time that I can recall, will be able to travel with a great detector (600) where it will only take 1 or 2 gold ring finds to fully pay for the machine!  Which means most likely paid for on my first day in the water!  OK the 800 is not that much more, but with the 600 one can almost view it as disposable!  Before you all pounce on me by that I mean.... If my CTX 3030 gets broken, run over or stolen on a trip... there goes $2400!  If customs or some Island cop decides to confiscate it, there goes $2,400!    Were I to lose a 600, well that's far less hurt and won't cut as much into my trip profits... or add big to losses!  Losing an 800 there is just a bit more ouch factor than a 600.

From years experience, if something can go wrong on a trip it will.  Like everything being stolen out of your room, including your passport!  So I see the 600s as having less Ouch Factor for my style detecting.  Plus it's not that far fetched to sell the 600s after 2 or 3 trips and replace them with new ones- just for better reliability.   Now for those who need a Jack of all Trades machine, 800 all the way!  Or if it turns out the 800 for some reason is better in saltwater than a 600, again the 800 wins.      

OK, Does Minelab not say you need all of the frequencies of the 800 to do beach mode?  Or do both machines have a beach mode?

Dave

I saw a NOX video where there was a chunk of iron among clad/high conductive coins and the NOX ignored the chunk of iron. So I m going to go out on a limb and say "what stinkin bottle caps"           Dave

3 hours ago, dewcon4414 said:

Why wouldnt they develop a platform on this tech Nuke?   And i agree...... something is going to go away.  That was the same reasoning they had for the Exp and Sovs demise...... both excellent detectors.  Im certainly not questing its ability as a water machine..... i was impressed with the coin video.... and have been told its an excellent wet sand machine.....not a lot changes in the water from the oat meal except solidity of the salt maybe.   Im not a nay sayer at all ........ i see this as a good replacement for anyone using an Xcal in disc mode.  It wont swing like a 2X4 (CTX)..... faster with sweep speed setting, Notch disc,  maybe more sensitivity to smaller gold .... we dont know that yet..... but definitely a total beach machine with some real potential for small gold in the dry sand. .....and i just cant get over the price difference from the CTX...... wow.  

I never considered the CTX a replacement for anything BBS. I can have 5 targets out of the ground for every 1 on a CTX. The thing is a boat anchor. I am 6'4  and cannot put one to the ground without stooping over and the weight/coil size cuts the working time down on the beast. When I first put one in my hand I thought it was some kind of cruel joke. So my ears will be open to the first detector that MIGHT replace BBS  [on the salt beach].  Dave

Ohhhhh, looking at that picture I know for sure that is not my beach in Mexico.  

24 minutes ago, Skate said:

Steve says"  I actually held onto my detector collection until the last possible moment so as to not tip the hand too early, but the fact is I cleared them out as soon as I could once the time came because in my opinion the existing market prices for used detectors has nowhere to go but down. I held onto a few as an insurance policy for oddball applications but the fact is that in 2018 I doubt I will use anything but my GPZ 7000 and Equinox 800. "

This says it all. 

STILL have not found a replacement for the way I hunt in Salt Water so I will not sell my 2 GT's.  I will wait for test results on the NOX. Too bad it is not out for my 4 month sabbatical.  If it is worth any salt [pun intended] I will give it a run in July.