How Did The Manticore Do? Got My 3 Cents Worth

[F350Platinum]

If you've been following my posts, I've been grid searching this small hill, it's only about half an acre. Last year I got a lot of buttons and even some flying eagle cents, so I decided to use it to see whether the Manticore could find anything after a thorough search with the Deus 2.

It took me a couple of trips to finish with the Deus, and today I took the Manticore there with the 11".

It was an extremely windy day, 15mph with gusts to 25, typical March. The only saving grace was that it went up to 60.

I set up a grid 90° to what I did with the Deus, I wanted to give the Manticore every chance. 

For headphones today I used this wired bone conduction headphone set with a built in little preamp, and the WM09, I clipped them to the back of the band. 

I call them the Frankenphonez™ 🤣

Thing is, these bone phones are true bone conduction, you can only hear them when they are in place like the BH-01 backphones for the Deus 2. They were $29 from Amazon, all I had to do was charge them up, and plug them into the WM09. They lasted 6 hours anyway! The charge light was still green when I was done for the day, they would have lasted longer. They sound really good. I'm trying to find stuff that will work well when it's hot, and it was a bonus to also have these work well in the wind. They almost "put the sound inside your head".

Of course I don't like having all that stuff hanging from them! 😅 It wasn't uncomfortable, and the phones have an adjustable backband.

I searched the area for 4 hours, going slow. What did I get? 

Nothing but one piece of iron, some tiny copper bits, and a lot more lead. Seems the Manticore loves lead more than the Deus. 😅

All this proves is that the Deus didn't miss anything good. I'm not saying it is better than the Manticore, I do wonder if I would have found all the good stuff and even more lead. 🤔 Maybe I'll reverse the process and use the Manticore first in another spot. Or actually bring them both sometime.

The day was not without reward, outside the grid, and in another spot I went to, I got these: 

A silver or nickel plated copper whatchamacallit, a "hot rock" that is either lead or silver, it ID'd very high, and knocking a piece of it out produced a glittering inside. It's heavy so it's probably lead.

I dug two IHPs, 1870, an 1867 and a 1919 wheat. I was able to pull the 1867 and the 1919 out of a spot where a house used to be, It's machine gun iron. That speaks volumes for the Manticore.

[phrunt]

Liking lead and liking gold are very similar things! 

Another nice report, thanks.

[JCR]

Nice results.  It’s fun to challenge yourself and your machines on a site you have worked over hard.

[GB_Amateur]

25 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

I dug two IHPs, 1870, an 1867

Two more low mintage IHC's to add to the one you reported a few weeks ago.  I suspect there are more....

[F350Platinum]

22 minutes ago, phrunt said:

Liking lead and liking gold are very similar things! 

Another nice report, thanks.

Thanks! I wasn't shocked with the results, two + years of dialing in the D2 gave me every confidence the program I'm using gets the good stuff. 🤔 Searching again with another detector just cemented it.

I've still got to iron the kinks out of the Manticore, I've only had it for a month or so. It did a great job in the iron even with the 11", I'll probably run the M8 in that spot.

[F350Platinum]

9 minutes ago, JCR said:

Nice results.  It’s fun to challenge yourself and your machines on a site you have worked over hard.

Thanks JCR,

The biggest challenge was the wind, I'm glad I used the bone phones today. Part of the site was protected, but part of it wasn't.

[F350Platinum]

12 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said:

Two more low mintage IHC's to add to the one you reported a few weeks ago.  I suspect there are more....

I do too GB, at least in the old house area. 👍 Talk about a challenge. 😬

The last one was an 1870 too I think. Best thing for me was last year's flying eagles, never found any before. I got quite a few V nickels in that spot as well.

[ColonelDan]

Minelab’s are excellent detectors , no question.  However, it comes as little surprise to me that your Manticore grid exercise results validated the efficiency of the Deus II…..and this from a decades long MineLab user….now a fervent XP convert!  😁

[EarthWalker]

Great finds once again and nice saves. I am Caleb's wife and have been watching your hunts for a long time with Caleb. He would tell you " Don't make your 600 mad at you and take her out once in a while "

Good luck on your next hunt.

Ricki