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    First Gold Equinox 700

    Beautiful ring and wonderful weight.
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    Gold rings in may

    To find gold let alone 2 in the same month dirt digging is a true accomplishment. Please keep away from the beaches I hunt. lol
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    Bar Shot And A Beer

    WOW How COOL!!! Never seen a Bar shot before and thanks for history lesson...always learning...
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    Here's maybe a crazy question, especially to all the old timers like me who've scanned the ground while detecting......

    In the late 19th and early 20th century, household garbage was dumped on the high banks of the Maumee river in Toledo Ohio and burned. Lots of the garbage survived. As a kid growing up along the Maumee river we would dig through the ash and finds bottles, china heads and change. Kept us kids...
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    Half Hour in the Front Yard

    Came back to Ohio a month early from Florida so wife could have hip surgery and never fully got my fix metal detecting. It has been raining for a week and “stir-crazy” seems appropriate to describe my current mental state. So between rain drops, I grabbed my Manticore w M8 coil and headed to my...
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    Manticore w/ 9in. coil depth.

    Moreland's book Inside the Metal Detector, describes in detail your observation and so much more as to why individual links in a chain, for example, don't add up to a bigger target response than the individual links. Those dang Eddy currents. Regarding coil size and targets detected, I'm...
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    Artificial Intelligence Metal Detector (AIMD)

    I imagine somewhere someone is building an AI based metal detector. Combining AI with metal detectors (AIMD) might/could/will change metal detecting as we know it. The advent of AIMD will be a shock to the field, somewhat similar to when metal detectors first became relatively available post...
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    Mismapped Schoolhouse Site

    You summarize what metal detecting is all about. When it all comes together it is a beautiful thing and you are rewarded. Congrats
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    I like the 5"x8" coil more than the 9" for my Manticore...Tell me I'm wrong

    Depends on where you're hunting and what you're hunting for...I have the M8, M11 and M15 and they all have their place and time. Parks and playgrounds I use the M8 for recent drops and tight spaces. On open beach I prefer the M15 for max coverage and for 1-2" extra depth compared to the M11...
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    I get to the beach with my AQ then this happens…

    That SUCKS. Have to be gentle with mine, and I'm not the gentle type...Guess I'll buy a back up lower rod...just in case. But I also bring along a back up detector just in case.
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    Unusual interaction while detecting today.

    You did exactly what you should have done! Yea, there are nut jobs on the beach and the more popular the beach the more likely Crazies are nearby. Further, most Nut jobs drift south to Florida or west to California. I deal with the southern type...
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    Here's maybe a crazy question, especially to all the old timers like me who've scanned the ground while detecting......

    Same here. I constantly scan the ground while walking, mustly the dog, and find stuff weekly. Quarter and junk kid's ring yesterday, key chain last week, dime, $20.00 bill, etc, etc. Most I found were 2 $20.00 bills blowing in the wind and found 3 - fake "movie money" $20.00 bills (look real...
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    Depth on a Detect 4” x 18” coils

    I believe the general rule is that a detector depth is based on coil width not length, Thus a 6" x 18" coil would have a depth of 6" of so on an average size target, But great coverage! The rule of coil width and detecting depth breaks down past a coil width of about 10" or so and this is why...
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    What detector have you Sold that you have Sellers Remorse????

    It was a Troy Shadow II that got me back into detecting in the mid 1990s after a 25 yr haitus. But my first detector was a White's, bought in the early 1970s when I sold a US $20.00 gold piece for $50.00 and bought the detector. Gave it to a Nephew in the 1980s and he said it broke and he...
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    WARNING! WARNING!

    This discussion/post highlights the need to buy MD stuff from a reputable dealer and, personally, I only deal with a few inc Big Boys Hobbies, Serious Detecting, KellyCo and High Plains Detectors and, of course, any Sponsers to this website. Ebay not worth the hassles and fraud.
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    Manticore owners: Do i need 1?

    Owned 4 800s, still have one as dry sand back-up, and owned the Manticore for about 2 1/2 yrs with M15, M11 and (later) M8 coils, and mostly use M15 on beach and in water. I seldom dig a bottle cap with the Manti, although caps with gold foil (Michelob caps?) still fool me sometimes. As a...
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    Hello all, just registered just purchased a manticore.

    First, read the Manticore User's manual. Second, read the User's manual , again. Third, get the Manticore book by Andy Sabisch. Forth, hunt your own front and back yards and dig everything to get feel for what detector IDs and its 2D screen shot. Most importantly, HAVE FUN!
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    Manticore w/ 9in. coil depth.

    I'm not sure people realize that when you change coils you change the targets you detect and dig. During Winter in west coast Florida when targets disappear from the beach, I sometimes change from my usual M15 Manticore coil to my M8 in order to search different (tight) areas near walkways and...
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    A Few Gold From the Winter

    Top ring, sacred heart, looks real old. Band looks heavy. Older hunting spot?
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    Good Weekend Hunt

    Wonderful variety and way cool place to hunt given mixture of finds.
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