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My personal choice to reduce noise in the very worst places I have has been to go down to 15 when under a pier with rides on it but even worse than that has been a road area with a cable or something. I do know it takes away from the finds a bit because I have found myself some minutes later away from the EMI wondering why I can't hear some of the trash and I remember I am at 15 or 17 and not at 22! Nuk thinks/knows he is missing targets at that level of sensitivity and will use another detector in that area. I think a 'test' is in order and actually find out if you can quiet the Nox at any setting and then compare how it finds to the other detector. If you can't see a target the other machine finds then case closed. But then we return to confidence ... Sometimes it is more important than matter ... Mind over matter. Mitchel

Yesterday under the power lines I had my cell phone with me. These are the large transmission lines that keep the grid working. I think now about my area of the beach I have a problem there are also large pumps running some of the time but all of that does not matter. What matters is that it doesn't work THERE and another machine can ignore that EMI and do better. I don't have an issue with my one location with EMI and the 3030. The Minelab engineers should respond to some of this.

Well done again. I have one area up from the beach near a road where there is some buried cable. I can't get near that place if people are there or not. Yesterday I was under massive power lines in the mountains and I could still run the Nox at 22. Mitchel

Well, I heard it said that if you would have gone to Ganes Creek with a 5000 then it would have been 'too much' detector. I was just wondering if you were going through tailings from a dredge (large nuggets are kicked out) that has a lot of trash is the Nox part of a recipe that will work better than another detector or even a 7000?

Ok, that is the question. If you were going through the tailings with a Nox is it still a matter of chance or does it have an advantage? (The nugget in the picture came from a dredge tailing pile.)

Let me ask Steve this question: What would an 800 have found for you in Alaska at the time you were using your GB2?

Steve, I mean found with the Equinox 800. I'm not able to link to post the picture now ... maybe later. The reason I put it up is to make people think out of the box on where to use the 800. Mitchel

I just saw a picture of a gold nugget found with an 800 that is a specimen greater than 15 ounces and it has more than 5 ounces. (I know exact numbers but it is not my nugget.) This is the largest nugget I've heard about so far. Has anyone heard of a larger nugget? Mitchel

I'm glad that has been settled. I'll make sure Curtis sees them and pets them a bit.

I think he must release them in Santa Monica at a beach so they can swim. He just needs to let me know the release date and time so I can confirm to all of you how many and the size. I'll take good pictures.

Thanks Lunk. Will Gerry be getting you a 6" for your training sessions? Mitchel

You will 'miss' the discrimination but if you are on gold it is a matter of what 'size' the nuggets are. I think the 6"" will be a limited application coil for me just like the 19" for the 7000. Mitchel

That was my thought for mine. I notice the wobble only at the end of some swings. If I have good coil control I can avoid the wobble but some tape will probably do it. Mitchel

Nice hunt! I like the beaches too. When I looked at your post I thought you were sending us pictures of a February 5, 2018 hunt. We may have a few more differences in language and target responses but I think we'll manage. How is the 'amount' for you? I'd be very happy if I found 5 lbs on a hunt. When you say you can't make the Nox work on top of the beaches because of high EMI let me tell you what I do. First of all we have a sensitivity on the Nox that goes up to 25 and we think we have to stay above 20 all the time. Why didn't Minelab just forget about 1-18? When could you ever want to be that low? I use low sensitivity in two cases (all of us need to explore and use them more). One is for very high trash ... I don't need to light everything up to get the good things out of it so to speak. Sometimes less sensitivity is better on finding good targets. The second place I lower the sensitivity is for EMI. (I do this after I noise cancel and go out of auto.) I have a couple of places where the standard settings of the Nox simply will not work. I didn't have this problem with a CTX or an SE Pro ... what is WRONG with the Nox that it can't handle the EMI? I've learned that EMI can be handled if I turn down the sensitivity until it is stable. What I have also learned is that most of my good targets are still 'visible' to the Nox at much lower sensitivity if I get over the target. I lose some of the 'side band' or peripheral sensitivity because of the lower sensitivity and it being a DD but it still works and works good. Good luck tomorrow. Mitchel

I'll call the quiz a bit early. Thanks for reading. The beaches have become interesting again after no real energy for long stretches. Dukester is right! I was 'surprised' by the silver ring the most. It says .925 and this is my first one with the Nox. I was expecting numbers like the CTX on silver. A CTX quarter is up in the top right of my screen (I'm not much on numbers) and silver rings are higher than that so ... I thought a silver ring would be coming in at over 30 on the Nox. This was actually close to a penny (20-21) but it never went above 18. Many pennies I dig jump from 15-22 because of the sandwich plates. Some pure coppers can sound like a dime. The GP coming in at 16 ... well that just happens to be a fact for that particular ring. Then the little 'copper' ring. I called it a copper ring (because of the color) but I haven't had it shot with a gun. Is it something other than copper? Does it have something to do with shape? Probably. I was in Beach 1 and 2/S20-22/RS6/FE3 in an area that had been under waves about 5 hours before I hunted it. There is a bit of black sand and I balance now and then but all of the targets weren't deeper than 6" and the rings were at about 3". I look at physical factors a lot after a tide. What were the waves doing at the time of deposit? You can use Steve's analogy of a big gold pan. The energy of the beach separates the concentrates. This type of patch hunting to me is kinda like the Deadliest Catch. I'm trying to find the crabs that are crawling along the floor of the beach. Once you get a couple of indicators (clues) then my intuition (human algorithm) kicks in and I grid. The Nox is good at catching them once you find them. I wish I could read the goldfields the same way. Mitchel

I went out early this morning. I was expecting a cut as there had been a 3 hour period of high waves during high tide. As it turned out it was more of a 'blow over' than a cut so after about an hour it was time to move. My next beach was less blown over so I settled in for a bit. Finally I found a few quarters and that can mean rings! So it was today. My first ring was the 18. This made me circle, grid and look near for another. About 20 feet away I got the 16. Nice 2 ring morning before 7 AM. I kept hunting and found the cheap tennis bracelet and then I got the 8, the 3rd ring. I'll give the composition of the ring and you tell me which number goes with it. I'll come .back Thursday Night and tell you the number that goes with the ring There is a copper ring in the top center. There is a silver .925 ring on the left with a nice little amethyst. There is 18k GP ring with a larger glass or crystal on the right. Mitchel

Coinstar yield is increased with a tumble in a cheap Harbor Freight tumbler. You can then give them a final sort and you don't have to steel wool a bunch of them.

When you use Coinstar you get full value if you get Amazon Gift receipts. When you get cash it shrinks by 10%.

When the 17" (or larger) coil becomes available for the Nox I expect to start using the hipstick again!

Steve, I'm not taking you up on the challenge but I will give a 'comparison' that could make any detector 'lighter' and more manageable. I used an SE Pro for a few years before I bought a CTX. I had no problems with it and the CTX while using the standard coil. When I bought a 17 inch coil for the CTX I developed 'tennis elbow' after just a few uses. I had to stop for a few days. When I started back I used my hipstick for my 5000 and I could adjust the CTX 17" coil to weightless! An added feature of this is that when you dig a hole the detector hangs there (sometimes in the way) but a wave at the beach is not going to grab it. I have a bungee on it already. I have not used my CTX since the arrival of the Nox. It is still with me tho that I would like to take the hipstick and set up a lighter bungee and balance it to weightless. No matter how light the Nox nothing beats an adjustable bungee for swinging long sweeps or short ones. The Nox is usable for most of the day without stress or pain but a bungee COULD make it better. Mitchel

I hunted a city park the other night and had to use 14 to make it quiet because of some pipes and fences but I found a few pennies up to 3" with it. I tried to use higher but I wasn't digging anything deeper. There were no wheats or silver. I think the park had been scraped in this area in the 90s.

Walter, Walter, Walter ... you are hunting in Reno? How long ago was it you were at your parks that had lots of coins? STEVE could be your problem and not the NOX. Mitchel

Good hunch (hunt)! Mitchel

I've had a couple of occasions to hunt on a bed of nails strewn around after building demolition. I've been able to hear good targets on top, mixed in and below the nails. If you don't know what layer your good targets might be in just use a couple of the defaults. If you have really good targets under the nails then it might be time to rake the area. If you can attach magnets to the rake that would be even better. Mitchel

Chase, I found my only horseshoe at the beach in the wet with the Nox. It was early when I was digging everything without regard to numbers. Mitchel