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Hunterjunk

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Hunterjunk last won the day on October 15 2020

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    Tasmania , Australia
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    Detecting , Fishing , Archery , Shooting , and war history
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    Whites MXT , Whites coinmaster , Whites Surf P.I. , Whites MX5 , Makro gold racer , Minelab Equinox , Minelab 2100 Nokta relic , Nokta Simplex , Minelab Manticore

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  1. On the beach I dig many targets that are just a slight warble in the ground noise , no id at all . This is on target depleted white sand beach's using Beach deep , and sens as high as 27-31 . It's amazing how targets get so deep . The Manticore has power to burn , you just have to find suitable places to use that power , listen hard , dig even harder !
  2. Goldfinger , I hope you have a small army with you when detecting in Mindanao ! It's the home of the Abu Sayef who are very prone to abductions , ransoming and beheadings . White people are a target of theirs . Even up in Luzon where my wife comes from has it's dangers . Communist separists there are nearly as bad . They often come into conflict with the authority's . Big battle there just a few weeks ago . Life can be very cheap there , take care .
  3. Version 1 will do me . A recent trip with the M8 saw me digging gold so small it will not register on my scales . I don't want to detect any smaller !
  4. No problem getting the 8" in Australia , stock in all stores . Very strange that supply is not better in the USA . Have found my 8" to be a ripper stable coil and great on small gold . Probably not quite as good as the 6" on the Nox but runs with less falsing and the extra ground coverage pleases me . Still using version 1 Manticore .
  5. Your on some great ground there ! Love finding silver pipe bands and working out the dates . Your find is in great nick . Looking forward to seeing further finds from that area .
  6. Ripper button F350 ! I wish there were some oldies like that here . You were very lucky to get away with the injuries that you have . So many people here cripple themselves , or in even die , falling from heights in their latter years . Get well soon , there's more of those beautiful buttons out there !
  7. 16 Plus .....Wow ! That's amazing and testament to your skills and sites . I have found 4 and feel blessed to have done so .
  8. Congrats on finding a great site and recovering a gold coin . Finding a gold coin is such a buzz and never gets old providing inspiration to keep on hunting . Like others here I look forward to seeing further finds from your site .
  9. I laughed at VL's post because I assumed when he wrote they "were panning , for a while anyway" to mean they became bored and engaged in some amorous outdoor activity , getting caught in the act . I think a number of us thought the same thing , and that it's funny . Having had that sort of experience myself on a supposedly deserted beach , and with the young lady desperately trying to cover up I said " why bother , they have already seen everything anyway " ! You have to laugh about things like that . I hope VL understands where my laugh came from .
  10. Miners Den , Bendigo have them listed with a retail price . They are taking pre orders with a deposit , so we should be seeing these coils very soon ..... after a long wait !
  11. The opium bottle is a good find . A fair few turn up on the Chinese diggings here in in Tasmania , mostly broken . I was lucky enough to dig an unbroken one while digging a Chinese coin a few years ago . I have seen them in two colors . I know about them self destructing too ! Two that I had recovered by sieving were sitting inside on my window shelf . A hard frost one morning saw both of them shatter into little bits like the old tempered wind screens used to. Opium tins here were made from very thin brass and measured roughly 2 x 4 inches and half inch thick . They had a small area of Chinese writing on them that I still find occasionally on some fragments . There was a brass band that slipped over the two halves which was made of thicker material so surviving better in the ground . The fragments of these tins can make for many extra digs during a hunt . Last year I dug a part of one of these tins and when I unfolded the brass sheet there was the remains of a white paper label with a red dragon on it . A few days later when I went to photo my hunt finds I was horrified to see that the red ink had almost totally disappeared ! A few days exposed to light and air had undone the 140 years preservation under the ground . Lesson learned , the hard way !
  12. Interesting seeing these issues with the 105's . I have no trouble charging mine , doesn't take long . When I disconnect the power from mine when fully charged about 50% of the time they then go onto WiFi search . At first I did not notice the little blue light was on , and still was the next day . Wondered why they went flat very quickly at the beach ! Now I always check and often have to turn the headphones off . Seems that we will see more of these issues over time .
  13. Thanks from me to all those who are posting their update experiences . I am carefully reading every post , and being very cautious . The Manticore in it's original form has been doing very well for me . It's beach performance in particular is outstanding , and in the bush it's pulling coins from hard hit sites . So I will sit on the fence for a while yet and try to get an overall picture from all your experiences . on here and other social media .
  14. Lucky you ! I consider the TRX to be the best there is . I'll take a dozen at that price !
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