Minelab Manticore For Beginners: Creating a Custom Coin Pattern - The Easy Way.
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2022
- In this video I'm diving into the customization features of the Minelab Manticore Metal Detector. One of the biggest challenges is understanding how to customize some of the search modes, discrimination patterns, ferrous limits etc. I'm going to show you a quick way of creating your own discrimination patterns that you can use for coins, relics, beach targets etc. This is one way of doing it and since I am relatively new to the Manticore I'm sure there are better ways. Drop me a comment if you think I could have done this better, differently etc. I'm open to suggestions. Thanks for watching!
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nice to see how the manticore bottle cap profiles are are back on track.
This detector will turn out to be one of the top machines available, great program!
Sweet man , I did it the other way around but same end result yet your method was much easier.
Nice work!
Serious learning curve with this rig. I believe You performed a Master Class with this tweak.
It looks harder than it is. Its instinctively easy to navigate and setup.
This is the one thing I have been looking for Coin Shooter program for the manticore. I just purchased one and only had it a day. Too frozen outside yet but this gives me something to do with all the finds from my EQ 800. Great video.
This one is better, the setup is towards the end of the video. I made this video a few months later. ua-cam.com/video/2baKa1Wdd6Y/v-deo.html
Thanks so much. I do like that you put in so much time to really dive down into learning the Manticore. I have learned so much already from your videos. It also helps just a little owning an Equinox 800. I have found so many I call bucket list items already and I have only metal detected since 2019. Thanks for pointing me to this other video.
You are so welcome!
Great video! I was working towards this idea on the Manticore but you got me there faster. Thanks for posting. ❤
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this setup, I’ve just programmed my Manticore for Australian coins and will test it out
Good luck!
The awesome thing about the Manticore for Australian coins is it's suuuuper easy to set up for JUST the $1 and $2 coins. 64 to 68 and tighten up a custom Ferrous pattern to make it nice and neat. Then go swing at parks and footpaths near milkbars and you'll pull in some $ haha.
you can do that on the e-track but with the manticore you can do something you cant do on any other machine. discriminate without discriminating, discrimination compromises depth but with the manticore you can go to 5 tone and change the tone and volume of unwanted targets to ferrous tone and volume to barely audible and change keeper targets to high pitch high volume only hearing good targets without discriminating unwanted.
I’ve had my manticore now, for three days, having a great time with it, I’m finding the menu system, nowhere near as intimidating as I thought it would be! Your videos, I might add, have been extremely helpful! But I’m still paranoid about notching out anything, because I’m strictly a beach hunter, and jewelry, gold, and other items can show up pretty much anywhere else, and I’m always paranoid about missing good targets. However, I have a pad and pen with me out on the beach every day, and I’m keeping track of where certain items always seem to fall, so probably within the next few weeks I hope to start making adjustments similar to what you’ve done here. Every day is a learning experience with this great happy! 👍
Brilliant ! Can't wait to try this on my new Manticore. Straight out of the box I was finding silvers but this program is going to vacuum up the good stuff .
Thanks amigo👍🇨🇦
I've received a lot of good feedback so far. I think you will enjoy it.
I like the way you built the coin program. It'll come in handy at the trashy park.
Don be careful though, those coins are the ones I have laying around but the coin range on this machine is scattered all across the scale you will surely miss something by doing this. Unfortunately, it will be tough to get them all.
@@MentalMetal when I received the machine, I used the preprogrammed pattern. I’ve since notched things out with decent success. And now, I just altered the high conductive pattern per “iffy signals pattern” . Thanks to the fresh snow, I won’t be testing it out anytime soon.
I have a question. I get a lot of chirping and iron tones coming in at the upper coin ranges. I’m constantly staring at my screen. I’m using your pattern, 5 tone regional, ground balancing along with noise cancelling, dropping sensitivity to under 20. No power lines within a hundred plus yards. Any ideas what I may have going on ? Thanks
very helpful. haven’t received the machine yet but will set something up very similar based on your program. Well done sir!
Awesome, thank you!
Coffee with Scott! You are right, no one is an expert here, and Minelab will have some software updates coming, hopefully to improve heavy iron functionality. I'm not interested in a Manticore, as I live on the cellar holes and my D2 is working well there ..... but if I was a park guy, I'd try your new program out Scott, I like it.
Thanks my friend. I hope the updates address it as well.
I love my D2 everywhere I take it. I do kind of the same program but discriminate using the volume only.
Just got my machine. Thanks for the info. Definitely going to give this a try. I'm going to check out more of your videos and look for more tips, you might not be an expert yet but the guidance given is Awesome 👍👍
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for this. Brilliant method. I'm going to have to try it out, as I just got my Manticore yesterday, upgrading from a Nox 900.
I'll be interested in seeing how it handles modern nickels (which the Nox sees as a pull tab, or a gold ring). If I can get rid of pull tabs I'll be happy.
Good luck, you might be able to tell via the 2D map, but you never know, you could be passing up gold.
Thank you, I think this is exactly the program I have been looking for. I have friends who spend a lot of time hunting horseshoes, bullets, etc. I, on the other hand, have a hard enough time getting up and down from the ground and would like the time I spend being more productive.
I have been very disappointed with the Manticore so far, especially when I go to a high iron park and it won't calm down. The noise mixed in with the good stuff can be nerve-racking. This will definitely help me tame the beast.
You are very welcome my friend. Sorry for late response. I'm a little behind.
Looking forward to that program cheers.
We just came up with a better one check this one out: ua-cam.com/video/2baKa1Wdd6Y/v-deo.html but use 2 tone regional as you audio setup.
The problem is, I need each one of them coins to do this, I love this !
I have a more updated version that is better than that video.
@@MentalMetal do you want to send me the link or tell me what it’s called? That would be awesome. I have watched already many of your videos. Yours are my favorite.
sorry for the late response, I get lost in all the comments. Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/2baKa1Wdd6Y/v-deo.html
600 targets new and old find a medium rings ear rings toe rings thin sholder rings ect as well as high end find a medium then take notes on single frequency in ground then air again find medium then notch out .easy for me I have family that sell ring's ect and have very large coin collection's winner that.
Nice Job!!!!
Bloody good man.😊
Thanks!
Great video, very informative
Glad it was helpful!
The same thing sure was more simple on the Nox 800.It's funny Scott how the new detectors come out with most of the settings being the same as the old ones just more complicated.I just got the Manticore and starting to learn a few things on it thanks to your videos keep up the good work and thanks again.Give Rocky a pat for me.
Thank you! Rocky enjoyed the pat on the head. He says hello and thank you.
Great coin shooter video Scott
Thanks
Thanks Scott. Cool program. Don’t you just love tinkering with this new technology…
I use your coin program on my WS6 master and love it.
Happy New Year.
That is awesome!
I like this approach. It’s ‘real world’ for wherever we are in the world and what we want to find. I would probably open the dreaded aluminum range because I sometimes find tokens made of aluminum. Of course around old houses aluminum IS the devil… BUT as a cherry picking program for those one-time permissions, greatness!
Yep 100% agree. Thanks for the comment
I will certainly set this up on my Manticore if I ever get it. I am so close to canceling my order and get a refund (mainly due to the lack of communication on Minelab's part). But these kind of videos keep me hanging on to that oh so thin thread. Thanks for posting, Scott!
Hang in there my friend, I've been hearing that they are starting to trickle in.
Thank you,this helps a bunch. I haven't got an actual users manual yet.
Glad it helped
Thank you Scott for an awesome how to video... I thought I would try notching out my gold and silver and as you mentioned, too many variables... Anyway, I am setting mine up for older coins and will give it a try... again, great info!!!
You bet!
Yes, you can do it with the Nox 800, maybe 600 as well?. I did similar ‘favorite program’ earlier this year on mine, granted it is a different process but it can be accomplished. Your caveat about this being a ‘catch 22’ is paramount. Excellent video.
Thank you!
That's awesome
Thanks!
I'm liken' it! Great video, good information. Now, when can us regular guys get our hands on it?
I hope you get it soon.
Slick idea for doing a double check
Thanks Wallace!
Good video
Glad you enjoyed
Hi. I am in Australia and just my my mantilcore a week ago.
I have been playing around with exactly as you are showing here, but once I made up my own patern, I would loose it after shut down.
I was not using a preset patent and adding it to favourites.
That's where I think I went wrong.
My CTX 3030 actually had some blank patterns you could use( instead of overwriting a loaded patern).
I would like minelab to have a few spare paterns for this reason.
I suppose for now I will have to use 1 of the pee loaded paterns like you did ( maybe gold petern) as I have a 6000 for gold.
Thank you.
John Watson
Yes John I wish they did that as well. Thanks for watching.
Great going I use your Deus2 coin program. Also I am on the waiting list for a Manticore. Too bad there isn’t a way to save discrimination patterns to a file which could be shared. All these detectors are capable
yep agree.
It’s certainly easy to navigate I hunt no discrimination I just like to hear it all I’ve been using my 900 and it’s been a great machine I still believe they did a job on people by releasing the Manticore first then the 700-900 and having those shipped first so more people buy them then want the Manticore just my 2 cents
I would agree with you. It was a strange move on their part.
How do you save a custom program?
Excellent again. Is this take 2, because I thought I just watched a slightly different version of this on the Manticore?
I put out a hunting video on this program and this is the how-to do it yourself video.
I just found this video this afternoon. I know it’s a year old I just bought a manticor Here about two weeks ago should’ve bought it when it first came out. But what do you do, I just set up my coin program. I am going to subscribe and go through and see in the last year of your videos if you found any other choice tips, thank you
Glad I could help! I would recommend watching this video first. ua-cam.com/video/meejt-F8IFg/v-deo.html
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I wish you would have gave the numbers you accepted , I don’t have the variety of targets on your list. Great video though 👍
This is the better coin setup. I made it a few months later. ua-cam.com/video/2baKa1Wdd6Y/v-deo.html
I just ordered my Manticore yesterday pretty excited, especially with this coin program you’re setting up, but I have a question when you’re setting these up and you’re putting your hand in front of there. Is that affecting it in anyway thanks for the reply man and keep making great videos.
No not really but use this newer version of my coin program. Its much better and covers just about every coin you will come across. ua-cam.com/video/2baKa1Wdd6Y/v-deo.html
Great Video. I will use this video when my Manticore shows up. Thank you a bunch. I have one question, I've read that when you discriminate out metals, you lose depth. With this program will we be losing any depth?
Anytime you put filtering on any machine you will be giving up something. I don't think anyone really knows yet how some of these changes impact depth on the Manticore. It didn't to impact me much at my site.
have you had a chance to use this program in an area where falsing is occurring? Does it quiet it down, lesson it, eliminate it, etc?
Trying it out today so we'll see. I doubt it though. I mean it will be quieter I'm guessing
Question for you Scott, do you still have the stock factory deep high conductor program; and can you switch back and forth between the two? That does look simple. Thank you for figuring this out. I appreciate all you do!
So I don't think you can or I haven't figured out how to do it yet. It appears that once you edit one of the programs and mark it as a favorite it doesn't keep a copy of the original to reference like we can with the Deus 2 and WS6 Master setup. I am still messing with it but I wish it did have something like this.
@@MentalMetal I wish it did too. Thank you.
you are very welcome. Thank you.
Scott when you’re coin shooting, are you still using this program now that you’ve and the Manticore for a while or are you running the machine wide open? Thx.
I still set it for coins but I don't do it this way any more, this video is the is better and will get you just about every coin you come across. ua-cam.com/video/2baKa1Wdd6Y/v-deo.html If I'm relic hunting I'm wide open.
Question… a few of the junk pieces you waved across the coil gave a broken and/or small chirp that were bleeding over into the range of one of your preset coins. I’m wondering if some of your actual coins would also give off just a chirp of broken tone if they’re buried on edge. What do you think, or have you seen this yet in the field? I should have my Manticore in a week.
Thanks!
its certainly possible but I do have some coins buried on edge in my test garden and it hit them just fine.
@@MentalMetal still a good solid tone with them on edge? That’s cool 😎
I tried this while I was working through menus. My problem with this setting is that if there are excluded targets also under the loop at the same time as the silver target, then I think the Manticore does what it was told, and doesn't beep. So it appears that this is a great filter in fairly clean sites, but not so much in noisy iron areas. Please let me know if you have the same experience, and if you came up with a solution. cheers.
thanks for the comment, this is not meant for a iron infested site even though if you got the update and turned on the ferrous indications (red numbers) you still might do alight if you increase the recovery speed. The problem with all these what if scenarios, is that you will never really know what's under the coil when you are really hunting so give yourself the best odds that you can. Use as little filtering as you can.
Can do the same thing on the E-trac and CTX.
Of course you can but the process is different (I never used the E-trac so I'll take your word on it).
The coins might have different ID’s when they are in the ground ?
Depending on the soil and depth they will change a bit. This is true for all detectors.
I’ve followed your video and set up this coin program on the Manitcore, it will hit coins on top of the ground, but struggling to hit anything buried. I even buried some modem clad coins and struggle to hit them. What am I doing wrong.
sorry Gary thats sounds strange, did you do the normal, ground balance, noise cancel etc.? I'm not really sure what else to suggest. Try all metal mode to see if the ferrous limits are screwing it up.
I’m going to reset it and follow your steps from the video again, to see if I did something stupid to cause it not to work. It’s a great video and idea so I can’t understand why it’s not working.
@@MentalMetal I reset that program, and followed your steps as you did in the video. Only thing I did different was pulled the lower shaft out and turned the coil detecting side up. I ran the coins across and pressed the accept/reject button as instructed. This time it’s seems to work just fine. Thought I share just in case someone has the same issues. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Gary, glad you figured it out.
The program is great when you only have limited time to hunt.
Yes I would agree w/you.
Hi I’m shaune and I’m in the uk great video just got the manticore and have a lot to learn as have been using the deus 2 looking forward to the journey lol will be hoping to get some videos on you tube soon so hope you subscribe once up and running big thanks shaune in Kent 👍
Thanks Kent good luck.
Will give this machine a year on the market before I go anywhere near it.
That way any early kinks get ironed out.
Will be a great 2nd option to the CTX.
...maybe.
Maybe but its a solid machine base on what I've seen so far.
@@MentalMetal I've learned over the years the true test for any new machine is when it gets in the hands of the consumers and is released to the masses.
That is when any potential issued begin to come to light. All manufacturers have ran into problems.
ML, Garrett, Whites, XP, blah blah blah.
Yep I totally agree w/that.
What is an I’d range?
The good target id range on the manticore is from 0-99, targets will be identified with a number. A quarter will show a target ID of 88 as an example.
Very nice.... did you figure that out all by yourself? Very cool...
Yep....capped....just remember that sweet ass lid she's sporting....she's not Batman....
Ahh I love a good Tedy comment first thing in the morning.
Maybe add custom iron discrimination to your program? I don’t understand why the machine has so many custom patterns available per program.
I don't like to use too much iron disc to be honest.
Good demonstration, I watch all your videos!!
I'll be purchasing a Manticore, and hopefully in the near future upgrading to the CTX4040.
I would love to see you go to the beach with it notched out to the max. What will you find?
Not sure I would do that much notching for the beach.
What about gold rings
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I'm almost 70, been collecting coins since I was 5. So I had to dig out some of my coins, also I live in Arizona, so there are thousands of illegals that pass through each week. Any way I have a larger target range than you by doing this, added were many silver and copper south American coins, also a few Canadian (we have winter visitors) but the biggest one you will miss with the way you have it is a Steel Wheetie , I have several 1943's. I will be walking behind my buddy who set his up like yours.
Thanks Bob C. Maybe you could share how you are doing it. :-) I'm not really concerned about missing steel wheaties considering the chances are low that I would find them anyway. But they are something I would be interested in finding for sure.