As I said clearly seeing the target on the screen as oppose to flipping #s especially in a target rich environment make the dig me signal easier then again these target combos that Jim displayed are not even complex as most that I hunt in .
I guess we can agree to disagree
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The Legend and Manticore have a lot to offer for sure. I would and have picked the Legend over Deus 2 and the Equinox 800/900 for several sites. I just really like the tones on the Legend, it handles iron very well and it is not nearly as twitchy or reactive on highly iron mineralized dirt as those others. Gold prospecting and ghost town hunting with the Legend is very pleasant and rewarding. I haven't been able to do that kind of hunting with the Manticore yet.
Just to clarify, the dirt used in the video I posted is not from a bag. It's from my backyard and will make many great single frequency detectors completely overload if their coil gets anywhere near it unless I turn the sensitivity way down due to the amount of magnetite and volcanic material in it. The Manticore and Legend handle it beautifully. The Equinox 900...........not nearly as well which may have something to do with the difference between Multi IQ as it is implemented on the 900 and Multi IQ+ on the Manticore. Etrac, CTX 3030, DFX and V3i don't like this dirt one bit.
One thing I just can't do is watch the numbers flying around on screens like they were in the video when it's a complex situation. There is no way that I can keep up with all that with 68 year old eyes. The same problem happens for me using full tones on either detector for park hunting. In the video the Legend and Manticore are basically in 5 tones with tone breaks setup very similarly and those tones and their slight nuances are what I mostly depend on and hunt with in a totally trashed park. However, being able to look at the Manticore's 2D screen and actually see one target or colocated targets is very helpful. So this form of target trace is certainly a new thing for me and I am learning to use it.
I did not pick those targets randomly for the video that I posted. I actually had that exact situation last week at a park where I had never found any silver. Since it was built in 1959 and is full to the brim with trash, I haven't expected much from it. It's a great place for recent jewelry drops and for clad and it is within walking distance of my house so I hunt it, but it has the same kind of hot dirt that is in my backyard too.
Since it's close to my house, I have hunted it and the exact spot where I found a silver Roosevelt dime more times than I can remember with detectors ranging from a Tesoro Silver UMax, all of the Whites MXT variants including the MX7, DFX, V3i, Fisher F75, F19, Deus 1, ORX, Deus 2, Racer, Racer 2, Multi Kruzer, AT Pro, Gold and Max and Minelab's like the Etrac, CTX, Xterra 705, Nox 600, 800, 900 and now the Legend and Manticore. I did take the Vanquish models there are few times but I had to reject most or all of the iron target IDs in order to not hear out of ground balance responses coming from the ground itself at the end of every swing or if I need to raise or lower the coil. So, with the Vanquish models, they wouldn't ground balance and colocated ferrous targets masked non ferrous targets badly.
The silver Rosie was under a tree at about 5" deep. About 2" away and to the right was a near surface Corona cap like the one in the video and just to the left of the dime and about 3" deep was a rusted nut. I was flagging targets with the Legend at the time so I could compare them with the Manticore. The Legend reacted just like it did in the video since I hunt in Park 1 with iron filter 1, iron stability 4 and bottle cap 1 which is just enough iron bias to make the Corona's audio start to break up if they are near the surface. I definitely flagged that target with the Legend since it had possibilities. Before I knew what this complex target was, I could not isolate a single high conductor target with the Legend using its audio, target IDs or onboard pinpoint function. The target(s) were just too complex. Recovery speed was on 5. That's what I run in these trashed parks. I approached that flagged target with the Manticore from the same direction and I did not turn on it. The Manticore (ATG Multi, recovery speed 5, all targets accepted), immediately isolated the dime from the other targets which surprised me and one look at the screen cemented the FACT that there was a strong, well defined high conductor target in all of that jumpy target ID and audio cacophony. Seeing a large, well defined, very dark smudge in the high conductor range instead of a very small, faint, probably the result of falsing shadowy smudge sealed it for me. That is not the first time this has happened, so at least for me the Manticore's 2D screen is definitely a big part of the + in the Multi IQ +.