I have a GTI 1500 in the way......

[Big Red]

Any Tips, Tricks , or favorite settings? Any Information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Larry " Big Red " Boyle

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Welcome aboard, Big Red!! You've ordered one nice coin-shooter for sure. Give us a little history about yourself. Are you new to detectin'? Is this your first Garrett? Where will you be swingin' this bad boy? What will you be mainly concentrating your efforts to find?
HH

 

[High Desert Jim]

Just read your owners manual. It's a nice machine. One of the easiest to use unit's on the market

 

[Big Red]

Wow i didnt Know there was a test...I have been detecting 5 years. I have used Several detectors so i am not a newbie. I have used an old garrett freedom ace. I Currently own a Tesoro LST, Fisher Coinstrike , and the Garrett Gti 1500 is on the way. I will primarily Coin and jewelry hunt. I am located in Indiana....Ground conditions are good.


Larry

 

[mtdoramike]

n/t

 

[Big Red]

n/t

 

[mtdoramike]

n/t

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Sorry, but I had to ask. Just set that Thershold to a slight hum, the Sensitivity where it doesn't false at the end of your swings (about 7 ought to do it) and get to hunting. First run with it I would go with the Coin mode and move up when you feel comfortable with what it is telling you. The imaging will be correct when you are dead over the target in Pinpoint. After about 6", imaging is not always accurate, so you might want to dig those deep belltones, just in case. Swing Slow!! If it belltones, that's the Sound of Money or silver or sometimes a rusty hunk of iron. Again, great coinshooter that will reduce your junk target finds. Have fun and keep us posted on what the 1500 gets you!!

 

[Uncle Willy]

You're getting one of the best coinshooters ever. It will be a little different than your Fisher and has a few quirks ( postive ones ) that you will have to adjust to. It will be better to advise you after you get it and have questions.

Years ago when I ran the Garrett Classroom I had several new 1500 owners who were about to wrap their 1500's around a tree until I told them what to do, then you couldn't have pried it out of their hands. Many of these guys had been detecting for many years.

Bill

 

[Big Red]

So am i going to have to get ready to wrap it around a tree before You learn me somethin.........Hahahahahahahah...... I wait till the first couple times out.

 

[Big Red]

Sounds good......now i have a question. Concearning the imaging not being always accurate after 6 inches....Have you noticed it being consistant to how how it Ids the size after 6 inches...meaning does it consistantly put a "B"target in an "A" Catagory or does it seem to put it in a "C" or another, or is it seem to be mixed. I Havent used it yet. Just trying to gather all the info i can.


Larry

 

[saika/ace250]

Hi Big Red, I too am an exfisherman. I really like what I have seen in the Garrett line so far. Welcome over to the not-so-dark-side...

 

[Big Red]

Thanks ......I still Have a Coinstrike so i am not exactly an exfisherman.....also love my tesoro Lobo Super Traq......I will say this I am excited about the 1500.....it seems like a really Nice machine that is gonna make things fun.....The imaging sounds awesome....hopefully it works as well as garrett claims it does. My buddy Mtdoramike is feeling the same way about having one on the way also. I think mike and i would have tried The Garrett a long time ago, except i have been told by many that there arent very deep. Depth isnt everything.....But when they are claiming no more than 5-6 inches....It has turned myself and others away. However i decided to see for myself. I cant wait till the detector gets here.

 

[Phillip_in_NM]

My experience with the GTI2500 is that it almost always reads larger, sometimes as much as two times larger. I will offer one piece of advice - ALWAYS dig a "coin-size" target measured at anything greater than 6 inches. I've rarely had increased depth make a target measure smaller than it actually was.

Hope that helps.

HH

 

[Big Red]

thanks phil....Thats the kind of things i like to hear. I appreciate it.


Larry