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Are The Minelab Manticore Users Just Beta Testers? Not ANYWHERE near what Deus 2 users are!

LOL> It is black "so you don't have to worry about that discoloration." Well, that "discoloration" is the inside wire being eaten up by salt water. Now I cannot monitor it>>>great! Guess I have never been the out-of-sight, out of mind guy.

There is fact to your thinking. Sometimes I back out of a difficult target [like in the wave wash] let the Equinox settle down. Do a noise cancel and then reengage the target.

Some chains are too small to detect. I have little foil here, so 1 and 2's for me are gold chains or small pendants. Iron Bias 6 or below will not affect the reading of a gold chain.

I have the antenna wire from coil to remote in the CF rod. For what it is worth the last part to the remote goes through my metal hand grip. I have not had signal issues. Will post a pic tomorrow.

I have my antenna permanently mounted and up the center of my CF rod. NO ISSUES with signal. Including waist deep water and very forceful wave wash.

No, they were scattered over the two-mile stretch.

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!

Nope>>>>

Detecting Dodads stuff is junk...........

Fantastic finds!!! Way to go!!! Have to have a margarita to celebrate that 5-peso gold coin!!!

Outstanding>>>You guys are ripping it!!

Yes, with Horseshoe mode on. It may sound great except for one angle. That target is 100% ferrous unless your TID says different. Non ferrous targets near the surface have the ability to double ring. Not to worry, your numbers will tell you to recover. Anything at depth that double rings is ferrous! You will still get tricked in digging a few ferrous targets here and there that beat that system. Yes, with Horseshoe mode on.

Outstanding!!!! Your Equinox is purring like a kitten!

Awesome story and find!!!!!

I do not exactly have the perfect conditions at the beach here. I could just about run the Tarsacci wide open. So clearly, the audio would be fixed. I would like to see MORE POWER!

No. It means you located the center of the target and keep sweeping over the target as your body rotates around the target 360 degrees.

Iron Bias.

Ground Grab is manual ground balance. Once manual GB is done there should be no reason to re-ground balance unless your soil/sand changes. There are many who manual GB then switch Tracking GB on.

Sensitivity rules on the Equinox. Anything I can do to keep my Sensitivity at 20 or above is important. I would not run IB or Recovery above 6 though no matter what.

My second season on the Equinox I hunted in beach 2 horseshoe on, Recovery 6 IB 6. Every fringe target I had the entire season was compared to R-4 IB-4. Of the handful of targets, I changed my mind to dig NONE of them were of any worth. Your spot may differ.......

There are two different scenarios that I "lose" a target after detected. First: I just plain move the target. Sideway's, deeper...whatever The Second and more popular. Open the hole and it fills with water. For some reason Minelabs hate this. All is well until that hole fills with water. Whether you moved the target or not.

If you are hunting in the regular discrimination mode [Horseshoe button off] The answer is Yes. This is why I think lots of us went to Horseshoe mode on. The extra investigation time was slowing me down. In Horseshoe mode the iron bin and non-ferrous bin is separated better. I also highly dislike the pinpoint mode, so I do all my recoveries in Horsemode on. [another time saver]

It is hard to see your swing rate from here? But if you do go slower the machine has a better chance of deciphering the target. Example : in my normal beach conditions I have a target about every 3-4 complete swings. So, I swing pretty fast. Fast enough to where I have to come back and investigate every hit I get. You will get the cadence down better as you go. Almost always, ferrous targets will sound better at a given position. That is how some of us decide if the target is ferrous or non-ferrous. A non-ferrous will not have a break down in signal on a 360 look.

That is one thing I hate with the Equinox too. The D2 and Tarsacci do not do this. Really makes target recovery in the active wave wash a PIA. Def a Minelab thing.