longbow62
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One thing I learned this past Friday....I was water hunting an old resort area with my Nox. My mentor had his Excal. He found a deep target, told me to check it out with my Nox. It was so faint...could barely hear it and was an iron grunt at negative numbers that only showed up one-way....Normally, I would NEVER have dug that. Well, he told me to dig it and about 14 inches down was a crusty "cookie coin". When I knocked the crust off, it turned out to be a 1940 quarter! He told me that's what the deep gold sounds like. Found 3 other silver coins that day chasing those barely audible, one-way sounds!
You must been hauling around a lot of iron by the end of the day if you were digging negative numbers.
The one setting all machines should have is a audio gain imo. Deus and fbs machines are the only ones I know of to have that feature. Bump it up and faint sounds become clearer and louder. Just the most useful feature I've ever come across on any machine.
The only thing about that is it screws up being able to tell how big the target is and the depth the target is based on loudness. See my response to CallMeGrey below.
I have dug deep when I first started. Pinpointer would be beeping at 10-14 inches deep. Finally learned to just stop digging. But... I just read some information from 2 different people with a Nox 800.
Here in Wisconsin, people find copper float. Anywhere from the size smaller than a golf ball all the way up to 52 tons! The two said they got a nice deep 30-31 signal at 12 inches. When they dug, they went down 18-20 inches to find a piece of copper float about the size of an axe head. I'd really like to find some copper float, but not sure I'm willing to dig that deep.
With the 800 I've dug a Walker that was at least 14", and just a whisper. I've dug a Stander that was close to that deep same thing. Sweet tone but so quite. The same with a bunch of Mercs in the 10" range. Numbers were spot on too where the ground was milder.
If your getting a whisper high tone that literally disappears if you raise the coil up any at all, and your getting it 360 degrees around the target I'd dig those every time down to 14'-16". I've dug a few Wheats so deep the numbers would not show anything on the screen, but I had the whisper high tone 360 degrees around the target.
With the 800 you can selectively jack the volume of certain bins and the pitch if hunting in say 5 tones which is all I hunt in.
The same thing can be said of nickels with the 800. I've dug several V nickels 10" plus.