Here's the update. I hope Steve doesn't mind this.
I went back to this beach/lake today but I brought the Deus 2 with me instead. I just wanted to see if I had left something behind from my Nox hunt. I hunted in Sensitive FT mode and didn't adjust anything other than volume. The wind was blowing 30 mph and was loud. Anyway, I balanced the machine and started right where I had been the other day. Literally my first signal was a ring. I couldn't believe it. Had to be a fluke. Except it wasn't. I have hunted this beach a lot and always have trouble with falsing from the ground and iron in the ground too. The Nox wasn't immune to that as noted, I had to run the sensitivity down quite a bit. All I had to do with the D2 was ground balance it. I've never ran a machine as stable as it was...totally blown away and that first ring wasn't a fluke. Stuff just kept coming up loud and clear. I ended up with 4 ear rings, 2 necklace charms, 2 rings, and I couldn't tell you how many nickels and coins. This was literally the same ground I hunted this weekend. I got caught in a torrential rain storm and got soaked from head to toe. My finds bag is a glob of mud and sand with all the finds in the bottom...I've not sorted everything yet. I think I found my freshwater beach machine....now to try and figure out WHY that much stuff was missed by me. Nothing was deep...the deepest was one of the rings and it was just approx 4 inches. I think the signals just got lost in the ground noise and or masked.
That's kinda depressing that the 900 missed all those great targets. My 900 will be here in a few days, I just found out about the XP Daus 2 WS6 Master Detector for $899, a few days after ordering the 900. If I would have known you could get a D2 for under a grand, I would have been all over it. Of the 900 missed all those targets, hopefully Minelab will put out a update, to address this issue.
First Nox 900 Gold *updated*
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That's kinda depressing that the 900 missed all those great targets. My 900 will be here in a few days, I just found out about the XP Daus 2 WS6 Master Detector for $899, a few days after ordering the 900. If I would have known you could get a D2 for under a grand, I would have been all over it. Of the 900 missed all those targets, hopefully Minelab will put out a update, to address this issue.