low tide
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Been out on maybe 4 hunts with the NOX 800 now & for the most part I thought it was just a chatty Sally. I found myself pulling penny after penny after penny. This after all was the reason why I migrated away from the Excal & went to the CTX although they both have their places. Anyways, it took me some time to understand the numbers since they are WAYYYY different than a CTX even though it's said that going from a CTX to the NOX is pretty easy since the concept with Minelabs logic is pretty much the same. Yes & no. With the CTX you pretty much always know what you're getting. The numbers don't change to much regardless of depth. The NOX tends to be all over.
Anyways, I've learned a few things with the NOX to date:
Don't walk away from all those 1,2,3, and 4 signals. Although they are most likely aluminum in one form or another, you HAVE to dig them.. How do I know this? Yesterday I went to the beach. Turned the machine on. Took a straight line from the dry to the water. First target. 26... Quarter.... Got to the top of the high tide line where the tide was pulling out about 2 hrs past high tide. Got a scratchy 2-3... BOOM !! .. 14k thin chain... YESSSS!!! Literally my 1st thin gold chain !. I've gotten a thin chain in the past with the CTX but it was a fluke because there was a coin next to it....
I thought to myself,, well my nights made and I'm literally 10 minutes into my hunt.. About an hour passed with not much else other than some clad. Then I hit an area that tends to be a sweet spot. BOOM!!!! ANOTHER thin 14k chain with a cross. $%#$@# are you kidding me?!... Now I'm hell bent on finding these scratchy 2-3 tones. 20 minutes later again at the top of the high tide line I find a 14k ring at 10-11 ID.... After that it was 4 hrs of nothing . Man I was stoked on my finds.... Cant wait to get in the water when tides are favorable and see how she does.
Anyways, I've learned a few things with the NOX to date:
Don't walk away from all those 1,2,3, and 4 signals. Although they are most likely aluminum in one form or another, you HAVE to dig them.. How do I know this? Yesterday I went to the beach. Turned the machine on. Took a straight line from the dry to the water. First target. 26... Quarter.... Got to the top of the high tide line where the tide was pulling out about 2 hrs past high tide. Got a scratchy 2-3... BOOM !! .. 14k thin chain... YESSSS!!! Literally my 1st thin gold chain !. I've gotten a thin chain in the past with the CTX but it was a fluke because there was a coin next to it....
I thought to myself,, well my nights made and I'm literally 10 minutes into my hunt.. About an hour passed with not much else other than some clad. Then I hit an area that tends to be a sweet spot. BOOM!!!! ANOTHER thin 14k chain with a cross. $%#$@# are you kidding me?!... Now I'm hell bent on finding these scratchy 2-3 tones. 20 minutes later again at the top of the high tide line I find a 14k ring at 10-11 ID.... After that it was 4 hrs of nothing . Man I was stoked on my finds.... Cant wait to get in the water when tides are favorable and see how she does.
Congrats on the gold hat trick but especially on double chains! 
I can't remember 2 gold chains ever being pulled on here in 1 hunt. What was your setting on it?
Did you ever get any iron numbers bounced in with the good targets? 
not so, just foil inside of a juice bottle cap. 
