LawrencetheMDer
Full Member
Went to Machine Gun beach, nick-named because of the large number of junk targets; the standard detector sounds like a machine gun as the coil takes a single sweep.
Decided to take advantage of the Manticore’s discrimination ability as well as 2-D display to reduce junk targets.
Based on the VID for gold rings and, separately, the VID for junk (pull tabs, pulls only, tabs only, push-tabs, push only, tab only, bottle caps), I configured the 5-section discrimination pattern on the Manticore to minimize junk (76% predicted successful filter) and minimize cutting out gold rings (17.5% predicted loss).
Well, I didn’t find gold but got a great workout digging 118 coins the first day and 562 coins over the 6 days! No sure but 118 may be my all time high. Even pulled off another day over 100 coins. All the junk wasn’t so fun, but still a workout. To make matter worse, almost all the targets (>95%) were embedded in a clump - short grass with roots in a sand-soil mixture making it impossible to shake apart in the sand scoop. Every clump had to be dumped out, broken up by foot, spread apart and then searched by Pointer to find the target. Went through 2 batteries on my Carrot Pointer.
Finds Day 1
20 – 0.25
24 – 0.10
10 – 0.05
64 – 0.01
118
Finds Day 2
8 – 0.25
10 – 0.10
3 – 0.05
67 – 0.01
88
Finds Day 3
23 – 0.25
20 – 0.10
18 – 0.05
20 – 0.01
82
One junk ring
Finds Day 4
31 – 0.25
29 – 0.10
0 – 0.05
18 – 0.01
78
Two silver rings
Finds Day 5
9 – 0.25
13 – 0.10
14 – 0.05
69 – 0.01
105
One silver ring
One SS spinner ring
$5.00 bill floating in with tide
Finds Day 6
13 - 0.25
14 - 0.10
12- 0.05
53 - 0.01
92
One silver ring
Two junk rings
I’m going to rest for a while. Hope I got the pics right...close enough...
Happy Hunting.
Decided to take advantage of the Manticore’s discrimination ability as well as 2-D display to reduce junk targets.
Based on the VID for gold rings and, separately, the VID for junk (pull tabs, pulls only, tabs only, push-tabs, push only, tab only, bottle caps), I configured the 5-section discrimination pattern on the Manticore to minimize junk (76% predicted successful filter) and minimize cutting out gold rings (17.5% predicted loss).
Well, I didn’t find gold but got a great workout digging 118 coins the first day and 562 coins over the 6 days! No sure but 118 may be my all time high. Even pulled off another day over 100 coins. All the junk wasn’t so fun, but still a workout. To make matter worse, almost all the targets (>95%) were embedded in a clump - short grass with roots in a sand-soil mixture making it impossible to shake apart in the sand scoop. Every clump had to be dumped out, broken up by foot, spread apart and then searched by Pointer to find the target. Went through 2 batteries on my Carrot Pointer.
Finds Day 1
20 – 0.25
24 – 0.10
10 – 0.05
64 – 0.01
118
Finds Day 2
8 – 0.25
10 – 0.10
3 – 0.05
67 – 0.01
88
Finds Day 3
23 – 0.25
20 – 0.10
18 – 0.05
20 – 0.01
82
One junk ring
Finds Day 4
31 – 0.25
29 – 0.10
0 – 0.05
18 – 0.01
78
Two silver rings
Finds Day 5
9 – 0.25
13 – 0.10
14 – 0.05
69 – 0.01
105
One silver ring
One SS spinner ring
$5.00 bill floating in with tide
Finds Day 6
13 - 0.25
14 - 0.10
12- 0.05
53 - 0.01
92
One silver ring
Two junk rings
I’m going to rest for a while. Hope I got the pics right...close enough...
Happy Hunting.