You know...there is a very old park in a major city Ed and I hunted once. The soil there is incredible, you could run the Explorer at max sensitivity and it was stable. I like the idea of taking the Manticore beast back there and see what it can do, I'm adding that to my upcoming detecting trip!
I would think your going to find out just how good that explorer was . I have went to places I have killed it with the CTX now using the deus2 the results were 1 wheat penny in 3 hours . Then another place I detected which was pretty good had more rusted bottle caps which are nothing but rust flakes now and the soil is red with rust from them . Also emi was higher here compared to the other place the deus 2 did find 2 barbers and a merc that I should of not missed also 2 v nickels and 3 buffs along with 2 indians and 2 wheats .
As I said before it's not that the deus or manticore is any better at separation than the CTX none of them separate targets when 2 or more are under the coil at the same time all you have to look at is the ID if it separated you would get a proper ID . The ID always favors the bigger return but still not right .
Where the advantage of the deus2 or manticore is separating the ground from the coin .
Remember the whites 6000 and others the faster you swung them the deeper they went so basically they were not seeing the ground noise to the degree as a normal sweep . But when you hit a target there was a abrupt change in what the machine was seeing the ground then the target compared to a slower sweep the target was not as abrupt of a change compared to the ground .
Anyhow getting back to the deus 2 and manticore . The faster recovery may be doing the same thing as the older whites and bounty hunters were doing (BUT AT A SLOWER SWEEP SPEED) ?
You know that a faster recovery speed works better in high mineral compared to a slower speed .
To prove a point you can always get more depth in a air test compared to a in ground test with all the same settings .
On the CTX with it's two cursors in a air test you would only see one cursor which would show the target you were showing it . But now when same test was done in ground both cursors would display one for the target and one in the bottom corner showing iron . Then if you did a shallow test say dime at 3 inches you would have only one cursor same as a air test .
As you added depth the cursor in the iron bin would get more pronounced till you lost the dime and only the iron cursor would display.
This is the biggest difference I see in the newer detectors not separation of targets but separation of ground to coin or target . sube
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