The Rebel
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- Sep 20, 2011
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Took today off from work and went back to my button house site that has given up over 100+ buttons, several coppers and other items I can't remember right now.
It took some time to get used to the sounds as well as what the display was telling me. I still have a lot to learn but was nice to get outside on this wonderful day.
I was in AT General with Sensitivity at 20-23, Threshold at 0. I was getting a lot of chatter & discovered that the Ferous Volume was set to 8, so turned it to 0.
The hunt started off with me digging a lot of shotgun headstamps, which was good as I was able to understand what the target ID # was but I really wanted to dig better targets. It's tough to get used to a new machine especially as I've been swinging my V for 10 years now.
I was finally rewarded after several hours with a nice signal in the middle of the screen & it had a circular shape on the target trace. Dug down and pulled the very small button, yes!
A couple of swings later got another good target, dug down & pulled the other button, yes!
Then a couple of swings later got another good target reading 85, if I remember correctly. This was way down I'd say at least 7-8". As we had a lot of rain the hole was slowly filling up with water, but I saw the circle shaped object and brought it to the surface. I figured a dandy button but was surprised when I wiped the mud off it to see the shield and knew I had scored a NJ copper, yea baby now we're talkin!
By that time, it had been a long day so swung on my way back to my backpack & score the musket ball.
The Manticore is a very powerful machine & is very sensitive. I really like how lite it is compared to the V, as my shoulders & arm was not sore & tired as it would have been.
Looking forward to my next outing with my new machine.
It took some time to get used to the sounds as well as what the display was telling me. I still have a lot to learn but was nice to get outside on this wonderful day.
I was in AT General with Sensitivity at 20-23, Threshold at 0. I was getting a lot of chatter & discovered that the Ferous Volume was set to 8, so turned it to 0.
The hunt started off with me digging a lot of shotgun headstamps, which was good as I was able to understand what the target ID # was but I really wanted to dig better targets. It's tough to get used to a new machine especially as I've been swinging my V for 10 years now.
I was finally rewarded after several hours with a nice signal in the middle of the screen & it had a circular shape on the target trace. Dug down and pulled the very small button, yes!
A couple of swings later got another good target, dug down & pulled the other button, yes!
Then a couple of swings later got another good target reading 85, if I remember correctly. This was way down I'd say at least 7-8". As we had a lot of rain the hole was slowly filling up with water, but I saw the circle shaped object and brought it to the surface. I figured a dandy button but was surprised when I wiped the mud off it to see the shield and knew I had scored a NJ copper, yea baby now we're talkin!
By that time, it had been a long day so swung on my way back to my backpack & score the musket ball.
The Manticore is a very powerful machine & is very sensitive. I really like how lite it is compared to the V, as my shoulders & arm was not sore & tired as it would have been.
Looking forward to my next outing with my new machine.
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