AT Pro Silver Dime

[SAGITTARIUS]

Went out for about an hour yesterday to a park I have hunted many times which occasionally gives up silver coins. I have found over 30 silver coins there the last two years with my minelabs, an Explorer II & a Safari. Its tough to find silver here because of all the iron and its been heavily hunted. The park is one block park that established in 1924. In Pro mode set iron 26 and no other discrimination, I got a high tone signal amongst the iron, It was easy to hear but not very loud with depth indicated 8 inches". Digging down I recovered a 1954 Roosevelt dine at about 7 inches. This is my first Garrett and I think it compares well with the minelabs.

 

[oldranger]

Congrats on the silver its
always fun to dig those!!!!

HH

Ron

Rangers Lead The Way

 

[Macedonian]

I have not been out yet with mine because of the weather here so I do not have a good enough impression of it's performance but reading the above gives me high hopes that I may be able to sell my etrac and my arm will thank me

 

[synthnut]

Congrats !!......Silver is always a nice find ! .....A 7 inch find is not too shabby at all , especially since you were digging with iron targets around it ......Thanks for sharing ....Jim

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah the light weight of the AT will be a big selling point.

Bill

 

[26cent]

I have a quick question, when detecting in high Iron content soil, will the ground balance be high or low?

 

[Onus]

Nice! I just got my AtPro last week and haven't been able to get out yet. Just playing with it around the house. (I have just had knee surgery). I sold my Safari to pay for it so I am glad to see good reports. Onus

 

[Macedonian]

It depends exactly what you mean, if you mean a soil with a lot of iron targets in then that is not really a ground balance issue but if you mean a soil with a lot of ferrous oxides, (rust particles), then the GB will be high.

 

[arod777]

Can the AT Pro be hip mounted?
Is it easily removable from the shaft?

 

[SAGITTARIUS]

I forgot to mention that the digital target numbers did bounce around with the highest being 82 and the lowest in the 40's. I think that was because iron targets were also under the coil. The separation was good because you could wiggle the coil over the target and get the 80's numbers.Our soil is highly ferrous with the automatic ground balace comming in at 80.

 

[26cent]

Thanks to both Sagittarius and Macedonian, I meant high rust content int he soil, I see similar numbers when auto ground balancing where I live and see similar multiple signals of high and low tones when detecting. I am assuming I am getting multiple targets as well and it will take some time for me to be able to pick around the iron targets to the good ones.

 

[Macedonian]

What settings are you using ?

 

[26cent]

standard coin mode with sensitivity at one third to one half of scale

 

[Macedonian]

Ok this is what I found bench testing and seems like a good setup for good targets in amongst iron I have not tried it in the field yet but with this configuration you can check any double bleep iron tones at 90 degrees and it should not miss anything that say is lying under a nail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwqqpyiUa2E