Popular Post UT Dave Posted April 6, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2023 Not much turf hunting with the Manticore yet. Weather... But so far, I am seeing the same. Manticore loves nickels. I did get in a park hunt one morning last weekend and got six nickels and only two square pull tabs. I feel like I had gotten "pretty good" at calling nickels with the Nox 800 but with less than 20 hours park hunting with the Manticore so far I feel like it's gotten noticeably easier to call them. Except the one nickel I was sure was a nickel, turned out to be a 14K gold ring. I'll take that kind of missed call 😂. - Dave 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill (S. CA) Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 20 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said: I have hunted around 50 Denver area parks regularly and thoroughly with an Equinox 800 since getting one back in mid 2018. I have hunted some of those same parks and exact same areas recently with the Legend, Deus 2 and Equinox 900 and I have been removing lots of nickels with each detector that I just couldn’t definitively pick out of the adjacent aluminum trash with the Equinox 800. There were just too many overlapping aluminum targets that shared the Equinox 600/800 12/13 target ID area. With the Legend, Deus 2 and Equinox 900, the nickel target ID area is not nearly as crowded with other overlapping trash target IDs. Nickels and gold rings with similar IDs are super easy to hear with these expanded target ID detectors. Ah, I knew you would chime in, Jeff! What are you finding the nickels come in at on The Legend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff McClendon Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Bill (S. CA) said: Ah, I knew you would chime in, Jeff! What are you finding the nickels come in at on The Legend? Same as the Equinox 700/900, target ID 25/26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TampaBayBrad Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Manticore ID 27 is also around where most pull tabs start. It's funny....I dig pull tabs even though I'm pretty sure what it is just in case it's something good. I hardly find any nickels on my beaches. Almost always penny, dime, quarter. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Kinsey Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 On 4/5/2023 at 10:52 AM, Bill (S. CA) said: I have several buddies who own both the Deus II and the Manticore and the number of nickels they continue to pull from heavily hunted parks is just astounding. These parks have been hit and hit hard by every detector including the Equinox. I personally have hunted several of these parks with my Equinox and my Legend and usually come away with a ton of tabs and just a few nickels. Do you guys think this is due to the expanded TID on the Deus II and the Manticore? Perhaps the averaging that goes along with lower number TID scales is being nullified to a degree by the 0 - 100 scales on these two detectors. A buddy of mine dug 11 nickels in an hour and a half at a pounded park yesterday and he said every one came in at a 27. Bill Cherry picking high conductors is why nickels are a plenty I suspect. The newer machines give you a tighter I D range on low conductors. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TampaBayBrad Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 1 hour ago, George Kinsey said: Cherry picking high conductors is why nickels are a plenty I suspect. But....but....What if there's GOLD in them thar hills?? 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Kinsey Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 34 minutes ago, TampaBayBrad said: But....but....What if there's GOLD in them thar hills?? 😆 Tell that to the Marines. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill (S. CA) Posted April 7, 2023 Author Share Posted April 7, 2023 13 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said: Same as the Equinox 700/900, target ID 25/26 Interesting. I'll have to look for those numbers with my Legend. Think I was digging too many 23/24 ID's. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPT_GhostLight Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 7 hours ago, TampaBayBrad said: Manticore ID 27 is also around where most pull tabs start. It's funny....I dig pull tabs even though I'm pretty sure what it is just in case it's something good. I hardly find any nickels on my beaches. Almost always penny, dime, quarter. Weird. That's probably because the beach hunters are targeting low and mid conductors for gold. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Hillis Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Nickels just act weird. I guess it being a cupronickel coin, something about the way it electrically ties to the ground minerals just makes it behave differently. I personally think the nickel leaches out and makes the surface porous which affects how it conducts the current. How detectors deal with that porosity varies between makes and models. Probably why the multi-frequency detectors have the edge on nickels. I dunno. Just my nickel. :) Mike 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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