Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.

My AT Gold is finding my coins deep...

B

bnick2k11

New member
Not sure if a Detector works better in wet winter ground than in dry summer dirt but my new AT Gold is really surprising me as to how deep my coins are being found at... I know it's no big deal but in the last 9 days since I received my AT Gold I just broke 100 coins, and 2 rings, plus many bullets, belt buckles, knives, costume jewelry, etc... Today alone I took 42 coins and yes I feel my back tonight from all the bending but what a kick in the butt this fun machine is...

I bought the AT Gold to use on our 2 gold claims 100 miles south of here where we have dredged since the 1980's and because of the small coarse gold nuggets we take their most every trip... I planted a nugget and coin garden a week ago in the back yard and set pennies, dimes, quarters, and nuggets from 1/8" to 5/32" in size, and this machine has really impressed me with how accurate and deep it responds to the tiny nuggets at 3" to 5" and the larger nuggets at 6" to 7", as well as how deep the coins sound off in the packed ground I tamped down last week...

I guess I just wanted to share that I noticed right off that I was digging more and more older coins down to 8" to 10" measured holes when pulling out quarters, dimes, and pennies, at both our local parks... I have also watched different guys work routinely both those parks with their detectors for years now... I really figured they'd be empty of any coins but today my AT Gold just kept sounding off coin after coin in heavy iron, tin foil, pull tab, ground... There were 2 times when the low tone junk metal sound never stopped and ran continuously due to all the nails, washers, screws, tin foil, etc, and yet a couple coins sounded off right in the middle of those solid junk patches... I
 
Congrats on your success with the Gold. Nothing at all boring about your post as its always interesting to read what others find out about their machines.
 
This AT Pro thread is a fun place to follow. I can assure you nobody that has read the posts here for a little over a year would DARE knock that machine or its users in any way!
Good Luck!
Mud
 
That sounds like some impressive depth. What do the deep coins register as on the display? Any way you can make a video of some of these deep coins on film.......I really would like to see the AT Gold in action.
 
Hi guys...

In no way was I trying to take anything away from the AT Pro as we all know it's a fabulous machine especially for it's price... I was just trying to share that in addition to my lowly Gold model taking surface coins and junk she has been hitting quite a few older, more corroded coins that my old Compass X80 did years ago... The brass 2" belt buckle I mentioned did come out very deep but as I explain to another person it was under a big old spruce tree right on a creek bank which was very soft ground and was all but a mixture of pine needles and mulch dirt so I hope no one thought it was rock hard dry ground... I guess I was just curious whether soft wet ground makes a difference in a detector hitting deeper than under dry conditions... Also since where I'm at here on the west coast is younger than back east I know I won't be digging any coins from the 1700's... The oldest I've found was a 1942 quarter so I know that holds no importance to real detectorists who lay claim to finding 10,000 rings in a year, ha... I didn't buy the Gold model for coins but for the small nuggets we take most every trip to the grandfathered claims we
 
I seen to get more coins when the ground is wet than dry. The ground here is anywhere from loamy in the trees to black dirt with alot of rocks. The wet dirt though makes me have to adjust my sensitivity lower 1 notch sometimes too.
 
Well it's good to know they pick up better in the damp ground and I'm pretty pleased with what I'm seeing come out of the ground at least depth wise since our coins here are not that old... I did run some depth tests this afternoon and just as it did yesterday when I put some small nuggets under a couple shovel loads of gravel the Gold hit on those nuggets as if there was nothing above them but loose gravel and a damp garden still can't tell me what I can expect from up in the high country this summer working in and around bedrock crevices but no matter what happens getting out into the beautiful woods is way better than being in town...

Here's the little test video I threw together... I hope the link works... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQg-2iySH7E
Happy week to all...
bnick
 
Thanks for the video. It was impressive. I am assuming the TID works in all metal too? If you make another one can you show some deep coin tests....;o)
 
Hi Bill...

Yes the TID works in All Metal Mode but the tone stays a middle tone until you turn on Garrett's new Iron Audio feature which lets you set an Iron Disc setting anywhere between a low of 0 and a high of 40... Then in All Metal Mode if you take a hit you can turn on Iron Audio and it will very quickly give you the low grunt tones associated with any Iron at or below the number you chose for Iron Disc...

Say you set your Iron Disc for 25 and you take a hit... When you turn Iron Audio on, any iron from 25 down to 0 will sound off with it's low sound, but anything higher than 25 will have a standard all metal mid tone... Cool thing is you still get to be shooting as deep as you can in All Metal Mode but you can choose to set an Iron Disc number and run in it for low tones, or you can turn it off until you hit something questionable then just toggle it on to see if indeed you want to dig it or pass it up if you feel it's Iron junk...

This Iron Audio is a really cool feature no one else has from all I've read and it really works because when I tested my tiny nugget yesterday when I did flip over to Disc1 or Disc2 I seemed to lose my nugget target tone by I
 
Bill and Hammer...

Yup it's pretty cool and I'm starting to realize how much I've missed detecting since I left it in the mid 1980's... It really is enjoyable and fulfilling... Maybe I was just so caught up with life back then, being young and all, that I never really could experience what someone penned the other day in that detecting is like Christmas all the time because you are always opening up presents... Ok I know, bottle caps, pull tab's, nails, and screws, don't quite make it into a Christmas present realm, but still all it takes is one unexpected find to really make you happy, and we all sure have seen the wonderful finds this Forum has shared...

I really want to attempt some coin tests down to the 24" level with this machine but I need a fresh location to dig in... 24" holes are a bit of work as was the 17" one I was working in yesterday, but it's really got me curious how deep I can go... I expected the silver dollar to maybe be hit on at 10" and 12" but I never expected them to instantly be hit on as loud as they were at 15" and 16" and if that's the case will they keep hitting down at 24"... I can only think that surely this damp ground is playing big time into these freakish hits at so deep and in dry dirt I'll be lucky to get a hit at 3", ha... Who knows though, I sure don't as I've been away for almost 3 decades... This stuff is all so new to me...

Happy week...
bnick
 
Thanks for the great info and video! Dear Santa, now I would like an AT Gold, too. If I am very, very good, can I have it for Easter?
 
Yo William, Bill, and Bart...

Not being of sound mind and body I decided to make a simple depth tool... I found a nice small but strong nylon L bracket and super glued it onto a spare all wood (non-conductive) yard stick, with this unbelievably strong CA glue I use for my, RC Planes, Heli's, and Cars... Then I used good strong Velcro and attached a piece to the L bracket... The matching Velcro I attached to the coin I want to depth test... It is really strong and will pull out of the earth without coming off I'm sure from all the pull weight I put on it tonight... Anyway I know these tests are pretty much one time things we all do as we learn a new machine but this will surely work for nuggets too... Just dig a deep enough hole and drop down the yard stick to the surface depth I want, fill the hole, do a dance to pack her down, and test... What has my life come to...?

Ok you can all laugh now, ha...
bnick
 
That is an awesome idea. Speaking of rc planes, I bought a wildhawk and the super cub. I had to buy some of that good glue to keep gluing my wildhawk back togather again......Lol
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top