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AT Pro or AT Gold???

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stilpony

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Hi there!

I just recently bought a Fisher F5 and now am contemplating buying a good water detector, but also something that can be used on land (for the wife when she goes...IF she goes)

Anyway, the only input that I've had on either unit is that the AT Pro is not a good machine for finding old silver. Please keep in mind, I have no clue, this is only the opinion of one user that I hunt with. As for the Gold, I'm way out there!

This may very well be a tough sell to the wife, especially after I've only recently purchased the F5, so we'll see how that goes, but if I get the green flag, I'll need some info from all of you users!

I mainly want to coin shoot and jewelry hunt, but occasionally like to get out in the woods and spend countless hours of digging shotgun shells to find that lone piece of silver every other year. (Yes, that was sarcasm) :rofl:

Anyway, I thank you in advance for your time in responding to this. Also, if you have questions for me, please let me know, or IM me.

In the meantime, I'll surf the posts hear to see what else I can learn.

thanks again for your time!

HH
Jake
aka Stilpony
 
Both great machines. Eighter is great id say you wana prospect go for the Gold. You wana hit beaches at times go for the Pro. Coin wise theyll be pretty even . Jewlry wise theyll be pretty even as well.
 
The AT Gold will not work in saltwater water or wet sand. I suggest you watch the Garrett videos for both. The first for each may be enough.
 
I suppose it would have helped had I mentioned where I'm from. I'm up in Wisconsin so no worries about salt water, unless I'm gargling to cure a sore throat. :blink:

Does the Gold's ability to find gold better than the Pro, hinder it's a ability in an area that the Pro is better at? (I hope that question made sense)
 
Hi Jake,
The short answer is 'no'.

The ATG was created to add the features needed to prospect for small nuggets in the highly mineralized soil common in gold fields. So, it adds the option to have a threshold tone (so you can hear tiny variations in it). It has a little more iron discrimination - 44 points vs 40 on the ATP. It adds the ground balance range to smooth out some of the background mineralization noise. It does not have the ability to mask certain VDIs; i.e. if you wanted to block out everyting under 80 and do some cherry picking for silver. Many people (me!) don't really use that feature much. It has three settings: All Metal (and they mean ALL) , Discrim 1, which is wide open but much less chatty/sensitive than all metal mode, and discrim 2, which blocks out some of the common junk ranges - call it coin/jewelry mode (though it's possible to miss some gold in this mode, but useful when trashy sites are driving your ears bonkers). The gold comes standard with the 5x8 coil which is my preffered weapon for hunting my trashy sites.

I own and love 'em both, but I mostly use the gold. It is an excellent coin and relic shooter, can do freshwater and the dry sand portion of ocean beaches. The all metal mode can occasionally be useful in searching for deep coins and relics, too.

Just my 25cents worth - the AT Pro is basically my backup / friend machine. When I sent the Gold in to garrett recently, I found gold and everything under the sun with the AT Pro, too. I'm sure others will give you more food for thought!
 
AT- Gold is my prime machine and AT-Pro is my back-up or loan a friend detector!! Either machine is great I just seem to find more with the Gold.
 
after owning both and if you arent going to be hunting saltwater, my personal choice would be the at-gold....
 
The AT Gold is more detector. It is not as sensitive to silver but still is very impressive on deep silver. Some say it is better than the AT Pro. Definitely has better depth when using All Metal mode but the price you pay is very many targets. It will overwhelm you in trashy areas even in moderate trash it might be more than you want. There is a video on the Garrett website on the AT Gold working trashy city parks. At the start of the video Steve Moore puts it in All Metal. That is really what is sounds like in trashy areas.
 
Thanks guys!

I keep hearing about the ATP in "wet sand", but isn't this a water detector? Is it ok in the water and just a pain in the wet sand, or it is just a pain in the water/wet anything? Seems odd that a water detector would be so noisy in the wet sand. Is the ATG the same way?
 
By not as sensitive to silver, what do you all mean by that. Does it not give as high a reading or what?

Jason
 
The higher frequency is better for the lower conductors like gold. A man's gold ring will hit harder than a silver coin.
 
My AT-Gold has found more silver for me than the AT-Pro it's a very capable machine at 18 khz frequency on silver!! So don't think it won't find silver!!
 
same here...when using the same size coils the gold is deeper in disc1 than the pro was in pro zro in my test garden..
 
All i know is with my At Pro in 3 months ownership ive found a boat load of clad 7 rings 3 of them Gold and a nice size Gold hoop braclet. I wouldnt trade my At pro for any machine period .HH
 
Trackerman said:
Both great machines. Eighter is great id say you wana prospect go for the Gold. You wana hit beaches at times go for the Pro. Coin wise theyll be pretty even . Jewlry wise theyll be pretty even as well.
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kinda how I read it as well . As an avid Tesoro user I am just trading a Tesoro Tejon for an At pro hope it is not a Mistake but I own a Tesoro Vaquero and the Tejon which the Tejon seems to be the same as the Vaq but with dual disc , The reason I am trading is the AT Pro is water proof and would like the ability to hunt the water as well also may have a chance to get a AT gold I mainly coin hunt but do a tad of Relic hunting . Watched the vids on the garrett site and did not see much difference in the Ability of either machine to find silver coins depending on how you set the machine and ground balance so I would say as for as a coin machine they are both equal Just my Humble Opinion Though
 
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