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Just making a comment , I wish , do not have a PI anymore . Need to come across enough findings gold , silver ] to add to my toys / tools 😉 But thanks for being here / there

What about fibreglass? D4G

What feedback was the mop giving you? Hope you were properly ground balanced & not too many false signals. Sounds like you can't get a break when wifey goes outdoors with you. Bit of a jinks going on there. Or are you pulling our legs. April fools was a month ago. D4G

That sure is an amazing snake poo 🤣 Photo test. From an iPhone

That's better Phrunt. Even though it is non gold related. D4G

One thing is for sure is that those who haven't had it done will never know what they have missed. So is that a bad thing? In their minds it was never there in the first place. I am one of those & I use headphones. My settings are Normal & Manual full max sensitivity. All due to our mild ground. My skunk days are far far less than my "successful" days. But you don't have to find a retirement nugget to say you found a piece of gold. Can just be a fly poo but I wouldn't mind a piece the size of that snake poo that Phrunt posted up. So while I haven't had the "fix" done am I operating on ignorance is bliss & I am actually missing gold? Guess I should check up on my warranty. D4G

Can anyone tell me how you file a complaint against customs for damaging an Item I ordered that came in from Bulgaria I recently ordered a coil for a Golden Mask 7 metal detector and customs literally destroyed the coil by drilling 5 holes through the top of the coil and through the windings of the coil and then re packaged it, have no clue what they thought they were doing by what they did, they could have ran this coil through their ex ray machines and most likely seen that it contained no drugs or any other illegal things, in my opinion this is blatant miss handling of a product that came in from an outside country, I see this as vandalism of property, and just someone up to no good, luckily I had also ordered a 13x11 coil that escaped customs scrutiny, and mischievous behavior, I believe this was done after it arrived to the U.S also in either New York or Cincinnati Ohio, which is the route it took before coming to Tucson I have contacted Golden Mask and awaiting a response but with it being the week end I most likely will not receive a reply back until next week Also this post is for a heads up of what could take place when ordering something from another country like coils and things like that

I didn't even know snakes poo'd like that, never crossed my mind. test from my phone, slow start to the day for the little guy.

very odd. Scott can't seem to upload from his phone, image is not too large, appears to be correct format. I did a test on his account and it works for me, and with things working for you guys it's looking like an issue on his end. Seriously Simon, snakes laying giant turds? What happened to stuff like this? (png file - another test)

Detector sold to a guy in western Montana. Man thanks! Jim

Just posted this photo to see if it was working on my end and no issues for myself

Thats gross. What planet Phrunt? D4G

I happened to upload 8 or 9 images for one of my posts about an hour ago (roughly the time of your post) and had no issues. ….And literally “holy cr@p” on the snake poo!! That thing would clog a toilet!!

Made a trip to Auckland yesterday. Ate some of the green mussels and will be back in Los Angeles the same day I leave here. I leave here at 1 PM and get to LA at 6:30 AM! Thoroughly enjoyed the trip. I'll get a total on the miles/kms when I turn in the van. Thanks Simon, JW and New Zealand. I've got a feeling I'll be back.

It sounds like our dirt is pretty different. So, not sure I could be of much help, really. Curious how you are running the audio though. Very much personal preference. But I only run in 1 region all tones. I find the audio tells of full tones helpful. I do usually run ATHC in park turf. But in iron infested ghost town sites I prefer ATLC or maybe ATG, specifically because I get fooled by iron less in those modes than ATHC. In my dirt, running recovery at 4 is what I consider getting aggressive and less choosy about targets. I almost always get tighter ID's at better depth running at 5 or 6. Truly masked, is truly masked, and I don't know how to overcome that. At 5 or 6 recovery though, what may often sound like a single target at 4, represents as two targets. This is not what I'd call truly masked. More like co-located. But at this point, after using the Manticore a lot for well over a year now, I feel it's a good bit better at sniffing out a good co-located target than the 800 I used to use. My dirt just won't tolerate the kind of sensitivity you are running. About the only time I get over 20 is with the M8. In a nutshell though. My thoughts at this stage in my experience with the Manticore, I "tune" for stability and tight VIDs and let depth take care of itself. If I'm bumping up the sensitivity and bumping the recovery speed down, it's because I'm pretty much planning to dig anything that sounds deep. - Dave

Just tested with a small size image to not waste space knowing the threads getting nuked anyway, plus the image amazed me, a snake taking a poo in QLD, Australia. Nature is amazing.

Ok, I see the confusion now, the dealer is misrepresenting the coil, it's not an Elite at all, it's a DD Pro. No such thing as a DD Pro Elite. The DD Pro is the newer version of the now discontinued Goldstalker DD. Neither are spiral, neither are an Elite coil, which is the spiral range name. Goldstalkers are bundle wound.

That video was a real eye opener, the guy was a bit baffled as he was obviously going over the nuggets for the first time, not some staged video, he'd not seen the results before doing it and difficult really shocked him missing that nugget, when such an easy target for normal. I guess as Steve always points out, the more filtering, the more stuff you're balancing out there is a chance that gold could be in that balanced out spot. Difficult handles bad ground and hot rocks better at the expense of missing some gold that would otherwise be an easy target. As for the EMI fix, still never heard of one person who has had it done and noticed no difference, even headphone only people.

Apologies in advance for a very long post. I’ve only been using the Manticore (MC) for a couple weeks, and I only have about 15 hours on the machine, so I’m a long way from being a master. I’m coming from 5 years loving the Equinox 800 (EQ800) and 7 total years detecting experience. I’ve seen many comments from more experienced detectorists stating that the MC is really a completely different machine than the EQ800 - it’s not just a “souped up Equinox”. Despite hearing that, it’s hard to resist the urge to draw parallels and try to correlate my previous hard earned experience with what I’m seeing and hearing on the MC to try and speed up the learning curve….and maybe that’s why I’m running into trouble! Like many others, I’m finding that I’m digging way more iron nails than I ever have with previous machines. Here’s the iron from my last few hunts, versus a total of $1.47 in clad and 4 Wheat pennies: I don’t mean that I’m getting completely fooled - often the machine is providing hints that the target has ferrous qualities. I believe my problem stems from my hopes of unearthing a deep, partially masked coin. I don’t put a lot of stock into air tests, and usually don’t waste much time on them, but when I first bought the MC, I did a series of air tests to help me learn what the 2D screen might look like in various situations. The shape of the target trace on this particular set up stuck in my mind (Barber quarter next to a square nail): Swinging over the above combination resulted in these pretty distinctive target traces: I was pretty impressed with the 2D trace’s ability in the air test to clearly show strong evidence of a good masked target. Unfortunately, once in the field, I quickly re-learned that air tests don’t accurately reflect the behavior of old iron that has marinated in the ground for a handful or two of decades. It appears that every deep buried nail in existence creates the exact same target trace! Here’s an example of the traces for a deep target that I hoped was a masked coin, but turned out to be a solitary, large iron nail: In the case above, I was originally searching using sensitivity set at 20, using the “less is more” philosophy suggested in other posts to help avoid iron falsing issues. Once I isolated what I initially thought might be a good high tone target, I turned 90 degrees at sensitivity 20, and still had a centerline non-ferrous, but slightly skewed to the upper left. The photos above show me progressively raising the sensitivity…only at 27 did the target truly start to reveal what it really was…just a deep nail. If I left the sensitivity at 20, circled the target, and then dug, I actually would have been genuinely fooled by the nail. Here’s another field example of traces - this is the only one out of dozens that turned out to be a masked target…a clad dime co-located with a large iron nail. Again, my initial target discovery swing was while using sensitivity 20, and I raised the sensitivity to 25 as a checker to see if I could coax out signs of iron falsing (I might keep this permanently as a soft key). Honestly, the traces at both sensitivity settings looked similar, but all the photos were taken at 25: As you can see in all of the photos above, I’m using ATHC, which is the mode most prone to falsing due to the very low frequency weighting. But I had the same experience using ATLC - I kept feeling enticed to dig each of these type of iffy targets on the hopes of uncovering masked targets, and instead coming home with dozens of iron nails and one clad dime for my efforts. Recovery speed was set at 4 throughout all hunts. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not blaming the machine…it’s telling me these are iffy targets. I’m the masochist that’s deciding to dig all of them! Of course, all machines false to a degree, especially on deep nails. On the EQ800, I developed a technique that worked well for me - when turning on a deep target, if I had an iron tone at least 50% of the way around the target, I confidently walked away. If the high tone continued most of the way around, with say only 25% or less of the circle giving some iron, I would dig - sometimes I would still be wrong, but often times I’d get rewarded with a good target. I rarely came home with more than a one or two nails in my pouch, and rarely was one a complete surprise. With the Manticore, it looks like I may have set my expectations too high on what I can discern from the 2D trace regarding masked targets based on the air test traces. But also, the Manticore seems to high tone alert much more enthusiastically and more frequently on deep iron in general. With the EQ800 with F2 set at 1 or 2, I was stopping to investigate these kinds of “falsing/iffy” targets a handful of times across a couple hour hunt. With the MC, this is a constant task - every other swing is giving me a high tone to investigate and spend precious time evaluating…even as I learn to ignore these as falsing, it’s incredibly time consuming and eating into my enjoyment as they all inevitably get discarded as falsing, or worse, dug. All this is to say, I’m looking for any advice from more experienced MC users to help keep the false high tones more under control, and better recognize a truly masked non-ferrous target versus falsing iron. Overall, the soil in my area is extremely mild, as determined by the mineralization meter on a Nokta Legend (consistently zero bars on the mineralization meter). I’ll try ATLC again, but my first few hunts were using that mode with similar results. Lowering the sensitivity doesn’t seem to be the answer, because I’ve actually had to raise sensitivity in many cases to get an iron response (traces in the grey zones) - otherwise many of these falsing nails would have looked and sounded dang good. Increasing my ferrous limits likewise doesn’t seem to be the right answer without completely eliminating the chance to hit on anything even remotely masked. Thanks in advance for any advice!

My wife is such an amazing woman. Before we got married she told me. I will work and help put you through college because I have no desire to go to college. Then I want to be a stay at home mom and be a professional house-wife. Well she has fulfilled that promise and then some. I live in an immaculate home. She is a mind boggling cook and a baker, and she loves going around the yard tending to the plants. Then she gets a bag and one of those grabber tools and walks the neighborhood picking up whatever debris has blown in. She is a bit on the OCD side when it comes to cleanliness. She actually loves the outdoors. She was from a small farming community called Morton Illinois. I always say I married a "farm girl." She says I did not live on a farm! I say, OK, then tell me what you did for a job for three summers when you were a teenager. (She worked detasseling corn!) I tell her only a farm girl would detassel corn We have three children and she gave birth to all of them naturally. Absolutely no drugs, she just did Lamaz. She is loving and family means everything to her. But she is tough as nails. Especially when you consider our second son weighed 9 lbs 13 ounces. The doctor was begging her to let him give her an epidural. She said no way, and if you say it again I will fire you. I said to the nurse, "She can't fire her OB right in the middle of giving birth can she?" The nurse said, "I have a feeling that your wife could do just about anything she puts her mind to." Doc

As in like right now? Sourdough Scott is having an issue but I can’t replicate it. Here is a test I'm uploading right now. This thread may get deleted later so don't upload any test images you care about going away.

Is it a mono or DD. Better yet I need an ANTI-INTERFERENCE because it's bad enough that she made me mop she had to keep telling me how to do it, and that I was doing it all wrong. Apparently, you have to put the mop in the bucket and get it wet before you start swinging it on the floor. "Who knew?" Doc

It filled up nice during the day, one day was so windy in the afternoon it cleared out, but it was not as packed as I've seen it. Also this is after Spring Break. It's South Myrtle Beach, called Surfside, you can see the city in some of my photos. Myrtle Beach is about 5 miles north. My RV is a 40 foot Grand Design Momentum 351M Toy Hauler, basically a palace with a garage. 🤔 My forum name is what I pull it with. 🙂

Not sure if you were trying to post a picture but I assume you are getting an error message. Reset the detector to factory defaults, and if the error persists, contact Minelab for assistance. Assuming we are talking the stock Minelab coil. If aftermarket, contact the coil vendor.

I took a long trip to Baja in the 90’s all the way south with a girlfriend and we camped out alone on the beaches. Everyone we met along the way were extremely nice and helpful, and most of all generous. We ran out our battery at one camp site and asked a local if he had jumper cables. He walked back from his house carrying a car battery and swapped mine out with it to get us started. It was his house battery from his solar system. I just assumed that he had a car, and didn’t even consider that his only vehicle may have been his fishing boat. Another fisherman kept leaving live crabs at our camp each day and wouldn’t take money for them (we gave him our extra canned food when we left), and at another camp we had neighbors- a military unit arrived and set up a camp next to us and invited us to stay. We had 24hour armed sentries posted on either end of the road leading to where we were and they’d politely say good morning and evening to us whenever we walked by them. They also set up what looked like some antenna poles up on the beach and to our surprise, they ended up being volleyball net supports and we played beach volleyball with them- have you ever played volleyball with fellow teammates who were still wearing their rifles? That was pretty fun. Overall, people are just pretty nice in Mexico and it’s too bad there are more problems now down there, but it still does not represent the majority. Thanks for the great write up Condor, it brought back some good memories!