Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Nice Pantera available over on the 'pot.
I want it but a little short.
Maybe someone here needs it.
HH
Mike
I want it but a little short.
Maybe someone here needs it.
HH
Mike
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Nice Pantera
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Mike Hillis
Well-known member
They would be too late. We came to an agreement and I was able to purchase it a few minutes ago.
Liver alone, cheese mine!
HH
Mike
Liver alone, cheese mine!
HH
Mike
Mike,
I have read some of your past posts, and found that you used to have a Golden Sabre ll in the past. From what I understand about the GSll from reading JB(MS) and Jbirds posts in another forum, is that the GS ll was built on a Pantera circuit board, but without the 10 turn ground balance. I have used the Pantera for a couple of years and have found out the Pantera is a deep seeking detector, and nothing like the poor depth of detection as reported on the GS ll as posted by JB(MS) and Jbird on the metal detecting equipment forum. I am looking forward to your thoughts on the Pantera as you get some field time with it.
I have read some of your past posts, and found that you used to have a Golden Sabre ll in the past. From what I understand about the GSll from reading JB(MS) and Jbirds posts in another forum, is that the GS ll was built on a Pantera circuit board, but without the 10 turn ground balance. I have used the Pantera for a couple of years and have found out the Pantera is a deep seeking detector, and nothing like the poor depth of detection as reported on the GS ll as posted by JB(MS) and Jbird on the metal detecting equipment forum. I am looking forward to your thoughts on the Pantera as you get some field time with it.
The two Golden Sabre II's I had back in the 1990's were anemic as far as depth but I liked using them. I only swung a Pantera a couple of times, it belonged to a guy I hunted with some, and it was deeper than the GS II's I had by a sizable margin. He got .58 minies as deep as 8 inches with it using the standard 8 inch coil, no way the GS II's I had would have got them. I saw the Pantera for sale ad on the depot a couple of minutes after it was posted, and typed in a response saying I would take it, but since I already have three detectors with the same features. except for notch accept, I backed off.
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
I'm glad you didn't snap it up, JB 
I wanted to buy Tony's but I was out of fun money when his came up for sale. Then Jerry put his unit up and the timing was much better. I feel pretty lucky to get it as I figured it wouldn't last long.
Much of my focus is on recovering gold jewelry. I trend sites to types/sizes of gold jewelry and then I hunt for just that specific range of targets. Many of the small girls/ladies jewelry sites will also contain the little charms and pendants and such that hide down in the high ferrous / low to medium foil range. That means that in some locations I dig a LOT of foil. The F5 hits it nice and hard and I dig it up. I'm looking at the Pantera's special audio characteristics to cut down my foil digging in those sites and increase my treasure to trash ratio for those type targets.
May even try the Cleansweep on it and go cruising or site mapping and see what I think about it. I liked the way Tony mounted his under the arm. The Cleansweep balances well with that type of mounting.
I let you know how it works out.
HH
Mike
I wanted to buy Tony's but I was out of fun money when his came up for sale. Then Jerry put his unit up and the timing was much better. I feel pretty lucky to get it as I figured it wouldn't last long.
Much of my focus is on recovering gold jewelry. I trend sites to types/sizes of gold jewelry and then I hunt for just that specific range of targets. Many of the small girls/ladies jewelry sites will also contain the little charms and pendants and such that hide down in the high ferrous / low to medium foil range. That means that in some locations I dig a LOT of foil. The F5 hits it nice and hard and I dig it up. I'm looking at the Pantera's special audio characteristics to cut down my foil digging in those sites and increase my treasure to trash ratio for those type targets.
May even try the Cleansweep on it and go cruising or site mapping and see what I think about it. I liked the way Tony mounted his under the arm. The Cleansweep balances well with that type of mounting.
I let you know how it works out.
HH
Mike
Try this Mike
You already know this anyway, but someone else might benefit from this coil technique. Foil & iron....using the detector in disc. mode.... the audio signal or 'hit' will drop out suddenly as you are swinging the coil directly over the target, and at the same time,slowly raise the coil above the target at a steady rate. Say you have a good audio and while using this technique and the audio stays the same and then suddenly drops out several inches above the target and goes dead silent, it is usually junk aluminum(foil.canslaw) or medium to large iron. The audio of a good solid target will linger and fade out slowly as you are raising and swinging the coil directly above the target. The wiggle of the coil made in short, tight sweeps and raising the coil above the target classifies the junk targets quickly. This works for me, others may get different results.
You already know this anyway, but someone else might benefit from this coil technique. Foil & iron....using the detector in disc. mode.... the audio signal or 'hit' will drop out suddenly as you are swinging the coil directly over the target, and at the same time,slowly raise the coil above the target at a steady rate. Say you have a good audio and while using this technique and the audio stays the same and then suddenly drops out several inches above the target and goes dead silent, it is usually junk aluminum(foil.canslaw) or medium to large iron. The audio of a good solid target will linger and fade out slowly as you are raising and swinging the coil directly above the target. The wiggle of the coil made in short, tight sweeps and raising the coil above the target classifies the junk targets quickly. This works for me, others may get different results.
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
That is a good tip, Randy.
Thanks,
Mike
Thanks,
Mike
Indeed the Pantera is deeper than other notch units probably because of its manual ground balance feature..Here is a way of cutting down the odds gold ring versus trash...Imagine the reason is a gold ring is much heavier than the trash that mimics it...Start with a large gold ring and a square tab that come in relatively close on a metered unit and in pinpoint go over target moderately fast and the junk will beep-beep and the gold ring will beeeeep...basically hold the tone longer...As you go down to foil and a thin gold ring the audio variance is not as pronounced but a trained ear will pick it up. Works well on shallow gold rings but takes patience and sure a lead sinker or key will fool you but beats digging all that junk....
Eight gold class rings found in and about the water, seven returned and numerous gold trinkets that my wife will wear and some she won't wear. All in All......technique don't cut it if the gold ain't there, like Mike Hillis has said in the past, Location, traffic patterns and site reading are the key to finding gold jewelery. And water hunting at a popular local college town lake beach helps cut down the odds some. I still dig buckets of tabs though, little flitty pieces of can slaw,foil, bobby pins and rusty beer caps can be avoided as described in my previous post.