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Out digging with the Minelab boys today.

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B.RATNY

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I caught up to Park Pirate and Ed (upstate) this morning at one of our hunted out parks. I started a little slow only finding the lion ring and cross, relocated to a different area of the park and ended the day with a few old coins.
HH Butch NY.
 
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Those are some awesome finds...Just goes to show...It is not how much you spend, but how well you know your machine...WTG!

HH,
 
Yes John, It has no problem at all keeping up. I know we're not supposed to compare machines on this forum but I would feel very confident hunting alongside any machine out there. With the AT Pro or Gold.
HH Butch NY
 
I hunted with 3 friends with the E-T's......
I have checked targets with one friend several times, since I got the AT pro,,,on my 3rd set of battery's.
Anyway,,,he called me over to check a target,,,I was using the 5x8 coil,, full sens,Zero disc,,,no iron disc,,
and iron audio off,,,in pro mode...Coil on the ground,,,no air gap...
I could not get a sound,,,another friend checked it with his E-T and 6x8 sef coil,, he said it was nothing
that he would dig...
My friend was using the 12 x 15 sef coil,,, he dug a deep plug, it was a deep wheatie,, in the side of the hole.
at a angle,, he put his pro pointer in the hole,,it was deeper than the pro pointer,( 9" ) so it must have been
like 10" deep.....I think being on a angle made it hard to pick up.....
I need to start using my stock coil...... And learn that coil...
We have fun...
Bj
 
Hi BJ, You probably would have heard it using the stock coil, I've dug quite a few old ones at 10+ inches with accurate ID's. The 5X8 isn't quite as deep but it really shines when your hunting in the heavy trash.
HH Butch NY
 
Butch,,
I am not sure I want to dig as deep as the stock coil goes,lol.....
At 70,, I don't enjoy digging that deep.....

Last month,, I dug a 1943 Walking Liberty half,, at about 3" deep,,this was a loud clean tone...
I am sure that it read 99 on the meter,,, but a few days later,, I checked it on clean ground and it read 92,,,93...
A week later,, when I returned to the site,,, and checked the same hole,, all i got was the iron sound.....
I am trying to figure out why it read so high....
Here is a picture,, you can see where the half was,,,and in the top right hand corner, what looks like rust,,,any ideas ???
Bj
 
The rust was more than likely a small nail or piece of iron that had completely rusted away and left the residue which will still, if undisturbed give off a signal due to the halo effect left behind. This very well could be why you got the high 99 id before you dug the coin and when you swept the coin alone you got a more normal reading on it. And I here you about digging those deep signals it can be a real chore digging that deep.
HH Butch NY
 
I go out with my ETrac and my GF uses my AT Pro and she smoked me a few times really good with some nice finds!
 
Hi BJ, I've hunted freshly plowed fields and the AT Pro worked great. Quite a few good finds and excellent depth. I know what you mean some machines don't seem to work as good in freshly dug ground. No problem for the AT Pro.
HH Butch NY
 
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