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AT PRO NOT FINDING SILVER

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I have been looking for mainly silver coins in a park and at an old early 1900's farm house with no luck. I have been getting some clad, wheaties and some pull tabs. I have a friend that has been in the same area with his Minelab 3030 and he has dug about 4 or 5 silvers, a buffalo, and a silver half dollar. I have been going slow with my AT PRO, in fact I have hunted a 25 x 100 area about 6 hrs or more. I get lots of 80-89 targets about 4 inches deep, but they turn out to be brass snap pieces from horse leads or flattened twist bottle tops, even a few pull tabs. I have my AT set on PRO CUSTOM, 36 DISC., two bars below full sensitivity. I dig lots of targets, however while hunting silvers I have been passing up the 50-60 targets(hate to do that), is that where I am going wrong? I am getting tired of hearing from my friend about all his finds. I am very frustrated, he does work hard at it but I do too. I feel we are in a good area and it still has lots of good stuff left. What am I doing wrong?
 
I hunt for pretty much everything, but my suggestion to you is hunt in pro mode notch out everything to 70 ( SINCE YOU WANT ONLY SILVER)and turn your sensitivity up all the way. (You didn't mention what size coil you are using.) I found a silver dime at 9 inches once it was jumping from 78 to 83 but it was a solid clean sound. Now I would like you to come back and say you found plenty of silvers LOL
 
Hi asiandigger, thanks for the reply. I have tried both coils. The ground is fairly trashy, so the smaller coil gets around better. It is frustrating when I get a good signal like 82 and it turns out to be a twist bottle top of aluminum. I keep on trying but my friend gets more silver, unless he is fibbing. I usually hunt for everything too, but lately my friend keeps kicking my backside with silver finds. I will try your suggestion tomorrow if my wife lets me go. I will let you know if I hit big!
 
Ask your friend to let you follow him for test purposes. When his CTX sounds off & before he actually digs, run your AT over the same spot to see what your machine sounds like & what your VDI shows.
 
CIRCLEHOOK, thanks I will try that out. We have done that in the past but not lately. I also am going to try to do what asiandigger suggested and notch out everything below 70 for a bit and see what happens. I like this forum, it's nice to have so much help. Thanks
I use circle hooks in the pacific for buts.
 
MADE IN USA,
I would really be interested in knowing the result of the comparison hunt, as I have an AT Pro also. I hunt mostly the salt wet beach on Long Island, NY.
I use circlehooks here also, but our flatties are fluke (summer flounder) and are miniscule compared to your halibut. You are very fortunate.
Thanks
 
Circlehook, I went out with my friend detecting yesterday and we went to a park where he found a gold bracelet and silver resently. We detected seperately for a while and I found the normal stuff, quarters, dimes and junk. He was finding about the same but also some copper.We moved to an area of old grouth oaks(250 yr+), and found some targets together. After he would locate a coin, I would go over it before we dug it to compare readings.I was in PRO CUSTOME with the large coil, about 37 disc., 2-3 bars below max sensitivity and our machines were pretty much agreeing on the targets. His Minelab3030 does give more info on the target because we were in a town where a lot of Mexicans live and they like their Corona and the bottle tops are abundant. Never in any other town or park has there been as many Corona caps. My AT PRO shows about 80-82 on most of the bottle caps @ 2-4 inches. Even if I push iron button and listen, it still does not give a clear picture of the target. I get iron noise in that park most every location anyway. So I am afraid to not dig a strong 80-82 cause a silver dime being thin can show that too. His 3030 will give him more info to keep him from having to dig as much, but I don't have enough experience with the AT to pass stuff up or it can't tell the difference, I am not sure which. I found that an aluminum screw bottle cap flattened is much like a guarter a lot of the times. We compared the targets and I felt pretty good about the clad readings we both got. My zinc's were in the 76-78 or so range and the quarters were about low 80's area. I know that as I learn my machine it will be better, but it will never quite be the machine that the 3030 is but it is a good machine. With that being said, it didn't cost 2,300 bucks either. We couldn't find silver yesterday but I did learn some more things about the AT. I need to remember to check a target at 90 deg scans, use the iron button more, lift the coil on those loud blasting 80-85 targets to help determine if they are aluminum cans or scrap and go slow and listen for those week 80's targets. I have a lot to learn. If I get a chance to compare some silver readings with him I will get back to you. Thanks and have fun!
 
I personally use the Pro Zero mode and dig "a lot of iffy's"! I admit those pesky bottlecaps can really sound good sometimes, but the more you use the machine, the more you'll know what's what. I use Pro Zero with zero discrimination in a trashy park. If the place is as trashy as you say it is, there can be target masking that will throw the #'s way off. In clean ground, I bang a silver dime at 6 - 8" I run my machine 2 bars below max sensitivity and if I get a suspecting signal that sounds kinda good, I bump up the sensitivity to max and see if the tone improves. Silver dimes come in around 83-84 on my AT Pro, but don't always trust the #'s, trust the sound of the tone. The deeper the target, the more unreliable the #'s really are. In my area, I can expect to ground balance anywhere from 88 - 94. Hope this info helps!

HH and good luck
 
Eric, thanks for the reply. I agree with your way of setting it up. I have been using PRO ZERO some and PRO CUSTOM some. I have just found my first silver dime a couple of days ago in a fairly well hunted park. It was about 4-5 inches down and came in at about 82. It had kind of a faint tone but a good one. I kind of thought it was a aluminum bottle cap but there was just something a little different about it. It was more softer not as sharp or loud as the caps are. I think I have been going just a bit too fast in my searching and maybe missing the silvers. I started slowing down and digging more. This ground was very hard, dry and had some gravel and some bits of asphalt in it. Difficult to dig down through to the coin. I run my sensitivity at about 3 bars below max usually, and I will try raising the sensitivity up to check the tone on a target as you do. I thank you again for helping. All you guys are great on this site.
 
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