markinswpa
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The Manticore continues to serve me well. Decided to head back to an old honey hole where I in 2019 I had a five silver day along with an Ihps and wheats a cool Pgh. Police button and a few other cool finds. Over the years I've hit it here and there with a few more memorable hunts, different machines, but nothing like the first hunt I had in these overgrown woods. All toll I've gotten well over a dozen silvers a ton of wheats,a few Ihps, at least 2 nickel trifectas I can remember, transits tokens, the list of cool finds is endless. And this is public property.
So to my surprise when I arrived there yesterday I saw they had cleared all the brush, saplings and downed trees. Game on. First let me say, today I'm in recovery mode, beat up and pretty much useless. I managed over 7 hours without so much as a pee break. I get like this when I start hitting good targets early, its hard for me to stop. I hit a clad spill of .31 on the way over to the woods. First keeper, a solid 25, shallow. A nice Buff was less than 2 in. down. I remember I found at least 2 others shallow Buffs in this same area in past hunts. With a wipe I could see detail and a date and was happy with the find. Now the sad part, when I got home and on coin dump it was not in the bag. Somehow I musta lost it. I thought about going back today but just couldn't drag myself out to do it. As I moved up towards the area where I had found most of the silver coins in the past, I get a no doubt coin 78-80 signal. I believe it was edge, about 8 in. down I see a small dark coin, I say please don't be clad. Haha. Rub the rim and see silver, I'm there c'mon be a Barber. Haven't dug one in two years. Although crusty as heck I could see one dime on the back. Yes !! Looking around I realized I was only a foot or two from where a few years back I dug a 1898 or 99 worn Barber dime from a 8 or 9 inches down with a large iron nail by it. I was using the 800 w/ 6in. coil on that hunt. The Barber dug yesterday didn't seem to have any masking around it. The only difference was my approach. In the past there had been a huge downed tree preventing that approach angle. Now I'm ecstatic, in a little over an hour I've got silver and a nice Buff. ( so I thought ) Next I move up around in front of a large tree where in the five silver hunt I mentioned I had dug a couple maybe 3 silvers including an old Barber quarter. You can bet I have worked the area in front of that tree to death every time I went there. If I had to guess I've hunted this area no less than 10 times, maybe more. A chirp in the high 60s alerts me to a possible non-ferrous target. In the past I may have passed on a signal like that
but with the Manticore, more often than not its showing a masked target. As was the case this time, first out was a two inch rusty nail then I saw a silver rim, Hello ! Miss Mercury shows up. Now I'm grinning like a dog in a butcher shop. In this same small area and not long after the Merc I dig a shallow Ihp. Oh yeah. To me an Ihp is pert near as cool as a silver coin. Then I get a sweet 93-94-95. Clean. no scratchin, no gruntin. I say this has to be a silver quarter. About 8 inches down out comes a crusty wheat. Nothing else to be found. This was the only coin on the day the Manticore up averaged. One thing I have noticed, its Ids are more accurate and it does seem to see the deeper targets better than the other machines I've used.
After the wheat I dug some bits and bobs, a fork, a hemweight. I dug a few nickel signals, a couple were slick and wasn't sure what they were. Late in the hunt I got a solid 27. Not too deep outcomes a nickel, I could see a little silver on the rim. My first thought was a recent drop but as I rubbed it I realized it was a war nickel. Yes ! Third silver on the day and with the Buff I dug, a good chance one of those slick nickels could be a V nickel and give me a nickel trifecta. I have come close to a nickel trifecta a bunch of times only to dig the one I needed on the next outing. On clean up I found this to be the case even thought the Buff and V are pretty well toasted I got my second trifecta of the year. This is the third multiple silver hunt with the Manticore this year and looking forward to see what else it can find. Another mention, I also dug a little less than half of a horseshoe. I hope it doesn't signal the amount of luck I have, Ha ha. If you got this far, thanks for looking in. Mark
MANTICORE - LEGEND
So to my surprise when I arrived there yesterday I saw they had cleared all the brush, saplings and downed trees. Game on. First let me say, today I'm in recovery mode, beat up and pretty much useless. I managed over 7 hours without so much as a pee break. I get like this when I start hitting good targets early, its hard for me to stop. I hit a clad spill of .31 on the way over to the woods. First keeper, a solid 25, shallow. A nice Buff was less than 2 in. down. I remember I found at least 2 others shallow Buffs in this same area in past hunts. With a wipe I could see detail and a date and was happy with the find. Now the sad part, when I got home and on coin dump it was not in the bag. Somehow I musta lost it. I thought about going back today but just couldn't drag myself out to do it. As I moved up towards the area where I had found most of the silver coins in the past, I get a no doubt coin 78-80 signal. I believe it was edge, about 8 in. down I see a small dark coin, I say please don't be clad. Haha. Rub the rim and see silver, I'm there c'mon be a Barber. Haven't dug one in two years. Although crusty as heck I could see one dime on the back. Yes !! Looking around I realized I was only a foot or two from where a few years back I dug a 1898 or 99 worn Barber dime from a 8 or 9 inches down with a large iron nail by it. I was using the 800 w/ 6in. coil on that hunt. The Barber dug yesterday didn't seem to have any masking around it. The only difference was my approach. In the past there had been a huge downed tree preventing that approach angle. Now I'm ecstatic, in a little over an hour I've got silver and a nice Buff. ( so I thought ) Next I move up around in front of a large tree where in the five silver hunt I mentioned I had dug a couple maybe 3 silvers including an old Barber quarter. You can bet I have worked the area in front of that tree to death every time I went there. If I had to guess I've hunted this area no less than 10 times, maybe more. A chirp in the high 60s alerts me to a possible non-ferrous target. In the past I may have passed on a signal like that
but with the Manticore, more often than not its showing a masked target. As was the case this time, first out was a two inch rusty nail then I saw a silver rim, Hello ! Miss Mercury shows up. Now I'm grinning like a dog in a butcher shop. In this same small area and not long after the Merc I dig a shallow Ihp. Oh yeah. To me an Ihp is pert near as cool as a silver coin. Then I get a sweet 93-94-95. Clean. no scratchin, no gruntin. I say this has to be a silver quarter. About 8 inches down out comes a crusty wheat. Nothing else to be found. This was the only coin on the day the Manticore up averaged. One thing I have noticed, its Ids are more accurate and it does seem to see the deeper targets better than the other machines I've used.
After the wheat I dug some bits and bobs, a fork, a hemweight. I dug a few nickel signals, a couple were slick and wasn't sure what they were. Late in the hunt I got a solid 27. Not too deep outcomes a nickel, I could see a little silver on the rim. My first thought was a recent drop but as I rubbed it I realized it was a war nickel. Yes ! Third silver on the day and with the Buff I dug, a good chance one of those slick nickels could be a V nickel and give me a nickel trifecta. I have come close to a nickel trifecta a bunch of times only to dig the one I needed on the next outing. On clean up I found this to be the case even thought the Buff and V are pretty well toasted I got my second trifecta of the year. This is the third multiple silver hunt with the Manticore this year and looking forward to see what else it can find. Another mention, I also dug a little less than half of a horseshoe. I hope it doesn't signal the amount of luck I have, Ha ha. If you got this far, thanks for looking in. Mark
MANTICORE - LEGEND
Good luck. Mark