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From a common sense point of view, in clean ground dig a 4 inch deep hole and put a US penny size coin in it and see how much sensitivity it takes to get a good signal. You will be surprised how much you can find with that low of a setting. Practice for a while and then increase sensitivity.
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You could try this for old topo that may show something. https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#10/43.0112/-78.0029 It takes a little work to learn the website, but I have found it really handy.
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Do You Dig Signals With No ID And No 2d Trace?
Dug D replied to Dug D's topic in Minelab Manticore Forum
Thanks guys, its good to hear I am not the only one digging on the ragged edge at times. The detectorists in my area are as good as they get, hunting before zinc pennies were being made and not afraid to run old detectors in all metal and dig it all. I don't understand how detectors can give a high tone and not give an ID of some kind, and now also fail to show some shadow of dot on the 2D screen. My other Minelabs also do that, faint high tone and you guess. -
At the edge of detection, I only get a faint high tone difficult to easily repeat, but they repeat "enough" xing the target, but no ID, no trace, no depth indication, barley a pinpoint signal ? Search mode and settings don't make much difference other than I am going slow. Settings adjustments rarely reduce the uncertainty of what is in the ground. I have pulled out small bits of iron, I think once it was an IH cut in half about 9 inches, but sometimes I just seem to loose the signal like it might of broken up digging it out. Anyone else dig these or have similar results ? I'm usually in old parks. Am I wasting my time on wishful thinking ?
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Why Would A Diamond Have A Number On The Face
Dug D replied to mn90403's topic in Metal Detecting For Jewelry
Recently a friend of mine and girlfriend bought a manufactured diamond, they look spectacular and are cheaper than real but still a diamond, maybe its nothing more than a serial number? and a way to track down the owner ? -
I updated my 800 both times so I am also on the version that includes 4khz. I would recommend the updates, I saw no downside only improvements. (not that I use the 4 khz all that much, mostly just for testing signals)
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Yes, I found exactly what you said, but after reading it a lightbulb came on, in that, maybe my tones/profile/volume is set all wrong for my worst trash situations.
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I wish I could set a steep angle in the start and end point in each range, that would translate to any signal that only varied a little bit in ID numbers would have a near consistent tone and using conventional wisdom you could tell without looking if you had a good target, especially if you have notched out "bad" IDs. I am pretty sure I can't make this work with the Manticore.
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I think you are right, it can be done with just the start and end points. A couple configurations I have tried to quiet what I didn't want to hear. Its possible this looks crazy as far volumes, I'm using a BT transmitter and ear buds and even at the low volumes I hear the low tones, not sure if the regular headphones would be the same.
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New Untouched Colonial Homestead
Dug D replied to NJ Art's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
One question, how are you communicating with us from heaven ? -
Any Peeps On Here Who Regret Purchasing The Mighty Manticore?
Dug D replied to Guinea1's topic in Minelab Manticore Forum
The jury is still out for this trashy park hunter, with my nox 800 I could average 60% good targets and 40% bad, on my worst days, Mcore I can only hit 40% good to 60% bad on my best day. That is a frustrating difference. 🙁 My last 3 hour trip I dug 80 targets 20 were good, some were intentional test digs to confirm junk, but most gave enough good signal that I felt I had to check them. Trust in the Mcore is not coming easy. -
I think a big step forward would be a detector circuit that only detects aluminum and indicated that on the screen, sort of like how detectors treat iron/red numbers. Imagine if the Manticore had a range where aluminum appeared like the iron does top and bottom of the screen or yellow numbers.