I got a stretch of decent winter weather here in northeast Ohio and have been adjusting to the 600. I made the mistake of running the 600 too hot for the first couple of hunts. Today, I ran park one with all stock adjustments and dropped the sensitivity to 18. I believe the hot adjustments caused too much ground noise and made the signals scratchy. Almost all of the deeper signals were not clear at all, but with no changes to the stock park one, the signals were clear, clean, and concise. The place I hunted today is littered with all kinds of trash and the 600 was like a different detector. I was amazed to hear three or four 14 to 16 signals with every sweep. My first lock on coin signal was a 12- 13 and four bars deep. From seven inches a Buffalo nickel. I found a handful of clad at various depths in the next half hour. Finally a deep 24-26 that had a slight iron buzz when I checked it in all metal. The signal in disc was clean and I had a feeling I had a coin next to iron. First piece I found was a rusty nut. I checked the hole again with the pinpointer and found an old wheat that was in the side of the hole. The next wheat I found was again co-existing with rusty iron.
I hunted another two hours and was finding loads of clad, but no more older coins. Funny thing, I dug hardly any junk. I always do what Joe Val does, but not as precisely as him. I count my junk to coin ratio, but usually give up on that after an hour or so. Today, my coin pouch was fuller than my junk pouch. I moved across the road to higher ground that was not as muddy. I hardly ever find any thing but clad at this section of the fairgrounds. My first target was a very deep(8 inches) 18 signal. I saw a glimpse of gold and it was a yellow coin. About had a heart attack, but turned out to be a 20 Euro coin. How it got this deep is beyond me. Ten feet further I got a very loud and clean lock on 28 signal. Lifted the coil a couple of inches and the signal never varied. When I got the target out of the ground, I could not see it even when I touched it with my pinpointer. It was almost black, but dime sized. A discolored mercury dime that was 7 inches or so deep. I was amazed to see it that deep. The signal was quite loud.
I really think the 600 is the best coin hunter bargain on the market. Now for the bad. I have had many surgeries to straighten my wrists. I had compound fractures of both wrists in 1980 and both of the outside bones(not sure of the name) are dislocated and the ends trimmed. I had to give up on the Etrac because the handle angle was changed from the original Explorers. As light as the 600 is , I am having bad pain from the angle of the handle. If the pain persists, I will have to give up on the Nox. Hopefully I can somehow adjust. Maybe I can configure a Whites S rod assembly.
I hunted another two hours and was finding loads of clad, but no more older coins. Funny thing, I dug hardly any junk. I always do what Joe Val does, but not as precisely as him. I count my junk to coin ratio, but usually give up on that after an hour or so. Today, my coin pouch was fuller than my junk pouch. I moved across the road to higher ground that was not as muddy. I hardly ever find any thing but clad at this section of the fairgrounds. My first target was a very deep(8 inches) 18 signal. I saw a glimpse of gold and it was a yellow coin. About had a heart attack, but turned out to be a 20 Euro coin. How it got this deep is beyond me. Ten feet further I got a very loud and clean lock on 28 signal. Lifted the coil a couple of inches and the signal never varied. When I got the target out of the ground, I could not see it even when I touched it with my pinpointer. It was almost black, but dime sized. A discolored mercury dime that was 7 inches or so deep. I was amazed to see it that deep. The signal was quite loud.
I really think the 600 is the best coin hunter bargain on the market. Now for the bad. I have had many surgeries to straighten my wrists. I had compound fractures of both wrists in 1980 and both of the outside bones(not sure of the name) are dislocated and the ends trimmed. I had to give up on the Etrac because the handle angle was changed from the original Explorers. As light as the 600 is , I am having bad pain from the angle of the handle. If the pain persists, I will have to give up on the Nox. Hopefully I can somehow adjust. Maybe I can configure a Whites S rod assembly.
