New AT Pro, New Member

[JunkShopFiddler]

Hi all, greetings from southwestern Indiana,

Just got my new AT Pro, hunted for 28 years with an '84 Master Hunter 7, bench tested and watched all the Garrett.com videos. This thing is very intimidating compared to my old MH7...(hoping I didn't make a big mistake)...any and all advise for my first land hunt will be greatly appreciated, lots of bottle caps and aluminum cans in my hunting grounds, thanks in advance!

 

[mudpuppy]

Welcome and cool handle you got there JunkShopFiddler! Theres a lot of us new guys learning from the veterans on this forum, one should be along shortly to give you some advice.
Mud

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Find a less trash place and start swinging. You will do fine!

 

[TopperColorado]

Start with the 5 1/2" x 8" in trash areas. Dig everything for the first hour or so, then as you learn (or get tired) you can be selective. Great machine and really easy to use. Have fun !!

 

[JunkShopFiddler]

Thanks all

 

[VDI53]

Mid tones is where the gold is,it took me awhile to catch on,nickles are too,and of course pop tops,good stuff in the 50's................

 

[teleman2525]

once you get some time in go to pro zero mode put iron disc up to about 32 iron audio on those bottle caps go burp beep burp most of the time bottle caps can sound so nice ive dug alot but the iron audieo realy helps id them give it a try i was in neck deep water yesterday what a blast can,t do that with my explorer just got to now find a better way to push in my sand scoop when im that deep i keeping boobing up like a cork lol

 

[firstring]

You will fall in love with the AT Pro. Experience is the best teacher for any machine. The AT Pro is so non threatening, you will do just fine with it. I believe your results will increase dramatically. A friend of mine told me the best way to use it was to "Grip it and rip it". Don't be intimidated by it. It truly is user friendly. Happy hunting.

 

[JunkShopFiddler]

Unfreaking believable, what is this thing doing? poppity-crack-a-doing-a-skinky-skunk-a-boppity-zonk...cannot move the coil 2 inches without getting a digital version of the 1957 hit by the Marcels "Blue Moon"...bom bom a bomp a dangitty dang dang a dingitty dong ding (and then the low tone iron audio button grand finale)... bluuuuuuuuuuue moooooooooooon.
Tried the ground balance ,the frequency change, turned down the sensitivity to the equivalent of rhino skin, drove to three different locations where I could easily find three to five dollars an hour before in shallow clad with some silver to boot and got nothing but bottle caps.
Got clean high tones in the 80's in std mode...bottle caps...clean high tones in pro mode with and without iron audio...bottle caps...every time at all disc. settings in all modes...bottle caps. Been going to these locations for years with the old Master Hunter 7 and got a 50 to 1 ratio of coins to bottle caps, today dug 300 clean high tone signals with the AT pro and got 2 jeff nickels, 1 zinc penny, and... (drum roll please)...297 bottle caps, (the bottle caps that I missed all those years with my MH 7)... I cant get that blue moon song out of my brain...

Blue Moon,
you saw me standing alone,
without a quarter in my pocket,
without a dime of my own.

Should I ask anyone for a fix, a solution, a suggestion...this is incredibly bad...I don't see how this CAN fix. They should make criminals listen to this, after a few minutes of this cacophony of horrors they will confess to anything! How can anyone hear a faint coin at 6 to 8 inches during this non-stop do-wop concert in the headphones...My freaking goodness! I cannot think of anything bad enough to discribe the awfulness of this torture device....600 bucks, I think I'm gonna be sick.