Manticore In Arizona

[Steve Herschbach]

On 11/28/2022 at 8:06 PM, rled2005 said:

No mention there about nugget detection. If it can do better on the gold field mode than the Equinox, it would be worth it. If it’s just about the same, I’ll keep my Equinox 800. I don’t care as much about relics and coins. Beach and jewelry some.

It’s right there…..

Detect Modes: (Customisable) All-Terrain (5), Beach (4), Goldfield (1)

But this detector is clearly not targeting the gold prospecting market. If anything, the effort is aimed at improving the silver turf hunting and water hunting aspects more than anything else. Other than the improvements for trash handling, mostly in the area of the target display and ferrous id, then I would not expect upgrading from an Equinox to a Manticore to make any real difference when it comes to gold prospecting. That’s the number one reason you are not seeing me jumping up and down going “oh wow.” There is a lot here for me to like, mostly the expanded target id range, for better jewelry detecting. I’ll no doubt probably end up with a Manticore sooner or later. But it simply is not a pressing thing, if gold prospecting is the main idea. And that’s what it’s mostly all about for me.

Tons of places in the U.S. with mild soils and gold. Almost any gold in slate, shale, graywacke, sediment based bedrock locales is low mineral, including vast swaths of my old stomping grounds in Alaska. I would not want to bet yet that PI detectors have ever found more gold even in California than VLFs. You guys late to the game have no idea just how much gold the first guys hitting the ground with VLFs got. Ounce a day was just a norm, as VLFs scarfed up the easy gold and the biggest gold, while ignoring lots of junk. It’s only now in later days that’s this mythology of PI superiority has gotten so entrenched, because of the extra power needed to get what’s left. But back in the 90s VLF was just killing it, with finds that put us to shame these days. It’s not about the detector so much as being first on the ground, and they were there first.

There are still people doing very well with VLFs, but they tend to lay low. 

[rled2005]

a little more info,

https://www.minelab.com/__files/f/488372/4901-0315-1 GSG, MTCR EN_WEB.pdf

[strick]

22 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

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. 

Gerry don't forget you are Santa for some of us... and watching Santa play with the toys before he hands them out to the kids is not a good look...just sayin lol 

strick 

[mn90403]

He said it.  haha

[mn90403]

12 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

But this detector is clearly not targeting the gold prospecting market.

Why demonstrate the first Manticore in Arizona?  Then, why not test it on nuggets in this video?  Was that one of the targets?

[Steve Herschbach]

Why, why, why? I'm just offering the best guidance I can on what to expect from the detector. Ask Debbie the rest. 

[PSPR]

2 hours ago, strick said:

Gerry don't forget you are Santa for some of us... and watching Santa play with the toys before he hands them out to the kids is not a good look...just sayin lol 

strick 

Gerry is going to Mexico with the first Manticore he gets.  I hope he is leaving someone in the office to ship out YOUR Manticore to you, strick!

[Gerry in Idaho]

3 hours ago, strick said:

Gerry don't forget you are Santa for some of us... and watching Santa play with the toys before he hands them out to the kids is not a good look...just sayin lol 

strick 

Hey, You know I need to test it out 1st and make sure it's a great product for my Loyal and worthy (deep pocket) customers.  I'm going to swing into Chicago and grab one before I head to warm weather beaches.  Be patient my friends and your Christmas list just might get checked off.

Pic is one of my better MX trips when I tested the CoilTek coil for them.

[Gerry in Idaho]

1 hour ago, PSPR said:

Gerry is going to Mexico with the first Manticore he gets.  I hope he is leaving someone in the office to ship out YOUR Manticore to you, strick!

Hey,  You'll have all the dealers pissed off at me again.  I assure you all 100%, Minelab USA has not sent me a Manticore.  Heck they don't even know when they are shipping me and or how many.  Even if Minelab USA gets some next week.  Then they ship to the distributors and the distributors ship to dealers.  I'm not expecting Minelab USA in Chicago to have detectors in my hands until around mid December.  Even then, how many will I get?

About time for me to relax in a warm climate area for a few days and then get ready for the storm.  Besides, sometimes I have to keep the boss happy and she is certainly work keeping.