AT Gold Using The 5" x 8" Coil Got Some Nice Finds Yesterday:bouncy:

[John-Edmonton]

The Garrett guys headed out for a great fall hunt in the woods. The bright colors of the leaves are just spectacular! I was going to mention no bugs, but my buddy stepped on a hornet's nest and got stung a couple times....one below his eye. Luckily, he wall all right and just kept on hunting.

Here's my portion of the finds. That 5" x 8" coil is very sensitive to very tiny targets. It was easily getting coin sized targets in the 5-6"+ range.

I know that the AT Gold was designed with gold hunting in mind, especially small nuggets, but it also seems to be hot on silver also. I have found several silver targets since I have been using the AT Gold. It shares the same VDI numbers in my soil for various targets compared with the AT Pro. The separation of targets is awesome using that small 5" x 8" DD Coil. here are some silver coins I got. That 1922 nickel was a nice find. And go figure, I was just about to put my 3 silver coins into my ultrasonic cleaner, when they fell out of the small cup they were in, hit the floor and scrambled. I managed to retrieve two of them.

I got a very loud audio on this old vintage ladies rouge container. I managed to find out that it was from the 1950's. And what a surprise.....a toe ring in the woods.

Here are some interesting shell casings I dug up. The large one was buried at about 5 inches in the dirt near a root. I have to research it a little further. I am wondering if perhaps it was dropped from an aircraft, as we have an airport in the center of Edmonton which has been there for a very long time.

A nice Chevrolet car logo was out in the woods....it was kind of bent when I found it. I have no idea on it's date.......

Below are the finds from my buddy using his GTI 1500. he got a very nice old 1922 car licence plate and two silver dimes in the same hole.

A great day it was.......

 

[quarterhorse]

L@@k under the Frigidare......

Your brass stamped R A 43 is a military round made by Remington Arms in 1943. WW11 was in full swing, and by the length of the brass it appears to the OLD 1/4 hoss to be a 50 Caliber Browning.......I've found bushel baskets of that brass south of the Beaver Rim in Wyoming where somebody was doing a little target practice out of an airplane/jet. Probably at antelope

The 32-40 brass was an old blackpowder round that survived the intro of modern smokeless powder. The 32 stands for the claiber in inches and the 40 was the original black powder load in grains. Winchester pretty much dropped making a gun for it by the early 1940's.

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[John-Edmonton]

n/t

 

[1ringedingy]

OK, John... Where are the Gold Nuggets? Grin! It looks like the AT Gold does just what the AT Pro Did. Overall, how are you rating this detector so far?

 

[John-Edmonton]

Unfortunately, I don't have any nuggets in the river flowing through Edmonton, only flour gold. To get the most producing gold areas, you set your detector to run unstable and pick out the higher mineralized areas, which should also hold the highest concentration of flour gold.

Having said that, it does seem to hunt coins and jewellery well, just like the AT Pro. However, when hunting for those tiny gold nuggets, one wants a detector which can be very sensitive to tiny conductive bits of gold. That's where the AT Gold has the advantage over the AT Pro. It has a true all metal mode like the Garrett Gold Stinger Scorpion, has an adjustable threshold so you can hear a change in the ground, not necessarily a beep, but a change in audio indicating something either or Small & deep in the matrix below the coil. This should be further investigated, as it could be a gold nugget or something else. Now often times hunting in gold country, there are plenty of minerals in the area. Instead of re-ground balancing the unit frequently to compensate for that, the AT Gold allows you to set a range of ground conditions, which the AT Gold should run stable in. A very brilliant option.

I plan on going after some flour gold tomorrow after work tomorrow and see how the heavy mineralized areas give up the gold.

Below is about 1 1/2 ounces of flour gold I have collected, sometimes in downtown Edmonton, from the North Saskatchewan river.

 

[1ringedingy]

Man, that stuff is really fine compared to what I used to get in Georgia and South Carolina. I have my eye on an area in here Maryland that I want to prospect soon but given the time of year I will probably have to wait until the spring. All the pieces are there Quarts outcrops on a hill and a nice gravel bar in the river below.

Ray