It REALLY Is A Different Beast

[mn90403]

I can remember when the Manticore was introduced.  Everyone said 'That is a crazy name!'  What does it mean?  I'm not going to call it that, etc.  I've waited a year to buy one but now that I'm using one for about 15 hours I'm agreeing with Jeff.  This is a different Beast than the 800 I've had for many years.

It got cranked up at the desert of Rye Patch for the first time and I really didn't know what to expect.  I had a hard time hearing it.  I was told to keep the volume down around 5.  I couldn't hear it pair.  My first beach hunt I didn't understand the sounds or the choices and I thought I heard too much surf for my liking.

The last couple of nights I've gone to some good beaches in bad hunting conditions (no waves) and I really like the 11" coil.  I didn't have very good wet sand conditions but I tried some volleyball courts and found my first ring (copper).  The night before on a beach where I had my best gold night I found an isolated 925 cross.  If the bling is there the Manticore can find it pretty deep.  It is safe to say that this 11" goes deeper than the 800 11" coil.  As a matter of fact I found some things 14-15" deep and a couple of things that were too deep to recover.  I just can't dig that deep on some targets.

Later I started watching the line and looking at the numbers.  It saved me from digging everything which is what I was willing to do with past detectors.  No more of that.  I'm going to skip some things.  One thing I won't be able to skip entirely will be corroded pennies.  Ah ... nothing to keep them out of the scoop.  I do think I won't have to dig as many stakes!

Here are the two low tide hunts.

This hunt was from about 1-3:30 AM.  Conditions were not good but swinging was nice to be out.

Last night in a different area I was able to go through most of the beach and terrain settings and hear the differences.  I didn't really see any difference in the ID or above or below the line.

I think this round plate is from a watch.

It's fun listening to the Manticore.  WTG Minelab.  Are the less expensive detectors being introduced these days this much fun?

 

[mn90403]

Oh, I should have added that I'll be able to go into some locations where the EMI has been too great for the 800 and the 3030.  That would be on a couple of beaches I go to that have buried cables which completely disable some detectors.  The volleyball courts I was on are undetectable with the 800 but not with the Manticore.

[Skull diver]

There's a key point that should be taken carefully...

Everytime working with higher than correct sensitivity levels, the 2D panel begins to act erratically...This can be noticed by an increased noise to signals ratio and immediately transformed in a worst discrimination's quality...Even if using the all metal, the line it really is the one factor to take care of...It doesn't matter the trace shape, which can be a perfect round dot or elongated, horizontal flat or thin and spreaded...

Listening to a pure non metal signal means however a possible good one but maybe by an irregular shaped object...It happened a crazy find to me yesterday ,with unstable ID but tiny dots around the center line...

It was a 14K yellow/white big ring trapped in a rock hole perfectly vertical🫢.

In the weekly wrap up I'll post tomorrow it can be seen...6.76g. of 14K...Dang..

[TampaBayBrad]

Don't know why you would keep the volume at 5. Mine's at 20 for my earbuds and ferrous volume at 8. Nice finds for just learning the machine. You will be able to pass up stakes, caps, and some foil that is not round shaped as you learn their responses. Good job.

[phrunt]

I'm not really understanding the logic behind the volume at 5 either, crank that volume up, especially when you're a bit hard at hearing.  

You're off to a great start with it, Mitchel, very well done.

[Skull diver]

58 minutes ago, phrunt said:

especially when you're a bit hard at hearing.  

Not only ... To adopt the volume of the iron equal to that of the signal is to create an audio filter that in itself already tells a lot about the nature of the target.

Keeping in mind that any track that strays too far from the center line is less likely to be something good, it leads to minimizing ferrous limits and avoiding masking.

At that point, not by eliminating, but by assigning a ferrous tone to the first upper lines, you understand the falsing of the ground when the sensitivity is too high and prevent large nails from overpowering the weaker gold signal