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Wasting Time on Nails? Minelab Manticore Settings to Skip the Junk!

Brass Medic

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Minelab Manticore, Manticore metal detecting, iron rejection, nail rejection, old home site hunting, metal detecting tips — Mark Dayton tests the new Manticore at a heavily hunted historic site.

Mark takes the new Minelab Manticore out to an old site where he and Ron once filmed a CBS Sunday Morning TV segment. This location has been pounded by many detectors over the years, making it the perfect real-world test for one of the most talked-about new metal detectors on the market.

In this video, Mark shows how the Minelab Manticore handles a difficult, iron-infested site and explains how to better identify targets so you can avoid wasting time digging rusty nails and junk iron. If you want to improve your target selection, learn more about iron tones, and see how the Manticore performs on a worked-out site, this video delivers valuable field experience and practical advice.

Whether you are a beginner trying to understand target audio or an experienced detectorist curious about the Manticore’s performance, this hunt gives you a close-up look at how this machine can help unmask good targets in trashy ground.

🎥 Video Highlights:

✅ Historic Site Hunt at a location featured on CBS Sunday Morning
✅ Real-World Manticore Test on a site hunted by many machines over the years
✅ Iron And Nail Avoidance Tips to help you dig less junk
✅ Target Identification Advice for better decision-making in the field
✅ Field Use Insights on the new Minelab Manticore
✅ Preview Of Future Videos featuring the Minelab Equinox 900 and more

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Chapters:
00:00 Christmas Eve Hunt Intro
01:43 Site History and Past Finds
02:53 Detector Settings Overview
04:02 Iron Signal Delay Demonstration
11:10 Deep Low Conductor Target
13:52 Number Conversion and Digging Tips
15:15 Switching to Fast Mode
18:20 Double Bleep and Pocket Knife
19:58 Fast Mode Audio Only
24:31 Deep Signal Sensitivity Test
28:32 Instantaneous High Conductor Signal
30:42 Clad Dime Find
34:51 Hand-Forged Iron Relic
39:23 Switching to High Trash Mode
41:59 Horse Tack Discovery
45:56 Beer Can and Sizing Feature Request
47:16 Wrap-Up and Outro

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⚙️ Metal Detectors Featured:

Minelab Manticore
Minelab CTX-3030
Minelab X-Terra Pro
Minelab X-Terra Elite
Minelab Equinox 800
Minelab Equinox 900
Minelab Vanquish 560
Minelab SDC-2300
Minelab GPX-6000
Minelab GPZ-7000
Minelab GPZ-8000
Minelab Gold Monster 1000
Minelab Gold Monster 2000

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20 Comments

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@vandamned6979 3 years ago

Your communication is first class so clear and relevant. Thank you.

@Jim-sh1zs 3 months ago

Watch all the detecting videos I find. Yours is the only one that allows hearing the detector as if you had the headphones on. That is so valuable. It’s akin to using a flight simulator.

@lonegoldminer 3 months ago

Really enjoy your videos, you take the time to teach, helping us reduce our learning curve on these higher end machines. Appreciate all you time ans effort Mark.

@goldsmith001 3 years ago

Mark, you sure know how to put out a quality, fun, and informative video. I suspect your subscriber numbers will rapidly
increase. I hope you will elaborate on the iron falsing in other videos to come. I'd like to see you ''call it'' when you come to a possible falsing target, and see how close to 100% you can come. Thanks for the very good video!

@GARE0HIO 3 years ago

I would like to thank you for making these videos. You speak clearly AND THE VIDEOS sure look good as well as informative thanks

@diggumdetecting3369 3 years ago (edited)

Thank you for the tip about the delayed audio! I just got to use my new manticore last weekend, and I'm trying to figure it out. Since these don't have target sizing, a quick trick for aluminum cans is just raising your coil 6 to 10 inches above the target and if it's still making a loud tone, it's going to be a can.

And thank you for covering up your holes. It drives me crazy when I get out into the hills around here and see holes all over the place.

If you're ever around the 80 corridor, maybe I'll see you around.

@Mike_Whittemore_1980 3 years ago

just got my Manticore. getting used to it and you have defiantly helped in this video. I'm now a subscriber. thank you

@TheMotodro4er 3 years ago

I am from Russia and we didn’t get this Manticore in any stores yet, no even one real ground test from our guys… I have an Equinox 800 and thinking about the upgrade, but I can’t realise is this machine worth the price of 2000$ 🤔 I like your videos, thank you, merry Christmas bro and keep going! 💪🏼

@makeitwork2650 3 years ago (edited)

I had the CTX 3030. and I agree with the delay you really have to watch your spot. I liked when you mark the spot and if it don’t hear the sound exactly in the same spot every time you know it probably iron.

@finders-keepers1518 3 years ago

I just can't believe the initial "testers" didn't relay this to Minelab pre launch.

@timothyfischer9318 1 year ago

long time E-trac driver... I mentioned the lag tone on nails and other rusty metal years ago to other MDer's.. I was told I'm crazy.. I'm glad you made this video... I am eyeing up a Manticore...

@aliensr13 3 years ago

best Wantacore video so far! keep em coming....

@leonardjackman354 3 years ago

Clearly see what you showing about the delay thank you for your video. Thinking about buying the manticore in the uk Len

@normanadams5739 1 year ago

The nautilus DMC2b has a technique to hear/determine iron versus non-Ferrous. You hear two channels, one in each ear, one iron and one discrimination. If you hear iron first as you sweep a target before the non ferrous channel then it’s usually iron but if hear almost simultaneously then usually a good target. The nautilus is an analog detector. It makes sense to mean that your perspective is absolutely correct.

@jameswarner6899 3 years ago

The best video I have seen on one so far Merry Christmas and happy new year

@LeeRalph100 3 years ago (edited)

I just picked my Manticore up today, I stepped up from a Whites MXT and Minelab x-terra 705. I I only had a chance to go out in the yard with it. My first two targets sounded good and had decent VDi...both ended up being nails. Kind of bugged me. Thanks for the nails tips.

@phillipswain4942 1 year ago

Love to know how to block out all the can slaw on the beach...

@tylerewing2049 4 months ago

I saw this on CBS this morning.... while sitting home in frozen iowa....unable to detect here....

@LorenLemcke 3 years ago (edited)

Fun fact, it's not a delay you are experiencing with iron, rather since the magnetic field lines of the EM field like to curl outwards from the centerline of the DD coil, the iron nail produces it's peak conductive response when the field lines run parallel to the length of the nail, and when running vertical it produces it's peak magnetic response. So it literally hits strongest slightly off center, just as you are observing. Same effect can happen with a vertically oriented coin.