zeemang
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Disclaimer, I swung an excal II for years until is became beyond my ability to repair myself and needed a new water machine. I am not hyping the nox, just trying to share my experience with it and will continue to share what i like and what i do not like about it...
Today was the first time since I got the nox 800 that i have been able to hit the water, it has been in the dirt and seems to work fine.
First, very light machine, my shoulder was fine after a 2.5 hour hunt. Very stable also, put it at 20 sensitivity and i ran GB in tracking and it was not chattery at all in our out of the salt water. We ended up spending most of the time in the wet sand in the wash area.
Signals, this is going to take some getting used to, but figured out that a solid 14 tends to be a pulltab for me in my conditions. Coins hit hard and even the tiny silver pendants i found hit hard even though they are tiny. Silver bracelet gave a hard signal as expected. The rings gave a reasonable repeatable signal even though none are honkers, only one gold there but hey, first gold on the nox! Hard to say if it is as deep as my old excal would have been or not, but it was respectable depth for the size of the targets.
Target volume is very different than the excal obviously, and no proportional audio kind of messed with me a bit. I was used to targets getting louder and louder as you dig them, this they sound about the same a foot under the wet sand or right on the surface.
It is going to take some getting used to as any new machine would, but overall I am very happy with the Nox...
HH all!
Today was the first time since I got the nox 800 that i have been able to hit the water, it has been in the dirt and seems to work fine.
First, very light machine, my shoulder was fine after a 2.5 hour hunt. Very stable also, put it at 20 sensitivity and i ran GB in tracking and it was not chattery at all in our out of the salt water. We ended up spending most of the time in the wet sand in the wash area.
Signals, this is going to take some getting used to, but figured out that a solid 14 tends to be a pulltab for me in my conditions. Coins hit hard and even the tiny silver pendants i found hit hard even though they are tiny. Silver bracelet gave a hard signal as expected. The rings gave a reasonable repeatable signal even though none are honkers, only one gold there but hey, first gold on the nox! Hard to say if it is as deep as my old excal would have been or not, but it was respectable depth for the size of the targets.
Target volume is very different than the excal obviously, and no proportional audio kind of messed with me a bit. I was used to targets getting louder and louder as you dig them, this they sound about the same a foot under the wet sand or right on the surface.
It is going to take some getting used to as any new machine would, but overall I am very happy with the Nox...
HH all!
,,,,Someday I will add one to my collection,,,,,glad you are happy with it,,,,,many people have gotten on board with them and like them,,,not heard many dislike the machine at all,,,,,,learning curve is expected and if I hunted every day like I used to I would no doubt get one,,,,From what I understand, the wet sand it kills it,,,,,,I am not convinced its the best water machine but it seems to find a lot of little gold,,,,look forward to more reporting,,,GL HH
Congrats on scoring the yellow on the 1st water hunt with it! I am still feel like I'm learning mine - hell I still feel like I'm learning my Excal! So far, I prefer the Excal in deeper water and the 'Nox on the wet sand. Definitely prefer it in the wet sand.
