I'm handing my ATpro down to my dad and I'm looking for a new detector, I will have around $1000 to spend. Only thing I'm scared of is the sounds of different detectors, I love how the ATPro ding really loud when it found a good target, I noticed sloth other detectors everything sounds the same. My questions is what is the best detector for my price range? I will be hunting fields and dry sand. Thank you
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New MD for spring
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MNCoinhunter
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Minelab Explorer ... of course.
First, good for you to make a nice gift to your Dad! 
OK, so you got a grand to spend, like tones, and will be hunting dry sand and fields?
We of course will all recommend what we would use in your situation, and that could make it tough for you to decide. Try to break your decision down into segments if you can, check out the tone capability of machines first, price second, then the rest just becomes a matter of personal preference and small details...
I would suggest you look pretty hard at the F70, and others in that framework, it has Delta Pitch tone capability, and a lot more, DP assigns a different tone to every integer on the scale from 1 to 99. so a nickle sounds different than a pulltab, and a Q from a dime, and so on..
Its very light, so you can cover fields and sand all day, it uses the same batteries as the ATPro, and its under a grand. If you get it with the 11"dd coil and get a 5" along with it, you will be set up pretty good.
Full disclosure, I have an AtPro and an F70, and switching from one to the other covers a multitude of situations be it weather or speed. You can extend the shaft and sort of crouch down and cover a heck of a swath on a beach or open field very comfortably and fast. Well, you got all winter, you may just as well find the nearest dealer and go try a few different ones out. Good Luck, and HH
Mud
OK, so you got a grand to spend, like tones, and will be hunting dry sand and fields?We of course will all recommend what we would use in your situation, and that could make it tough for you to decide. Try to break your decision down into segments if you can, check out the tone capability of machines first, price second, then the rest just becomes a matter of personal preference and small details...
I would suggest you look pretty hard at the F70, and others in that framework, it has Delta Pitch tone capability, and a lot more, DP assigns a different tone to every integer on the scale from 1 to 99. so a nickle sounds different than a pulltab, and a Q from a dime, and so on..
Its very light, so you can cover fields and sand all day, it uses the same batteries as the ATPro, and its under a grand. If you get it with the 11"dd coil and get a 5" along with it, you will be set up pretty good.
Full disclosure, I have an AtPro and an F70, and switching from one to the other covers a multitude of situations be it weather or speed. You can extend the shaft and sort of crouch down and cover a heck of a swath on a beach or open field very comfortably and fast. Well, you got all winter, you may just as well find the nearest dealer and go try a few different ones out. Good Luck, and HH
Mud
You might want to rethink your decision about getting a dedicated gold detector when there are plenty of all purpose detectors out there that will find both gold and silver equally well. The problem with gold is that much of your trash reads just like gold and not even a dedicated gold detector is going to make much of a difference if your gold jewelry is located in among modern day trash such as foil, lead, melted can slaw, pulltabs and so forth. Garrett has the AT-PRO Gold and Minelab has its AT-705 gold pkg., either of which might be a wiser choice than the Gold Bug Pro. White's MXT also hits well on gold jewelry, plus there are quite a few others.
Rick N. MI
Member
Tesoro's are very good. Maybe an AT Gold.
Rick
Rick