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I read this story about a little 'color' in a stream in Greenock. People talking about some flakes but then they talked about seeing them from a distance and then they showed this guy with a colander and he had a hand full of REAL nuggets. What a hoot! http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/16128940.Gold_found_in_stream_at_Cardwell_Garden_Centre/

Chase, I was looking a bit the other night for one of the old SE Pros and it seems those prices are still staying high. (The coils also.) I didn't look at the CTX prices but I think some people aren't selling to get an Nox and just buying. One of us should look at the fire sale prices if they are really out there. Mitchel

You can take the sensitivity lower and still find good targets ... try 15 or even lower in some cases. Mitchel

Matt, Good point. I don't know how many ways we need to find fly specs. Mitchel

That's a nice one! The Nox loves copper. Congratulations. Mitchel

Dig It, Nice to hear from someone on the Kenai. I went fishing there for about 10 days 30 years ago at Tim Berg's camp on the river and stayed in Soldotna. It is one of my good memories. Getting to your 'problem' of seeing good stuff in frozen tundra, I'd say you have to take it in 'layers' for many of the conditions you mentioned. You have cans and metal trash at varying depths and you have frozen ground which makes you want to dig a target as shallow as possible. You have to see a good target first on the surface and ignore everything under or around it, right? My friends with 800s took a test nugget and placed it in a potential area for other nuggets. After they were done testing and adjusting they removed the test nugget and just a few feet away they found their first little gold nugget. A coincidence for sure but also an imperative to know the difference between the hot rocks and a real nugget on the Nox. Decide what you want to find. Get a couple of those objects (coins, nuggets, buttons, rings) and place them on the surface or in the first couple of inches and then set up your detector. Turn it on as you have done and see if you can hear those targets 'over' the noise of the trash. Many of us can't so what can we do? We can change a lot of settings but first try just one. Reduce the sensitivity. (Don't adjust the recovery speed.) Reducing the total sensitivity in the mode you are in should let you hear targets that are closer to the coil better than distant targets. I think then you could quickly go over the site and get the near surface targets. If you find a good patch, slow down and increase the sensitivity and dig a bit deeper into the frozen ground. If you reduce the noise then you will see better numbers on targets (fewer deep iffys) and hear that good target mixed in with the trash but that takes practice on open ground without much trash as Steve has pointed out. I hope you are able to go over the site and go down a couple of inches at a pass until you get some good results. Mitchel

That is a real task force. I think it has offices in California. Mitchel

I could have it wrong.

You know what this caused me to think of? Everyone knows the definition of insanity, right? 'Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' Aren't all of us metal detectorists then insane? We go over the same ground, the same locations over and over again and expect different results! Granted, sometimes it is with a different metal detector or coil but often times it isn't until we get the last target. We're an insane lot I guess. Mitchel

Wow! I didn't know what the order delivery status was at the present time. I think now in retrospect that it has been nice to have the 800 for a month or so but I don't have the parks and fields to hunt in where it shines the most. I'm thinking the 6" coil will add a lot to my desert nugget hunting but who knows ... the original coil may be the ultimate ticket. Steve has used both ... what does he say about his 6" coil? Mitchel

Chuck, You are leading a charmed life. You get to come home to a different woman every day after your hunt. Mitchel

Good News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! According to Bill Southern: "Small coil (6") will be available in late May or early June." http://nuggetshooter.ipbhost.com/topic/31978-first-equinox800-gold/ Mine is already ordered. Mitchel

Ran Dee! Good report. It indeed would be interesting to hunt in an area like yours. Your low recovery speed must make them really sing when you go over them. Had you hit this permission before you had your 800? Mitchel

Bryan, I think I know where you are going to START your next hunt! (You abruptly stopped hunting on the last one for some reason.) Mitchel

Don't limit this find/posting to just the Nox sites. That is world class anywhere! Mitchel

Chase, You are right about the salt. (I forgot to mention it above.) Use plain salt without iodine and you can get a chemical reaction which will reverse the tarnish on silver. https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-clean-and-polish-silver-cleaning-lessons-from-the-kitchn-216832

Today was a nice day at the beach. It was actually too warm for my long sleeve shirt. I started out at a very low tide and found next to nothing. It was time to get up off the wet sand and go hunt behind the lifeguard stations, away from the non-producing wet sand. What a relief. No salt water, no hot rocks ... just a few bottle caps! I could use beach, park and field as I wanted. I was on the dry sand for about 2 hours which is the most for me in a few years. I think I'll do it again in the right area. The pin is a Dade County Police Chiefs Association lapel pin. I'm in California. I don't know how it got here. Some research that I did indicates that that sociation has renamed itself the Miami-Dade association which would make this pin older. I don't know what year but interesting to me. The big coin is a 1998 Two Pounder. Mitchel

Fantastic! Mitchel

We find lots of beach clad and stick it in a tumbler with beach sand. Small tumbler came from Harbor Freight. This makes it ready for Coinstar/Amazon certificate at 100%. You can add some cleaner and they will brighten. If you had a little more valuable coin you could use a bit of baking soda. We use that on silver and of course you can clean a ring with aluminum foil, vinegar and baking soda. Mitchel

I use one like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0773H94GR/ref=sspa_dk_detail_3?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B0773H94GR&pd_rd_wg=Som2p&pd_rd_r=1BPMT1GM7FEAQMBRV4C6&pd_rd_w=iAFHV If I'm making a move then I plug in my inverter and one strip just tops of the batteries and USB devices at the same time like the 7000 charger and WM12, etc.

Very nice ... I need to find some parks and schools. Mitchel

I've had that reaction about my 7000 plates. I've decided to 'code' this one. We know what I'm saying here on this forum but there are millions here who don't have a clue. The word Equinox was already taken. I doubt if it is someone that knows anything about a detector. There is a lot of 'noise' in a big city and in California. It is not until you get out into a desert or mountains and start showing some gold that people want to track you. I don't think I've altered my security a nano percentage by changing my plates here. I've got some really nice pool cues that cost way more than an 800. (Now I've altered my security! haha) We play with those out in the open all the time and some of my friends have 3 cushion and pool related plates on much more costly cars than mine. It is just a fun thing to do. (Maybe I wouldn't do it in Australia.) Mitchel

Phrunt, Did you see my 4Runner plates? Steve made it my little icon. I live at the beach and will use the 3030 and 800 much more than the 7000 so ... what's in a random number on a state issued plate? I wanted more. Mitchel

Here is tonight's hunt. I tried to make the hunt tonight 'opposite' of last night. I targeted a section of beach and I wanted to slow grid it and see what I could do. As it turned out I learned a few things. I went into Beach 2. Sensitivity 22, Iron 0, Recovery 6, No Tracking, 5 tone, all metal When I hit a dime then I started gridding the black sand line. This is where the waves had been but the tide was down a few feet from it when I was there. I went perpendicular to the line most of the time with the grid tonight. (Other times and last night I was on the line. It can make some difference in your ground balance but I didn't notice it with the 800.) I took short swings and tried to overlap. You can't make a bad beach good but I worked about 25 yards of it pretty hard. In that area I found the little rivet, the little ring (probably a stainless baby toe ring) and a few coins. I was digging everything. I'll have to say that many of the targets jumped around. I did some testing between all metal and discriminate. All metal and high bias, etc. I went slow on recovery speed and I've probably decided that going below 4 for this beach is really not good. Later I went to 'Fast and less than Furious' but I was not in the mood two nights in a row. A work in progress ... Mitchel

I had to wait for 3 hours at DMV! That was longer than my hunt at the beach tonight. If I could write a complete thought I would say 'Learning to Love My 800' Mitchel