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I know someone who uses one in Arizona. I've never heard of anyone having an issue with hot ground, or ground balance, as it has a ten turn pot. His ground is as bad as it gets. The only complaint I heard was maybe with hot rocks. If I was you, I would have kept the comment to myself.

That's a great price! If I didn't already have one, I'd be seriously considering it.

See if you can get lidar imagery of the area. Prospect pits/spoil piles are easy to see on those, but they have the be high resolution imagery. In the US a lot of the lidar is still the low resolution and the prospects are harder/impossible to see on it, I'm not sure about Australia resolutions.

Nokta seems very innovative and puts out good products. As long as they don't pull "a storm is coming" time frame, they have my interest on this one. I was leaning towards an axiom for my next purchase, but finances are giving me time to lurke a bit longer. Hope it's a quick release, and someone on this forum can fill us in on their time with the test model! 😁

As there aren’t very definitive and more recent egress tracks leading to those I think they may be natural- to determine wether they’re mineral outcrops or places where cows hang out will take boots on the ground or at least some better aerials than that image.

"I usually use General or ATLC and the ID is the same on both of those modes." These are my two favorites unless I'm on the beach... WTG on the gold coin...cant tell you how many 22 brass I've dug looking for that elusive $1 gold coin...Nice work! strick

Anybody interested, make them an offer. Might even go less.

A coin/jewelry/relic detector with fixed pulse delay set for larger coin sized targets. It will ignore the really small stuff A gold prospecting detector with fixed pulse delay set for 0.1 gram nuggets and larger. Personally I would like both options in one detector. Waterproof would be awesome.

That's a heckuva deal on a great machine!

Mine was purchased Dec 9th 2022...it same hardware version Steve...I still need to do the up date just so I can try it out...sorry for the dirty screen 🙂 strick

I've seen this behaviour when air testing for the first time some targets. Bad weather outside, being inside home, forced to keep no more than 7 as sensitivity level, in beach LC and prospecting audio mode... No matter the items, an amazing faint treshold wisper was giving a clear chance to listen for a target by a third more of distance before an ID and a proper trace showed up. It happened with a silver 0.37g ring so thin to be hard to believe. With the 8x5" coil this means like almost 12" without ID but clear treshold variation. I repeat, 7 sensitivity on M8 coil and prospecting audio mode. Soon realised that wasn't the ideal setup for me in saltwater...But on the wet and dry sand, keep an ear on those "pre signals"....

My experience is that different modes create different IDs not as much with coins as with trash signals, but a shift of 1 or 2 IDs up or down is common for me on coins. Trash seems to generate + or - 5 on the IDs, I use the difference to decide on dig or no dig.

This is an awesome upgrade for the 600 or 800. I use this rod with a 600 and use the counterweight with the 11 inch coil and no weight when swinging the 6 inch coil. The s-rod shape is great!

The detectors you’re looking at are about the best on the market for low mineralized gold fields. Hopefully you have mostly lower mineralized ground that you go to then you’ll do just fine with the 900 or Manticore or other comparable brands. Once you get into more mineralized ground then the PI detectors are going to come into place for getting any depth. The Algoforce E1500 is the first detector that fits the low cost PI option but is not available in the US quite yet. The older second hand low cost PI detectors do not have very good sensitivity to the sub-gram gold, so not a good choice unless you know there’s some bigger nuggets where you’re detecting. Most goldfields are picked over pretty good, but if you have private permissions all bets out off. sorry for getting off topic a bit 😖

If you are married to the Manticore or Equinox, go with the Manticore. If you are serious about gold you can always look for a good used Minelab GPX, or even an SD.

FirstTexasProducts on ebay. 5 and 11 coil. Got an offer and took it. I did it because of coil options.

I've been curious about how lead compares to gold in depth testing. This was done with my garrett atx with both the 11x13 DD and the 8" mono coils. On a 3.8 gram gold nugget, both coils maxed out at 7.75". On a 10.25 g lead slug, maxed at 7.8 ". On a 19.5 g lead slug, max was 8.5". The 11x13 maxed at 2.6" on a 0.23 gold nugget, and 2.25" on a 0.25 g lead shot. The 8" mono maxed at 3.1" on the 0.23 gold, and 2.95 " on the 0.25 lead shot. The 8" mono also maxed at .295" on a 0.13 gold picker. Conclusion = when testing with lead, expect to get better depth on gold. It does show me that the 8" mono out performs the 11x13 DD on gold up to 4 grams and under. So the 8" mono is going to live on the ATX most of the time. The dirt was moderately mineralized, and targets were buried. It's not a perfect experiment, but it's information I didn't have before. Hope this information is useful to someone.

Howdy back and welcome to the forum.Man you are poking around all of the rite places gold and relic detecting?

One of the first cabs off the rank when the Manticore wasn't even available in the US I believe. Makes me realize how bad I am at putting on screen protectors. 😛

So yours is a 21 Simon? Mine is not the latest from the factory, more like a last fall model.

Hang in there - We're almost home.

Most likely a rehabbed drill site. All of the drill cuttings have been pushed aside with a dozer and the bags collected and dumped. Lots of these in the district. The discolorization is due to the drill cuttings being green such as diorite, serpentine or green shale. Often, Nickel deposits are in a green zone there I've noticed.

I had a panic when I first saw that thinking because I was an early adopter, I probably had a version they've now changed with revisions since it hit the public and the bugs show their little ugly faces, it appears the version has yet to change as new ones still have the same number so that calmed me down 🙂 It is abnormal they would let you see that information if they were doing hardware changes over time though, you'd normally see that in a secret diagnostic menu that requires a certain combination of button presses or connection to certain software via USB to see, which the detector probably also has.

I'm enjoying watching your & your friend's new Channel. Well done.

the M8 (small Manticore) coil is very similar in performance to the 6" Equinox coil on small gold although it will likely go a bit deeper as the gold gets bigger, I am not thinking there would be any benefit going to the 18" coil for prospecting purposes, the 15x12" both models have would be as big as you'd ever want to go and that has very limited application. The 11" both models have is a good prospecting coil though as they're both very sensitive detectors to small gold even with the abnormally large 11" coil for a VLF for prospecting. It gives very good depth on gold for a VLF using that coil in the right ground conditions, and obviously the smaller coils have their benefits for tiny gold. The only good coil for prospecting missing from the Manticore that the Equinox series has is the Coiltek 10x5" although the M8 isn't all that much different in size so it's not critical. I was wary at first about the Manticore coil limitations for prospecting, but quickly found because of the increased power of the detector that the shortfall in coil options is made up for by the detector itself, and there is still the chance Coiltek will come out with coils for it, I think they might have a waiting period for doing so, so Minelab can gather up the sales of their coils first so it could be a couple of years.