Manticore Tones

[Odanscoils]

Brand new video.

I'm not a big fan of this guy.
Though I'm quite surprised at tones on the Manticore.
And how much different the machine behaves.
I'm still a novice with the Manticore.
Especially recovery speed.
What do you guys and gals think ?

 

[stateguyt]

I think sometimes he puts out good videos and I like this video. And for me I agree on what he said about tones setting set and forget. For me I am not a fast learner with these newer machines and that’s what I have to do. Otherwise if I can comprehend the newer machines I would play with the settings more

 

[markinswpa]

Brand new video.

I'm not a big fan of this guy.
Though I'm quite surprised at tones on the Manticore.
And how much different the machine behaves.
I'm still a novice with the Manticore.
Especially recovery speed.
What do you guys and gals think ?

Yea its been a while since I watched one of his videos. Not that the guy isn't smart but his online antics and tantrums got to be too much. Well I watched it, have to agree with him on picking tones and sticking with them. So much so I replicated 5 tone w/ break and pitch that I used on the 800 for the 3 years prior. I had a good amount of success after I switched to Field 2 5 tone. Rec. 4 Ib 0. in the fall of 19. Had over a hundred hunt that year with triple digit silver numbers. As far as recovery speed I started at 4 with the Manticore and my first several hunts was in ATG. The ground here was so dry all year I couldn't bring myself to ask permission to dig in peoples yards. That left the 2 old parks I have been hunting for the last seven years. I changed to ATLC 5 tone. I bumped up recovery to 7. The reason, pretty much all the deep silver is gone. I know this cause I met the guys who hunted there with their Etracs and 3030s for years before I got there. I did pretty well with the 800 w/6in. coil so I figured I would have a better chance with the masked silver than the deep. It paid off IMO. Only got out 40 times last year, 37 were in those parks. All but one of my 44 silvers came from the parks. Almost a hundred wheats, half dozen Ihps, 15 Buffs and a good many tokens. And a good many of those keepers were masked in one way or another. And with the 9in. coil I hit quite a few deeper targets, in the 8 to 10 inch range.

I did pick up something from the video on audio profile. I had to do a factory reset for some reason and on my next hunt I noticed something was off. I'll have to check it out.

Last year winter set in early. Didn't get my first hunt in till the last day of January. Hope to get out this week for the home opener. Good luck to you in 2026.

 

[Odanscoils]

Yea its been a while since I watched one of his videos. Not that the guy isn't smart but his online antics and tantrums got to be too much. Well I watched it, have to agree with him on picking tones and sticking with them. So much so I replicated 5 tone w/ break and pitch that I used on the 800 for the 3 years prior. I had a good amount of success after I switched to Field 2 5 tone. Rec. 4 Ib 0. in the fall of 19. Had over a hundred hunt that year with triple digit silver numbers. As far as recovery speed I started at 4 with the Manticore and my first several hunts was in ATG. The ground here was so dry all year I couldn't bring myself to ask permission to dig in peoples yards. That left the 2 old parks I have been hunting for the last seven years. I changed to ATLC 5 tone. I bumped up recovery to 7. The reason, pretty much all the deep silver is gone. I know this cause I met the guys who hunted there with their Etracs and 3030s for years before I got there. I did pretty well with the 800 w/6in. coil so I figured I would have a better chance with the masked silver than the deep. It paid off IMO. Only got out 40 times last year, 37 were in those parks. All but one of my 44 silvers came from the parks. Almost a hundred wheats, half dozen Ihps, 15 Buffs and a good many tokens. And a good many of those keepers were masked in one way or another. And with the 9in. coil I hit quite a few deeper targets, in the 8 to 10 inch range.

I did pick up something from the video on audio profile. I had to do a factory reset for some reason and on my next hunt I noticed something was off. I'll have to check it out.

Last year winter set in early. Didn't get my first hunt in till the last day of January. Hope to get out this week for the home opener. Good luck to you in 2026.

That's a lot of nice finds in a place hit hard by top machines.

 

[Odanscoils]

I was actually surprised at the machines different behavior just by changing tones.
I'm going to try 5 tone. LC
And start digging only 30 ish and down.
I have maybe twenty hours on mine over two years.
Seriously disabled. Missing all day digs.

I'm trying to find a very nice gold cross I bought my wife many years ago.
1/8" woven wire 18 k gold with 3 diamonds across the front.

I'm hoping it'll be in the lower range.
Has loops at each limb.

The property was filled in.
Found nothing but a little iron when we moved in years ago.
Just started throwing handfuls of coins out just for something to do with my limitations.
Coppers, silver dimes and quarters.
And old nickels.

Problem is there's hundreds of targets now.

I honestly don't know where that cross is going to come in because of it's unique shape.
Not solid like a normal cross.

And I can't find one like it to scan.
Silver yes. But not gold.

This spring I'll definitely be finding a tone set I can hear and understand.

It looks something like this though solid 1/8" gold wire.
Three 1/4 carot diamonds across those two parallel bars in the middle.