If you had a choice between...

[pghpete22]

Hi Folks,

Long timer lurker, first time poster on this site. Living in PHX AZ, it's starting to get hot, and other than some early A.M. hunts, I'm about done for the summer. After 20 years of hunting with the Master Hunter CX, it's time to buy (save up, then buy in my case) for a new detector. I see that the AT Gold is about $80 more that the AT Pro, but if you had to choose, would you go with the AT Pro and pay the extra $$ for the 5X8 coil, or would you go with the AT Gold with the standard coil.

I'm mainly a coinshooter - older parks, soccer fields, yards of older houses etc. And while I live in AZ, and I sure would like to just go out and prospect for some gold, I just haven't yet. Kinda nervous about going out in the desert by myself. I would need to buy a second gun in case my first one runs out of ammo.

Thanks everyone, great site.

Pete

 

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[size=large]actually you need buy just a few extra clips. provided you're using a semi-auto. practice speed clipping. really though there should be quite a number of prospecting clubs close by for you to get in on prospecting. then the at gold would be your choice. jmo

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[Atlas]

I have the ATG and it does well for coin/shallow water hunting. The ATG is hot on gold jewlery. I use disc 1 mostly but you can hunt in all metal with the iron audio on and essentially get iron disc in all meta. From what testing John has done the ATG might be an inch deeper in all metal than the pro.

I think the added $ in the cost is due to the circuitry in the ATG and not so much the coil. I ended up getting the larger 11" coil for my ATG. However, the 8x5 is really a great coil for hunting in trash.

You really can't go wrong either way but if you plan on any prospecting then ATG is the choice. I have found one match head nugget with mine it was a surface fine just covered up but hit hard.

 

[wltdwiz]

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