Very true, I've detected right behind the path of the sand cleaning tractors that tidy up the beaches after our big summer fireworks shows and still get pulltabs and bottlecaps right at the surface, they only really grab the large shallow trash.

@@ScoopyJoe yep coins and jewelry fall through screen

Exactly. I went back there last weekend and nobody hassled me, I guess they've learned.

Thank you so much! I appreciate the feedback. I'm actually working on some editing upgrades at the moment so we should see an overall improvement in a month or two! My current editing computer is super old and laggy so it struggles when I start trying to make too many changes haha.

I thought the big coil would help, but I think it's too big for the areas I go to.

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Yeah I assume it was a pretty old one with a cardboard casing that deteriorated.

Yeah digging holes in sand is probably the lowest impact thing there is lol. I just went back there today actually, nobody hassled me.

As a coin roll hunter I save all my USA coins, last winter my friends parents went to Florida and I sold them $100 USD in coins for $120 Canadian, they were mostly doing me a favor though, but sometimes there's people at coin shows who will buy USD too I heard

Thanks! For now I'm just collecting everything up, haven't found enough US coins to need to do something with them yet.

Thanks!

Yeah it's a really rough spot but it sure doesn't seem like it's been detected before, the 8'' coil is fantastic!

It's drawn from real life! It came on the radio station one day when I was stuck in heavy traffic and it really helped calm the frustration.

Thank you! I was expecting it to be a really frustrating area but it seems promising, aside from the abundance of pennies haha.

Glad you enjoy them! I just collect everything in my hoard, lol.

Yeah I wondered if maybe people were using it as a wishing well or something.

Thanks! I wish they'd make an 8 inch oval coil for the Nox, it's the perfect size.

lol, just a bit unusual to find on a downtown beach in Vancouver Canada, especially a 9mm since handguns are banned.

Thanks for the advice, I have called the parks department before to confirm metal detecting is allowed at least, I don't think our parks employees are quite as accessible in our big city but it's worth a shot!

So I upgraded to the Equinox 900 about 6 months ago, the difference was noticeable from the 600 I'd been swinging for the past 3 years, definitely more stable at very high sensitivity in our mineralized beaches and high EMI areas, interestingly it seemed a little harder to decipher the target IDs, the wider range seems to grab more VDI numbers from common targets like pulltabs and bottlecaps. I haven't done any deliberate depth tests yet, just based on what I have found with it so far. I'll bring some small gold with me the next time I go to the beach. The Manticore in comparison feels like a Sports Car, initially quite intimidating to use and to the uninitiated it might actually seem worse in some ways than the Equinox: The increased 'power' and depth can be a curse on trashy beaches as I was grabbing tiny pieces of foil a foot down easily on the regular. But it also found a very deep silver ring in an area I'd been over many times (the ring had clearly been there for a while as it was tangled in plant roots and was about 9 inches down. The next time out I found a silver coin about a foot deep. Also, the Manticore hits much louder on Canadian clad coins than the Equinox, I found a toonie amongst the trashiest part of the beach that I would have almost certainly missed with either Equinox. The algorithm seems faster, and it seems to work great even with a low recovery speed for increased depth. The 2D screen is also really fun, I expect in the soil it will be very useful! Once I got used to it on the beach, I was running almost exclusively on the Beach Deep mode with very high sensitivity, the prospecting tones are really nice when you're digging everything. I have yet to try it on soil or totlots, but I just got the 8 inch coil so I'm eager to give it a go very soon. Overall, had I remained with the 900 I'm sure I would have been very happy, as I was already very happy with the 600. The Manticore was a treat to myself during the latest sale, with each upgrade I could definitely feel a performance increase. One final thought - the only thing on the manticore I actually really don't like, is the colour LCD screen that requires being backlit to use. I prefer running without a backlight during the day, both to save battery and I found the old style retroreflective monochrome LCD easier to see in the bright sun. It's a small gripe and I'll get over it, but not everything needs a colour LCD screen these days...

@@ScoopyJoe thank you for your kind answer is very educational as to the operation of the equipment and real experiences of treasure hunters, the manticor in short is a sports car with the defect of the screen light that bothers the view. with respect to the depth and quality way I already have it clear it is a very powerful machine thank you very much.

Thanks for the views!!

@@ScoopyJoe anytime

Thanks, I tried vinegar first but the rust was far too thick, would have taken many days of soaking. The electrolysis only took minutes!

Thank you! ☺

Nice! What's the oldest you've found?

@@ScoopyJoe the oldest coin I found, both coin roll hunting and metal detecting were both 1913 coincidentally Metal detecting I found a 1913 large cent Coin roll hunting I found a 1913 buffalo nickel in great shape in a collection dump of king George the fifth nickels, that buffalo nickel is about a $20 coin, I could probably get $20 for it easy as it's first year and in great shape, even has some nice toning imo

Nice! I love finding large coins.

Yeah I thought maybe a tourist or something, it's happened a few times actually haha.

First thing I tried when I got home, it's definitely silver!

Yeah I'm glad they're easier to find now, sometimes on the Nox they barely register! Sorry to hear about your Legend.

Good point, I remember seeing a post on the Vancouver subreddit about that.

I think the noise cancel sound effect is slightly different, I'll have to record a new one!

Thanks for watching!

The Equinox is still a great machine as well, what are we expecting from Minelab in June?

@@ScoopyJoe There is a new lower price metal detector coming out to compete with the others out

Interesting, I wonder if they're adding Multi frequency to the Xterra Pro or something.

I'll have to do the test again with the 18K solution instead and see what happens.

Thank you! It's been amazing so far!!

I've only done two hunts with it so far and I already love it! Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks! I was very happy with that find, I'm pretty sure the stone is amber. Sounds like you've got your work cut out for you down under! Happy hunting!!

Thanks! It's good to be here! 😎

Thanks for the warning! I have another screen protector underneath, directly on the screen, so I think it should be fine.

I definitely will, I plan to make a video testing various targets soon as well. Thanks!

Thank you! I was a little intimidated at first, but in a way it's almost more intuitive than the Equinox!

Quite an odd little piece!

I've found that the 2D map doesn't always show the shape of the target per-se, for the toonie the map showed a squiggly line that jumped around from the ferrous limits and across the conductivity scale, I noticed for pulltabs it seems to always give a vertical smudgy line from the top of the ferrous limit all the way to the bottom but at a very narrow conductivity range, so it might be possible to use that to have a bit more confidence avoiding some pulltabs in the future.

Thank you!

Welcome Aboard! Thanks! I've only had a couple uncomfortable interactions with people like that and they always seem to be inappropriately exerting authority they don't actually have. My interactions with personnel who actually have real municipal authority like Park Rangers, Police or City Parks Employees have always been quite pleasant and they've never caused me any grief. This just shows why we shouldn't let private companies run their own parks..

Thank you!