Thomas Dankowski's Metal Detecting Forum

Mike, I’ll try and help being no one has ever responded to your question. Because of your lack of tide movement problem,1 out of 10 targets being tuff to recover problem, and in 80 cm of water problem (deep). I would recover the best targets for now that you can get in your scoop, if the site is giv...

Has anyone on here tried or looked at the Alogoforce E1500 PI? It uses the very common 5 pin GP/SD/GPX coils.Looks very interesting. Has a good price and looks to handle EMI very well. Has a form of ID when using pinpoint. I know a relic hunter that says it might could have a use for relics in some ...

Tom….. I really appreciate your response. I’m mostly in 1880-1900 homesteads. It’s overwhelming to believe there's that much iron in and around the sites I hunt. It’s weird to be running around in a site with Manticore listening to a lot of the iron then go back to vehicle grab another detector and ...

Question, running in AL metal I’ve always wondered if the manticore is sounding off on the tiniest rust flakes or some mineral at times? I’ve never ran any disc ever. I was at a place in the woods at our farm a while back that was fairly quiet but had several scattered iron tones, that I ended up di...

I purchased a used Vista X on recommendation from Keith Southern he said that it would work well in my iron infested site that I’ve beat to death. I’ve been wanting to try one ever since it was released. I’ve only had it a little over a month. In that time the Vista X has consistently been pulling n...

I posted this last week on detector prospector forum. Another half dime out of a different site. M8 loves small silver. I was in ATLC. I mostly use the manticore in or around iron with the M8. I’ve really enjoyed using this detector. Every single time I’ve doubted its ability to pull keepers out of ...

Tom your list made me smile. It also made me realize I left out a several important detectors off of my list that I’ve had in my test site. Manticore, equinox and deus. I’m planning on getting a deus 2 very soon. Not sure how it stacks up with the original deus. The original deus has been very good ...

I have a site that is the perfect place for me to go and test out all of my machines and coil combinations. I can hunt it every day because it’s my father’s 175 acre farm that he bought from a friend of ours. It has been in constant habitat since 1850s. I’ve pounded on this place for 9 years very ha...

Very interesting how it seemed to hit when slowing swing speed. That may show the separation of a small concentric in iron. Be interesting if a DD of same size on that same machine would hit it too. Lots of pops, cracks, and false hits in a busy site full of iron and nails. Thanks for sharing.

I’ve been running the manticore for about 6 months now, and it pulls the good stuff out of iron and trash very well. My question is, has anyone ever noticed that the display screen has a bright flash of light on the edges or border that kinda looks like a camera flash or lightning. It seems to have ...