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I’m in a rather secluded area away from much EMI, I’ve been able to run 35 sensitivity on the lakefront beaches with little more than a crackle occasionally but not bad enough to false ID. I can’t run as high at the salt water beaches though even though they should have even less EMI due to being very remote from civilisation. I seem to start to get trouble much past 25 although switching on my Nox I get similar trouble at about 19. I didn’t think at the time but it’s possibly the black sand causing it and not EMI, I didn’t think to raise my coil to check. Moving on tomorrow so won’t get a chance to check, either way it’s doing better than the Nox. The beach seems to have a fair bit of black sand. The short press EMI noise cancel doesn’t seem all that good and doing a long press seems to settle on a number far away from the short press number. A few too many seals and sea lions around to focus too much on detecting too In the water I was able to bump up to 28 sensitivity but I got out as Dolphins kept hanging around me, I thought they were sharks at first. I’m really liking the Manticore, I’ll struggle to pickup my Nox again.

Here is a good video to laugh til your stomach hurts at. Warning this video might make you cringe. Lmao 😂🤣

Here are some pictures of the ring. Mom cleaned it up some. It's the one on her pinky.

A hunt from a few days back. Quarter in pic for size comparison. Going out for the 8th hunt today and after their gold brothers!

Beach hunt # 20 was at the beach that I just recently started to do well at. I had some friendly competition from a couple of guys from the area, that are very good detectorists. They filled me in on some of the finds that have come from that beach. It’s an older beach that has the potential to find older, silver coins. The tide was near record low (-0.8), and I was eager to give the Manticore a try on wet sand. Usually, you would use a scoop to dig, but not here. Really big rocks and smaller rocks below them. I opted for my trusty spade, but even with that, each hole takes a while to pry open. The water filling up every hole didn’t help either. 🙄 Since it wasn’t low tide just yet, I worked some of the less saturated, upper sand. Not a lot of signals but some zincs and junk. I almost gave in and pulled the GPX out but decided to give the Manticore some more time. Once I got into the really saturated sand, high conductive numbers started to show up. Most were copper pennies, but I was surprised that targets were every few feet. At first I didn’t trust the numbers because I was worried it was iron. There is a lot of iron at this beach. But they were real numbers and a couple of times there were 2 or 3 copper cents in one hole. Finally I hit a silver Mercury dime, and soon after a really clean Seated dime – 1875 CC (Carson City mint). 🥰 That made my day. I also found 3 Indians (one shot up), which I didn’t realize I had until I got home. The only piece of jewelry found was a silver ring. Ship spike were a cool find as well. A great day out and I’m glad that I only did 5 hours – I don’t think I could do more in that type of digging. I must say, so far I am very impressed with the Manticore’s ability to find deeper conductive targets. Next low tide I will be back in that same spot with some new ideas on how to get some more of the deeper coins.

After a good days sniping we have to walk past an apiary to get back to camp, Corey was ahead of us by 20 meters, Brodie and I were walking together, I'd just mentioned how in the past the bees have been well behaved, when Corey got stung. The s... hit the fan in a matter of seconds, I now know what making a bee line means, I saw a line of bees coming straight for my head. We stared running, we were in our wetsuits and and all put our hoods on as we ran unfortunately for me there was three bees in my hair, they stung me, while running top heavy with a back pack and trying to get my hood back off, I tripped on a rock. A series of increasingly long steps followed, until the inevitable happened and I fell heavily, my partners stopped to pick me up, we had left the bees behind, and with a bit more than my pride bruised I hobbled back to camp. It could of been a lot worse Corey got stung four times and me five, Brodie escaped injury, we had a good laugh about it later, but in hindsight it could have got nasty really quick. Here's some pictures of the weekend, sorry I can't post any photos that may give away the location, I'll post them when we finish in the area.

So I went back to that iron infested civil war site that I recently pulled a Virginia button and belt plate from to see if anything else was hiding in those nails today I was rewarded with a saddle badge and some other goodies. I'm not convinced that these settings would be good for the first time on a new piece of ground but I think they work really well for cleaning up a site that you know has produced in the past.

yesterday was the first hunt of the year. the tide was out at 8:30 in the morning so I had to get up early since the beach is more than 2 hours driving. The beach was not in the best condition, but at least I had a little fun. Let's hope that gold comes out next time

My initial thoughts on the Manticore is that it's a beach detector and a good one at that. Very deep at the GSL, and the extra power is obvious when I compare it to the 900. But put it on mineralized ground and that extra power does nothing for it. Where I live most of the ground is 4 bars on an F75, some parts as low as 2 and some as high as 5. I've been doing a bunch of testing between the Manticore, 900 and D2 in my yard and at some local parks (4 bar dirt) and to be honest there is very little difference in depth capabilities between the 3. As far as the 2D screen goes, it's worthless after 5 inches around here, you just as well use the audio and VDI to make a dig decision. I'm also thinking that deep nails are going to be a real problem on the Manticore, but I will save judgement for a later date after I have some more hours on it.

Might be a Antique Copper Soldering Iron.

I opted to put this on this page vs the Manticore specific forum because I plan on talking about other machines in this post. I FINALLY was able to get back to the site of the drained lake...the one where I posted about hunting with the Nox 900 and Deus 2. Well they've fixed the problem at the dam and the water has came up quite a bit from the last time I was there. In fact, it's up so high it actually covered about 1/3rd of the area I hunted with the previous two machines. I wanted to see how the Manticore handled this particular place. As noted in the other thread, this beach is man made and is pretty much this bedrock with sand and lake Muck on top of it. I took a picture of the exposed bed rock for you guys so you could see what I am referring to. So what did the Manticore find there after having previously hunted it with the 900 and D2? How about.....nadda. That's right. Nothing. I will tell you that it behaves similarly to the Nox 900 in that it is very chirpy and falses a lot in the iron that is on this beach, and even with tracking ON, it seems slow at keeping up with the changing ground. I tried a couple different modes here...using the All Terrain General and All Terrain Low Conductor modes. I didn't dig any non ferrous trash, nor coins, nor jewelry. I'm not kidding when I say...nadda. I did try digging some of the very obvious iron false signals just for the heck of it and they were indeed iron. I had the D2 with me and the 9 inch coil on it. I fired it up and rehunted the same area and I will tell you hands down...the D2 is smoother and quieter on this site. It's actually a joy to use there. I did dig two non ferrous targets with it and both were small BB fishing sinkers. ‐---------------- Now here is where things turn. I had been telling my mom about hunting the drained lake and she said something that blind sighted me. She asked "where you hunting the new beach or the old one". Huh? Say what? Well come to find out...the beach I have been hunting is what she refers to as the "new beach". It was built some time in the 1970s. The beach she swam at as a kid...during the 50s and 60s is the old beach. I never knew it existed. She showed me on Google Earth where it was. I said "mom, I've been metal detecting for 30 years and you just now come up with the info of TWO beaches?!!" Haha. and that's where I went to after hunting the "new beach" today. It actually took a bit to locate and I wasn't sure at first. It is loaded with fishing sinkers and such. But then...I started getting deep high tones and started digging coins from the 60s and 70s and then old style ring pull tabs. I was pretty sure at that point I had found it...and signals are everywhere so I'm sure it hasn't been detected much either. I actually just barely scratched the surface there...dug a whole pouch of older clad and 3 rings. Two silver and 1 copper. I am confident more is going to come out of here...just have to work through the trash to get it. I am more than willing to do that. So I stop by my mom's on the way home from the hunt to show her the rings and let her have her pick if she wanted one. Immediately she grabbed one with a red stone in it and ran to the kitchen sink. I didn't think anything of it. Then she came out of the kitchen crying. What happened? Well...unbeknownst to me, I had found her sister's ring that she had lost when they were kids. She passed away last year. Mom never mentioned her losing a ring but she sure knew it as soon as she saw it. It was their grandmother's ring and their grandmother had given it to mom's sister. She lost it swimming back in the 1960s. It was a 925 silver ring with either a red garnet or ruby...I couldn't tell you because it's firmly in mom's possession now. I am stoked to have found a new spot to hit. I didn't even hunt this one with the D2...the Manticore seemed to be doing fine at it. There's no bedrock on this end of the lake...just sand and mud. Some of the coins were rather deep...pushing 10 to 11 inches and sounded very good.

You are in low mineral ground Simon, that’s the key. White sand beaches and turf are where this machine should shine, or just low mineral ground in general. People in high mineral ground will be just as likely to be wondering what all the fuss is about. Andy is reporting just what I’d expect in his ground, and you are reporting just what I’d expect in your ground. Kind of puts the YouTube internet tests where you have no idea what the ground is like into perspective. And all the detector wars on the internet with people trying to prove they are right, and the other guy wrong. “Well I’ve used both these detectors and this one is better - you calling me a liar!” Rarely does anyone stop to consider that both sides may be right.

I literally wait sometimes for years for OTHER people to get hurt. You know, stuff like getting stung, stubbing a toe, falling down, and now cholla, just so I can use my favorite saying.... "It'll feel better when it quits hurting". I live for those rare moments, I'm such an asshole but I can't help myself....lol Reese... "It'll feel better once it quits hurting".

April 24 2002 Part One We got Jacob settled in last night and he retired for the evening early. He was quite happy with his camper and told us they never had anything so comfortable back when he was working the claims. I got up before the crack of dawn this morning but Jacob was already up and cooking his breakfast at his camper. Eventually the rest of the crew got up and we took a pot of coffee over to Jacob’s camper and we all sat around a small fire as the sun came up. Jacob spiked his coffee with a shot of whisky and he offered the bottle to us so we all had a shot in our coffee. Then he rolled a smoke while we fried up some bacon and eggs. He said he wanted to see his old dig sites today. Jacob said he would show us the southern kettle which was the last one the crew worked with Jed back in 1936. Then he wanted to head up to the northern area of the faultline where they had the big strike in 1936. From there he said we would go out to the Eastern Drift Mine. He also offered to show us the rocks where the treasure had been found. We could hardly wait and it was going to be a full day for sure. TO BE CONTINUED ..................

The limit on transmit power is physics, not the law. Boosting TX has diminishing returns for increased battery consumption, and in bad ground it just blows back on the detector. Best example is Equinox Beach Mode 2 automatically lowering TX so the detector can function in the worst stuff. Whether the power is spread though the frequencies or each frequency is running at full power just depends on the design, and I don’t know what’s going on exactly with Manti. It’s kind of moot really. All that matters is how it actually performs versus the competition. Quoting Carl Moreland at the link below: '"Mathematically, a 50% increase in drive voltage will produce a 7% increase in depth. This assumes far-field. Very close and very tiny targets can show a bigger impact.” I'd add further that 7% is best case, and much likely to be less once the ground is accounted for.

Here is a picture of the one from yesterday compared to the one I got a couple years ago that has the head still on it. 2 different sites/wrecks same type of iron spike about 8 miles apart. I hear Lil’ Rapero was after the queens dowry as well. Still laughing CPT 😊 I am sparing everyone todays finds since it was all junk. Let’s just say I found enough fishing stuff to open a tackle store as well as all the nails to open a hardware store.

Ah yes, the 8x5 Minelab made for the Vanquish but refuses to make for the Equinox. You ever notice that Minelab coil prices are directly connected to what the machine itself sells for? The more expensive the detector, the more expensive the coil. Does not bode well for Manticore coil prices.

Greetings from a new member in San Luis Obispo, CA. I also spend time in san diego, as well as north east Oklahoma. Started metal detecting in August with a simplex and upgraded this weekend to a Deus 2 since the simplex struggles in wet salt. I'm addicted and metal detect or research about every free minute I have from work. If you're around SLO and want to beep around, let me know. Really looking forward to learning about the Deus 2 from you all, as it has a lot of fine tuning. So far I've found 2 gold rings, 7 or 8 silver rings, one late 1800s barrel tap, a few mercs, a silver half dollar, and my first find was a 1918 standing liberty quarter! I'm also a newly addicted bottle hunter if anyone wants to give that a shot! Thank you all for the awesome posts and your contributions to helping us newbies.

I just installed the waveguide for water detecting tomorrow, looks like this, decided to run it through the shaft and zip tie it. Thought people might like to see how this option works on the SteveG CF shaft.

Well I’m just a dumb kid from Alaska, and it seems to me to be a simple boost in TX, nothing new, had that switch on my V3i. Great for low mineral ground, maybe no use at all in the worst ground. It’s been grabbed as a marketing number and it is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. Get people all excited over nothing or at most a small improvement. This thread proves that what they do works and that’s why they do it. When at the end of the day it’s just another top tier detector that is in the same ballpark with several others. It’s not up there two generations ahead of them, or anyone using them by now would be getting rid of anything else. In actuality Minelab seems to be in the rare position of doing a little catch up with XP and the Deus II. I like tech talk but as a real life user I don’t care if the machine is powered by a squirrel running in a wheel. In all honesty the specs can be great and the performance not so much. I’ll refer you to Garrett Apex as an example. My advice is keep the eye on the ball, ignore the tech spec techno babble and anything that says this is anything more than just another good detector among several. If you want real info, pay attention to the handful of real users on this forum who know their stuff and what they say about the machine after real world use. Finally, never forget that ground rules all, and it is likely these machines will differ as to what is best determined more by where they are being used, than any magic under the hood. Some will swear this is best, some will swear the other is best, and both may very well be correct, based on their respective locations i.e. ground and target mix.

One additional thought on this excellent post by Jeff - just as there is a point of diminishing returns (i.e., additional noise and lower stability (that manifests as chatter)) when increasing sensitivity, there is also a point of diminishing returns when lowering recovery speed. Besides the fact that users have reported little difference in their ability to hear fringe targets at the lowest recovery speeds vs. the typical defaults (4, 5, and 6), lowering recovery speed beyond what is necessary will also cause you to hear more ground noise which will be picked up as chatter in hot dirt as well as wet salt sand. So really, the name of the game is optimizing the settings to give you the desired separation and depth capability as well as minimizing chatter and ground noise (maximizing signal to noise ratio). Many people have noted that ML has done a pretty good job at setting the defaults for the user adjustable parameters such as sensitivity, recovery speed, and iron bias at pretty good starting points and only slight adjustments for site conditions usually all that is needed to make them optimal if they aren't already there.

I don't think it is exaggerating much to say people have had to wait a very long time for Minelab to produce accessories. I took the "Minelab Calendar" post as tongue in cheek sarcasm, and kind of appreciated it myself as one of the ones bent out of shape over delays on coils, or even things as simple as coil covers. Anyone holding their breath for anything is ignoring even recent past history.

These are this morning's finds from hunting the lowest of low tides.. From tomorrow I'll also hit less popular bays whilst the tides are still low.. At least I'll be able to hunt again when I normally wake up at 4:00 am.. The low lows also mean high highs, and during the next couple of days I'll also have a looksee at places where foreshores and beaches have washed away.. Especially those spots where I find old silver coins, they're always good after big tides and storms.. This morning I stuck to an stretch way beyond the shark nets where I normally can't get to without dive gear.. This bay slopes a bit steeper than last night's so the incoming tide wasn't chasing me so hard.. I was a bit disappointed as I had my hopes set far too high.. I've always wanted to have a leisurely hunt in this spot without scuba detectors and I've long dreamt about all the jewellery that's made its way down there over the years.. But I keep forgetting about the bloody council with their beach rejuvenation program.. This involves huge dredges and dump trucks a couple of weeks a year to keep the beach in front of the pub from disappearing.. This part of the bay is a lucrative tourist trap and the council will do anything to keep it going.. Including dumping tonnes of sand over potentially rich hunting grounds.. I hardly had any signals and good targets were all shallow and fairly newish (except for the square nail), not like the gold ring from another bay which looks like it had settled deep in its spot years ago.. Anyway, here's todays finds.. All junk.. Except maybe for the tungsten carbine ring.. I've got three boxes for all my rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces etc., One for gold, one for silver and one for junk, and I can never decide if tungsten rings are junk or not.. I'm not going to keep a separate box for them (although they pop up quite a lot), but I know some people will pay big bucks for them.. I've recovered one which was a dude's wedding ring.. I'm pretty sure that's what the others were as well.. I'm not saying I love them (but they do feel so smooth and heavy), I'm just having a hard time deciding if tungsten rings are worth flogging off to jewellery dealers? So far I've been giving them away to anyone who likes them..

Dig, I have no idea about your first question but in the 5 hours I’ve been able to use mine, I generally have to keep it around 21 Sens in my area. However, I went to our local freshwater beach the other day, I was able to run a sens of 28, using NASA Tom’s long press noise cancel technique.

Both Sensitivity and Recovery Speed affect depth. Set the Sensitivity as high as the machine will allow and still remain stable, then set the Recovery Speed to the site conditions. In all metal, if you hear a lot of low tones with each swing of the coil, you might want a higher Recovery Speed for better separation of targets. If there are not a lot of low tones, you can lower the Recovery Speed for more depth. Low tones are caused by iron and/or mineralization. In my test garden, lowering Recovery Speed increases depth until you get to 4. Below 4 does not have much if any affect on depth. In normal clean ground with few low tones, I usually set my Recovery at 4. At sites with a lot of low tones, higher Recovery Speeds will give you better target separation but a lower Recovery Speed can still pick up deeper targets in those same conditions. It pays to search iron infested and/or mineralized sites with both high and low Recovery Speeds.

In the areas I’ve been so far the 2D target trace is doing as advertised to near the edge of detection on coin targets, it’s working well to very good depths, I think for me it’s far better than the early model Nox, I’m unlikely to buy a Nox 900 now, unless it’s better for prospecting it’s a big step backwards I think. I wouldn’t buy a 900 based on prospecting alone as I don’t use VLFs much anymore for gold except for very specific circumstances and the 800 and 24k have them covered well.

I'm outa likes, but I think you are correct, NCt. The debate is raging about Notch vs Disc and it just gets more confusing as everyone has a different opinion. For me the audio is the key, so I keep Disc as low as possible to try and not send good targets into the iron sound zone. But when I started using some notch, that's when targets I never noticed before started coming through. For some hunting, I know it's better to run wide open and allow as many sounds through as possible, but at some point it all just blends together making it harder to pick out the good targets. I also know if you Notch, you will miss anything in the Notched zone, but for some types of hunting it is very useful to suppress certain sounds to allow more desired sounds to pop through the noise. I wish I knew the answer to the secret sauce of Disc and Notch, but as it varies so much for each soil type and hunting type and target type, we may never know for sure. I think it will boil down to the best blends of Disc and Notch (or no Notch) for your own area and targets sought, which will only be discovered after a lot of hunting over time.

Jewelry prices/value seem to break into three categories: 1) the retail cost, 2) the resell/rebuy value, 3) the salvage/melt value. For gold rings, all three are meaningful. Tungsten isn't a precious metal. I just looked online and as I write the spot price is $3.25 per lb. To put this in perspective, that's a bit less than 3x the current spot price of aluminum. It's not obvious to me which of 2) and 3) above is the better choice for liquiditing finds in general, but as always it likely depends upon who the rebuyer is and how much s/he wants/needs the object. Even for precious metals, 1) is considerably higher than 2) or 3) and for base metals the ratio is likely ridiculous, especially 1) compared to 3). If it weren't for the old saying "sell the sizzle, not the steak", most jewelers would have been out of business long ago.

The upper shaft is metal therefore it prevents the signal unless you run it all the way into the plastic retainer that the RC snaps onto. I coiled my cable like the CTX and ran it all the way up to the retainer and held it in place with a plastic tie wrap so it works with my WS6 module.

People need to take a breath here. Don't confuse the interpretation of facts with the facts themselves. Don't confuse marketing taking off with a slogan and running with it with what one of the engineers intimately involved with the Manticore's development (Mark Lawrie) said on a YouTube video in September (while on the "European Tour"). (What did he say? You can dig into the videos or just accept what Chase said above.) AFAIK the only people who think/say the Manticore goes 50% deeper are those without a clue. BTW, Lawrie also mentioned that more power was put into the processing, but he didn't give a number that I heard. He also said the Equinox 800/600 coils were incompatible with the Manticore because the extra power to the coil required changes to the coil. Tom Dankowski is one who gets excited when a detector gets extra depth in his very low iron content Florida soils and beaches. He has talked about the increased depth of the Manticore vs. the Equinox 800 although I don't remember the details. You can find his statement somewhere in this active thread on his site. The 1.07 theoretical improvement in depth comes from the depth to the 1/6th power relationship. (Dave Johnson talks about this too, in one of his papers that can be found on the Fisher site -- I've linked to that enough times that I'm tired of doing that.) 1.5^^(1/6) = 1.07. Do air tests get close to that? IDK. Talk is cheap. Doing the research (whether that means digging through YouTube videos or actually using detectors for testing) costs a bit more.

What headphones are you using and how are they connected? Are you talking about the included wireless headphones? Connected wirelessly? Or something else? If you are using the wireless headphones, try resetting them. "The ML 85 wireless headphones come with an auxiliary cable that allows the headphones to be used as wired headphones." Try to use the 1/8" wired connection that comes with the headphones to connect directly to the detector (cable on bottom right below). This will help determine if the problem is the headphone itself, or the wireless connection. I do not see anything in the manual about how to reset the wireless headphones, but here is how you did it with the Equinox 800 headphones. 1. Turn the headphones off. 2. Press and hold the headphone Multi-Function button for approximately 10 seconds, until the headphones beep twice and the Status LED flashes pink. 3. Release the button. The headphones will now be in pairing mode with the LED indicator flashing blue and red. If you want to use 1/4" wired headphone options you need an adapter: Official Minelab Headphone Adapter Dongle For Equinox

Wow! Those are great finds. For me, even though I live in North Carolina, I live in an area that had little or no civil war activity. I’d love to find some civil war relics like that. As far as disc vs. notch, my take is this, (and please correct me if I’m wrong): Disc is basically a tone break so setting disc at 40 everything 40 and below will give a low tone just like iron. Notch is different in that if your disc is set at, say, 7 and you notch from 7-40, anything below 7 will come in with a low tone and anything from 7-40 will be silent. Whether one way or the other unmasks better in iron is, I think, still up for debate. I know some have posted that notching unmasks better, but I don’t think anyone’s got any actual proof of that. However since everything 7-40 is silent using notch, you may hear a high blip easier than if you just had your disc set at 40.

I am sure I remember Steve H writing on here somewhere that just because you can set your recovery speed fast, it doesn't mean you need to swing fast. Setting your recovery speed at 6 or 7 and then sweep with a mild swing speed might open up those squeakers that are hiding between the grunters 👍 (disclaimer: after 4 years with the Equinox I'm still a noob!). You've probably already read these but worth posting anyway. https://www.minelab.com/community/treasure-talk/recovery-speed-target-masking#:~:text=Recovery speed defines how quickly,coil at the same time.

Thanks, enjoyed the clip! Sorry to laugh at your misfortune, but been there done that in a completely different way. As a young man, I was a infantry soldier, did my 1st stint of jungle training at Tully in the North Queensland. I got tangled in a waitawhile vine, and the more you struggle the worse the tangle, as I ripped through it in frustration (ripping my skin and uniform) I fell into a small Gympie bush, and that stuff is a freaking nightmare! It's like fibre glass fibres that give you an electric shock whilst injecting acid! Thankfully, none of that or the chora (looks like it's difficult to get out to) where I detect. BTW , that looks similar to classic West Australia ground. Nice to see you getting some gold out there.

Not only that, but any critics of the 5000 on the beach ain't saying much either; you've proven it's worth, time and again!! (but it's still a beast to wield)!💪👍👍

Thanks! The CC is below the bow. The PI may go deeper but would have me digging a lot of needless small aluminum scraps. I'm pretty happy that I can cover most scenarios with the GPX and the Manticore. For tiny gold and gold chains I will still need the Equinox. The real test is next time the tide is low enough for me to get back to that area. I have some "thoughts" 🤔 on how to get more from there.

Cool to see you using a discriminating SMF detector and getting results like that. That's a real jump for joy to find a CC coin! 🥳 Is the CC above or below the wreath, hurry up before GB gets here 😀 You might get spoiled not digging so much trash and getting great results, but I'm sure the PI would have gone deeper. I'm hoping to get to a river beach soon myself to test out the D2. Excellent hunt! 👍 As usual.

Interesting GB_ , looks sort of like an ice pick to me. The idea of a hole punch is also interesting for your and my item both.

It is all around better, but maybe a bit more improved on speaker than on BT. I'm happy.

I'm thinking that this might be "good enough" if brought all the way up to the top shaft inside. 🤔 Might try that. I did get the SteveG shaft with the holes for the wire, but they are still good for fast filling the tube when immersed. 👍

the handle is made of aeronautical aluminum. They were going to throw out a batch of one piece due to tolerance failure and I may have some left over to make the handle

April 23 2002 Part Two RETURNING TO THE MINE AFTER 65 YEARS : We had a few drinks at the Paxton Hotel and figured we better get moving. My partner Vern was at the mine anxiously waiting for our arrival. He had the camp all set up. There was a small camper for each man. We were still waiting on an approval for our Plans of Operation to bring in heavy equipment. I finally got to the turnoff road from the main road that would take us to the claims. As soon as I turned Jacob perked up. He said he still remembered that turnoff that followed the north/south creek. I drove slowly so he could get a good look. He pointed up the road to the left and said that was where their camp had been back in 1936-1937. It was just under a mile or so from the main road. Our camp was set up just one hundred feet north from where he showed us. I stopped just below our camp and parked the truck. Jacob got out and looked around. He was still spry for his age. Jim and I got out as well and I saw Vern walking down towards us from camp. He shook hands with Jacob. I could tell Vern was pretty nervous and I just gave him a wink to let him know Jacob was a good guy. Jacob didn’t say a word for a spell but was just taking in everything. He was remembering all the old days. Then I saw tears running down his weathered face. He walked over to an area of the creek and showed us where John had set the tom. He said there used to be a hopper where the crew dumped the buckets. He showed us the exact spot of the old camp. Then he broke down saying this was where the crew was murdered. I didn’t know what to say to him and I started to wonder if this had been a good idea. Vern went up to his camper and brought down a bottle of whisky and some cups. We took seats on a log and had a drink together. Jacob rolled a smoke and seemed to be making his peace. He told us he had a lot to show us and tell us. Vern, Jim, and I quietly slipped away and went up to our camp leaving Jacob to his thoughts. I figured he needed some time alone at his old camp. TO BE CONTINUED .............

Got to my Deus II this morning. Here is the one I made with paracord. Gotta love paracord! I've got the Doodads clip, but use a lanyard as well. Made a loop that included the d-ring portion of the USB lanyard and a piece of heat shrink, stiched on the wife's sewing machine without her knowing it! Sealed heat shrink. Added a push button that I saved off of an old jacket. Looped over controller and around stem. Tightened up loop with push button.

Unfortunately fake bling. If it was real the gold dance would have happened and I would have treated myself to lunch. Lol i am still searching for the elusive gold escudo from one of the wrecks.

I tried one version that I brought all the way up the shaft. For what ever reason that one didn't transmit the signal well. I don't know whether the handle and metal from the shaft lock interfered. Also I couldn't collapse the shaft very far together without a lot of force bunching up the cable badly. If you don't care about collapsing the shafts together you might try stopping just below the upper shaft lock. Now that I know it works I will also switch to the velcro wraps. I have some laying around somewhere.

Thanks. I believe it was lost many years ago. No jewelry marks on it. Also an older beach with old coins.

Lee was a good jockey no doubt.🤪

It is a soldering iron. Get yourself a pretty corn cob for a handle, tin the tip and you are in business as a Tinkerer.

I asked her why she hadn't ever mentioned that ring before. She said she'd told me about it when I first started hunting. I can't remember but...that has been a long time ago. I can barely remember to take my daily medication and have to keep a box handy to make sure I do. Haha 😄