Dances With Doves

That is why I like water hunting big water areas. The weather keeps shuffling the deck.You can have certain conditions where most of the targets are heavy and good ,and other times where all targets in reach is just light items.It is when everything turns out in your favor that it is a time you won't forget.I dug 5 gold in less then 3 hours one time and only moved 50' in 3to 5 feet of water .Being in the Right place at the right time.

Those are great finds, but all those specimens take up a lot of room.Where do you store them, Fort Gerry?

I tried the Nox in park1sens.20 iron bias at f2-7, ground balance at4 and it slammed it to with the 11'' coil with at least 5inches to spare with solid numbers of mostly 4 with some 3 and 5 numbers mixed in.You can coin hunt with this machine and get this chain no problem with good id numbers at depth.

I tested a heavy type chain like the one Againstmywill showed in the jewelry(maybe a little thicker) section called( chain numbers).I tested the Gmx and it just slammed it with a solid 96 number which I think is a upaverage since nox gives it a 4 when I lay it on the ground. I could raise coil over 5"and still get it.Maybe we should not pass penny hits with this machine.I used 6' coil on this test which is buried in dry dirt.

Being out west you have a better chance at getting a silver dollar than in the east. I did get one about 20 years ago in the same small park that they tore down the Fredrick Douglass statue. The statue was not there when I found just after it got dark outside.It was a 1892-o.I know someone who found a trade dollar too.

I have been playing around with the nox and gmx in moderate ground and the nox keeps up with it but gives much better id than it for small targets. The nox can do so much more then the Gmx.I can put on the 6'' coil and hunt a tot lot with the best of them. Walk 50 yards change coils,then walk 60 yards and I am in the lake water hunting a swim area in the gold modes for small gold and any big targets that get in the way.I then go out to the 500 foot area in front of this roped area, put it in park 1 f2-7 and I can get rid of most bottle caps and hunt rings. I then can put it in park 2 and have a better chance to get gold chains and smaller gold.I then can go about 400 yards to my ghost pier and hunt for silver coins in Park 1 f2-0 in the big nails.What a machine.The Gmx is a great tot-lot machine and fun too.I am glad I have both .THE last time water hunting me and my friend got 13 silver coins at the ghost pier and it was the first time he water hunted with the nox .He also got a gold ring that was deep.By the way we have pounded this silver spot.

He might have gave you shot with a higher antimony %.Your found load is oxidized so it may hit better.I have not tried my new#9 shot but a old shell I found that is oxidized too in #9.

I tried the nox with 6'' coil on this target and emi would effect the target at certain times. I could crank the sens. at 24 in park2 1tone and get a small tight sound with mixed id when emi let me.40kz at 25 sens.was weaker with mixed id.20kz was very weak. In gold 2 I could get multi to give me a nice signal when emi let me with mixed id at 25 sens.when I used 25 sens I got a weaker signal and mixed id at 40 kz.20kz again was weak in gold mode.If anyone can find this type earring in the wild they should get a parade in my book.

I tested this just smaller then half inch earring that has a post about the size of a staple and a tiny mount for the small stone first with GMX and 6'' coil and it would hit it with a small sound in all angles .The Emi would effect this target at certain times and you would notice it with the broken signals sometime then a much stronger hit after where I could lift the coil and still get it good.Tough targets on the edge of detecting depth are very fragile when it comes to a signal in high EMI areas.

I have that book the Pulse Power and he knows what he is taking about.You can't argue with results.I am glad he is on the other side of Lake Ontario.

You are getting robbed for sure with all he gold hits you dug with no gold.My friend tried his nox in the water for the first time and got a nice gold ring early on in a 9 hour hunt.The last 3 times at this lake I could not get gold but got plenty of pull tabs. I was walking in to finish the day in a spot where we never find gold and out popped a 4.2 gram wed -lok 14k gold band.The area we hunt is big and we were leaving an old amusement park torn down pier area before I got the gold.I did get 8 silver dimes in this good spot,plus a v and buffalo nickel and about 15 Wheaties. I got a walker and a other silver dime where my friend got gold.He got 5 silver dimes at the ghost pier spot. You are due for gold.

Have you tried a PI yet for silver in your new home town?

My first turf gold and using my explorer was a 24k Buddah digging a deeper indian/zinc type hit.

So much better looking then the ones I pull from the water of the Finger Lakes.

It must be nice to have more gold then zincons.I get at least 5 every time I hunt.

Normal coins are compressed on my GMX.

I put the 6" coil on the nox and used park 2 mode sens .22 in multi freq. first and tried all modes in park 2 in 2 tone. multi gave me mostly weak iron tones and gave me them in most angles. In 20kz. I got very weak iron hits in 24 sens..In 40kz. I got stronger iron and some none iron hits and seemed less coil speed demand to get a good signal at max sens. I Got a hit in most angles.In gold 2 mode in multi freq. with sens .21 I got not that bad a signal that seemed better with faster swing speed with mixed id.In 20kz it was a weaker but smooth signal with worse id at 24 sens. At max sens. in 40 kz. I got a very nice signal with mixed id that was tighter and less sensitive to swing speed.I would use 40kz. in gold mode for this target for my first choice.You could put all the park 2 modes in 1 tone to get a smoother signal and decide what to dig .

when do you like raw and when do you like normalized vdi options.?

That is awesome.If those coins could talk.Have you ever found a US flowing hair coin .Those before1802.They seem harder to get then a gold coin.My friend found one in a lake in upstate NY.

I tried the gold modes and this earring is smaller then most.In park 2 in multi I had sens. at 20 with recovery at 4 with f2 0 bias.20 and 40 kz. sens. was near max . The gold modes were about the same settings.I think the nearby junk hinders me from getting a distinguished signal on this target.That is why small coils have their place.None of my gold earrings will give a id at 10-12.

Nice hunt .One day you may bump into a gold coin in spots like those.I don't think to many people can claim a gold coin and a nugget in the same day.

It is buried and one that I found in tot lot .It is only a half inch long with small about 4mm stone.

I tried the Nox with 11" coil on this tough target that has 2 pieces of junk about 12 inches on both sides and in all the park 2 modes and all the gold 2 modes it was a no go.I wonder if the junk is hindering with that signal.I will try 6" coil after.

I then put on the much loved 6inch concentric coil with no cover ( GMX) on this target and got nice soft repeatable hit with post facing me with a little room to spare. I then could turn on target and get some weaker hits on the more difficult angles. I would say this coil passes on this test with a good grade for a very tough target. They are much tougher targets then most ring hunting situations.