morelic1955
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Have not been on here for a few years, mostly busy with other things in life. Decided to get back to relic hunting. Still a rabid X-Terra 70 fan, as I have dug hundreds of bullets and buttons with them, yes I have 2 early production models, the best out there!
I have a dear friend that is a dealer and he was too a real 705 user. Well, he started to use the Equinox 800 when he 1st got it in. He was really impressed with it, so last week I decided to get one and give it a go. When I first saw it I was a little intimated by
all of the settings, so he set me up to the way he was running it in field 2. Well a few swipes over my old relic test bed and I decided to change it up some. Went to field 1 for the 2 tones I was use to on the X-Terra and notched in all above iron. Weird that
it blanks out in the threshold in any mode that it has. Anyways went to hunt yesterday at a spot that we and others have literally hammered over the years. I have to say the Nox is more sensitive than the X-terra on .22 bullets, was digging them at 6 inches!
All in all to me after using the X-Terra for over 10 years, the Nox, to me is very similar in a lot of ways.
The buttons in our area are a sad sight, got a cuff and a coat button in rough shape, in fact, 10 years ago they would of been whole with good backs and shanks. The 2 fired .36 St Louis Arsenal tear drop bullets were found at at least 6" deep.
The jury is still out on the Nox, my beloved X-Terra's are on the hangers for backup right now.
I have a dear friend that is a dealer and he was too a real 705 user. Well, he started to use the Equinox 800 when he 1st got it in. He was really impressed with it, so last week I decided to get one and give it a go. When I first saw it I was a little intimated by
all of the settings, so he set me up to the way he was running it in field 2. Well a few swipes over my old relic test bed and I decided to change it up some. Went to field 1 for the 2 tones I was use to on the X-Terra and notched in all above iron. Weird that
it blanks out in the threshold in any mode that it has. Anyways went to hunt yesterday at a spot that we and others have literally hammered over the years. I have to say the Nox is more sensitive than the X-terra on .22 bullets, was digging them at 6 inches!
All in all to me after using the X-Terra for over 10 years, the Nox, to me is very similar in a lot of ways.
The buttons in our area are a sad sight, got a cuff and a coat button in rough shape, in fact, 10 years ago they would of been whole with good backs and shanks. The 2 fired .36 St Louis Arsenal tear drop bullets were found at at least 6" deep.
The jury is still out on the Nox, my beloved X-Terra's are on the hangers for backup right now.
