Manticore In Arizona

[jasong]

People wondered why anyone would use the Equinox for gold instead of the GM1000 too, but in the end I think the Equinox is a better prospecting machine, and a lot of other serious prospectors agree. I have a hard time personally seeing any value anymore in a gold-only VLF with none of the fancy extras all these other VLFs come with today. I'd rather have the options available to me than a dumbed down machine with almost nothing.

If I'm using a VLF for prospecting, it's only because I want one of two things (or both): ultra sensitivity for ore/specimen gold for hardrock work or general prospecting in lode areas, or very good discrimination for trashy areas I can't stand to work with the 6000/7000, so I want the best discrim possible. I personally don't have a desire to use it to hunt for tiny nuggets, but that's just me. 

On top of that, I flip houses for a living (when I'm not mining or prospecting anyways) and work on a lot of investment properties for spare cash, I want something to detect the yards with, most are silver coin-era houses. I have a Deus which I like but I don't want all these VLF's sitting around, I want one machine, and the Deus is ok but I have a few dislikes with it and want something newer and deeper. I also find a ton of old historic spots, abandoned ranches/homesteads, and all sorts of stuff like that which I want to start detecting for fun. And since I keep my prospecting machines in my truck with me at all time, I want it to be the best at those sorts of sites too. It's rare for me to find anything older than a wheat penny any shallower than 5-6" in some of these places due to soils so I also want something powerful.

[deathray]

I too am interested in its gold mode ability. Will find out next week. Debbie is supposed to be at a local show with it, I will bring some small pieces, play with it. I hope the smaller coil is out at same time. My Deus is on its last legs, I'm ready for a new machine. Prefer a gold capable relic machine. I got a monster...but most the time, I'm hiking around in middle of nowhere, relic hunting gold rush camps...running across a nugget patch is a nice bonus, happens every now n then.

[PSPR]

Oh, I get it now, jasong.

supernova flotsam = Gold

[CPT_GhostLight]

17 hours ago, FloridaSon said:

Interesting that the testing of target separation did not interfere with the coil’s ‘edge detection’ as the NOX has.

And they mentioned manual GB and tracking GB. Does that mean no auto GB? 

Looking fwd to learning more about the Manticore. 

At the about the 3:30 mark in the video Debby says and shows that the ground tracking is on, so it has auto ground tracking.

[Steve Herschbach]

3 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

At the about the 3:30 mark in the video Debby says and shows that the ground tracking is on, so it has auto ground tracking.

Of course it does. It adds to the Equinox feature base, not takes things away. It ain’t rocket science kids. If you liked Equinox, you’ll love Manticore.

[CPT_GhostLight]

Well there ya go! Load 'em up Santa! ?

[Gerry in Idaho]

If all goes well, I will be sharing pictures of Manticore finds from in the salt water.  Hurry up Santa, Gerry's Detectors has places to go.  He also has customers patiently waiting.  It looks as if the wait time could be pre Christmas for a few.  Let's just hope us dealers get a good allotment of units the 1st few rounds.

[Gold Catcher]

18 hours ago, phrunt said:

The milder your gold area soil gets the more viable VLF's become, I am in rather mild soil, and then there is bedrock and creek detecting especially creeks that are nothing more than bedrock, VLF's are great, waterproof and all.,

For VLFs the soil is the biggest factor. You're surely spoiled with the conditions you are having in New Zealand, as you are saying. However, In most parts of the other world gold bearing areas are extremely mineralized, which makes PIs the much better choice. For the general exploration trips I use my SDC (and digg it all), which is also less sensitive to hotrocks than the 6000. At times, I use the GM/5, but mostly only for bedrock scraping and crevice scouting. The GB2 has never delivered for me in heavy mineralized grounds and gold can very easily be missed That's why the SDC/MPF was developed in the first place, which I view as a "hot soil GB2", but with additional potential for somewhat better depth. If the Manticore will be a game changer in this regard we shall see. But I have my doubts, since a VLF will always remain in principle a VLF, does'nt matter how you pack it. However, for treasure hunting this machine will without a doubt be a delight.

GC

[mn90403]

My recent trip to a gold patch showed me that the Equinox 800/11 can ignore hot rocks.  This surprised me as when I first got my Equinox I went to this patch and found 2 nuggets.  I remember it also seeing a lot of hot rocks.  Since that time, I have put thousands of hours on the Equinox and learned how to use it better.

This session I used the F2 and it was great.  I had a smooth threshold in 'all metal' multi.  I located trash and it told me what is what.

If the Manticore is going to enhance that experience it may turn out to find some gold for me in addition to better beach performance.