New Minelab Manticore

[Cal_Cobra]

12 hours ago, Carolina said:

If your scared, say your scared. 😃

haha nah not scared in the least, just find it to be a waste of time.  He did the same thing after poo pooing the Equinox, but then wanted to flag and check signals with his Exp2 vs my EXQ800.  No need to waste valuable hunt time flagging and checking signals when you can compare notes at the end of the hunt. 

Invokes the old saying "you can lead a horse to water..." you know the rest 😉

[Cal_Cobra]

4 hours ago, steveg said:

This is really, really odd, Cal.  He's a tough nut to crack (and hard to understand...can't believe he bought a D2, after his disdain for the EQX (and now presumably, the Manticore?)

Steve

Undoubtedly a tough nut to crack.   Personally I don't really care what machine he runs, I just find the not waiting perplexing, heck he's had the Exp2 this long and loves it's full tones, so what's a few more months.  Given the D2 is XP's first foray into SMF, and Minelab's been doing it for decades, it's a bit of a no brainer to wait for Manticore field tests.  Perhaps it'll be a good thing, for me 🤠

 

[deathray]

3 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

haha nah not scared in the least, just find it to be a waste of time.  He did the same thing after poo pooing the Equinox, but then wanted to flag and check signals with his Exp2 vs my EXQ800.  No need to waste valuable hunt time flagging and checking signals when you can compare notes at the end of the hunt. 

Invokes the old saying "you can lead a horse to water..." you know the rest 😉

Lol. I remember when he wouldn't give up his Whites Eagle for the explorer, until Ron totally kicked his butt in a bay area park. Hey man, he's KILLER with that explorer 2 now, if it works, it works. Something to be said about knowing a detector like the back of your hand.

One guy( who Tom knows from decades ago) that I hunt with, still uses a Whites 6000, and KILLS it.

[JCR]

Be mindful of the man that owns just one rifle.

[PSPR]

11 hours ago, rled2005 said:

I haven't seen the 2d screen separation of a small nugget with a square nail, screw, or iron object. They're in close in detection range, but can the Manticore separate them on the screen? This hasn't been shown by the reps, that I have seen. 

rled2005, I don't know which video it was but on one of them where they turned a potential buyer loose with a Manticore in a field in Europe does show just that.  There was a target on the conductive line and another target on the same screen making a blob up in the iron range.  It wasn't gold but the idea was the same.  How well it does that with gold we are yet to find out.

[PSPR]

6 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said:

haha nah not scared in the least, just find it to be a waste of time.  He did the same thing after poo pooing the Equinox, but then wanted to flag and check signals with his Exp2 vs my EXQ800.  No need to waste valuable hunt time flagging and checking signals when you can compare notes at the end of the hunt. 

Invokes the old saying "you can lead a horse to water..." you know the rest 😉

I really have no problem checking targets with fellow detectorists using different machines.  We used to do that all the time on iffy targets just to get a different opinion of whether we should dig it or not.  Of course, the two of you need to be in close proximity or you really are wasting time.

[dsb]

[mn90403]

I just got off the beach with my Eq 800/15 and while listening to my targets, I realized how much more information comes in through the audio.  You hear it hop, skip and bong.  You get it to lock if it is good.  You look at the screen and it is limited to some jumping between IDs but you have to hear it to know what those IDs are really telling you.

The screen you show above would help someone without the ability to hear.  They could use the screen for targets.  I'm glad they are putting a 3030 screen on this one.  This makes the Manticore more than an Equinox upgrade.

[dsb]

That's true mn90403, audio is everything in the end.  This will double the tones the EQ has, definitely not a bad thing!🙂 

[mn90403]

Simon said too many tones are not good for him.  I hope the screen resolution is good enough to 'show the tones' which will help separate/discriminate targets.  Once you learn the machine and the same pattern appears on the screen again and again then you have confidence of what it is.

Users have always had negative comments about Minelab's depth scales.  I've found them helpful but I wonder how well this depth scale will work.