Most of you are already aware of the Pro's abilities to sniff out goodies in trash. I've been hunting this home site with my T2 and 5" coil. This yard is loaded with trash and iron. The T2 has done well there but its a constant barrage of signals even with the 5". So I recently traded a couple things for a buddies AT Pro and decided to try it there. I've been digging lots of wheat cents and occasionally a silver dime but had never thought to video it. My camera has been MIA anyway and I was rummaging through my truck looking for some gloves and found the camera. The battery didn't have much life but I got some coins being dug and a few are Wheaties..no silver today. But a couple of times I got on video the sheer target separation ability of the AT. I was amazed at how it was allowing me to work in all the junk with the stock coil. Running Pro mode Zero, with Iron disc cranked to 40. Coil for coil the T2 goes deeper but this shows that depth ain't everything and the ability to cherry pick in trash sometimes out weighs depth. Video coming soon...I had to stop digging so I could leave and make it to work.
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AT Pro vid coming soon
- Thread starter Daniel Tn
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I search in water and I dug a square nail and a nickle in one scoop and once dug a coin among some pull tabs both good target were very distinctive from the trash. I got to admit it seemed noisy and intimidating at first but the more I used it, the more I learn, and I am geting deeper targets. The AT PRO a great detector.
Looking forward to seeing it Daniel. I'm subscribed to your channel so I'll get an email when you post it. My new AT Pro is on the UPS truck as we speak and should be here Friday (the Day Before Muzzleloading Season in Tennessee) LOL. Maybe you'll post it tomorrow (thursday) so that it'll get me all excited about Friday. I've fouund a couple of new Confederate camps near town loaded with square nails....and other delightful goodies........I hope. I sold my Teknetics G2 (Gold Bug) tonight. Hope I made a wise swap, although I think I did.
Got home late this morning and didn't work on putting clips together then uploading. Will be in the woods Saturday waiting on Bambi's relatives to wander by. Might can start Saturday night and have it up for the weekend. I think you'll like the Pro a bit better than the G2. We're not supposed to do comparisons so I can't say anything but I will say if someone offered me a G2 or Gold Bug Pro for free...Id take it for the sole reason of trading or selling it for an AT Pro or Gold LOL
Saturday night??? Awww SHUCKS!!! Well, I'll wait then. Daniel, when your finding Civil War relics among the beds of square nails (and it seems like everyone of my little bullet/button sites are in a a bred of square nails) do you mind telling me what the best settings for you are when trying to pull the non-ferrous out from the ferrous??? See.....I bought an AT Pro back in the spring when I FIRST started metal detecting. The only reason I sold it was to help fund a new detector. Since I started detecting in early March, I have bought/used and sold a Garrett ACE120, Garrett AT Pro/ Minelab E-Trac/ F-75LTD/ Teknetics G2/ Teknetics Omega/ another Teknetics G2/ and finally a Garrett AT Pro. I really want to settle down with a great general purpose detector. Out of owning all of these, I picked the AT Pro because I found about as much stuff with it as I did the other ones that I had. And its weather proof and rugged and has been upgraded to fit a tall man a bit better, what with the extended arm rest and all. And too, I am a LITTLE more educated on how to listen for targets amongst the iron. So the AT Pro should be a great general purpose model. Your videos and posts helped me formulate my decision to trade and swap. But I promise not to hold you responsible if my final analysis of the AT Pro is : IT SUX!!!!! .......LOL I know it won't let me down, as the last one I had was a great detector that could reach down surprisingly deep for good targets. Hope you drop a good one Saturday morning with your front-stuffer. My motto will be: If it walks through and is by itself, it's going down to the ground and then to the processor. Happy Hunting friend. Kevin
Daniel, did ya get 'er deer? I had several blow at me. Wind was on my neck, but when I got sat down it was in my face. I was busted. And they were chasing all morning too. But ya can't see crap in the thick mess that I hunt. Ya just hear the gruntin and wheezin and running. Anyway, GET IN THERE AND UPLOAD US AT PRO OWNERS A VIDEO!!!!!!!!!! .........LOL
No deer on the ground. Saw several does but my wife is after one particular buck we have on trail cam and all I was doing was videoing for her in case he showed.
Gonna tinker with the clips of the AT Pro after church and may or may not get it ready to upload will try but more than likely at the latest it will be Monday before its viewable. I captured the halo breaking phenomenon a couple times...get a good signal and dig several inches and it completely disappear...scoop all the dirt out and still no signal. Dig 2-3 more inches out of experience and find the target. This happened 3 times with deep coins on this hunt..
and I got it on film start to finish on two of them.
Gonna tinker with the clips of the AT Pro after church and may or may not get it ready to upload will try but more than likely at the latest it will be Monday before its viewable. I captured the halo breaking phenomenon a couple times...get a good signal and dig several inches and it completely disappear...scoop all the dirt out and still no signal. Dig 2-3 more inches out of experience and find the target. This happened 3 times with deep coins on this hunt..
and I got it on film start to finish on two of them.
Here are my finds from my first hunt at this home site. The upcoming video finds aren't here...was an additional 6 wheat cents and 19 or so modern clad coins. I ain't normally a coin hunter but this site was found by mistake and has never been hunted. I've only hit the front yard! I know I've not found so many wheat cents in one spot before but 99% of the time I'm relic hunting and not coin hunting.
Well this took longer than I anticipated. I've been putting all these clips together for the past couple hours or so and it is saving from my video editing software to the HD right now. I wanted this to be better quality than what my normal videos are done in, so its taking a while to generate it. Since I have to leave for work here shortly and it's not even 1/4 way done, I will be at a delay in putting in on YouTube.
Tomorrow it should be totally done and ready for the Tube and be good quality video and audio. It will benefit your ears to hear what this thing does on a few targets that turn out to be coins in some really good dirt. This idn't the kind of dirt I normally dig in...this is nice rich blackish dirt and some of these coins are 6+ inches deep. My digging tool is Predator Dixie...has a blade slightly wider than the hand tool of theirs but about the same length...I am lazy and don't like bending down to dig, lol but I can cut a plug just as good with the Dixie. Anyway the blade is 7" 7/8 inches long and I had it to the hilt a couple times so that's pretty good on a coin to be getting steady VDIs in the 80s. Really good dirt vs my normal crappy red dirt that you couldn't get an 80 VDI on the same coin 4" deep.
Tomorrow it should be totally done and ready for the Tube and be good quality video and audio. It will benefit your ears to hear what this thing does on a few targets that turn out to be coins in some really good dirt. This idn't the kind of dirt I normally dig in...this is nice rich blackish dirt and some of these coins are 6+ inches deep. My digging tool is Predator Dixie...has a blade slightly wider than the hand tool of theirs but about the same length...I am lazy and don't like bending down to dig, lol but I can cut a plug just as good with the Dixie. Anyway the blade is 7" 7/8 inches long and I had it to the hilt a couple times so that's pretty good on a coin to be getting steady VDIs in the 80s. Really good dirt vs my normal crappy red dirt that you couldn't get an 80 VDI on the same coin 4" deep.