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AT-PRO old silver

First, turn those ALL CAPS off!! It's the same as yelling or screaming and it's hard to read. Now to your question: Silver coins could read down in the 70's at depth or with a lower conductivity target in proximty. Learn to hunt with your ears and not so much by the VDI. Hight tones get dug, it's as simple as that.
 
Thanks I understand tones, my other MD is a Mine lab xcall I hunt with scuba most of the time.I bought the AT a for relics and a back up unit.Air testing the the AT is how I found the low reading I was wondering if this is norm for the MD THANKS SCOTT
 
OK, I airtested an ATP with stock coil Pro Mode, Zero Disc, 4 bars Sens., removed all of my jewelry and tried a Merc dime and it hit in the 82-84 range. You didn't say which denomination you tried or what your settings were, if you had any gold rings or a watch on. In any case though, I would think a silver dime should hit in the low 80's, just like a clad dime. 70's are where you can expect zinc pennies and even some gold wedding bands to come in.
 
My silver dime recoveries usually hit around 83/84 if average depth and fairly flat in the ground. At depth and or slanted or on edge I've had a bounce as high as 85/86, but most #'s are still in the 83-84 reading on dimes. HH jim tn
 
With the pro or std mode laying flat on ground it did not matter which mode this is what I get..........1917 or 1904 1/2 reads71-72,1904 quarter reads 86 a1927 quarter is 65,merc dime reads81-82 clad quarter 86 thanks for the in put
 
jim tn said:
My silver dime recoveries usually hit around 83/84 if average depth and fairly flat in the ground. At depth and or slanted or on edge I've had a bounce as high as 85/86, but most #'s are still in the 83-84 reading on dimes. HH jim tn
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Same here now I did do a little searching after a seeded hunt from a club and dug a Silver necklace .925 very tiny inside a plastic container at 3 inches and it hit at a solid 41 which I have found to be small foil only thing I can figure is it hit it due to the compressed stage inside the container or the Clasp ? not sure But I do know there are 13 more of them buried that were not found so I will be going back this weekend and slowly hitting the spot Silver is Silver LOL
 
My short and sweet...screw air tests...please.

There are so many variables with soil make-up, moisture, depth, state of corrosion, target orientation, direction of travel, nearby targets, one's technique, grass length, one's mood, etc., etc., etc. I've had pennies at 9" ring up in the 60s and deep nickels ring up between 48-92. Spend a long time with the machine and concentrate on the sounds.

aj
 
thanks for the information I have faith in the unit some times it throws a curve at me and screws with me.the low reading on the silver half and high on clad for instance.THANKS SCOTT
 
Barry, I'd be interested in how many of them you find. Are they thin chains with a clasp? HH jim tn
 
My two dollar's worth (inflation): When I get a target way off number I re-check my ground balance. Others issues have been mentioned, but the coil needs to be centered over the target to get an accurate reading. That's my bet.
 
Yes and went back again and they still elude ME:shrug: but I want give up cause I know they are there
 
The AT pro is a great relic detector, but for finding silver coins it lacks. I hunted for nearly a year with it and only found just a few silvers. Now that I hunt with another brand machine, I find silver almost ever time I go out.
Cheers
 
deep-digger-dan, I don't know what the at pro is lacking in finding silver, me and my hunting buddies have pounded the hunting areas around here for years with whites, minelabs, tesoros to name a few. Since I got my at pro I've gone back to these sites and pulled 45 silvers. I would say the at pro is a great relic detector and a super great silver detector. Might want to go back and read ajaj post this is the best answer for any detector.
 
I agree with Silver Fox! I find the ATP to be a very nice silver finding detector. If it's even better on relic's, it's gonna be a fun relic season. HH jim tn
 
deep-digger-dan said:
The AT pro is a great relic detector, but for finding silver coins it lacks. I hunted for nearly a year with it and only found just a few silvers. Now that I hunt with another brand machine, I find silver almost ever time I go out.
Cheers
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What is the other brand you use
 
When I first started using the At/Pro, it hit on pennies in the 72-75 range, but now they come in 80-82. Most of my clad dimes come in 82-83 in the water and the quarters aroung 85-86. A few weeks ago at the river, I was in a spot with multiple trash targets and the DVI read 04, but I got that pip and pulled a 1967 clad dime out of the sand and I think it was about 6 or 8 inches down. Memory fails me at times, like everything else. If I had went by the DVI, I would have missed that target. I've also noticed in deeper water I can increase my sensitivity to almost maximum and find those deep targets because there isn't as much trash at chest deep and neck deep as there is in the shallow water. If my At/Pro starts acting up and going crazy, usually it needs ground balancing. If another trash item is around the dimes or quarters you might not get that high sound either. I've only found 1 mercury dime and 1-1942 quarter with my At/Pro and the quarter was almost a foot deep, but that's why I prefer the 8.5 X 11 coil in the water over the 5 X 8. Plus, it covers more ground for me and it might be just the opposite to someone else. If I get the pip sound or a good low tone, I dig.
 
I agree completely what Silver Fox says above, the AT Pro hits very well on Silver.

scotthowes - ajaj said it best. When digging deep targets the tones change and the VDIs aren't as accurate or don't read at all (you know it's deep then), even the Garrett instructional videos state that. As ajaj mentioned and I myself, is to focus more on the tones, their is a "whole" lot of information given their, then reference that to the Depth, then VDIs.

This is the way I do all of my hunts in that order when I hit a target.

:)
 
You can make all the air tests, coin-bed tests, newly buried tests you want, but when you're seriously out hunting, you'd better know your detector and the sounds it's talking to you with. The knowledge of those sounds only comes from a great deal on on-the-hunt experience and on-your-knee digging. Then, you'll be the expert! Good hunting to you all!
 
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