TampaBayBrad

Ha! It would take you 8 hours to cover a 50' square on one of my beaches. Foil and pull tabs every 2'. At that place I skip digging 29-30-31 TIDs and skip all foil sounds. You have to, or you'll have a miserable day.

👍 Yes sir! I tried prospecting first when I bought the machine back in January and haven't come off of it. Very descriptive of the target once you learn the sounds. I'm not digging foil anymore because of it's distinctive short sound which is different than the gold sound in that same TID range.

If more of us would not choose to keep our location top secret in our profiles, things like this coin misunderstanding could be avoided. Not calling you out KDX, just wondering in general why members don't want to list their location. Afraid someone will try to claim a find that was posted? Afraid someone will move in and compete? I'm not sure......I guess there are reasons because so many locations are blank. Just a state would be nice.

I think the fisherman there need to start using a little higher # test line! That's nuts.

WOW! How old is that coin? Thanks for the report Shelton. Glad to hear it's working as expected for high iron areas. Hope the 15" does as well as expected on the beach. 🙂

Strange. That's the opposite of everything I've read which is that you LOSE depth with higher recovery speeds. 6" is not very deep at all for Manticore on coins.

And this is a major swimming enclosure?!? 😬 😄 Great hunt! That's one of those I would remember for a long time. Good hunting skills sir....

That's a good gold #. You are right about how clean it comes out. The gold I've found in the salty sand or water has been gleaming bright. If it's plated, it gets worn off just from chemical reaction.

As you continue to use it and learn it, you start to hear the subtle/not so subtle differences between a likely trash sound or a likely good dig sound without looking at the TID. I still look at the TID to verify pull tabs because they sound just like a good dig. Darn things. Usually walk along disregarding TIDs until I hear a tone sharp enough to verify it with the TID #.

If it is gold, whoever lost it was rich. Never seen one before. Kinda like owning a gold toilet.

Thank you Simon for the early impressions. Sounds good so far.....

Don't feel like the lone ranger....☹️

I belt mounted mine which made it VERY light. 😁

Surprised no U.S. company hasn't copied the on/off feature yet.

Thanks for the report Simon. Going to get the 15 for sure now. The depth will help me in dry sand, not so much in the water. The 11" is already reporting some quarters to me that are too deep to dig in the water because of the sand falling back into the hole. Another tool in my arsenal to cover more ground quicker..

Well that proves the processor is fast!

I assume you've been at this hobby for quite a while and live by an awesome beach.

Sounds like you're having a blast with your new toy Art. I would love to have access to places like you describe. I am also being amazed at the depth of some of the coins I'm finding at the beach. This machine can go deep for sure. Good luck in the soy fields.👍

Indians and buttons from a pounded site. Sounds good to me!

🤔?? Check your ferrous volume. I get iron grunts with prospecting. My set up in Beach Modes- All metal, upper 4, lower 0, recovery 4, ferrous volume 10, regular volume 20. Bottle caps have a TID that jumps all over the place with each pass of the coil, never settling in a 2-3 digit range like a good target. also, they are smeared on the trace. Zinc pennies are usually 59-61, but after becoming encrusted/corroded can jump up as high as 75. For the most part, rings and coins are almost always a solid dot right on the nonferrous line.

I think if more people would give prospecting audio a real try, more would be using it. I imagine it's tough to change from what you're used to from years of using the Nox 600/800 tones to something totally different like prospecting audio. There's a lot of detail to the various sounds of different targets with prospecting.

I'd like to see a comparison test on chains between the M8 and M15 to see how much difference there is on medium to large thickness chains. There's not a whole lot of value in tiny delicate hard-to-detect thin chains anyway.

Looking forward to your review when you get it Simon. I'm hoping for before Christmas sometime for us. 🤔

But you found the 4 in one hunt at a lake, right? I didn't forget about the California gold rush after the storms out there this year. I was very jealous.

In today's day and age, you gotta find an un-hunted or rarely hunted beach to pull 4 golds in one hunt. I'll never do that in my lifetime down here unless I stumble upon a busy beach that hasn't seen a detector. We know that ain't happin'!