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I had the same happen in December. Neighbors tree came down on my property  glanced my shop landed on my brand new trailer for my side by side. Their insurance is now ghosting me...the damage is not really enough for me to take out a claim...Hope your car is fixable

strick 

Insurance may say it’s an act of God...tell them your an atheist and they need to pay up. 

Strick 

Oh boy me likes that chain 😀 almost 34 g nice honker you got there. 

strick 

$260 you got a deal! My father in law lived in Mexico for 15 years he always drove a beat up van or RV....the less attention the better. Lots of stories he had. But he liked it there 🙂 

strick 

12 hours ago, Sirius said:

It also looks corroded in some places; mainly this one nub that looks like copper tarnishing. Also some parts of the chain looks like it was welded together and is also tarnishing? I could also be dirty cause I didn't clean it very well. The rest of the chain and center panel look fine though.

 

Get a tumbler if you don't have one already. It is great for cleaning all the clad you find plus for questionable jewelry. If it does not survive a tumble and shine right up then it goes in the junk box (let neighbor kids pick from) or into the garbage can. Your bracelet may just clean right up.

strick 

Cool find those parks can be full of surprises no mistaking that German eagle..

strick 

13 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

From what I remember from the Equinox, that iron audio is not just iron targets but ground noise as well. I kind of wished they didn't combine iron targets and ground noise together on the Manticore as well. It clutters up the audio a lot. I hope I'm remembering that correctly?

Yes I think this is right...I've been running my threshold as I would if I were nugget hunting with barely audible...the ground noise is easily differentiated from an iron target as it breaks through the threshold. I believe the threshold is set to zero and you have to engage it in all the programs except the gold modes...they call it  "referenced threshold" I tend to run my detectors   in all metal most of the time except when relic hunting in nail beds where it can get monotonous very quickly.. I don't know if you guys are running with the threshold on or off...good discussion 

strick 

1 hour ago, abenson said:

when I run an open screen I have my ferrous volume turned up quite a bit and that is probably one reason it's harder to tell a comingled target for me. So I should probably turn that down.

I've been running it down to were I can just here it comfortably...the ferrous audio  can get insanely loud on that machine I think I've been running it around 3-4 if I remember right for my ears...

strick  

On 2/20/2023 at 6:54 AM, stateguy said:

I am using the shock beach program ( all of them). 
senistivity at 22 ( can’t go higher). 
iron bias 3-5. 
I am getting a lot of iron. 
personally I can’t tell if it’s a good target unless it’s a surface. But when I go say past 4 in the iron sounds good. I have the all metal off 
should I raise the ferrous limits and discriminate more. 
Does anyone care to share there program or offer and suggestions. I would appreciate it 

 

You wont her the iron grunts with all metal off...I constantly toggle back and forth while hunting. I prefer to hear everything so usually hunt with it on but will turn it off once in while to give the old ears a break. Dont be afraid to turn the sensitivity down a little more..find  target at 22 and turn it down to 18 and see how it sounds. I like deep audio at the beach. it's a little smoother then prospecting. 

strick 

Nice job Compass thats a killer ring. Not sure bout the copper comment a gold ring that large would ring as a high conductor usually..it doesn't need copper or silver in it to do that. Is it stamped? 

strick 

Nice work 350 I like your hunting strategy for plowed fields..I’ll have to remember that if I ever get to a plowed field. You’ve inspired me to maybe get out this weekend and have a go at a old spot or maybe just hit a park where there is a chance for a gold ring. Thanks for taking us along on another adventure. 

Strick

I like that floaty thing been wanting to make one for a while now . Vets are nice guys but their memory is terrible lol. What did you dig 2 feet deep? I dug a hot wheel this morning at a beach I usually hunt in the summer I’d swear it was 2 feet deep but would not tell anyone as they might think i was crazy. Was sure it was going to be a big piece of iron. What program you using in the water?

strick

I have nothing really to offer...I'm a user not a tester..I don't have the patience for it plus I'll forget what I did soon afterwards and give a wrong report lol. All I can add is that they are both lightning fast. The Deus fast program really impressed me when I first started using it but when the smaller coil comes out for the M-Core it may be a tough choice which one to pick up...

strick 

5 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

His answer was basically that these detectors are close enough in performance that for general use a person can't go wrong with any of them.

Thanks for sparing me the 17 minutes of my life the suspense was killing me lol....Thats the only guy I ever blocked on this website...

strick 

3 hours ago, Dan Fox said:

Care to elaborate please?

I'm sure he will but he has already spoke plenty about that if you search you will find it. 

strick 

On 2/19/2023 at 6:17 AM, basstrackerman said:

I have 150 hours or so on my manticore and over last 25 hours or so tried to keep track of all good targets I've dug that were not on or slightly touching center line.  So far I've counted zero keepers that were  not at least slightly touching the line.  I have dug trash non-ferrous on the line , and maybe a couple wrap around iron that showed as a tiny dot on center line at 99.  I've dug a lot of targets that sounded pretty good tone wise and the 2D screen showing nothing on center line and every target was either iron or some sort of trashy metal.  Rattlehead made a video and every pic he posted of his screen of the deep coins in iron showed target trace on or touching center line on every target that was good.  What is everyone's experience with this?  How many of you are digging coins or buttons or any keepers that show up no where near center line?   Just curious .  

Went on a hunt at a swimming hole this morning and dug some sinkers that were not touching the center line and noticeably below it but not down into the ferrous range. It was dependent on which program I was using. AT HC seemed to keep them at or near the centerline the rest were below a bit...just an FYI

EDIT: I tested some at home in the grass and it was the same. 

strick 

Happy Birthday Norman here’s to a few more nuggets for the poke 🍻 

strick

I love old military buttons...nice work Jeff

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Personally I'm not that interested in it's small gold capabilities, most VLF's are fairly useless for small gold up where we hunt due to the hot soil....we are all using PI's up in the high country.  As it stands right now I could see it working good in tailing piles for some larger specimens. I dug some non ferrous out of some tailing piles on my little trip weekend before last in the foot hills.  Someone here has posted finding some gold chains already with the M-Core which is all that I am interested in anyways...it's coin and jewelry and relic capabilities. But yea it would be a bonus if they could improve on its small gold capabilities  as well. Then there would be no stopping it. 

strick 

20 hours ago, ColonelDan said:

I use a stealth 720i with carbon fiber handle in a lake whose bottom is thick clay.  Works fine and has done so for years.  

Great scoops.  Just like detectors I have too many scoops. I have a 720i and a 920i The 920i I like for wide open big beach hunting but it is a big heavy scoop. The 720i I don't use much because it has a 90 degree shaft which I found later not too like. Use my starv the most I've found s it's the lightest scoop. They all have carbon fiber shafts. My wife likes the starv as well and picks it over the aluminum scoop we got years ago. 

strick 

I was told by coin shop guy a long time go that anything I dug out of the ground would probably not be worth much...he was right for the most part but if you ever get a key date coin or an old coin in pristine condition then I would advise not to clean it unless you know what you are doing. If your coins are not worth anything but their intrinsic value to you then I would encourage you to learn how to clean them without ruining them. Cabin fever (member here) has not posted in a while but if you want to research some of his old posts had the best methods of cleaning indians and wheat cents...it did not involve water (hint) also the infamous you-tuber Aquachigger had a great video about cleaning a large copper cent that I recall watching a while ago. Have fun and do what you want with your coins. 

strick

9 hours ago, abenson said:

 First, EMI was tamed way down with the disc pattern and it didn't appear to affect depth. Second, masking from my dirt was also reduced. Finally, I was amazed at how much iron masking there is running the Manticore wide open. There were a few targets that were completely masked by iron running the screen wide open. But engage the disc pattern and I could clearly tell there was a target and was able to pinpoint it's location

I toggle back and forth from disk to wide open constantly while hunting and can confirm that depth does not seem to be effected much while in disk. With the CTX there was a loss of depth while running in disk. 

To the OP how much off the centerline are are you talking? just barely then yes some good targets will be just a hair off of the centerline but not much in my experience. Also target smearing is quite common when there is iron in very close proximity to a good target but usually the smear will be still touching the centerline. This I demonstrated early on and I believe is in the manual as well? I have dug nothing yet that I can remember that was a good target way off of the centerline.  

strick 

1 hour ago, EL NINO77 said:

Simon .. I have one question for you... what results do you get with the Manticore and Equinox on 11" coils in the #9 lead shot  in test?

...since I have done many such comparisons on my detectors over time...so I am interested....

Third paragraph down

strick 

9 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Thanks Strick! . Actually thought ya might miss it with your new love and all 🤣, but the D2 has been getting bashed some so I thought I'd throw it there.

Lol  yea been spending too much time on the manticore forum. I remember my first true love the ctx 3030. Nothing was as good or better then it. I could not see how anyone could find fault with it. Yea it was a little heavy...maybe a little slow but I could pull stuff out of the nail beds it seemed just as well as my buddy with his deus 1. After hunting with me for over a year...he couldn’t take it any longer and bought a ctx for himself. He was so much into the deus I don’t think he ever really learned all the controls on the ctx but I had set it up for him to just turn on and go (he had done the same for me with my deus) He takes his grand daughter coin hunting with it. But he still is a Deus guy #1

Sometimes a guy will make a post titled X detector finds this or Y detector finds that. When the truth of the matter is most likely any modern detector would have found it just as easily...because we all know it’s not what your using but how your using it and more importantly then anything where you are hunting that really matters. Like Steve says all of the modern vlfs are so close in technology it’s like splitting hairs. I’d. Say with gold nugget hunting it’s little different as the machines are different technologically speaking

But yea detector bashing gets old quick. I spend about 2 seconds on a couple of the face book pages and have to leave it’s so bad.  The xp deus 2 is a great machine one of the best out there,  We all like watching your exploits Bob your onto some really cool spots with lots of old history so keep posting buddy 👍

Strick