RockieBoston
Full Member
Mostly coinshooting New England parks, some cellarholes, want to start the saltwater beaches as the only thing unfrozen during our winter.
My Teknetics doesn't work around saltwater, so beaches are out.
Please allow me to vent because I have super limited time for this hobby and it feels like forever since I found anything good. How can silver dimes, pre '82 pennies and bottle caps be the same ID#? Probably 90% of the coins I find are pre-1982 Lincoln pennies. Those low-80s tones on the Delta. How can different metals all ring up the same?
Also how can something be a solid 82-84 then you get it out of the dirt and it's a bottle cap and pass the coil over and it's 77? Driving me nuts.
If it's a coin alone in a field on a wet day sitting perfectly horizontal under the soil the Delta is accurate on it to 8". Anything less than that perfect scenario is a lot of digging for little reward. I'm kind of bummed I bought a sniper coil and it doesn't help dig better targets either.
I've come to the conclusion after a year of this that I need an upgrade, at least something I can take on the beach.
I'm this close to pulling the trigger on an upgrade to a Nox 600. The parks I hunt are trashy AF and I need a machine that will tell a bottlecap from a Barber dime.
Will a Nox help? Please tell me this is a detector issue. I do not want to throw good money after bad.
My Teknetics doesn't work around saltwater, so beaches are out.
Please allow me to vent because I have super limited time for this hobby and it feels like forever since I found anything good. How can silver dimes, pre '82 pennies and bottle caps be the same ID#? Probably 90% of the coins I find are pre-1982 Lincoln pennies. Those low-80s tones on the Delta. How can different metals all ring up the same?
Also how can something be a solid 82-84 then you get it out of the dirt and it's a bottle cap and pass the coil over and it's 77? Driving me nuts.
If it's a coin alone in a field on a wet day sitting perfectly horizontal under the soil the Delta is accurate on it to 8". Anything less than that perfect scenario is a lot of digging for little reward. I'm kind of bummed I bought a sniper coil and it doesn't help dig better targets either.
I've come to the conclusion after a year of this that I need an upgrade, at least something I can take on the beach.
I'm this close to pulling the trigger on an upgrade to a Nox 600. The parks I hunt are trashy AF and I need a machine that will tell a bottlecap from a Barber dime.
Will a Nox help? Please tell me this is a detector issue. I do not want to throw good money after bad.