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I like a good ol nickel just as much as any other good ol coin. Value is a different question. You have to dig em so you don't miss gold. Mitchel

Yes, but was there a chain or two in those caps I didn't even try to dig? I know I tested the cap and bobby pin and they were reliable enough to depend on but I did find a couple of cap treasures. I just can't remember them. Now that I have this I'll take the 3030 out and test it. I have not used it since the Nox arrived.

I went back out this afternoon and nothing much on the beach. I took the chain with me to test. When in the dry sand I found a target. It was a 13 and when I dug it up it was a rusty bottle cap. I took the chain and put it near and it was also a 13 but solid and not popping. I put them close to each other with the chain in a ball and stretched out long and it sounded the same. I pumped on both targets. There was no negative number or low sound with the gold but there was with the cap. It's too bad the numbers are so close together. I wonder what I missed with the 3030 by not digging caps. Mitchel

I have used several scoops over the years. The one I use now is stainless steel and heavier than the detector. It is one of the Eastern European makes that I can use with one foot and one arm while holding the detector in the other. It is more like a shovel. The other type I use if there are shallow targets is the basket scoop that you pull towards you. Both types now have a long handle.

I think now when looking at a larger piece of man made gold and the sensitivity of the Nox we need to be concerned with the other metals in the mix. The number for this chain is 13. I know most of my nickels come in at 15. Copper/zinc pennies come in at 20-22 it seems. Silver is higher and gold is lower. This is the makeup of 14K White Gold: 58.5% fine gold, 12%copper, 8% nickel, 6% zinc, and 4.5% silver

Fred, Thank you. When you asked about him in your email, I didn't know how I could 'work in' a picture of him on a metal detecting forum. This was an 'opportunity' I took advantage of to show him off. I hope some of the nugget guys see him because they don't normally come to the Equinox forum but maybe I need another big nugget to get him over there. Mitchel

Chase, I was thinking the same thing when I saw it in the wet sand out of the scoop. You and I had discussed the chain or at least 'mused' on it. Who knows if it was in a ball in the sand or surf. I suspect it was but it certainly was when it came out of the scoop. As a mass or clump it gives off a single tone. I've tested it that way but not in a long length configuration. Mitchel

This is a find (not a crime) of opportunity! Today I got a late start at the beach because of a number of chores but I wanted to make an appearance to see what the wind driven waves had done. I got there on an incoming tide about 2 hours after low tide. It has been a while since we have had conditions like these so better late than never. My previous hunt I had used a new pair of headphones but I felt more confident with the supplied phones so off I went. The last time out I had cleared my settings with the factory specs so now I was setting up Beach 1. That was very little change. Noise cancel, ground balance and check the sensitivity. Part of the beach had a cut and I was in the middle of that area. Many people were out even tho cool and in some wind. I headed for the waterline and pebbles and could tell the waves had not scoured out as much as I liked. I was getting a lot of nothing again but I could hear pretty good in all metal. My first hit was a corroded penny but you gotta dig. I think the next hit was the same 20-21 that a penny gets you. Now I had to make a choice. This is a beach I know well so I headed in a direction to the north where I have found rings in the past. After about 50 yards I decided to head south. (I was reminded by that feeling of a change when I had been hunting for sharks teeth in Venice, Florida in 1978. One morning I went to the right, felt I needed to go back to the left and in less than 100 feet I found a nearly perfect tooth about 4 inches long. It was my best find.) So, this time I went past where I had found the pennies and just behind a little girl standing in the shallow waves and I heard a 13/14. I know what 15s are in this area, nickels. There was no bottle cap chatter. I didn't have time to pump up and down on the target because waves were coming. I gave a scoop and missed the target so I went after it again. I could feel something on the edge of the scoop so I softened my dig in case I would 'hurt' the target. When the wave went out I flipped my scoop and I got a glimmer. I knew it was a chain but didn't know if it was stainless or what. With people around I reached down and picked up the object with some sand and stuck it in my pouch. I didn't need extra eyes at that point. There was time to check the area a bit before moving on, and on and on without many targets. On my way to another beach I rinsed off the chain and felt the weight and I was hopeful. This would be my best gold chain. My wife found a nice gold chain in 2015 so it was my time? I returned a half mile to where I found it and there were very few targets. Time to go back and get my glasses and see if it was real. When I got to the car and I got my glasses on I could see 14k ... yessss! This along with the other couple of gold rings would pay off my wife's 800! It was time to have a little fun. I put it around my son's neck and brought him in to Lu fixing dinner. She likes gold so it didn't take her very long to see it. haha We took a couple of photos with the king of the household and then I measured and weighed what I had found. It is 14k/20in/19.1g. It is my best gold chain to date. It could have been found with other detectors but maybe I wouldn't have been in that part of the surf with my 3030. Maybe another detector would be heavier and not as much fun as the 800 right now and I certainly would not walk out where I was with a wired headphone. The conditions were right. Wind waves are good for chains.

Well done with more to come. Mitchel

Well done on the hunt. What is that 9 Indian S worth? Mitchel

I used the Avantree for the first time today. It took a bit of adjusting after I got them connected. I was hoping I could use the 800 at less than full volume (25) and use the power of the headphones. It seems I have to go no lower then 23 on the 800 and try to max out the headphones. When I did this is sometimes seemed distorted? My hunt was complicated by few targets. One target I did find came in at 37-39 and I could tell it was larger. When I dug it in the salt water it was an iPhone 8. It reminded me that I can hear signals with the 800 but I don't get a sense of mass. There is a broad area of detecting the target but not a 'grab you' type of signal that this same iPhone would have made with the 3030. Mitchel

Oh, the instructions of sensitivity or GB adjustment. You corrected it.

What? Really? Try it? Expert says he does it? Nevermind ... haha Thanks Chase.

Nice record of finds! Mitchel

There were supposed to be some big waves at the beach over the night but they didn't move much sand. I decided to modify my hunt to a repeat of 'fast and furious' and cover more ground as there isn't much and not even things deep. My 3rd target was the ring. It is a 4.75g homemade/handmade ring. The remainder of the items I found in dry sand.

There is art and science or is it science and art? I don't know what comes first. Let's just say in this case the 'science' comes first. An instrument is made. It produces and receives signals. Some are single frequencies and some are a new signal called Multi-IQ. This technology is probably not random. When a detectorist (musician) uses this instrument he/she can test it in a very mechanical way and produce sounds or the detectorist can use it in an artful way and make good finds (music)! Make any musical instrument analogy you would like. In this case I would choose a violin. Master violin makers stand the test of time for hundreds of years. How well will the Nox fare in time? It sounds pretty good now in many detectorists hands. At least I am using what some of the best are using. This doesn't mean I can't use some other instruments also. I was making some music with other instruments before this one showed up. Mitchel

Moving targets like moving dates are hard to hit. (We find non-moving targets that are hard to hit!) Sometimes you get the credit. Sometimes you get the blame. Sometimes you get lucky. Other times it just doesn't matter and this is one of those times. Mitchel

When you are digging everything to see what a machine can do then you dig everything. After a period of time you decide not to dig such things and you setup the machine in a different way. The Nox is an international seller. Some English and Canadian coins I find here are definitely in my 'trash zone.' How can you not dig a bit of trash in the beginning?

I used a 5000 on the beach in Southern California for almost 2 years before I got an SE Pro. The 5000 couldn't find small chains. I paid for it with gold I found in the desert. I paid for the SE Pro and CTX many times over from the beaches.

Those smalls at the beach remind me of one night I had with the CTX and the 12" coil. I stopped using it after I got the 17 but I did use it then. The Nox get more of them than the CTX so far. Those pieces of jewelry and I've attacked the rake up piles once. I think I could find things in them now.

My dealer Bill Southern said they would be available at the end of May or in June. Steve said ... well, I understood him to say ... call it June. I guess this means 'they are here when they are here and not a minute before!' But it could mean something else too.

Thanks, I just ordered a pair. Mitchel

Randy, Did your adapter work with the WM08 ok? Mitchel

Ok, thanks ... I'd say when you send it there then they will probably replace as they did with the 7000s in the beginning. Mitchel

Keep it simple, let your son use it. Mitchel