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My first time on the beach with the Manticore I dug everything to get a better understanding. Bottle caps had a clear slightly broken sound and an arched diagonal trace from just below the center line to the top of the map, very distinguishable and repeatable on the caps that I dug.

I wore a hole right through my pinpointer and sent it off for a rebuild, it was not cheap if I remember right. I now use a 5 minute epoxy coating on the tip. If you don't have a fishing rod dryer just spin it slow by hand until the epoxy hardens, 5 minutes will seem like an eternity. Its been on mine for the last ten years and works great.

Would love to see an air test between the stock 11 and the 12x15. Thanks in advance.

That is the one I purchased.

Yes I purchased a cover and it works great. No problem using the buttons.

The coils are in discussion at least.

Small 6, Mid 13, Lg 15.

I have found what I was looking for using the Rich audio theme, the squirrel finds a nut.

Thanks for the 26 to 29, may the Manticorian be with you. I'm very happy with the machine so far in the backyard. Looking forward to my season after the flying teeth, ticks and chiggers disappear.

I reset and settings all went back to factory. Probably new user error. Going to refrain from posting till I fully understand this machine, squirrel at the helm for sure.

I reset the machine before going back to the update after testing. I noticed the ferrous volume and pitch were still at the settings I had changed before the update and reset. Is this suppose to happen?

The Detech 13 inch Ultimate is on all my machines but one. It didn't pin point for me very well but it didn't miss much.

Speaking of the sensitivity, testing on the 16 inch copper because it came in clear. I went from a 10 sensitivity to 35 while swinging over the large cent all sensitivity settings responded to the large cent there was never a change in the sound or pitch as the sensitivity was raised and the ID map stayed almost identical throughout, at 29 it shrank just slightly. I mostly swung Whites and increasing the gain or sensitivity always seemed to effect audio and the detectors reaction to the ground. Going back to the update to do more testing.

I have a 3x2x2 area of sugar sand that I cleaned out with about an inch of topsoil the rest of the test area is 6 inches of small chunks of coal with ash, slag and topsoil its thick and crunchy getting a shovel in, power lines are 50 feet away. The Core came with the new download, it was absolutely quiet which none of my Whites could accomplish in the coal and EMF without lowering the sensitivity and jumping through a few hoops to get them settled in that in itself was impressive. My test garden in the sand area is a large cent at 16 inches, a silver dime at 12 inches, silver quarter at 12 inches. In the coal area a v nickel with a rusty nail at 8 inches a silver dime at 10, and a copper at 18 inches. After 5 days of getting use to and trying all of the possibilities I settled on multi IQ, all terrain general with the ferrous sound at 1, pitch 1, 5 tone. I was able to take the sensitivity up to 33 and it was quiet, outstanding. All targets where recognized knowing where they were if I was just swinging I would have missed the dime at 10 and the 18 inch copper in the coal. The VDI numbers were lower on the deep copper and large cent, the 10 inch dime was scratchy through out all testing and the VDI was jumping around the low side probably has a large piece of coal in the hole with it. The 12 inch dime was only good in one direction. The V nickel with iron was neat to see as it painted correctly in one direction. I back loaded to the original stock settings and found it to be more chattery . All targets were slightly clearer, the 18 inch copper would have stopped me and the scratchy dime came in much clearer with a better VDI. Hopefully the original and updated version are as simple as a button push. My hunted out never hunted out places were waiting on a deeper machine. I did not run my DFX with a 13 inch coil in the garden as the EMF is bad. I did run the chattery MX7 through the garden with a 10 inch DD it found all the targets but the 10 inch dime. I really didn't think about coils when I purchased the manticore, the small coil would be great in iron patches but to get down deeper I was hoping to see a bigger coil for those deep plowed fields than a 12 inch coil 12x15 not a lot of depth over the stock coil for the money but better coverage I would think both field and beach. I do like my first ever Minelab its a pleasure to swing and well thought out. Cant wait for the Fall to get it out in the field. To the beach I go.