TampaBayBrad

I haven't because I'm a water hunter and reading about those, it doesn't appear you can dunk the transmitter attatched to your detector. You have to buy their wired amphibian phones in the Grey Ghost line up if you're gonna hit the water. You don't like the stok M105 phones?

I will be doing the same tomorrow morning. Hoping for a couple water targets because I don't like the sun/heat either. Recently bought some waterproof earbuds for Manticore off ebay so I can wear a wide brim hat while detecting. Been using them for 5 or 6 hunts so far, they work great. Much cooler without regular earphones.

Exactly what I'm finding Bob. I hunt the dry before daybreak with a headlamp and then jump in the water when it gets light enough. The storm cleared a lot of the foil off my beaches (YAY!) and seemed to concentrate the pull tabs in a line near the upper third of the beach. I've been on three 4 hour hunts since the storm with 3/4 of that time in the water waist to chest deep. I've found only 4 coins and nothing else in the water for all that time. (appx. 9 hours) I did get a regular amount of clad in the dry and managed a small 14k 3 leaf clover pendant. This is the definition of "sanded in". All that eroded sand off the beach has been dumped into the swim area. I am finding virtually no targets in the water. I have attempted to dig several quarter TIDs that were just too deep to retrieve due to the sand falling back into the hole and then they just disappear into never never land. I think any jewelry found in the water at this point will be a fresh drop in my area.

Are you ground balancing by holding the GB button down and pumping the coil or just a single press or tracking? Did you long press the noise cancel at least 2' above ground until it settles on a single channel before setting sens.? Some soil may not allow sens to go higher than 16 without chatter, but some people handle more chatter better than others. Not sure where you stand when you say a fair amount of chatter. I don't mind some, but think my amount may bother others if listened to long enough. (ear fatigue) If you have power lines around your back yard or anything else that could cause EMI.....try a different location out in a field somewhere away from EMI sources with the same settings and see if the chatter lessens. All told, 16 sens is not too bad a spot to go hunting with. (could be better, but ok.) I can run 4 recovery and get repeats on most good targets, changing maybe 1 or 2 digits is normal for me. But.... I run Beach programs only.

Just re-read the description of the 15" coil on the Mine Lab site and it says it weighs 650 grams with the skid plate and the 11" coil description says it weighs 500 grams with skid plate. So now we know.....not too much more weight, but I bet you'll feel the difference for sure. I can tell when my 11" has collected too much sand that I need to knock off when hunting the dry. Sites offering pre-order sales have listed a price of $329.

So the 15" is probably LIGHTER than the 11? I don't know how beefy your skid is on the 11", so I'm not sure. What would you say? Thanks for your response....

Could you weigh the stock 11" and weigh the 15"? I'm interested in how much heavier it is. I'm hoping not much because it doesn't have the built up bracing that the 11" has. Thanks.

15" hits fairly small gold well (not tiny nugget) in Goldfield Mode at end of video.... 7 and a 1/2 minute video by Iffy Signals:

Yet another reason you have to dig pull tabs. 😒

I didn't know there was such a thing. Cool find. You would think it would be tougher to loose since it's on two fingers.

Are you saying you dig stuttering turkey gobbles? 😂

Good plan- just bump it up from there until it get's too chatty for you then bump it down one. Don't forget to do a long press noise cancel before setting the sensitivity.

That's going to be your answer. Check the ID #'s and where it's located on the screen and if it's a small dot or a smudge. I use Prospecting Audio Theme and it really has a sharp/short "bang" on good targets vs. garbage. If you use the discriminator to block all cap #'s, your going to miss some good stuff. Don't do it. 😉

Maybe you need a little more time with Manticore. I run upper limit 4 and lower limit 0 All Metal on in Beach Low Conductors. I can call most caps by looking at the 2D and listening along with the ID range of 40 to 50. After you dig enough of them you should be able to recognize them by remembering what they look/sound like without digging. Don't rely on totally discriminating them out....that ain't gonna happen unless you discriminate a bunch of good stuff. Learn what the machine is telling you, remember what the cap looks/sounds like. Even then, you are taking a chance of missing some good stuff if you don't dig. No detector is going to say "that's a rusty cap...don't dig, it's not gold/good target". You take your chances every time you don't dig.

Looking at that clasp, I can see why it was lost. Nice finds Compass.

Yea, you're probably right. The dealers will be happy about that.

The nugget guys would probably like a 4". I think Cabela's will be the first to get them. I go on there and check every so often.

I think you just one-upped everybody on this forum. Has anybody else ever found a miniature outboard motor? (crickets....)

Nice interesting pendant. And it's in good shape.

I just spent 4 hours in the water this morning and got 2 junk earrings and 18 cents. I think your beach was better!

Did you try with GB tracking on? I don't use it, but I would consider trying it if the hunting ground mineralisation changed a bunch.

I would love going dirt hunting for relics and old coins up north just to find some old stuff for a change. But I'm glad I don't have any of the hot dirt problems you guys are describing. I'm very happy with the way Manticore performs at the beach, so much so that I'm not going to do the update. But I'm not going to find any civil war relics on the beach! 😒

I think the price of gold has everything to do with it. Those that have been in a jewelry store lately and experienced sticker shock are going to think twice about wearing that nice piece to the beach because they know how valuable it has become compared to 20 years ago. I know I was surprised when I needed a different bail soldered on to my new Buccaneers battle flag pendant so it would fit my anchor link chain. The jeweler was checking to see if a bail he had would fit my chain and as an after thought threw the chain on his scale. He said "your chain's worth $$$$ now days". I was nicely shocked. I bought it off the jewelry channel on TV 25 years ago at $10 a gram for 14k!

'll copy and paste my entry from another forum on this subject.... "so coil in UK is $329 pounds which is $424 US dollars. $1600 US price is 69.2% of converted $2312 UK price for the Manticore. So applying that to the coil....69.2% of $424 is $293.4. Is $293 (I bet it will be $299) reasonable for the 15" coil?"

No, it's silica sand. Silica is used to make glass and other materials. I googled it and seems it's a predominate mineral in the earth's crust. Dankowski says set your ground balance to zero when hunting dry silica sand since it's basically glass. When you move to wet you have a more conductive material with the salt added so you have to ground balance the wet sand or while hunting in the water. I'm not sure if the sand you were in is silica, but that's what we have down here.