NCtoad

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.  

Nice finds!   I never regret finding silver.  

That’s a double “hell yeah”!   Are you saying that those are new finds from a permission you’ve had for a long time or are those some finds from a while back?  Either way you still get the double hell yeah.  Lol

Once again, great finds!   That field is really producing. Oh, and that fifth pic down looks like a fertility ring!   Lol

8 grams of 14k deserves a “Hell Yeah”!   Congrats on the gold, silver ring and the merc, and on getting out, Jeff!

Any gold makes for a great hunt, especially when it’s totally unexpected.  Congrats Bob!

Congrats!!   A silver thimble is on my list.

I just detected a new permission today  that was nearly 5 acres with a large house and gardens.  About half of it was really annoying as the neighbor had one of those invisible dog fences right on the property line.  I tried different programs, lowering the sensitivity down to 80, and even single frequency (which seemed just slightly better), but nothing worked.  
Any ideas?

Congrats on those nice finds Bob!   I’m beginning to think the 9” coil is really the goldilocks size of coils.  I’m surprised other companies like minelab don’t offer a 9” stock coil.  

8 hours ago, Rick N. MI said:

They are both great detectors. If you have a concentric coil on your Mohave then there no sense in getting the Silver umax. If you want an extra detector for a backup it would be great to have.

Thanks and yes it has the stock 7” concentric coil.  Just was wondering if the SSumax had something special going on inside.  I know it’s 10khz verses 12 for the mojave, but I don’t see anything else that makes it all that much different or better.  

I have a mojave and have always been interested in the silver sabre micromax.  There’s a silver sabre with the brown 8” donut coil for sale on the friendly forum and was wondering if it has any advantages over the mojave. I’ve read about how good the SS umax is and it intrigues me enough to consider buying one. However, if it’s similar in performance to the mojave, I can’t see any justification in buying one. 

Congrats on that awesome 18th century token!   I was just getting ready to post my latest find, a 1919 merc in very good shape, when I saw your post.  Compared to what you just found it’s like finding a zincoln!   Lol!

Dang Bob, you’ve earned a “Hell Yeah” for this hunt!!   Nice finds!

Nice finds CPT!   Do you know what that item in the middle of the second pic is?   It almost looks like it has a Rolls Royce insignia on it, but it looks like a lid from a jar.