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Dug D

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    X-terra pro, pro find 35, E-nox 800, Manticore

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  1. Thanks guys, its good to hear I am not the only one digging on the ragged edge at times. The detectorists in my area are as good as they get, hunting before zinc pennies were being made and not afraid to run old detectors in all metal and dig it all. I don't understand how detectors can give a high tone and not give an ID of some kind, and now also fail to show some shadow of dot on the 2D screen. My other Minelabs also do that, faint high tone and you guess.
  2. At the edge of detection, I only get a faint high tone difficult to easily repeat, but they repeat "enough" xing the target, but no ID, no trace, no depth indication, barley a pinpoint signal ? Search mode and settings don't make much difference other than I am going slow. Settings adjustments rarely reduce the uncertainty of what is in the ground. I have pulled out small bits of iron, I think once it was an IH cut in half about 9 inches, but sometimes I just seem to loose the signal like it might of broken up digging it out. Anyone else dig these or have similar results ? I'm usually in old parks. Am I wasting my time on wishful thinking ?
  3. Recently a friend of mine and girlfriend bought a manufactured diamond, they look spectacular and are cheaper than real but still a diamond, maybe its nothing more than a serial number? and a way to track down the owner ?
  4. I updated my 800 both times so I am also on the version that includes 4khz. I would recommend the updates, I saw no downside only improvements. (not that I use the 4 khz all that much, mostly just for testing signals)
  5. Yes, I found exactly what you said, but after reading it a lightbulb came on, in that, maybe my tones/profile/volume is set all wrong for my worst trash situations.
  6. I wish I could set a steep angle in the start and end point in each range, that would translate to any signal that only varied a little bit in ID numbers would have a near consistent tone and using conventional wisdom you could tell without looking if you had a good target, especially if you have notched out "bad" IDs. I am pretty sure I can't make this work with the Manticore.
  7. I think you are right, it can be done with just the start and end points. A couple configurations I have tried to quiet what I didn't want to hear. Its possible this looks crazy as far volumes, I'm using a BT transmitter and ear buds and even at the low volumes I hear the low tones, not sure if the regular headphones would be the same.
  8. One question, how are you communicating with us from heaven ?
  9. The jury is still out for this trashy park hunter, with my nox 800 I could average 60% good targets and 40% bad, on my worst days, Mcore I can only hit 40% good to 60% bad on my best day. That is a frustrating difference. 🙁 My last 3 hour trip I dug 80 targets 20 were good, some were intentional test digs to confirm junk, but most gave enough good signal that I felt I had to check them. Trust in the Mcore is not coming easy.
  10. I think a big step forward would be a detector circuit that only detects aluminum and indicated that on the screen, sort of like how detectors treat iron/red numbers. Imagine if the Manticore had a range where aluminum appeared like the iron does top and bottom of the screen or yellow numbers.
  11. I will chime in to say that jumpy signals on both good and bad targets takes away the fun.🙁 My wish list for an update starts with less jumpy signals on good targets and second how about a little work on the depth gauge, three arrows should not be 2 inches deep for a coin. After the update the depth gauge seems way off. I think these are both software fixes that are realistic.
  12. That stone is sure held in like it was a diamond. Maybe he had to choose between real diamond or real gold.
  13. This leaves me wondering what is the right number of detectors to own. 🤣
  14. I can tell you from a fair amount of frustration the above is correct. The Manticore does so well with EMI I had a tendency to just keep going higher and higher in sensitivity. Good targets will hit well at low sensitivity, just an fyi Pepsi caps hit harder than coins they are annoying.
  15. I think you will find almost everyone thinks it is great. I have one I use on my 800, its lighter and works well, but in my case It has not replaced my stock 11 inch. I would bet it is close to a unanimous, if you get one, you won't regret it.
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