TampaBayBrad

It appears that being among strong wine and dangerous women really pays off for you Skull Diver. 👍

2 hours ago, StarVatrex said:

It's those days that serve as support for when the bad streaks come.

In my opinion, location and timing are 90%...

Perseverance and hours, many hours.

And some days...

- 14 October 2022.

Very true words. I'm due for one of those days this summer.....I've been putting in the hours. My turn! 😛

I think I would have a hard time switching from my M15 to this coil for water hunting. Don't want to give up that coverage, and it doesn't bother me to swing the 15. Gonna stick with the big boy.

7 hours ago, Tony said:

Come on Brad.....I thought you were swinging the manly M15 coil down at the beach and not that wimpy M11 🤪

😆 I swing the M15 for 5 hours easy in the water. Sand hunting is a different story. I find myself taking short "pauses" after an hour or so resting the coil on the sand for a moment. Haven't tried the counter weight thing yet. My stork leg shaft being longer than the standard Manticore shaft further throws it out of balance. Another thing that helps in the water beyond buoyancy is that I tend to scrape the bottom a lot more than when I'm dry hunting since you don't have to worry about collecting sand on top of your coil. Really love covering the extra ground with it in the water. I feel like I'm covering twice the ground than the other hunters in the same amount of time. One step ahead of the competition!

Nice find among the junk, probably has been passed over a number of times by lesser schooled detectorists! 

You guys are making me feel like a total newb.

If your tot lots are trashy, the M8 may help in giving you better target separation than the M11. The M8 may help you at the beach only if your arm gets tired too soon swinging the M11 or if you water hunt it will cut through the water easier. I prefer the M11 for coverage at the beach because I don't have a problem swinging it for 5 hours.

You may want to investigate the new M9 and see if that may be a better option. It is actually lighter than the M8 and may be easier in the water plus have a bit more coverage.

M11= 17.6 oz

M8= 14.1 oz

M9= 12.7 oz

I assume you kept going back until it was cleaned out? I can only dream of a day like that. 🤔

1 minute ago, Tony said:

I no longer have the Horseshoe icon as my soft key as I must have pressed it unintentionally.

😆Whoops!

I leave it in all metal also because some times I get an iron target that stays rock solid on a certain ID # rather than bouncing like bottle caps. Some of those I dig because they can turn out to be junk jewelry, and I'm proud to say I like digging junk jewelry. 😁

20 hours ago, Tony said:

Is there anything to gain by opening up the upper ferrous limits to zero

I don't know if there is any advantage other than what the manual says about better separation if you zero it. If you don't have any iron at your beach anyway, better separation is a moot point....not needed. The manual doesn't say that you will gain depth by zeroing it, so I don't know. I have small iron on my beaches and I always can identify it with my setting of 4 upper. I get the grunt and red line, so I have left it there right from the start as my Dankowski set up. Never experimented with any other settings because I just got familiar and comfortable after learning the sounds that his settings produce to identify a target. (I guess that's "learning your machine")

1 hour ago, Scanman said:

Wow, that’s a lot of clad! I am afraid that I would lose interest if all I found was clad.

Not if you get the occasional gold and diamonds along with all the clad. 😁 It's what keeps a beach hunter hunting.

I totally can envision your results on the small nuggets because I have found just as small pieces of aluminum using the 11". It's really fascinating how small a piece this machine sniffs out. Most of them I never find because I don't use a pin pointer. Once I have the target in my hand buried in a small clump of sand, I go through it with my finger and most of the time, I don't find it even though it's in a small bit of sand. When I do find one, I'm like "What? That's it? Are you kidding me?". Ha! 😮

All I know is clad because that's all I ever find. Clad is centered at these #'s :

Penny-60, nickel-27, dime-80, quarter-90.

Pennies jump around the most depending on their state of decomposition.

1 hour ago, Scanman said:

I look forward to checking it out when I return from FL next week. 🙂

Why not take it to Fl.? I wouldn't be able to stand having a new toy and not being able to try it out right away. 😛

Sweet! Love looking at the old stuff you guys recover, and that looks to be real old. It looks like it could be silver??

3 hours ago, ☠ Cipher said:

I doubt the manticore will see much water. I don’t really want to chance it.

Those fears are a thing of the past. There are hardly any reports of Manticore flooding. I've been dunking mine for 17 months now and you wouldn't catch me using any other detector in the water. Check out "Detect Florida" on youtube....he rarely hunts sand, is always in the water. I'm in the water 75% of the time. If by some weird defect yours leaks (doubtful) there's always the warranty. Don't be scared! 🙂

12 hours ago, TTT2866 said:

I try to keep pretty good track of my numbers. This year so far, gold has been 35% of my total ring finds. Last year was 26% from 262 total rings, and the year before was 29% from 225 rings. The years before that I didn't categorise metals, just tallied the rings. 

😮WOW! Better keep that spot top secret locked up in a safe. To keep getting replenished so often is amazing. Good work!

3 minutes ago, khouse said:

I just don't consider -29.5% / $500 a sale.  That difference can buy 2 coils or another machine or two. Maybe groceries?  You try and try to talk a car dealer down from a $28,000 car and he won't budge.  So you buy it only to drive by the lot a week later and see the exact car for $19,740 out the door. That's not a sale to me.  That's a slap in the face. 

I paid full price January 2023....like 17 months ago. I have found more than enough gold/diamonds to pay for it and have had more than enough fun using it to worry about the money I could have saved had I waited until now. But, I can understand your opinion, especially if you recently bought one at full price. But me......I don't feel that way at all.

7 hours ago, V3imadness said:

Yeah, I just bought one. It hasn't even made it here yet. NOw I am thinking maybe I should of stuck with my old V3i and sent it away to get a tune up.

No sir! You made the right decision, you will not regret it. Just wait till you get familiar with Manticore and that V3i will collect dust.

OH! And welcome to the forum, tell us how you make out with it or ask any questions you want right here.

Very cool find! Found one HERE in better condition for $125 US dollars.

14 hours ago, Skate said:

The only thing I would like to see is a tightening of the TID of zinc pennies. I'm currently digging them anywhere between 43-65. This is too broad and wide for a single item. Other than that I'm ok with it. 

Yea, some will go low but my experience with them is 75% of them hit 59-62 because they're fresh drops and the other ones like you are talking about outside that range are very deep and come up looking like they have been down there for an eternity. Caked on sand that you need a chipping hammer to get off and totally green. Those kind will sometimes go high and float up near dime range at 75-80 and fool you into thinking it's a dime. Whenever I see the depth meter showing real deep near the dime range, I start thinking "Could be an old zinc".

2 hours ago, Hydan said:

Yes, the device needs a new update to solve the problem. It reached the highest sensitivity of 30-35 without any problems, according to what the company said. The device reaches levels of sensitivity that are very low.

 

How many hours have you used the Manticore?

3 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Water temp 71 ? ARRRRRRGH  47 here  ( can you say neo waders ? ) !   Water temp envy .🤗 

Water temp 83 here this morning. 🏝️🏖️😁

I am a beach hunter with non-mineralized sand and not near the iron in the ground that you have. My problem child is aluminum. When I have a piece of non-ferrous aluminum next to another type metal which is also non-ferrous, what you are doing by crossing in all directions usually sniffs out the good target at a different location on the non-ferrous center line. Meaning I have two dots showing up on the line (with the aluminum dot being to the left usually under 12 or so positioning) and the ID #'s bouncing between the two on at least one direction sweep. I run prospecting audio, so that's different from your set up also. I run recovery 4 and sensitivity on dry sand at 21 in beach low conductor mode, again different from what you have yet we both have trash that we are trying to differentiate when close to a good target.

I think in your case of iron falsing, the official word from Minelab quoted above that fishersari posted is valuable info to know that may help in your testing/experimenting.

9 hours ago, Scanman said:

Life has not slowed down yet, but at 59 I am pumping the brakes this year and hopefully coasting into retirement.  🙂

That's what I did 7 years ago! You will love the machine, great decision. Wish it was around when I started to pump the brakes. 👍