Hilux's finds

Flash Jack said:

Yes, it could be a collar stud!

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Cool, I'll do some searching and see what i can find.

A little button today.

I think its a WW2 airforce uniform button. 12.4mm diameter / 1/2 inch

Here it is: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/303809749011

That one is brass. there were also bakelite ones https://www.militaria-sales.com.au/...tralian-air-force-small-bakelite-world-war-2/

Skiffed said:

That one is brass. there were also bakelite ones

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Yep that's the one.

Mine has 2 diametrically opposed holes in the rear (from manufacturing). I guess they were made in many different locations.

Thoughts on what this is?

Found adjacent an early 1900s mental hospital.

I'm thinking a screw cap to a hot water bottle or canvas water bag.

It's non ferrous. So brass or some alloy.

Third trip out with the news Manticore.

I went to a riverside beach that I've been to a at least 6 times and usually find one coin per trip.

I found 11 coins, nothing too exciting.

A 1927 penny and some spendables. All reasonably deep and have been there a long time.

Hilux said:

Third trip out with the news Manticore.
I went to a riverside beach that I've been to a at least 6 times and usually find one coin per trip.
I found 11 coins, nothing too exciting.
A 1927 penny and some spendables. All reasonably deep and have been there a long time.

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We hear very little about the Manticore, so any field report is interesting, but 11 coins vs a 1 coin established benchmark is pretty exceptional! Are you starting to feel a bit excited about the possibilities the new machine offers?

grubstake said:

Are you starting to feel a bit excited about the possibilities the new machine offers?

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I'm slowly coming around. Its a lot different to the Vanquish 540 that I have used for the last 2 years. I have to retrain my brain with the new VDI numbers.

Also having 2 1/2 times the VDI range as the Vanquish the numbers tend to be a bit more jumpy.

I think another 10 hours or so on it and I'll be more comfortable with it.

It does seem to go 50% deeper than the Vanquish does. This is great in soft sand but can be harder when there's a heap of crushed limestone and rocks in the soil.

I have a few gripes with it.

1) Minelab decided to nobble the low latency Bluetooth to only work with their headphones. I never use over ear headphones as I like to be aware of my surroundings. To get it to work with my low latency BT headset I need to plug a LL BT transmitter into the 3.5mm headphone jack. In this configuration it also isn't waterproof. Its all so unnecessary. I don't know what they thought they were going to achieve.

2) It doesn't have the capability to save any custom programs. They promote how flexible it is and then don't allow any way to save the set ups. Again I have no idea what they were thinking - their firmware developer could add this facility in a couple of hours - easy!

3) I paid $2500 for the detector kit and they don't even give you a cheap carry bag!

Overall I'm happy with the machine, it just could have been better if ML had thought a bit more.

I'm looking forward to taking it to some less junky sites, maybe out in the bush and seeing what I can find.

I might sell my Vanquish and use the funds to buy a smaller coil for it.