Eric in RI
New member
Managed to get out today with my roommate to put our AT Pro's to work. Started off hunting an older looking school in town. Clad was good, but it was sparse in the old coins department. I did find a silver ring for my efforts. I was using the standard mode with the coin discrimination pattern. We then went to another school that looked a little older. Right off the bat I dug 3 wheaties from the 30's / 40's and thought I had a great shot for silver. Wasn't meant to be. I decided that I felt comfortable enough with the machine in standard mode that I would try the Pro mode. I must say, at first it was very overwhelming and intimidating, but after an hour of using it, I felt very comfortable with it. I was pulling very deep clad, deeper than my older Whites machine could pick up, so I was happy to say the least with the performance. It was getting close to dark and the roommate wanted to get home, so we called it a day.
We arrive home and I said "well, there's still an hour worth of light left, I'm gonna go to the park for a solo mission". I get to the park and decide to stick with the Pro mode and use zero discrimination. I like this setup, its deadly in this park lol. Managed to find a signal that was bouncy and almost seemed like there were multiple signals next to each other. My suspicion was correct after I tried pinpointing. Definitely 2 targets next to each other. After I was able to hone in on both signals when pinpointing, I decided to swing the coil and isolate one of the targets. One signal was a banging coin signal all day, the other was definitely a piece of iron. I pinpointed the coin signal and was rewarded with a 1951 Roosie, sweet! That sucker was every bit of 8" deep. My deepest dime I ever dug with any detector. Glad it was a silver! Mind you, I've hunted this part of the park hundreds of times and thought it was almost clean of coins. I was on cloud nine. I then decided that was a good way to end the hunt, that and it was pitch black out, I decided to head towards the car. I get near the car and get another coin signal that sounded more like a zincoln, dig down 6+ inches and find a stainless washer... well I thought it was a washer. Cleaned it up with a bit of spit and sweet, a 1942S silver war nickel! I find another signal about 15 feet from the car and am rewarded with the big junk ring. Not bad workout the AT Pro got today! I gotta say, best machine in the world! I feel very confident with this machine and I believe the finds over the past 5 days shows it. Can't wait to get out tomorrow! HH
We arrive home and I said "well, there's still an hour worth of light left, I'm gonna go to the park for a solo mission". I get to the park and decide to stick with the Pro mode and use zero discrimination. I like this setup, its deadly in this park lol. Managed to find a signal that was bouncy and almost seemed like there were multiple signals next to each other. My suspicion was correct after I tried pinpointing. Definitely 2 targets next to each other. After I was able to hone in on both signals when pinpointing, I decided to swing the coil and isolate one of the targets. One signal was a banging coin signal all day, the other was definitely a piece of iron. I pinpointed the coin signal and was rewarded with a 1951 Roosie, sweet! That sucker was every bit of 8" deep. My deepest dime I ever dug with any detector. Glad it was a silver! Mind you, I've hunted this part of the park hundreds of times and thought it was almost clean of coins. I was on cloud nine. I then decided that was a good way to end the hunt, that and it was pitch black out, I decided to head towards the car. I get near the car and get another coin signal that sounded more like a zincoln, dig down 6+ inches and find a stainless washer... well I thought it was a washer. Cleaned it up with a bit of spit and sweet, a 1942S silver war nickel! I find another signal about 15 feet from the car and am rewarded with the big junk ring. Not bad workout the AT Pro got today! I gotta say, best machine in the world! I feel very confident with this machine and I believe the finds over the past 5 days shows it. Can't wait to get out tomorrow! HH
