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1250 to 2500 question(s)... (long)

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...for the past 4 years, I've been running a Garrett 1250 and finally broke down this week and took advantage of the extended 2500 pro package Christmas special. Yippee!
Anyway, I've been out in the snow looking for patches of unfrozen ground and playing and got a few questions for the 2500 old pros on the forum...
With the 1250, I basically shut off all the features and run in "zero mode", often with the 12.5" coil. In the past, I have found several pockets that yielded a number of old coins all in the same small area. The first one or two coins in such a pocket id correctly and catch your attention. Then I hunker down and ignore the ID's and go more by the tight staccato "blip" and tight pinpoint of the targets. I have dug a number of very deep coins this way that ID'ed as a 5
 
Thats great Steve! You have some valid points there, I've been using the 2500 a little over a year, but unfortunetly can't answer your question, my machine gives same results you are seeing(I've already peeled off label lol)I would also be interested in finding out about the lack of information before pinpoint! Congratulations on the NEW machine, lets get out there! HH
 
Hi,
I run a 1500 performs very similar to the 2500
My experience (well over 300 hours on this ) shows me that the whole point of the pinpointing mode is to find the object, depth, and probable size, this is does for me very well saving a lot of digging
I run in all metal mode zero discrimination
this gives a slightly better depth, when i find an object that sound's right, i goto discrim
check again, if it still sounds good then i pinpoint to check everything else out, if it falls into what i think is ok I dig, if not I don't
Ok might miss a odd thing or to but in my case as I have severe back problems it saves a lot of digging
and I get some great relics and coins
But surely this is what the imageing is about
Find an object, then check it out with what the detector offers, this seems to apply to all detectors except that the 2500 and 1500 can give the size!! this really is a most important thing for me
just my comments and thoughts.
So keep the 2500 and spend at least 100 hours before you compare with anything else
then you will be surprised at the results
Mike
 
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