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This is what passes for a Minelab Manticore test video on Youtube lately.

I've heard people say putting a little clear silicone jell in the D2 slot that holds the Remote Control will keep it from falling off. Just give it a day to setup after applying.

It seems nobody has any more new available. Might be able to find one used on eBay for anyone looking for one. I gave up and ordered a Fisher instead but it does have side sensitivity.

You sound like a professor, GB. Is this an essay question for credit for those experienced?

I also noticed the Legend going dark. I'm glad I know about that before mine arrives. I've heard that the Apex is difficult until you figure it out. Garrett needs to up their game in the VLF area.

I think they wanted the name of a fierce creature to slay the competition just as the detector will. LOL

LOL. Did you see my post where I ordered a Legend (The Lagard? Just Kidding) while I'm waiting for my Manti (Or is it the Mongoose now)? I've been reading about your park hauls with it!! I ordered the Pro Pack so I would have a machine with a small coil incase I find a place to search where I would need it. I'll see how it goes. I think you are in the Denver area. I should send you the coordinates for that silver dime spill I found 40 years ago that I left some there. Its probably gone by now though.

I believe ya! I said I was just messing with ya.

That's interesting. One would have to experiment with it to see if it has value. Since the oval isn't always an oval it could provided some very useful ID info. Funny that nobody ever talks about this. I didn't even know the Deus II had this feature.

Not offended at all, Steve. I realize it is just a playful messing with odd names. I too thought Manticore was an odd name when I first heard it. But I do see the variations come from more people who have a Deus II and must feel the Manticore is an assault on the detecting superiority of the Deus II right now. Psych 300 is interesting.

I think most here with a new D2 would probably do the same. You can't just go around dropping $1600 every time a new detector comes on the market. If I had bought a D2 I wouldn't be in the market for a Manticore right now either. But I do think giving silly names to detectors you have no intention of buying is a bit childish. Should we call the Deus II the Dump2? LOL (Just messing with ya)

After reading some of what happened during the Equinox release, I've lowered my delivery expectations for the Manticore. I'll now be surprised if I see one before Christmas.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but the battery life of the Manticore on the Minelab website specs has been changed from 9 hours to 10 hours. I guess 9 hours sounded too short. I doubt there has been any physical change to the detector reflecting that change.

I've been reading some old posts from when the Equinox was released and it doesn't look good for the Manticore. Minelab even made some release announcements in December 2017 about "coming soon". Then they said shipping by late January. Then they announced they were shipping detectors on February 2nd. But I think it was late February before your normal Joe pre-order saw his Equinox.

Yeah, she was asked specifically about leaking around the charging port and she sidesteps answering that directly. I hope it was redesigned as well but maybe not. I'm not going to submerse mine in water beyond the coil until I see what happens to some others. Maybe I won't be going in water beyond wading anyway. I was at a beach in murky water up to my chest with a CTX3030 shortly after it came out. I couldn't see where the coil was so I would scoop and nothing. Check again and it was still there. Scoop again and nothing. Check again and scoop and now it moved. This went on for about 25 minutes until I gave up chasing what ever it was. That was my last water hunt up to my chest. LOL After that summer I sold the CTX and gave up metal detecting. I couldn't find anything with it. A couple friends had Garrett At's and they would detect circles around me. I don't remember there being a graph on the CTX but I'm sure there was. I just didn't spend enough time with it to learn it and I had to keep switching arms with it because of the weight. It was just a frustrating summer detecting for me.

Yup! I'm excited for the Manticore to ship. It's going to be awesome.

If you go to youtube and do a search, minelab+manticore, then open Filters (above the vids on the left side) and select, Sort By / Upload Date; it will bring up that video and all the others pertaining to the Manticore sorted by upload date. Bookmark the page after you have entered those parameters and you can easily check if any new Manticore videos have been uploaded.

Coils are EXPESIVE!! I see some around $400. There are probably others that are even more expensive. I noticed the extra coils on the Legend are only a little over $100. I'm not sure what that says but it says something. I probably won't get any extra coils for the Manticore unless I have some specific reason I think it is going to help me find a lot more targets somewhere.

I hope you have a reliable source, strick. It only been about a month since my order but I'm already hyperventilating. LOL Jeff, I read your recent Legend posts in the Nokta forum and I ordered a Legend with the pro pack and even got a little bit more off from the current crazy low price. I noticed on the product page that it says Pre Order, Aye Yai Yai, (I like that phrase) I hope not that again. I've got a message into them to see if that was an oversite or if it will ship next week.

Exactly what I am thinking, Jeff. I'm still hopeful that Minelab won't let me down but I'll decide soon if I want to go that route. I can see the wife saying to me, "you've got a detector you haven't used in years and now you bought two new ones? Are you nuts?" LOL

Aye Yai Yai!!! If we are talking about a year from August 25th you'll find me in the Psych Ward early next year. Maybe I should buy a Legend while they are cheap to tide me over if Minelab doesn't get the Manticore out this year.

BTW, I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes here. I know I can be very opinionated and sometimes I come across that way. If anyone is offended by what I have posted anywhere here, please accept my sincere apology. I don't intend to offend anybody.

No, Steve, I'm not familiar with new metal detector releases. You guys are much more knowledgeable about this than I. But the "release" you are referring to, I believe, was what happened in August. The release coming, I would think, is the OK for dealers to start selling the product they where sent to customers. I could be wrong but I'll go by the advertisement Minelab put in the "Gold Prospectors" magazine that Manticore will be available in time to be under the Christmas tree.

I don't think Minelab can stop CoilTek from making their own coils for the Manticore. Although, from what I've heard, it takes CoilTek a year or longer to get something into production. How do you know the Manticore isn't already being shipped to dealers or about to be shipped? I suspect if the Release Date is November 30th that the first shipments will be in national distributors warehouses and maybe dealers hands before they announce. It would be silly to announce release and have no product for customers to immediately buy. I don't think dealers close down for weeks on end here in the U.S. for the winter or Christmas. The dealer my order is with said they ship directly from the distribution centers to the customer so the dealer never even sees the unit. In Oz aren't you in the beginnings of summer there? Surely dealers will be open over there.

You are right, of course, Steve. I am hoping between the expanded TID, the target trace and maybe a couple nuance tricks that the Manticore will enable the identification some aluminum objects and some pull tabs. If you can avoid digging even 50% of them that would be a big advantage over digging everything. On the beach there isn't much reason not to dig everything non-ferrous. It's just a scoop away, so to speak. Back to the November Manticore release, I firmly believe the release date for the U.S. and Europe will be November 30th with shipments to customers arriving by December 15th. That still means waiting over a month to get your hands on one. I just don't quite understand the radio silence out of Minelab nor the lack of a PDF manual to download. I can only imagine that there is some information in the manual that Minelab doesn't want in the hands of competitors until the last moment.