Daniel Tn

I don't have any skin in the game but I do have to say, I picked up a copy of Andy Sabisch's book for the Manticore and it is GREAT! It is very nicely put together and complete.

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Yep. He'll know everything there is to know about it within 15 mins. Every setting, sound, nuance. Video made, edited, and uploaded in 30 mins after putting it together, and posted on every social media outlets within the hour. Clives book for it will also be readily available within the week.

Somewhere on this forum, there's a whole thread dedicated to it. I'm too lazy to go dig it back up and find it but there was a lot of info about it in there; that's how I initially found out about it. The big things for me that set it apart: 1. It is one of the best ones I've used that doesn't false on the ground. A lot of the others in this dirt around here, will have you chasing ghost chirps and falses. 2. Adjustable sensitivity...and easy to adjust settings. 3. The iron ID/Ferrous ID check works and works extremely well. 4. Dependable. I've freshwater waded with mine for hours each time, and used the crap out of it. It works every time I push the button to turn it on. No issues at all.

The Quest X-Pointer Max is hands down my favorite.

I kinda like it. I don't have a need for it, but it looks sharp.

I don't mind digging and removing junk. I've found too much good stuff over the years that I would have never dug, had I been cherry picking signals. Therefore, I love going to places and hunting behind cherry pickers.

Somebody go buy one of the new ones and post up some videos showing the new features!!

A lot of that is from the manufacturer buckling under the pressure of the impatient customers that want things yesterday. Stuff gets rushed and doesn't have time to be well thought out, and has to be added in after the fact. ALL of the manufacturers have been guilty of it as of late. I applaud Nokta for taking a step back and learning from the past experiences of their own, and from other manufacturers that fell into the same trap. Get everything worked out on your own time table and release it when it's ready to release and not a moment sooner. That's why I'm kinda excited about their pulse offerings and will give this new Legend a looksie too.

I'm intrigued by what the relic mode could possibly be. I hope all that info is not on the display at once; hoping that's just an exploded view of all options and their location when toggled. The older I get, the more I appreciate simplicity.

This is the best forum on the internet for detector discussion and knowledge. Period. End of story. It's because of the leadership from Steve that it is that way. Other places are full of idiots with chips on their shoulders waiting to challenge anybody and everything; keyboard warriors at best.

Well, that's where I shot myself in the proverbial foot. I started door knocking and getting private permissions about 30-35 years ago and had a good run of getting great places to hunt. Big farms. I made friends with the land owners and once I got my foot in the door with one of them, they helped me gain access to neighbors farms. Where I shot myself in the foot was by not getting to know those people's kids. My relationship was with the owners. The problem now is: all those people were in their 60s and 70s back then, and now are dying or have died off. So as it is with today's generation...most don't care about their grandparents or parents property. All they see it as, is opportunity to sell to the highest bigging developer. And once that happens, the fastly built crap homes go up and the place is gone forever. Here's a great example of that: In the 90s and early 2000s, we hunted the farm in the satellite imagery. I put a marker pin on part of where a Civil War camp started. Compare that to the imagery of modern day. The landowner passed away in around 2001. It quickly sold afterwards. All that camp and camps are gone. And it's just one place of many just like it here. The other side of the token are the ones who moved here from out of state and just hate everyone local. You know within 30 seconds of knocking on their door.

Well it was worth checking into. Me and my buddy were hunting a vacant hill in a neighboring town one day. The OnX app listed it as city property. We hadn't been there long; I'd dug a dropped minie ball and a roundball, and a city work truck pulled up and two workers came to us. They asked us if we had asked such and such if we could be detecting and I said no...figured with it being city property it was okay. They called this person on their walkie talkie and she told them to tell me to come by their office. So I did, and I introduced myself and showed her the bullet I had found just to show her we weren't digging gold coins and such over there. Usually when they see it's just a piece of lead, they couldn't care less. She was nice but told us we couldn't detect there. Okay no problem. Fast forward a couple weeks later, and we pass by this particular hill in route to another site and see two guys over there detecting. I turned around and stopped. I asked them how'd they get permission to hunt there, and one of them said "Oh my aunt works for the city and said I needed to come detect this place, that some guy had found a couple civil war bullets here". Mmm hmm. City buddy system at work. Part of me wanted to drop by that office so bad and be a smart ellick but I just left it be.

Man this makes my heart hurt. It's an all-too-common occurrence and the bite of it, never seems to lessen. There are two old parks like that, that were around here. One of them became a golf course, with the lake/pool serving as one of the ponds on the golf course. It was always off limits to detecting, being a golf course. Then the golf course went out of business and was sold to a developer, and is now a gated community subdivision. The other was long forgotten until about 10 years ago. The property was over grown and the pond/swimming area mostly filled in. The new owners cleaned everything up, dredged the pond, and put a nice dock on it and they now host weddings and receptions on the property. The lake serves as a nice background shot of the pictures.

I was actually coming on here to see if anyone had said anything about this. Last week I was in a US Civil War site and got a really good high tone. I turned 90* to it and it still sounded great and "uniform" and didn't appear to "move" my pinpointed spot. But it iron grunted on it. I almost left it but decided to just see what it was, since it didn't sound deep. Out came a Civil War J hook at about 4 inches. Total heavy brass target. That set doubt in my mind as to the accuracy of the grunt. And it happened again the other day on a Civil War eagle button. I'm not even going to try using it now. I seem to have caught on to listening to the overall signal itself and then turning 90*. I can at least get an idea of what is probably a shallow nail or irregular piece of metal from just doing that.