I started out October with a theft of five of my all-time favorite detectors from my Chevy Tahoe, every search coil I had for two Impacts, with the exception of the 14X15.[size=small]5[/size] DD, and all of my Relic search coils that were all in two Nokta backpack detector bags I was using to tore all my accessories. I am still holding out hope that the custom powder coated Relic's and CoRe will show up to be recovered, and the Impact, but out of everything stolen, the one I felt most compelled to replace in my Regular-Use Detector Team was the Impact.
As of Friday evening, I have added a new Impact Pro Pack back into my arsenal as well as all of the other search coils I want and need for it, giving me now a complete package of Nokta coils. I just need one more lower Impact rod and four middle Impact rods to have my accessory coils all mounted and ready for a quick change afield. I also outfitted one of my plastic totes to carry all my extra search coils and rods instead of bags, then sat down Friday evening to adjust all of the 12 modes for the program settings I like and get them saved.
For the bulk of the sites I search, the 7" Concentric coil is my favorite and most used so I mounted it on the Impact I had left at my son's shop. The new Impact currently sports the new open-frame 5X9½ DD for slightly better coverage and working some of the sports fields I get to during the winter season when the higher elevation ghost towns and the like get snowed in. When I shift to hunting the nastiest of nasty iron choked old places, that Impact will have the round 5" DD attached and be ready-to-grab.
I also noticed with this new Impact that the good folks at Nokta are alert to anything they feel might make a little improvement in their detector design because two of the new lower rods have the coil cable insert-hole on the right-hand side of the rod instead of on the bottom side. Also, the hole is slightly larger to help eliminate any binding, and the lower plastic section is redesigned with a plastic rim or shroud, if you will, to keep the middle rod from pinching the coil cable when the two rods are shortened to their extreme. Nothing really wrong with the original design and I haven't had any issues with it, but it shows a continued effort to ensure they are producing one of the best detectors in the industry.
Just thought I'd share my thoughts about how much I like the Impact. Very comfortable to handle, well balanced, quite versatile, and they have provided an exceptional array of search coils for it to suit anyone's need or wants. Unless they get stolen, which I hope certainly hope never happens again, my Impacts are never going to be replaced. They are, and will remain, permanent fixtures in my Regular-Use Detector battery. Those who have them and have learned them know what I mean and can share the excitement of putting them to work in any detecting adventure they can imagine on land.
Just want to wish fellow Nokta detector owners the best of success when they venture afield as 2017 is drawing towards an end.
Monte
[size=small]PS: The wishes for enjoyment and success includes all those who, like me, also use and enjoy the FORS CoRe and FORS Relic models as well.[/size]
As of Friday evening, I have added a new Impact Pro Pack back into my arsenal as well as all of the other search coils I want and need for it, giving me now a complete package of Nokta coils. I just need one more lower Impact rod and four middle Impact rods to have my accessory coils all mounted and ready for a quick change afield. I also outfitted one of my plastic totes to carry all my extra search coils and rods instead of bags, then sat down Friday evening to adjust all of the 12 modes for the program settings I like and get them saved.
For the bulk of the sites I search, the 7" Concentric coil is my favorite and most used so I mounted it on the Impact I had left at my son's shop. The new Impact currently sports the new open-frame 5X9½ DD for slightly better coverage and working some of the sports fields I get to during the winter season when the higher elevation ghost towns and the like get snowed in. When I shift to hunting the nastiest of nasty iron choked old places, that Impact will have the round 5" DD attached and be ready-to-grab.
I also noticed with this new Impact that the good folks at Nokta are alert to anything they feel might make a little improvement in their detector design because two of the new lower rods have the coil cable insert-hole on the right-hand side of the rod instead of on the bottom side. Also, the hole is slightly larger to help eliminate any binding, and the lower plastic section is redesigned with a plastic rim or shroud, if you will, to keep the middle rod from pinching the coil cable when the two rods are shortened to their extreme. Nothing really wrong with the original design and I haven't had any issues with it, but it shows a continued effort to ensure they are producing one of the best detectors in the industry.
Just thought I'd share my thoughts about how much I like the Impact. Very comfortable to handle, well balanced, quite versatile, and they have provided an exceptional array of search coils for it to suit anyone's need or wants. Unless they get stolen, which I hope certainly hope never happens again, my Impacts are never going to be replaced. They are, and will remain, permanent fixtures in my Regular-Use Detector battery. Those who have them and have learned them know what I mean and can share the excitement of putting them to work in any detecting adventure they can imagine on land.
Just want to wish fellow Nokta detector owners the best of success when they venture afield as 2017 is drawing towards an end.
Monte
[size=small]PS: The wishes for enjoyment and success includes all those who, like me, also use and enjoy the FORS CoRe and FORS Relic models as well.[/size]
Hope your equipment turns up, I suspect with it's unique customization, someone will spot it.
