NCtoad

Hell Yeah Bob!   That’s an oldie right there and I think anyone that found one of those would be rightfully proud!   
Congrats!   
 

I have to say this though:  If I had gotten permission to hunt the yard around the house, I would have chucked the field and made a beeline to that yard. Lol.  I’m glad you don’t think like me.  Lol

46 silver coins, however one of Roosevelt dimes came from a coinstar and my kids found that one, so 45 is my official total for the year.  Two of those were foreign coins:  a 1922 British half crown and a 1943 Norwegian 25 ore.  I also got an 1867 Italian 10 centesimi copper.  In the pic are my only gold finds for the year, both are rings; a 10k and a 14k.  Since I started detecting about 6-7 years ago, this is my 3rd highest fty total.  However, this year had 5 big silvers; 3 walkers, 1 barber half and the half crown.  It was my year of the half. Lol!   I’m pretty happy with my total.  I was hoping for 50, but it just didn’t happen.  Silver’s getting harder to find around here and if I don’t get some good permissions this year, I doubt if I’ll beat 2022’s total.  It’s fun trying though!
 

12 hours ago, xpmoguy said:

Those are some very interesting finds. How old do you think that ring is?  I My detecting buddy found a gold band last summer on the California trail. It was not marked, and my jeweler buddy said they didn't stamp the content purity before 1854. Florida sure looks appealing compared to our freezing world... Here is a find from last year...it doesn't get much better than this in my neck of the woods.

The Holy Grail!   That would pay for a LOT of detectors!   Lol

George

for those of us who are fairly new to detecting, can you tell us what it was like detecting back in the 70s?   I’m sure there was more silver coins and more virgin sites that had never been detected.  How well did the detectors from that era work?   

Very nice!   Can someone explain the advantages (or differences) in a straight rod verses the S shaped stock rod?

I haven’t gotten out much this month.  But the last three hunts were on the property where I work and each time I hit silver.  The 1904 O barber was a surprise.  It was wet that day and I thought it was just another clad quarter, but when I got home and counted my clad, I got a nice surprise!   Next up was the ‘63 rosie.  It was in a really trashy area and only maybe two inches deep but the D2 hit it hard with good numbers using a modified 5 tone general program.  Today was the ring.  I was using the fast program with disc at 41 and PWM pitch tones.  It was very shallow too and rang up 96 with a 97 coming in about every other pass.  I sorta thought it was going to be a silver quarter, but I’ll take the ring.  (This and the barber quarter is an example of why I’d like to see an expanded high conductor tid range.). I wasn’t going to post any of these but the quarter is a semi-key date and it’s been a little slow here with the bad weather going on across the country.  

I’d love to see an expanded high conductor range.  I don’t even know if that’s possible, but that’s my wish😍!

There’s one other thing:  I wish the ground balance would stabilize in 4 or 5 pumps instead of 12 or 13 pumps (yes I count them).

15 hours ago, Noah (FL) said:

Where did you see them for sale?  
I had an older one that got smashed unfortunately.  Loved it with the Mojave for getting close tothe metal posts in playgrounds and super trashy shallow spots. 

It was Metaldetector.com, but I either read the green print of “In stock” and didn’t notice the word “No” after it or someone bought their last one after I posted.  Sorry for giving anyone hope that they were still available.  You’d think their website would take it down completely since tesoro is no longer in business and they will never be in stock again.  
https://www.metaldetector.com/tesoro-4-inch-round-concentric-search-coil-with-5-pin-connector

Hell yeah!   Everyone loves them some gold!   I’ve been paying more attention to solid 50s signals lately, but no gold.  I’ve dug two gold rings with my D2, one a solid 63 and the other a solid 66.  

34 minutes ago, Hunterjunk said:

With many of you in the US getting closer to having a Manticore in your hands , have a look at my pic below of the shaft ears . I received my machine a week ago and still have not found time to take it for a hunt yet . I keep looking at the shaft ears and wondering why they are so long and thin ? Surely the excessive length just adds to leverage forces that will place added stress on those 90 degree bends ? It will be interesting to see peoples opinions as the machines roll out .

Also the coil cable is very thin at 2mm thinner than the superbly armored Nokta Simplex coil lead . The sexy rough textured carbon shafts look like they will hold grime very well too . Otherwise the machine strikes me as a fine piece of kit and I hope to get a hunt in tomorrow night .

 

Minelab must have only electrical engineers working for them; not a single mechanical engineer on the payroll!   It makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

15 hours ago, Ogliuga said:

Taking a D1 and setting full tones, iron volume is always out of the picture, doesn’t work, useless. In a D2/full tones (0.71 in my case) you can hear iron tone if the discrimination is set from the VDI of the iron target to  lower disc. For example: the target is a nail whose VDI is 4...if I set discrimination 4 with iron volume 1-2-3-4-5, I can hear iron tone but a little discriminated, if I set lower disc (from 3 to -6.4) I can hear iron tone 100%. If I set disc over the VDI number of the iron target (from 5 going up), no way to hear iron tone..

Great, easy to understand explanation!

I’ve found a few of those presidential one dollar coins, but I don’t think any of them are George Washington ones. 
Congrats on a fun find!

I noticed that anomaly in full tones while doing a little testing this past summer.  Maybe a future update will fix that.   I hardly ever run full tones and when I do I set the disc at its lowest setting of -6.8 which is maybe why xp has it set that low in program 3 (sensitive full tones).  BTW, I almost always use program 3 to find a clean piece of ground to do a ground balance.  That number then carries over to any custom program I may want to use where I have some discrimination or notching.  

That’s usually how anything that’s not silver or gold comes out where I am in Western North Carolina too.  🥲🥲

I feel your sadness!

I’m starting to run out of “Hell Yeahs” for you!😂

4 hours ago, strick said:

NCtoad-  I wish I could help you but the only testing I've done so far was to ID a small gold ring and a decent sized gold ring so as to have a starting point. I have not found any silver coins with it yet and its likely to be some time before I do. I have found clad dimes and copper memorial pennies but the ground here is super muddy and I've been hunting fast and tossing the coins in my pouch without more then a quick look. I think they are close in their ID but I've not dug enough to be burnt into my memory. I'm mainly looking for gold rings. I could take out some silver coins and do some testing but my spare time is limited and I'd rather not waste it testing when I could be hunting and really learning the machine...if you know what I mean 😊

strick 

I know exactly what you mean!   I would much rather spend what little free time that I have detecting rather than testing.  Seems like some guys do the opposite and I appreciate their efforts and reviews, but, like you, I’d rather learn my detector by actually hunting with it.  Anyways I appreciate your review!   Good luck on finding some gold and let us know when you do.  

Hey Strick

thanks for the review!   I gotta question:  can the manticore reliably (that’s the key word here), tell the difference between a clad dime and a copper memorial penny?   You didn’t mention anything about silver coins, but do you know if the manticore can tell the difference between a silver dime and a clad dime?   Same for a silver and clad quarter.  Again, reliably.    I’m wondering if there’s an expanded silver range on the vdi.  
thanks!

And I thought this was going to be about the compadre’s predecessor 🤦‍♂️
 

Seriously though George, you’ve made a ton of spectacular finds!!

Has anyone tried the little 4” concentric on a mojave or silver umax or actually any other model?   These are still available and I was wondering if anyone’s tried it and what specific applications they used it for.  I was thinking it may have a place for densely polluted areas where a good find wouldn’t be very deep.  

7 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

It sure is! Wondered why it was lighter. 😀

Are we sure that CF means carbon fiber?   It doesn’t look like carbon fiber.    It looks like the CF stamp is molded into the shaft.  Can that even be done with carbon fiber?   Also if those shafts are made in France, do the French word or words for carbon fiber start with c and f?   Not trying to stir anything up, buy if it was carbon fiber I would think they would advertise the fact that it is and it would look like any other carbon fiber shaft.  That CF might be some manufacturing code or such.  

Wow!   Just saw this.  Can you tell us what state or part of the country these are from?

1 hour ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Copy that! I got the CF lower when I got my D2 even though the 9" coil didn't need it. It sure tightened everything up and it's rock solid now, so I don't expect any flex with the 13" on it.

That CF lower shaft should be supplied by XP with every 11" and 13" coil IMHO!

 

Thanks for making me spend more money on my addiction!   Just ordered one of those shafts.  If I’m remembering correctly isn’t there a spacer needed where the coil attaches?

51 minutes ago, Chase Goldman said:

This expanded ID scale is great as long as the stability and repeatability of the Nox TIDs are maintained and the scale does not suffer from high end (high conductor) compression.  Legend is a little jumpy and only goes to 60, D2 is pretty stable through 99 but the high conductors (and large aluminum) targets really get compressed into the mid-80 to 99 range limiting ability to resolve the type of high conductor.  But frankly I'm digging all those targets unless I get an indication it's an aluminum can based on the audio and traced target footprint via the pinpointer.

Yep.  The D2 suffers from that compressed upper vdi range.  I’d really love an update that could address that issue.  When you’re pressed for time, it’d be nice to be able to distinguish silver from clad.  I know that usually silver dimes and quarters come in ever so slightly higher (usually by 1 digit) but there’s been many times I was expecting clad and a silver popped out of the hole.  
 

oops!  Forgot I was in the nox forum.  Feel free to move this to the D2 forum.  

On 12/1/2022 at 6:39 PM, Chesroy said:

Have noted the user manual for the 900 appears to have an error regarding sensitivity as it states in places 0 - 25  it should be 0 - 28 

Reminds of the old Spinal tap movie:

skip to 1:20

36 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Now you guys got me thinking about the 13" coil. Since I already have the 9", maybe adding a 13" would make more sense than the 11". 🤔

I’m not a fan of big coils, but if XP doesn’t offer a smaller coil than the 9” then I may opt for the 13” just to try it.