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I have 3 fiberglass lowers, one for my Deus and 2 for the Manticore. I don't think fiberglass will act the same way, but certainly will find out. The ribbed structure of the lowers I have does tend to trap fine silt. 🤔 I haven't had much trouble as yet but I always clean my gear thoroughly after every water hunt now because I have had a seized rig in the past. The wax is working for me! 🙂

Quite an achievement, Skull. Not as much the end of a chapter as the top of your game. 🏆 I noticed right away that the M9 coil is a really great coil, and the Manticore is especially sensitive to low conductors.

Hope ya get that site cleaned up, ☘️🍀 Both a shamrock for St Patrick's Day and a 4 leaf clover for luck! 🏴‍☠️

Well worth the trip and the effort, I'd say. Congrats Dan! What coil were you using? The M9 and M8 are both great in trashy spots.

Thanks man! ☘️ I've seen the target trace go round like a coin on a mere piece of foil. 😵 Could be I'm not used to it yet, I notice it sorta focuses in on stuff. 🤔 Lots more to learn! 🙂

Yeah, the pipe is one of your newer relics, they were sold in "head shops" all over the USA in the 70s 🤐 🍀

That's a really good spot Ghound! 🏆 Are the nickel sized coins in the first pic V nickels? They usually come up red here. Nice um, err, vintage brass pipe, and the Barber dime is a real topper. 👍 Some really cool old stuff there. Congrats on the silver! I would imagine there is more there.

Thanks Ghound, The last 2 or 3 hunts before this were either fairly unproductive or a matter of "taking one for the team". It was nice to get something really awesome along with some silver coins and other stuff. I'm going to find the owner and return it, if the person isn't known I'll take it to the local Masonic Lodge. I may know who owned it already though. 🤔 This will up my karma points for the year, maybe I'll get my wife something awesome at the beach. 🙂

Thanks strick, I wonder if it is the Manticore's seemingly enhanced sensitivity to low conductors that makes it the latest rage with beach hunters, it goes off like a firecracker on even the smallest objects. 🤔 Many times I have spent a long time searching for what the detector found to find out it was a tiny piece of lead or a shard of Tombac. I hope this translates to finding chains and more gold on the beach. I didn't find much in Florida but nobody did 😅 pretty much off-season. We're traveling to Myrtle Beach soon if there's anything left of it after the fires and tornadoes today, 😬 Spring break is on so maybe that will be good. Meantime I'm going to get out and hit as many fields as I can before they cultivate, and dig more lead 🤣

Thanks Joe, Did some research, and as usual, my finds often come with a moral obligation. 🙄 At this point I will probably contact the landowner, and if he doesn't have any ties to the Freemasons, I'll probably call a local lodge and return it. Thank you for the heads up! 🙂

My wife and I bought each other wedding bands back in 2008, mine is 9.9g white gold with a 1/8 carat diamond. I use a ceramic ring ($10) on the beach 😏 it was $900 back then, about $2 or 3k now! 🤯 No wonder we find so many stainless and tungsten bands these days... Poor kids 🫤 I'm going to decide whether or not to sell that honker when it's finished, might bring more than the melt value if I post it low. 🤔 Notice the way the white gold was "pinned" on rather than using rhodium, that's interesting. 🙂

Now that's a bit of sage info right there! 🏆 Those were different times... 🤣 I'm sure pretty much any detector would "find" everything I find, just at what cost. 🤔 I proved that to myself 4 years after I grid searched a spot with my trusty ol' Equinox 600. 🤯 Got nothin'. I don't want to advise and compare here, I'll do it later in another forum, but the two most important things to me are separation and audio. If I'm digging twice as many undesirable targets with one detector over another, I either haven't learned the "language" of one of them, or one just isn't as good. 😅 I guess I'm in tune with these newfangled Multifrequency VLF's, and have zero experience with the old stuff. If I didn't have any experience with a Minelab machine, it would have been just as difficult to operate the Manticore as it was learning the Deus 2. 🙏 Thankfully that's pretty much what I started on, and stealing great programs from others put me ahead, but I still have a way to go. 😏

Thanks Joe, If anyone would know their rings, you'd be the first I'd ask. 👍 It's 14K in large plain characters, nothing fancy, nothing else. Most rings today are hollow, this one is solid with holes to let light through. Very hard to get a pic inside, bent as it is. He estimated its age at exactly what you did. It's the heaviest gold ring I've found so far, and my 3d this year. I especially like finding them in farms, while they can get beat up, sometimes they're pristine. A little polish and they're good. The jeweler told me the "lump" on the bottom was intended to not only make the ring smaller, but to possibly cover up a crack. He said that is not the best way to do it. He almost got it straight but we both decided a full restoration was the best course, they use heat to soften it a bit. I have a ring mandrel, but something like this is out of my pay grade 🤷‍♂️ This same farm gave me this one two years ago, possibly lost during an equestrian event: The cast purity mark identifies it as a J. R. Wood ring, the previous company to Artcarved. They were the first to do "seamless" gold rings over a hundred years ago. It cleaned up with just a bit of gold polish, and went right into my wife's jewelry box 🤣

Thanks Matt, Just dropped it off at the local jeweler, he would have straightened it for free, he got it to a certain point. They're the best. Even use their XRF gun for free. I left it there for restoration, he said it's an old one, and the diamond is 1/3 carat. 🥳 They're going to redo the enamel too! He said value after restoration would be over $1k. Glad you like my posts, I've always been a little worried about that 😅 I might be posting too much.

Thanks Colonel! 🫡 Going to make it a mission of sorts to figure out why the Manticore has a 3-0 score on gold rings this year, 2025 is really off to a great start between the two. After my upcoming beach trip and any relic hunts I go on before then, I'm going to be gathering info to write something comparing the two. So far I'd say the D2, at least from an audio standpoint, is really a great machine, I think I'd have found everything with it, but there has to be a way to be sure. For sure, at present I have to take my "Digitol" with the Manticore. 😅