Description
You know the sites worth working are never the easy ones. The best colonial homesite on your permission is choked in waist-high crop stubble. The Civil War camp is a carpet of square nails, dropped lead, and barn-fall iron. The old farmstead is a maze of brush, fence wire, and root balls where the silver hides a hand's width from a rusty horseshoe. Swing a big standard loop into that ground and you fight it the whole way: it is too wide to navigate the narrow gaps, and worse, it gets completely blinded. Multiple targets pass under the loop at once, smearing together, causing your deep keeper to vanish behind the trash. One search coil cannot dominate every kind of ground, and you know it.
The Minelab Manticore Ultimate Field Bundle is built to end that compromise completely. This is total site dominance in a single package: a complete, switch-on-the-fly multi-coil arsenal that lets you open up wide ground for maximum depth, then drop down to a compact search coil that excels in heavy iron and stubble, all supported by a rapid target recovery pinpointer and carried comfortably in a custom tactical transport backpack. As official Minelab Bundle #3228-1008, this promotional configuration saves you a massive $198.00 savings instantly over buying these elite tools separately, with your full manufacturer warranty protection active from day one.
The Ultimate Multi-Coil Arsenal for Severe Ground
Professional relic hunters and site-clearing experts do not think in terms of a single detector setup; they think in terms of deployments. Wide-open agricultural fields and open pasture demand a larger search coil's ground coverage and raw depth performance. Tight, iron-saturated camps and brush-choked homesites demand a compact search coil that separates closely spaced targets and maneuvers into tight gaps a big loop cannot physically reach. This bundle hands you both engines right out of the box, backed by the unmasking power of Multi-IQ+ simultaneous multi-frequency, so you adapt the machine to the dirt instead of leaving good targets in the ground.
Unleash the Power of Multi-IQ+ Technology
Every detectorist cross-shopping at this tier asks the same question: where does the depth actually come from? The honest answer is found in the transmit electronics. The Manticore runs Minelab's flagship Multi-IQ+ simultaneous multi-frequency engine, and it drives up to 50% more power to the search coil than a standard multi-frequency machine like the Equinox series.
Here is why that figure is real and not marketing fluff. Power to the coil is a function of the transmit signal that the electronics can push through the copper windings. The Manticore was built on an all-new, higher-output electronic platform with a faster, more capable processor, allowing it to energize the full spectrum of simultaneous frequencies (5, 10, 15, 20, and 40 kHz transmitted all at once, not sequentially) with significantly more transmit current than the previous generation could safely sustain. More transmit power generates a stronger eddy current in a buried target, which means a louder, cleaner return signal coming back up to the control box. But raw power alone just amplifies the ground noise floor too, so the second half of the equation is the receive side. That same upgraded processor performs far more sophisticated real-time analysis of the returning signal across all frequencies simultaneously, pulling faint high-conductor responses out of mineralized, iron-laden ground that would have completely swamped a lower-powered engine. Stronger transmit, smarter receive; that is the 50% technical advantage, and you notice it the second you sweep over deep targets.
Redefining Target Identification: The 2D Map & Target Trace
Legacy detectors collapse every buried object onto a single one-dimensional number line, creating a flat Target ID from ferrous to high-conductor. The problem is obvious to anyone who has hunted iron: a deep silver coin and a nasty piece of trash can land on the exact same number, and you will never know which is which until you are on your knees shifting dirt.
The Manticore tears up that limitation with its Two-Dimensional Target ID Map. Instead of one axis, targets are plotted across two: conductivity on one axis (0–99, with 100 conductive segments) and ferrous content on the other (50 ferrous segments). A bottle cap and a deep, large cent no longer share a hiding spot; they separate visually into completely different territories on the display map. Layered on top is Target Trace, which renders the consistency and probability of a hit as a live, heat-style cloud on the color display. When a good target is physically touching iron in the same hole, the 2D map splits the trace and visually unmasks good metal sitting directly against iron before you ever break ground. Your eyes confirm what your ears are hearing.
Advanced Iron Bias & Fast Recovery Speed
Depth is worthless if you cannot reject the iron. The Manticore's advanced iron bias gives you granular control over how aggressively the detector discounts the ferrous "wrap-around" falsing that plagues old battlefields, homesites, and trashy fields. This allows you to tune out flat iron and large rusted relics that try to masquerade as good high-conductors, without sacrificing the faint deep targets you came to find.
Pair that with the Manticore's genuinely fast recovery speed and the machine comes alive in dense trash. Recovery speed is how quickly the detector resets and processes between one target and the next. A slow machine smears two close targets into one muddy response, causing the good coin to hide behind an iron nail. The Manticore's processing headroom lets it recover almost instantly between hits, so a keeper sitting inches from iron still rings clean and distinct. Mount the compact M9 search coil, and that separation gets sharper still; fast recovery speed and a smaller footprint working together is exactly how you pull good metal out of a nail bed.
The Minelab M9 Search Coil: The Perfect Balance of Depth and Separation
The M9 search coil is the tactical sweet spot of this kit. It is a round 9-inch (23 cm) Double-D configuration and stands as the lightest coil in the entire Manticore range, weighing just 12.7 ounces (362 grams) with its protective skidplate fitted. Experienced detectorists know that search coil selection is always a game of trade-offs: massive loops give you raw depth but get swamped in iron trash, while specialized smaller footprints like the M8 separate beautifully but force you to give up serious depth across the site. The M9 stands as the perfect compromise between those two extremes, delivering the ultimate functional balance on difficult ground:
- The Golden Middle of Depth and Separation: Instead of dropping massive deep-seeking horsepower like a tighter M8 coil, the 9-inch (23 cm) round footprint shrinks the detection window just enough to isolate good non-ferrous targets from surrounding iron trash halos while still maintaining excellent, competitive depth across the site.
- Noticeable Weight Reduction: Shaving significant physical mass compared to the standard M11 search coil, the M9 delivers an incredibly balanced, nose-light swing. This weight drop lets you hunt brutal ground from sunup to sundown without the arm and shoulder fatigue that slows down your sweep speed.
- Maneuverability in Brutal Environments: The tighter, compact round profile provides exceptional maneuverability, allowing you to sweep flat against the surface between heavy crop stubble, tight tree root ball networks, rocks, and old fence lines, where the larger M11 loop simply gets caught up and blocked.
- Surgical Iron Masking Defeat: Working in total harmony with the Manticore's fast recovery speed, the M9 illuminates fewer targets at once, ensuring that deep coins or historical relics touching rusted square nails ring through as clean, distinct, and repeatable signals.
Dual-Engine Recovery: Pro-Find 40 & Official Backpack
Locating a deep target is only half the job; extracting it fast is what separates a productive day from a frustrating one. The included Pro-Find 40 pinpointer is Minelab's deepest and most accurate pinpointer, delivering up to 10% more depth than previous generations so you can locate the target inside the plug before you ever break up the soil. Its Ferrous Tone ID gives you distinct audio for non-ferrous versus junk iron right in the sidewall, and its rugged sealed chassis is fully submersible to 10 feet (3 meters) for recovery in mud, riverbeds, and surf, featuring a high-visibility red housing and a built-in lost-alarm so it never gets left behind at a hole.
The official Minelab backpack ties the system together perfectly. It is engineered around the Manticore's exact geometry, featuring a dedicated collapsible detector compartment that cradles the carbon-fiber shaft and control pod, separate padded sleeves that keep the M9 and standard search coil from grinding against each other or your high-resolution screen, and heavy-duty water-resistant fabric built to shrug off downpours, mud, and dense brush on the long walk into a remote site.
What Comes in the Box (Minelab Bundle #3228-1008 Checklist)
The complete, official promotional bundle configuration with fixed components as regulated by Minelab:
- Minelab Manticore Control Pod & Shaft Assembly: The full flagship detector
- M11 11-inch (28 cm) Double-D Standard Search Coil: Waterproof with fitted factory skidplate
- M9 9-inch (23 cm) Double-D Search Coil: The lightest coil in the Manticore range, waterproof with fitted factory skidplate
- Minelab Pro-Find 40 Pinpointer: Includes protective belt holster and safety lanyard
- Official Premium Minelab Tactical Backpack: Factory-engineered transport system
- ML105 Low-Latency Wireless Headphones: Complete with protective factory carry case
- Magnetic Charging & Data Cable and 3.5 mm (1/8 inch) Wired Audio Cable
- 5-Pack of Clear LCD Screen Protectors: Keep your display field-fresh
- 3-Year Manufacturer Factory Warranty: Active on the Manticore control box and both search coils
Technical Specifications
Manticore Detector
- Detection Engine: Multi-IQ+ high-power simultaneous multi-frequency (5, 10, 15, 20, 40 kHz + Multi-IQ+)
- Target ID: Two-Dimensional Target ID Map — 100 conductive segments & 50 ferrous segments, with Target Trace
- Search Modes: 10 customizable search modes (All Metal, All Terrain, Beach, Goldfield) plus a custom user profile
- Iron Control: Advanced iron bias with adjustable ferrous rejection limits
- Weight: 2.9 lbs (1.3 kg) structured on a rigid, highly collapsible carbon-fiber chassis
- Length: Fully extended 56.7 in (144 cm) / Collapsed transport length 24.8 in (63 cm)
- Waterproof Rating: Fully submersible, waterproof to 16 feet (5 meters), IP68 rated
- Battery Specs: Up to 9–10 hours of continuous field use; approximately 7-hour charge time via low-profile magnetic USB
- Warranty: 3-year manufacturer's factory warranty (control pod and search coils)
Search Coils
- Standard Search Coil: M11 round 11-inch (28 cm) Double-D: High-performance all-rounder, waterproof to 16 feet (5 meters)
- M9 Search Coil: Round 9-inch (23 cm) Double-D: Lightest Manticore coil at 0.8 lbs (12.7 oz / 362 g) with skidplate, waterproof to 16 feet (5 meters)
Pro-Find 40 Pinpointer
- Up to 10% more depth than previous generations, standing as Minelab's deepest pinpointer
- Ferrous Tone ID, 5 adjustable sensitivity levels, handle vibration, and built-in LED flashlight
- Waterproof to 10 feet (3 meters); features a high-visibility red housing with built-in lost-alarm
- Includes belt holster and safety lanyard; up to 20 hours runtime on a single 9V battery
Where the Manticore Ultimate Field Bundle Excels
This is the ultimate rig for the hardest dirt in the hobby. On iron-saturated Civil War battlefields and historic camps, the multi-coil arsenal lets you sweep wide for raw depth, then drop down to the compact M9 to surgically separate good targets from a dense carpet of nails and scattered lead. On historic homesites, old orchards, and agricultural fields choked in brush, fence wire, and heavy crop stubble, the compact 9-inch (23 cm) M9 maneuvers smoothly through tight gaps that a large loop cannot touch, giving you full multi-coil flexibility, fast target recovery speed, and maximum field efficiency working in concert. Locate it, unmask it, recover it with the Pro-Find 40, and move on.
Frequently Asked Questions
When should I switch from the standard search coil to the smaller M9 coil?
Match your choice of search coil directly to the ground conditions. Run the larger standard M11 coil on wide-open, relatively clean sites, including pastures, large agricultural fields, and open beaches, where ground coverage and maximum depth on a clean target matter most. Switch to the compact M9 the exact moment the iron gets thick or the site gets physically tight: dense nail beds at camps and homesites, ground littered with modern trash, or cramped spots between rocks, tree roots, fence lines, and heavy stubble. The M9's smaller footprint sees fewer targets at once, so it separates a good signal from the surrounding junk far better and pinpoints small targets precisely, with no meaningful loss of depth on coin-sized objects.
Are both search coils included in this bundle fully waterproof?
Yes, both are fully submersible to the same depth as the detector itself, meaning they are completely waterproof to 16 feet (5 meters). The M11 standard search coil and the M9 search coil are factory-sealed waterproof units equipped with protective skidplates, and the Manticore control pod carries an industrial IP68 rating to 16 feet (5 meters). You can work confidently in heavy surf, rushing rivers, thick mud, and pouring rain, no matter which search coil is mounted to your shaft. (Note that the Pro-Find 40 pinpointer carries its own separate waterproof rating of 10 feet / 3 meters.)
Are these bundle components fixed, and do they ship under a single part number?
Yes. This is an official, factory-sanctioned 2026 Minelab Bundle Program configuration. The detector, both search coils, the Pro-Find 40 pinpointer, and the tactical backpack are packed and shipped together from the distributor under a single manufacturer SKU (#3228-1008). These bundle components are fixed and cannot be substituted as regulated by Minelab, with your full factory consumer warranties active from day one.
Looking for a different official Minelab configuration? Explore the factory-approved 2026 Value Bundles:
• View the standard Minelab Manticore Base Kit
• View the Manticore Value Bundle + Backpack ($49 Savings)
• View the Manticore Value Bundle + Backpack & M9 Search Coil ($149 Savings)
• View the Manticore Pro Pack + Backpack & Pro-Find 40 ($98 Savings)
• View the Manticore Ultimate Field Bundle + Backpack, Pro-Find 40 & M9 Search Coil ($198 Savings)
History Seekers Metal Detectors is an Authorized Minelab Dealer. This is an official factory promotional bundle.