A buddy and I went to Atlantic City for a day of beach hunting. Well it turned into about 5 hrs of hunting. We hunted right in front of two large Casinos where it can be a challenge because of Iron.
The Bad about the Nox 600
I hunted mostly in the wash between wet sand and rolling water. The Equinox requires two different settings to do this. Beach 1 and 2. Or I suppose you could just turn down the Sensitivity in Beach 1 and stay there. But in the wet sand I want Deep! While hunting with any BBS unit you don't normally have to make any adjustments between the two.
In the dry sand the Equinox is worthless. Just too many bottle caps and too much trash. My buddy only hunts the dry sand with his Sovereign. We would get together for communication every so often. He has a Sovereign and skips the caps with ease. I was there for 20 min and dug 7.
The good.......
In the wet sand the Equinox was just awesome. Target ID was flawless. I was there for a limited time and did pass up penny signals at the end. Probably about twenty of them are there waiting. This detector is deep for using an 11 inch coil. I ran Sensitivity at 20. I am new to the Nox and I just wanted stability. As long as I stayed in the water or on the wet sand stability was not an issue. Only transitioning between the two. When that VDI number comes in low and locks on from two directions you know it is something unique and needs to be dug.
The Nox hit a chain in the lower right of the pic. I think it is low K gold, but it is broken and any stamp is gone. But the chain was found just like it looks now. Not curled up. No bigger link. The 600 hit it about 5 inches.
A small 14 k ring down at the bottom is beside a dime for comparison of size. The Nox hit this ring at least 8 inches deep. It is a very thin band and it is stamped. I thought it was junk until I saw a name engraved in it.
Junk bling, a bunch of clad, and an official dog tag from one of our young men serving.
1 22 casing which I swear was deep as heck. I was quite impressed with that so I left it in the pic.
Over all Nox opinion......I think the 600 is a very nice detector for the price. I am new to it, but I am very experienced at sand hunting which is why I bought it. It is a pleasure to swing and just a pleasure to use compared to strapping on a chest mounted Sovereign or using an Excal. I naturally compared my experience mentally with using my BBS units. It does a few things better like hitting that chain. I think the BBS units would have missed it. Also the recovery between the iron. I hunted in all metal and could here the iron. In the wet sand I saw nothing a CTX can do that an Equinox 600 can not do. Back and forth in the surf and dry sand a different story.
I want to love it and go to a new updated arsenal and get rid of the clunky equipment, but the Nox just isn't there yet. It needs a good update to deal with bottle caps. Yes you do get a little scratch with them, but not enough to be sure. Especially on a beach.
One shout out to Tony Eisenhower and his MSA waterproof headphones. I had the volume up all the way on the the Nox. I had the threshold up. These headphones worked fine on those settings, and this beach was loud including music from a guy with a homemade entertainment system on wheels.
I had fun on the beach. My buddy had fun in the Casino. Can't wait to do it again.
The Bad about the Nox 600
I hunted mostly in the wash between wet sand and rolling water. The Equinox requires two different settings to do this. Beach 1 and 2. Or I suppose you could just turn down the Sensitivity in Beach 1 and stay there. But in the wet sand I want Deep! While hunting with any BBS unit you don't normally have to make any adjustments between the two.
In the dry sand the Equinox is worthless. Just too many bottle caps and too much trash. My buddy only hunts the dry sand with his Sovereign. We would get together for communication every so often. He has a Sovereign and skips the caps with ease. I was there for 20 min and dug 7.
The good.......
In the wet sand the Equinox was just awesome. Target ID was flawless. I was there for a limited time and did pass up penny signals at the end. Probably about twenty of them are there waiting. This detector is deep for using an 11 inch coil. I ran Sensitivity at 20. I am new to the Nox and I just wanted stability. As long as I stayed in the water or on the wet sand stability was not an issue. Only transitioning between the two. When that VDI number comes in low and locks on from two directions you know it is something unique and needs to be dug.
The Nox hit a chain in the lower right of the pic. I think it is low K gold, but it is broken and any stamp is gone. But the chain was found just like it looks now. Not curled up. No bigger link. The 600 hit it about 5 inches.
A small 14 k ring down at the bottom is beside a dime for comparison of size. The Nox hit this ring at least 8 inches deep. It is a very thin band and it is stamped. I thought it was junk until I saw a name engraved in it.
Junk bling, a bunch of clad, and an official dog tag from one of our young men serving.
1 22 casing which I swear was deep as heck. I was quite impressed with that so I left it in the pic.
Over all Nox opinion......I think the 600 is a very nice detector for the price. I am new to it, but I am very experienced at sand hunting which is why I bought it. It is a pleasure to swing and just a pleasure to use compared to strapping on a chest mounted Sovereign or using an Excal. I naturally compared my experience mentally with using my BBS units. It does a few things better like hitting that chain. I think the BBS units would have missed it. Also the recovery between the iron. I hunted in all metal and could here the iron. In the wet sand I saw nothing a CTX can do that an Equinox 600 can not do. Back and forth in the surf and dry sand a different story.
I want to love it and go to a new updated arsenal and get rid of the clunky equipment, but the Nox just isn't there yet. It needs a good update to deal with bottle caps. Yes you do get a little scratch with them, but not enough to be sure. Especially on a beach.
One shout out to Tony Eisenhower and his MSA waterproof headphones. I had the volume up all the way on the the Nox. I had the threshold up. These headphones worked fine on those settings, and this beach was loud including music from a guy with a homemade entertainment system on wheels.
I had fun on the beach. My buddy had fun in the Casino. Can't wait to do it again.
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