AT GOLD >>>>>>>DEEP

[M_d_in_guy]

I've read a lot of threads this past few days. I have an ATG, for the most part I water hunt, fresh water hunt the beaches in lakes and rivers. I run mine on all metal, gb low teens, iron audio on, disc in mid to high 20's, threshold 8-10. The deepest dig for a ring was just over 12 inches in about 4-1/2 ft of water. The tone I get when it's a deep object is a light roll high pitch with no vdi. I always dig those tones that ride on the threshold and close to every time it's jewelry or an old coin. A few times it's been a .22 long or short shell. I pulled out a lot of gold and silver that was deep last summer and perhaps missed by others that had been there. Wanted to share my settings and luck I have with this amazing detector. I'd trade it for nothing. Cheers everyone and hh.

Jon

 

[mudpuppy]

Hey! Welcome! Good post! Amazing machines huh? I've been hunting with iron audio off, fresh water hunt, all that chatter gave me a headache, so I'm running Pro zero disc 40 and still hitting rings and chains to be danged...I need more time on it though, but it seems once I find a setting I like, I don't ever change it. Got any pics you can post of your rings?
Mud

 

[fongu]

On my At/Pro the 22 casings hit about 44-45 and the unfired 22 bullets 46-49 and sometimes they have a good tone, but they aggravate the heck out of me. Does anybody besides me have a problem recovering a target at 4.5 feet with their scoop. Between the wake from the boats zipping back and forth and the bouyancy, it's really difficult sometimes. I agree with Mud, post some photos when you get a chance. Thanks for sharing and HH.

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Hi Mud, ty for the welcome, I hear you about the headache running full bore lol. I run full sens too while out. I do have some pics I can upload, today or tomorrow sometime. I'm heading out on a hunt tomorrow, finished my new scoop today, I'll post pics of it. It cost about 12 dollars to make.

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Hi fongu, yeah.......me lol. They are acrobats and always jump through the holes and then find them again and loose em. I keep at it tho with them casings cause you just never know.

 

[M_d_in_guy]

If these pics aren't to clear I'll upload off my camera tomorrow. In the winter I cleared out my broken gold so the stash is pretty low right now lol.

 

[fongu]

Those are some nice finds. How does that scoop work for you?

 

[M_d_in_guy]

I'll find out tomorrow, Kingston was totally out of stock, my scoop died on me sunday while I was out. I'm thinkin it should work good the angles are there for leveridge and I put flotation near the top. It's a prototype at this point, so crossing my fingers. Ty on the finds fongu.

 

[William-NM]

That's an impressive pile of loot!! Very creative scoop, too! So, it sounds like you feel that all-metal mode got you some targets that you would have missed otherwise? Interesting - keep those finds comin' !!

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Hi William, yeah I'm certain of it, i found on some hits there was some iron audio that had in the mix the roll. I seemed to me it was corrosion on the target causing the audio and low vdi. Turned out some of those hits were our canadian clad lol. I'll have to fine tune the scoop I'm sure, with some graduated holes.

 

[pax]

I thought you had to turn the threshold down to a minimum to hear the faint changes in threshold or faint signal?

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Hi Pax, all I know is that running mine around those settings works, I do fine tune the settings when I'm in the water of course, depending on what lake or river I'm working, where I do most of the detecting is in the canadian shield, rideau lakes area.

 

[pax]

So do you use those same settings on land? I mean do you run your threshold the same?

 

[M_d_in_guy]

Hi Pax, I was out today and in the water, my gb would not work on low setting in this lake, it would constantly sound off tone of a potential dig lol, so it seems the sand and pebble have alot to say in different waters. On land I usually go by auto gb and a high threshold 4-7 ish. I really like using the threshold to help locate potential digs.

I tried the new scoop today, it worked real good, 2 junk rings, 5- 22 casings, a back of an earring, a 1974 dime, a little sterling heart pendant with a gemstone in it, a single earring with what looks like a nice diamond, 7 bobby pins, two backs off lapel pins of sorts. I was out about 2 hours. Overall these small items would have to be re dug as they fall out of the holes in the manufactured scoops. I may drill them a bit bigger. I want to do a 5 inch abs scoop now, it'll get more done in less time. Cheers everyone.

 

[pax]

Thanks for the info M D in guy, happy hunting to you .