Sirius Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 4 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said: Beach hunt # 23 was at a beach I have not done in years. This is an area that I wanted to try out the Manticore to weed through the junk and also try the GPX to hit targets below the vast amount of cobble that lay exposed in one section of the beach. But as we all know, things don’t always go as expected. First thing I noticed was that the bulldozer was at work and there were many big piles waiting to be spread out on the beach. Sounds like a win-win situation, as that sand must have been removed from somewhere else on the beach. I pulled out the Manticore and started hunting around the big piles. Unfortunately there was a lot of broken wire from the slat type fences they use to keep that sand banks in place. They work well but get busted up quite a bit from big storms. Also, the beach had exposed black sand on its surface. There were older copper cents at 2-3” deep, so I knew there would be better targets there. Unfortunately, the Manticore (like the Equinox) does not do well in exposed black sand. 2-3” on a coin was all I could get. Bummer ☹️ I messed with some of the settings but soon gave up. I don’t know if Minelab is holding back on some of the technology that can make their newest detectors work in black sand or if it’s not possible for Multi IQ and Multi IQ+ to work if black sand is present. Either way, I abandoned the Manticore and quickly fired up the GPX. I went back to the same area and started popping coins all over. Now there are drawbacks to the GPX, since I also started to hit pull tabs at 10+” as well. I figured there must be a gold ring somewhere, but not today. I thought I struck gold twice today, once in a hoop earring and the other was a stunning 5 heart stone earring. Too good to be true. Both were bling and no amount of close scrutiny would put the letter K on either of them. I did get a silver Mercury and Roosevelt, along with a silver ring and earring, so all was not lost. You can clearly see the difference in the amount of coins and jewelry between the Manticore and GPX when conditions get harsher. 😉 The beach has potential, so I may hit it again with the pulse. Now if I can just stop people from asking me if I watch “The Detectorist” comedy series. 🙄 Two people asked me the same question 2 days ago, I just told them I don't watch TV :) It also seems like you pull up a ton of trash with the GPX, but it's hitting those good targets too! Is it difficult to discriminate between ferrous and non ferrous with that detector? Cause I noticed you picked up a ton of iron. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 1 minute ago, Sirius said: Two people asked me the same question 2 days ago, I just told them I don't watch TV 🙂 It also seems like you pull up a ton of trash with the GPX, but it's hitting those good targets too! Is it difficult to discriminate between ferrous and non ferrous with that detector? Cause I noticed you picked up a ton of iron. Most of the wire iron was with the Manticore. The small single pieces of iron and some of the big iron was with the GPX. When the small iron gets deeper, it's better to just dig it and not waste too much time wondering if it's a deep coin or just iron. I dig really fast, so I just dig it. The pull tabs killed me the most from that hunt - low conductors and not one of them was gold. On the GPX, the low conductors are harder than high conductors to tell apart, because the small iron has a small footprint and won't double beep. The longer pieces will either double beep, or when you circle the coil around target, you will usually hear a bit of sound from two opposite sides of the target. So circle the coil tightly around the target, if its small you will not hit it with the coil and you will hear no sound, but if it's elongated, you will hear a slight sound from 2 opposite sides of the target (like 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions). It's not full proof, but it works when you want to take the time and figure it out. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 Wow, what an extabbaganza! 😀 (Now I'll have to fix that next time I want to use the real word) You sure show the uninitiated what using a PI is like, the "dig it all" of it. Great and realistic hunt again. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted February 11, 2023 Author Share Posted February 11, 2023 33 minutes ago, F350Platinum said: Wow, what an extabbaganza! 😀 (Now I'll have to fix that next time I want to use the real word) You sure show the uninitiated what using a PI is like, the "dig it all" of it. Great and realistic hunt again. 👍 You can have my tabs 😄 I could never dig it all on that beach 😲 otherwise you would see a lot more iron. Believe it or not that is the cherry picked version. I did pass on a lot of the obvious iron. Yep, PI's are not for the faint hearted. Some people using PI's, take the time and analyze their targets and they probably dig a lot less iron than I do, that's for sure. Most people who are used to discrimination don't like PI's and go back to their detectors. Most of the veteran hunters have had experience with both (and some with BFO's too) and can handle the differences when needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPS Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 13 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said: You can have my tabs 😄 I could never dig it all on that beach 😲 otherwise you would see a lot more iron. Believe it or not that is the cherry picked version. I did pass on a lot of the obvious iron. Yep, PI's are not for the faint hearted. Some people using PI's, take the time and analyze their targets and they probably dig a lot less iron than I do, that's for sure. Most people who are used to discrimination don't like PI's and go back to their detectors. Most of the veteran hunters have had experience with both (and some with BFO's too) and can handle the differences when needed. 👍 hello to you, how deep did you find the ring please. it will make a nice gift for Valentine's Day on February 14 (in France), I don't know if it exists in other countries 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geof_junk Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 8 hours ago, JPS said: 👍 hello to you, how deep did you find the ring please. it will make a nice gift for Valentine's Day on February 14 (in France), I don't know if it exists in other countries It sure does in Australia. The next one, two days from now will be Carol and my 53 Wedding anniversary. 💕 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 On 2/11/2023 at 9:21 AM, JPS said: 👍 hello to you, how deep did you find the ring please. it will make a nice gift for Valentine's Day on February 14 (in France), I don't know if it exists in other countries We have Valentine's day too, here but the thing I found was an earring, not a ring and it is "Bling" which is a fancy way of saying, it's junk!!! 😄 Not real. So if I give it to her for Valentine's Day, there will be a lot of my metal detectors for sale very cheap and I will have to sleep on your couch for a while 😐 The earring was not very deep, maybe 3 or 4" 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPS Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 20 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said: 20 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said: 20 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said: We have Valentine's day too, here but the thing I found was an earring, not a ring and it is "Bling" which is a fancy way of saying, it's junk!!! 😄 Not real. So if I give it to her for Valentine's Day, there will be a lot of my metal detectors for sale very cheap and I will have to sleep on your couch for a while 😐 The earring was not very deep, maybe 3 or 4" I'm kidding, have a nice day🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post schoolofhardNox Posted February 17, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 17, 2023 Beach hunt # 24 was at the heavy EMI beach. I like to check back here when there isn’t a good low tide. I just work the upper beach to see if anything is within range. Couldn’t hear many deep coin targets, but I did manage some leftovers from previous storm damage. I wanted to try the Manticore at low tide, but I found a couple silvers with the GPX, so I missed low tide by about a half hour. No big deal since I didn’t hear many targets other than small stuff down low. Switched to the grass area for the little time I had left and hunted up a bunch of clad. The difference from the GPX to the Manticore for iron recovery is skewed, since I dug all iron targets with the GPX but did not do the same with the Manticore. Not a spectacular hunt, but I did get 3 silvers and that was more than I thought I would get there. I think next week has some really low tides, so the Manticore will get a low tide workout. Hopefully something good shows up. Always a good day when you get a chance to get out detecting. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Electric trains !🙄 If I was trying to find ways to produce EMI ,,DC arcing would be in the top 5 ... Looks like you overcame the obstacle ! WTG ! Don't miss that negative low ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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