Today was just another ho-hum day with the AT. An average day with this detector is getting common place. I went to the EXACT same small area where I have found 15 Indian head pennies and three Barber dimes. The second time I hunted this spot I used an Explorer 11 and found some silver, but no Indians. Today I got to see just how deep this detector will go. Most of the coins I find here are masked by iron, but my first signal today was a clean, crisp, repeatable signal that was moderately faint. It read 73 from one angle and 69 when checked at 90 degrees. I have been over this spot with many detectors and in the past I have purposely not dug zinc signals like this one. I was thinking I had a 4 inch deep rotted zinc, but the depth gauge was pegged on this one so I dug. Well I dug and dug some more before I finally picked it up with my Pro Pointer. It was a 1902 Indian that was as deep as the Pro Pointer is long. 10 inches! I did not knock this coin loose and have it fall to the bottom of the hole as the ground was wet clay and I saw the coin stuck in the bottom at 10 inches. I don't think this was a coin I chose not to dig in the past, but it was a coin that most detectors could not see. The second Indian was as deep and it did not give any VDI number, but a real faint, repeatable tick. I checked it in iron audio and there was iron in the mix. I had a feeling it was a coin and it turned out to be a very deep Indian(188?). The groundskeepers started mowing in the area, so I decided to quit. I hunted my way back to the car and got a loud, blasting signal that when I really slowed my sweep up, got a mid 70's number. The first thing I found was a large piece of slaw at about 2 inches. The second was a piece of rusty wire. The third thing which was a couple of inches below the rusty iron was a silver war nickle. This is some kind of detector. By the way, I cut the cord and spliced in a female plug and cord extension. Today I used my Killer B's and they sounded great hooked up to the AT. R.L.
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An Example Of AT Pro's Depth
- Thread starter RLOH
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jimmyjiver
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[size=medium]Hi, I hear ya on the depth of the AT Pro..
..I personally have not dug an indian with the AT Pro that deep yet.
...What was you running for your settings? I did dig a silver quarter today at a verified 7" it layed on bottom left hand side of the hole undisturbed..
..So I took my digger and measured it.. The really good thing about it was the AT Pro hit it hard with power to spare..
..I was impressed....Thanks for sharing....JJ[/size]
..I personally have not dug an indian with the AT Pro that deep yet....What was you running for your settings? I did dig a silver quarter today at a verified 7" it layed on bottom left hand side of the hole undisturbed....So I took my digger and measured it.. The really good thing about it was the AT Pro hit it hard with power to spare....I was impressed....Thanks for sharing....JJ[/size]
I'm still new to detecting but many of my hits are registering at +10" I really need to get a pin pointer. I'm almost embarrassed at the sizes of some of the holes I'm digging. I had one yesterday that must have been the size of a 5-gallon pail. While I was in there, I ordered some chinese take out!
JJ, my settings were iron disc 30, pro mode-zero setting, sens one bar from max, and iron audio off(I check just about all good signals with it on). This hunt I the ground balanced at 86 which is one of my lowest spots. This is a very easy detector to use. I seem to do one bad thing with the AT. When I check a signal with iron audio on, I sometimes hit the mode button by mistake. If you are in pro mode-zero setting, if you hit the mode button once, it puts the detector in standard mode. I have done this four or five times and I don't realize it until I hear the "bell tone". It is my opinion that if you want to get the max out of this detector you have to learn the Pro mode-zero setting. It is noisy and busy, but it will find coins deep and in trash.Many of the successful Explorer users run an iron mask screen which I think is very similar to these settings on the AT Pro. Good luck. R.L.
Caretaker me
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I have had similar experiences