GARRETT GTI 1500 HELP!!!!

[sasquache]

hello everyone i just purchased a Garrett gti 1500 and was wondering if i could get a few pointers. i live in Maine and we have sooo much old undetected land that old coins are common still and was wondering do thay ring in the same as modern coins on the 1500 ?? with bell tone ? or thay all together different also how do relics id say like buttons ect? I'm not new too this hobby with many years of actual searching. i have owned a whites dfx and a cz3-d and i own a fisher id ex-cel this is my first Garrett metal detector and I'm in need of info so i read alot but cant find much on the real world detecting about Garrett's line of detectors so i thought i would give it a try here . thank you sasquache

 

[Da Yooper]

Hi sas, I use the GTI 2500 and the bell tone has been the same with old and new coins BUT I have also pulled coins out of the ground on tones that didn't sound so good and the size bouncing from B to C and even D. Soil conditions maybe part of the not so good tones, real dry, to wet, ph levels, tiny trash what ever. I dig most iffy signals your call. The more you use it the more you"ll love it. It is a coin shooter, so have fun.

 

[robert roy]

So you see, don't relie on the VID or the tones. Dig everything and surprise yourself. After a while you'll get the feel for your machine and get to trust it.
Then the man and the machine will have become one, Grass Hopper!

 

[cwilk]

Silver coins generally ring up around where their clad counterparts do. A lot depends on their depth and orientation, soil condition etc. The imaging on silver coins tends to run between size B and C more than it does on clad coins which are almost always size B and sometimes size A for dimes. Silver dimes frequently ring up as high (Copper) penny on my 2500. Not always but more than half the time. Deeper silver (deeper than 6 or 7 inches) is more difficult as was mentioned. It rings up on some weird notches sometimes. I found a silver quarter at 10 inches that rang up right where it should have and also imaged perfectly. A few weeks later I found two silver dimes that were back to back that were at 8 inches, tilted about 60 degrees, at 6 inches. They rang up as a half dollar, much shallower than they were, and they imaged wrong too flicking between C and D. I had it pegged as a silver coin and was right for a change. Experience will be your best teacher. I don't dig a ton of silver coins and have had none in a month so take this post for what it's worth. Dig a lot of signals before you start ignoring any.

Chris

 

[camel]

i have been using my 1500 since last December and i am very satisfied with it.it does have a learning curve to it and I'm still discovering things.i have found that the imaging feature is only good down to around six inches.and that if there are more than one coin the the hole it will show a larger than b size target.also i have found several small silver rings that came in as a size targets.so dint rely on the imaging feature alone.if i suspect deeper targets i use the zero mode and listen for the hi low tones.hope i didn't confuse you.i just received the scorcher coil and will let you know how that works out.

 

[sasquache]

thanxs everyone for your thoughts on the gti 1500 it sounds too me that its like all the other detector brands out there in its class dig everything out there and you will learn what not too dig by what it tells you .thank you too all

 

[Reggie]

From my experience with the 1500 and 2500, if it reads 1cent or higher in the "operate" mode, dig it. It will usually be a good target unless the size is larger than a "C". In target mode it might image and i.d. lower than in "operate" mode, but I have found that for purpose of deciding whether to dig or not to dig, go with "operate" i.d. and images A thru C. This is especially true if all 3, I.D., Image and Target, indicate one cent or higher in A-C size.

 

[liltracs]

Once you spend enough time to learn the imaging features I bet you will be happy w/ it. Some wheats and indians Register as zinc on mine but at a softer tone. Silver allways rings the belltone on mine. Some deeper silver coins I dug at 7 to 8 inches only rang on the side to side sweeps and not to and fro. Until I dug down 4 inches or so. Ive found 10 silver dimes and a silver half in 3 months since I got mine and all have registered as size b targets which really impressed me.