schoolofhardNox

Beautiful coin. 😍 Hard to find in my part of the country.

Nor from you as well 😂. Unless there is a huge storm ripping away the sand, I'm pretty much done until fall 😭 The Rev War project unofficially started the other week and I found my first .72 caliber round ball and a KG II copper. So that's where I'm gonna be hanging out until fall. I did get some hunts in locally in doing some beat up cellar holes, testing out the Manticore on some irony dry dirt. It did pretty well.

Sometimes leaving the machine on and removing the battery can reset some problems. Hope you get it fixed. For me, it was one of the best deep silver park machines at the time.

Nice relic hunt. Love the decorated dandy and of course the Regiment button. Even the Draped bust is readable.

That's a lot of cool stuff. Congrats on the silver.

That will wake you up 😄 What a nice find.

I think it's a button with a missing back.

That piece looks like lead to me. Maybe a bag seal of some sorts. Just my guess though.

Yeah, the Manticore hits hard on targets within its range. Got lucky with the Tombac. It was covered with a hard dirt and so it appeared to be plain. I soaked it and decided I needed to use #0000 steel wool to get that hard dirt off. What a surprise to see a beautiful pattern emerge. Those little round balls seem to be everywhere. Could be. They were close by each other and a good distance away from the home site. On a nice gentile slope. It may be a child's thimble because it is tiny!!

I had a couple of hours to spare, so I decided to hit a cellar hole that is close by. This was a virgin site that I pounded with the DFX and later on with the GPX. I did a short hunt with the Equinox a while back, but haven't tried the Manticore. First thing I noticed were some recent dig holes, but not many.😄 I don't have the small coil which would have been the coil of choice for the cellar hole lip area. I ran low conductor, at 25, any more and it falsed too much. It's a large area, multiple long fields on both sides of the path. I found a lot of junk iron and very little non ferrous other than what I have pictured. Here's the better stuff. The targets by the thimble were found at the outskirts of the property, while the other targets are the ones that the Manticore sniffed out in areas I previously hit pretty hard. Some of them read around 4, So I wouldn't have dug those (on purpose) with the Equinox. But the Manticore did get a decent amount of buttons along with some round ball that should have been found earlier. It did not find anything new on the lip. That is where I wanted to see if the Manticore could pull a non ferrous target out. So not earth shattering, but I do like the way it latches on to a good target. You can tell the resolution on the Manticore is it's main worthwhile feature. That is what I like about it the best, along with some other features as well. It's a nice time of the year, with no ticks at this location, and it is still too early for yellow jackets. 😊

I got no picture on my end? Is it me or did it not go through?

Complete opposite from what we get on the east coast. 😅 Great looking coins.

Well, that's a ring that screams - "Look at me" 😅 What a find!! I know people like to compare machines, but most of the time both machines can find the target. It mostly comes down to getting your coil over the gold. I did a field a while ago for a project and was using my pulse because it is better than the Manticore. But because my handle broke on the GPX (18 degrees out), I was forced to use the Manticore. End result was it was killing the GPX in number of finds and was going deep! So moral of the story is : you will always love the machine that finds the most good stuff......until it doesn't 😂

Are you sure it isn't called The Curse of Fantasy Island? 😂

Nice condition coins. Glad to see them.