Low-Boy/LCPM
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Well got hold of a new... from the company At pro..the dealers are taking the money and the company is sending out the detectors. Have had the machine for about a week maybe thirty hours at an area that is both relcis from the 1890s and a park from the 1930s. I know the area like the back of my hand. The At pro is too heavy for me..maybe the chemo treatments have worn me down but my arm hurt from day one and then my back. Before I got the At I watched every video I could get my eyes and ears on. And there are a lot...and a lot of good ones. I had a really good understanding of the machine before I went out, and read every forum on the machine I could find.
The machine seems slow compaired to the G2 the LTD and the T2 and Omega. I was in the pro mode zero and an iron of about 30. Ground bal in my dirt at 80 and ran the machine with full sens then cut back a bar.
The machine seems to give so much info that you wonder if you are digging a good target or a ghost target. You have to slow down (really slow down) and really take a couple of minutes to check the target out, hit the iron audio to see if you hear a low high low sound (that seemed to work but took more time). Now I know relic hunters will say the more tools you have to find masked targets the better but that is like getting a V3 and spending a good part of the day programing it for each hunt.
I hunted and hunted and did dig targets and the sound is very cool like a Moog synth from the 70s. I have in one of the areas a lot of pipes that will go on for about ten feet and on the G2 you simply know when you are in the area. The AT is different and slower, I was not sure what I had hit even no I really did but I pretended to feel what it would be like if I didn't know.
So the relic hunting is on its third day and I am not a happy camper. I have wasted a lot of time on wanting or not wanting to dig iron. On the G2 I pulled out two horse shoes one claw axe and an old pocket knife in this area that were masked by nails and the G2 was telling me to dig, the tone was loud and hard. On the G2 the big iron hits in the 70s and I find more axes and old tools then I know what to do with. On the At I was not sure what I had and then when I dug it I would say "I would not have dug that if it were not for a new machine".
But the G2 wham, bam. It is not that I know the G2 better but the G2 is designed more for relic hunting. The At pro should have relic icons not coin icons. The G2 has no icons but if you hunt with a machine that runs on the higher freq all targets are moved up on the VDI scale.
On masked targets the G2 is a no brainer you get more of a zippy tone and on super deep targets you may get a VDI but the tone may be a grunt so I go for the VDI. The G2 is soooo fast. Now I know Tom has a way different way of testing then I do and he likes a lot of info. But for me sometimes simple but effective is what makes and keeps me interested.
I moved to the park with the At and managed to find a 1964 dime it was not the sound but the VDI that made me dig it. The targets were far and few and this park has been cleaned by me and a few friends over the past years. Did get a wheat also and they were at about 8 inches. You have to use the head phones on the At to hear the sounds, the speaker is not that good! The next day went to the park again and took the G2 it had rained that morning a little and the ground has been perfect all week. I had not used the G2 for a week and wondered if I could hit any targets.
Bam first target on the G2 a zippy high 80 VDI at about 8.5 inches and out comes a silver 1963 dime. Then another hit and hard in the mid 80 and a wheat and at about 8 inches and then another wheat just as deep. The deeper the target the more zip you get. But I knew the sound and I didn't have to slow down or try and think about the sound..one tone on the G2 split it and you can dig the grunt if you like the lower VDI. The next target was a zip tone that bounced it grunted also on the lower VDI but the info the sounds were jet fast. I dig about nine inches and see a thin looking coin. It turns out to be play money from 1954. A thin small coin maybe a tad smaller then a dime but thinner. Then I see a little red dirt and see a small rusted nail.
Next target is reading in the mid 50..thinking it must be a nickle I dig it to find a broken long mens chain...Now the G2 is on fire and I went over the same area with the AT. The G2 seemed to be more alive and like a hound dog ready to hunt and hunt all day. My arm started to feel better and my back felt way better. Now for what you get for the price on the At, a water and land, relic and parks detector....that is a lot of bang for the buck...The G2 was selling as a gold machine and then it turned out to be the sleeper of relic hunters.
So not my cup of tea and I feel I gave it a fair shoot. I had the F75 and the LTD from the very start and learned them found a lot of great history then got the G2 and sold the LTD and kept the 8000. So there you have it I will have to sell the At I don't want to put down the G2 again till TEK or FISHER come out with the next new machine...By the way the At sounds just like the videos there is nothing wrong with the machine you can twist it scrub it swing and it won't make a sound.
LowBoY
The machine seems slow compaired to the G2 the LTD and the T2 and Omega. I was in the pro mode zero and an iron of about 30. Ground bal in my dirt at 80 and ran the machine with full sens then cut back a bar.
The machine seems to give so much info that you wonder if you are digging a good target or a ghost target. You have to slow down (really slow down) and really take a couple of minutes to check the target out, hit the iron audio to see if you hear a low high low sound (that seemed to work but took more time). Now I know relic hunters will say the more tools you have to find masked targets the better but that is like getting a V3 and spending a good part of the day programing it for each hunt.
I hunted and hunted and did dig targets and the sound is very cool like a Moog synth from the 70s. I have in one of the areas a lot of pipes that will go on for about ten feet and on the G2 you simply know when you are in the area. The AT is different and slower, I was not sure what I had hit even no I really did but I pretended to feel what it would be like if I didn't know.
So the relic hunting is on its third day and I am not a happy camper. I have wasted a lot of time on wanting or not wanting to dig iron. On the G2 I pulled out two horse shoes one claw axe and an old pocket knife in this area that were masked by nails and the G2 was telling me to dig, the tone was loud and hard. On the G2 the big iron hits in the 70s and I find more axes and old tools then I know what to do with. On the At I was not sure what I had and then when I dug it I would say "I would not have dug that if it were not for a new machine".
But the G2 wham, bam. It is not that I know the G2 better but the G2 is designed more for relic hunting. The At pro should have relic icons not coin icons. The G2 has no icons but if you hunt with a machine that runs on the higher freq all targets are moved up on the VDI scale.
On masked targets the G2 is a no brainer you get more of a zippy tone and on super deep targets you may get a VDI but the tone may be a grunt so I go for the VDI. The G2 is soooo fast. Now I know Tom has a way different way of testing then I do and he likes a lot of info. But for me sometimes simple but effective is what makes and keeps me interested.
I moved to the park with the At and managed to find a 1964 dime it was not the sound but the VDI that made me dig it. The targets were far and few and this park has been cleaned by me and a few friends over the past years. Did get a wheat also and they were at about 8 inches. You have to use the head phones on the At to hear the sounds, the speaker is not that good! The next day went to the park again and took the G2 it had rained that morning a little and the ground has been perfect all week. I had not used the G2 for a week and wondered if I could hit any targets.
Bam first target on the G2 a zippy high 80 VDI at about 8.5 inches and out comes a silver 1963 dime. Then another hit and hard in the mid 80 and a wheat and at about 8 inches and then another wheat just as deep. The deeper the target the more zip you get. But I knew the sound and I didn't have to slow down or try and think about the sound..one tone on the G2 split it and you can dig the grunt if you like the lower VDI. The next target was a zip tone that bounced it grunted also on the lower VDI but the info the sounds were jet fast. I dig about nine inches and see a thin looking coin. It turns out to be play money from 1954. A thin small coin maybe a tad smaller then a dime but thinner. Then I see a little red dirt and see a small rusted nail.
Next target is reading in the mid 50..thinking it must be a nickle I dig it to find a broken long mens chain...Now the G2 is on fire and I went over the same area with the AT. The G2 seemed to be more alive and like a hound dog ready to hunt and hunt all day. My arm started to feel better and my back felt way better. Now for what you get for the price on the At, a water and land, relic and parks detector....that is a lot of bang for the buck...The G2 was selling as a gold machine and then it turned out to be the sleeper of relic hunters.
So not my cup of tea and I feel I gave it a fair shoot. I had the F75 and the LTD from the very start and learned them found a lot of great history then got the G2 and sold the LTD and kept the 8000. So there you have it I will have to sell the At I don't want to put down the G2 again till TEK or FISHER come out with the next new machine...By the way the At sounds just like the videos there is nothing wrong with the machine you can twist it scrub it swing and it won't make a sound.
LowBoY
