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I took the Manticore to the same beach today, and using its deepest settings (One Tone, 30 sensitivity) I found... ... Absolutely nothing else. FWIW, the new D2 software is, at present, pretty darn good, although I'm concerned with the "cut-outs". I'm going to take it to another beach soon with the 13x11", pretty much dry beach because the tides right now are not favorable. Should be a good hunt anyway because of events happening in my area right now. 🍀

Nice large date seated, NJ! I Know how you feel, I whined about not finding any Barber coins, and just this year got one in my oldest permission. It's a big field so anything goes I guess 🤷‍♂️ Your 1917s is fairly common, but the large date Seated is pretty scarce. Congrats!

Saw a post where another user scooped the availability of the Deus 2 V3.02 software, I happened to have a spare RC unit on a shaft with the 9" coil rigged up for water with the antenna, so it was a no brainer to just go ahead and update the RC, and the spare WSA II headphones I have. It took 3 attempts, but I got the RC done, and the headphones updated the first time. It wasn't hard to put my programs back in, both Beach and Relic, I didn't really notice any major differences in the menus. Nothing at all, actually. Everything was where it was before. I quickly threw everything in the truck along with my scoop and went to the beach. Beautiful day today, and ironically it was also just minutes from low tide when I got there. 🥳 I started out in the water, and immediately noticed the difference in the software - the machine was much quieter in the water, it still has the spurious blips and some bump sensitivity, but hey, sensitivity was 93. Otherwise It was silent. It was even more silent on the beach at sensitivity 95, I couldn't be more thrilled. 🙂 There is no EMI at this beach, and no black sand today. The recent rain even kept the jellyfish to a minimum, so I went in barefoot knee deep. Some of the targets were pretty deep, but the jury is out on depth. 🤔 Here's the trash: At reactivity of 2 and AR at 6, I was quite pleased at the loud response of the detector even over the tiny stuff. One piece of iron in the photo went off loudly, but I couldn't find it with the pinpointer! It really found some small stuff. 👍 I got some light iron tones in the dry, and dug a couple of toys: They're plastic except for a spring in one and screws in the other. Tiny screws. Higher on the beach I found a few coins: They were the same IDs as usual, 84 for Zincolns, and 63 for the nickel. I don't do air tests, I was going to drop a nickel, quarter, dime and penny on the sand, but I'll let y'all do that, I prefer finds in situ. 😏 I did have one issue, 3 times the detector stopped working, I had to wait for the coil to be rediscovered and reconnected. It just dropped out. At first I thought it was my antenna, but one time I saw the reconnect so this beta is definitely a beta 🙄. I have no idea what causes it. Pinpointing is better, audio is louder, I was using the 9" so I nailed the targets mostly on the first scoop. 👍 The one thing that really impressed me so far is the stability, the increased volume, and pinpointing seems more accurate. It also really finds small stuff! More to come, I'll be taking it out for a relic hunt soon. 🍀

Thanks, I was in a hurry, corrected. 🙂 Out on the beach with it now!

I'm brave, 😎 installed it on my new spare D2 RC. Got my spare WSA II headphones updated as well, taking it to the beach in a bit with the 9" and the antenna. Thus far all I've noticed is that the audio is louder, nothing else while programming my two programs. I'm looking especially for an improvement in the pinpointing. 🤔 Don't have the HF2 coil yet but it will go on this machine.

Nice going Mn, great assortment of stuffs. 👍 I too am curious as to your settings and beach environment. 🤔

Wondered what Gary's impression would be, looking forward to this coil. 👍

Thanks Brad, I'm pretty used to the 15 now, I use the 13" on the Deus and the 15 on the Manticore is only slightly heavier. 6 hours of swinging it is enough, and the battery is almost gone. I keep a backup battery pack just in case which also acts as a counterweight if needed. Best part there is the public free parking everywhere, each lot has a wash station and usually a restroom facility of some sort but it was too early for that this year. As long as I get there really early each day I get a great spot. Parking is illegal between midnight and 5am. It's kind of a detectorists' paradise, hopefully my next trip there in July with negative tides (🥳) will produce some higher value finds. Meantime I'll see what I can do locally 😎

Thanks, my daily walking average was really high, it took a lot of searching to get that much stuff off season. I went in the surf knee deep where I could. Surfers were an indication the waves were tall most days.

🤣 I thought about that for a second, using '21 instead of 2021, but yeah, I guess I was being a bit facetious. 😁 I think the oldest coin I found was 1974. An old motel in the hurricane prone Outer Banks would maybe be 50s at best 🤔

Thanks, have you tried using Enhanced Audio? It puts the chatter at a low level, and the real targets go off loud. Love that iron double tone. 🏆 Dug a few to be sure, but yep.

Thanks! This is an odd strip of beach for me, no coin line, no iron line, and only now and again a patch of black sand, otherwise it is an easy hunt. The only thing lacking is a large amount of targets 😅 I gridded everywhere I found sinkers. This beach isn't as bad as an East Coast Florida beach with a swarm of detectorists, but there must be a few. I met one guy with a new detector (for him, it was an AT Pro), and saw one guy with a CTX and a huge coil, so I didn't bother going where he went. So far I'm very happy with Beach Surf and Seawater, it's great for the salt content and pretty darn good on black sand. I dug the titanium ring about a foot down where there was a lot of it. I even use it in the dry. I may experiment more tho. 🙂

Just back from a week in the Outer Banks, got out every morning detecting most of a 15 mile strip. My new watch says I averaged about 7 miles a day. I wasn't expecting much, the tides weren't really in my favor and not negative when they were, the surf was pretty high most of the week. The first day I used the Deus 2, and did fairly well right away in the wet, so I was hopeful. I spent the rest of the week using the Manticore, switching back and forth between One Tone and 5 region all tones using the M9 one day, and the M15 for the remainder. My main program is Beach Surf and Seawater with Dankowski ferrous limits. I find one One Tone especially useful in the surf and wet sand, down there you just want to know what is ferrous and not. I ran sensitivity mostly at 29 or 30, recovery at 6, (@midalake setting) and was constantly amazed at how deep it hit targets. You get your IDs, and the detector will do a double iron tone when the target is definitely iron. Pretty reliable. I also use Enhanced Audio because you can turn up sensitivity and only hear a light chatter, the targets are very loud. This overall makes the Manticore a killer on the beach. Here's a typical first day out with either detector pic, first the Deus: And then the Manticore: By the end of the week the trash was down to less than the finds. I did better in Myrtle Beach, but fairly well here, I only saw 2 detectorists the whole week, and people said they didn't see any either. 63 coins including a '21 Half dollar I found the first day at an old motel, got a nice but cheap Cabela's knife, a battery device for smoking weed, a toe pick, some junk jewelry including a pair of gold plated earrings, and of course a Hot Wheel I dug while looking for an earring a woman thought she lost in a certain place. I didn't find it. Got 3 rings, Tungsten, Titanium and silver: The silver Ankh ring I found the first day at low tide with the Deus, the others with the Manticore which I find better with low conductors. The Tungsten ring was over a foot down. It fits my wife so it was yet another Mother's Day gift. I was pleased to get 3 rings, and am looking forward to my return there in July, that week is all negative tides starting early in the morning. There are reported wrecks along this strip and this find freaked me out, but it's zinc and you can get a bag of them for a kiddie treasure hunt for about $10: Oh well. It was fun in the sun, I met a lot of nice people, and spent the rest of the days shopping, eating at great restaurants, and bombing around town in our golf cart. 🙂 🍀

Glad you could tweak some more finds out of that spot, Stupot. Pebble stone is rare where I dig but the M9 is also my go to for it, although I may give the M8 a go. The stone is not kind to those coins and artifacts. 🏆 Waiting on the HF2 to try.

Great hunt Ghound! Love the "little bit of everything" you found, that's a nice bunch of Minié balls. Congrats!

I'm working on it right now, here's a preview...

CooB is good, I have an indestructible stainless one made by them. I also have a Dune Titanium scoop. https://seriousdetecting.com/search?resources[options][fields]=title%2Cproduct_type%2Cvariants.title%2Cvendor%2Cvariants.sku%2Ctag&resources[limit_scope]=each&q=Titanium Sorry for the big link but it's a search for titanium scoops at Serious Detecting, they have always done well by me and give you free stuff. 🙂

I wonder if they will come up with an RC magnetic adapter for charging that matches that coil charger? 🤔

I'm still fairly new to this hobby, but overall I've had enough different machines and coils to at least give an overall assessment, not technically but from "feel". My Equinox 600, way back in the beginning, was literally transformed by adding the Coiltek 10x5 which is the same size coil as the upcoming HF2. My finds to trash ratio took a major turn, and to this day it is still on that detector. I have the Deus 2 and Manticore, and still find the Deus, even with my preference for large ellipticals lately, far superior in the finds to trash ratio. I own and have used the M8, but much prefer the M9 so far, I found the M8 to be fooled by iron more, my local beaches are difficult in that respect. I used it in the field extensively and was disappointed there as well. I think the Manticore currently is the "low conductor" champ, but the HF2, which I was hopefully early enough to be among the first to order, will be a big "We'll see". From some of the scuttlebutt this far, it appears that XP may open a few more eyes. There is no doubt in my mind that having both detectors is an advantage.

Welcome to the forum, Pete! My wife's ancestry is from Wales, and some of mine. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 That's an excellent start, reminds me of the Spanish pistareens I found out in front of my house in a farm. Love seeing the UK old, best of luck to you! 🍀 (I'm part Irish too 😁)

I tried an update on my spare unit last night, nothing yet, but I'll let y'all know if it happens.

It was mentioned in some of the advance meetups with XP people that there will be an update. As yet that has not occurred, I tried an update on my spare unit. It stands to reason that due to the increase in bandwidth the new coil will be transmitting, there will be an update to the RC, WS6, and possibly other headphones. 🤔 Got my preorder in this morning. 🥳

Here's another little "nugget" for y'all: Got mine in! 🥳

Thanks! It's a Sapphire. September birthstone. It's probably an old ring, some of the 4 others I found in this place are near 100 years old, the cocktail ring is 1950s-1970s. I find gold rings relic detecting in farms as well, just not so often. In the last 4 years I've found 4, one was almost 300 years old. 🙂

Thanks, @Chase Goldman suggested trying Enhanced Audio, and I haven't looked back. 🙂 EA allows me to crank sensitivity up, I'll go a little past silent which ends up being 28/29. The chatter isn't loud, more in the background. Another trick to add to that increased sensitivity that @midalake suggested is using one tone with a Recovery Speed of 6. A double iron tone on a swing indicates a very good chance of a non ferrous target, and so far that has been spot on. I switch between 5 region and One Tone because they are next to each other just to evaluate more, a few swings are cheaper than a deep dig 😅