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You know hunting ghost towns and old home sites are hard places to hunt and the toughest places to test a new detector. It looks like you got a ton of non-ferrous items and certainly could have hit silver or gold if the coil was over it. The more you get to know the Manticore, the easier it will be to dial it in to the targets you want. I'd say you are making good headway with it and appreciate your reports for the rest of us to see to get realistic expectations. Well done, thanks again!

Another great hunt and great photos! That house is beautiful and a day with old buttons, coins, and relics found is a good day. Congrats on the Wheats and Indian and reign guide! And congrats on the CW pull tab... those are super rare! 😉

Thank you Ogliuga! That helps a lot. So does the Disc blank iron sounds or make them sound like non-ferrous tones above the set Disc number? Either way that explains my Full Tones nail tests not having iron tones because the Disc was set higher than the VDI of the nails. Thanks for helping me understand, guys, I'm a little slow, but I can be taught! 😏

Wow, Christmas came early! That's an awesome haul S.O.N., silver, gold, and Barbers, oh my! Another epic hunt, congrats!

Wow, that's a huge hunk of silver, congrats! It definitely looks hand made. Well done!

Actually it was added in the 0.70 update, but we've discovered it only works if the Discrim setting is 0 or lower.

Thank you palzynski, but I'm going to hold out for the D2 version and keep poking at XP until they make one just to get rid of me. 🤣

Congrats, on the gold ring, Skate, it's very unique. Well done!

Thank you, Chase! I have been using Pitch for searching and love it for stopping me in my tracks on potential good targets. Coming from the Nox, I naturally gel with Square audio, but have been trying to train my ears with PWM audio and I'm starting to get the hang of it. I do like Full Tones in PWM for interrogating the size and conductivity of targets but the missing Iron tones threw me. I suppose since I get the iron tones with my Pitch program, I don't necessarily need iron tones in Full Tones just to interrogate. Thanks for your insights!

Yes, thank you! I agree cpmpletely, come on XP if you make it for D2, it will sell! 😉

If it were'nt for detectorists, people in parks would be walking, sitting, and playing on a solid carpet of rotting zinc pennies, pull tabs, and can slaw. So you're welcome parks departments everywhere! 😎 They should outlaw pop-top cans and make pennies out of cardboard, IMHO! 😁

Well now you've got all the bases covered, congrats! I don't have the 11", but my 9" is great on low conductors in my highly iron mineralized soils. F350 is right about elliptical coils, he is doing very well with his and I am looking forward to adding the 11x13" when they get back in stock here. Now if XP releases a 6x9" coil for relic hunters (land only) then look out, the D2 will cut through hot ground like melted butter! 😎

So I was monkeying around in my basement with the D2 yesterday because it seems like it snows every other day now and the ground is hard as concrete and there is surprising low EMI down there. Also if I don't swing a detector for more than 3 days, my right arm curls up in the fetal position and won't respond, so I end up chasing the cat around the house trying to "detect" if he still has his collar on with the D2. 😾 Anyhew, I grabbed a handful of rusty and bent square nails, bottle caps, pull tabs, and a silver dime and a gold ring, and started experimenting with Disc and Notch settings, as well as PWM vs Square audio and Pitch vs Full tones. I was mainly using various modified Fast and Deep HC programs to test separation and masking which is starting to yield some interesting results. Of course I realize those tests have limited useful data made on top of a box and not buried in my iron hot ground, but why not use my down time to try and learn something and give the cat a break, right? One thing I found interesting, and maybe everyone else is aware of, is that when I was in a program that had the Discrimination set to a number higher than about 1 or 2 and changed to Full Tones, the iron tone disappeared, but if I switched to Pitch or any of the multi-tones, the iron tones were there. I like to run my Iron Volume at 3 to hear if there is iron co-mingled with targets and I don't really use Full Tones much except on the Sensi.FT program which I almost never use. I have one Fast program set up with Disc at 8 and Notch from 0.0 to 8, and the Notch blanks out the iron tone (0-8) in Pitch or Full Tones as expected, but I also have a wide open Fast program with Disc at 9 and no Notch and while I get Iron tones in Pitch it is gone in Full tones. When I drop the Disc down to 0.0 in Full tones, iron tones are there. So I guess my question is this normal for Full Tones or is it a matter of adjusting other parameters? I tried different Silencer and B.Caps settings and combinations, but they didn'y seem to affect that in Full Tones. Am I missing something? Thanks for reading through this rambling mess if you made it that far. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to fire up the D2 and see if the cat has his collar on. 🙀

3 year warranty. Don't know about the screen protector though.

Well there's a 9" and 11" but no 13" on either site.... 🤣

Great adventure and great finds! It was like reading a Hardy Boys book... The Lost E-Bike at Deadman's Gulch. 😄 I hope your leg is better, Cal. You guys are hardcore! Well done!

What a great hunt! Nice buttons and Indians and Wheats are always nice to find too. Congrats! There still could be some silver lurking below, and it looks like you've got the 13" dialed in well with your D2, so it's just a matter of time until you hit some deep silvers. 😎

I imagine everyone will be sold out for Christmas, but there will probably be more arriving next month.

The 900 has the same pod and grip design as the Manticore. The grip is a thinner pistol-like grip with a better angle on it too. Here is a post from SteveH that shows a profile view of the 800 and 900 pods for a better comparison. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page to see it.

That turned out beautiful, Steve! Well done! I've sent you an email. 😎

I got APTX-LL earbuds for my 800 and love them. Not being able to use aftermarket wireless earbuds without an external transmitter with the new 900 and Manticore is the one thing stopping me from getting on board.

That's awesome that you get to do archeological work and you made some cool finds! I agree with F350, it looks like there are some old bullets in your trash pile. And since it's not of the period they were looking for, you got to keep them, so win-win. Well done!

I'd call that a great hunt, Bob! The buttons alone are awesome and so is the rest. The Merry Widows lids always make me grin, specially being found near a church. 😉 That curved thing looks a little like a trigger. The long mystery item made me think of a hair pin or more likely a garment pin of some kind that you could drive a straight pin through. Well done! I'm really glad to hear that the 11x13" coil separates so well. If it's half as good as the Nox's 10x5" coil, I'll be a happy camper! Thank you again for all your sharing of your hunts and reviews, and also for the encouragement. It all means a lot! 😎

As I understand it, Disc sets the cut-off number for the iron tone and Notch blanks the audio entirely. So a Disc of 00-28 would make any target id of 00 to 28 have an iron tone and targets 29 and above would have non-ferrous target tones. If you Notch 00-28, all target tones from 00-28 will be blanked out. In this case I feel like setting Disc from 6-10 and Notching 10-28 would be a safer option because I could hear the iron up to ID# 10 and know it's there and I would not hear the 10-28 targets and not be distracted by those unwanted items. Of course that's just the way I hunt most of the time. As you said there is more than one right answer. The method that suits you best is the right one. 🙂