bearkat4160
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Quick Video Test: Garrett ATX vs GPX 5000
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bearkat4160
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And you can still add more threshold and sensitivity too, or use the non-motion mode. Scary, isn't it.
bearkat4160 Your doing a good job with the videos!!
I am currently deployed overseas with the australian army and will be home by christmass
so when i can get on the net which is not often ive been following the ATX with a great deal of interest ,as i have one payed for and hopefully
my wife will have it wrapped for christmas ,i was gong to buy a GPX5000 then saw the specs on the ATX and more importantly the price,i now know that i havent wasted my money as it runs quiet and picks up small gold to at least match the 5000 ,now it remains to be seen if it will do this in Australia in our minrelised soil,i hope so as my money is spent!
Hows it going to go on hard to detect specimen gold ?cant wait to find that out! keep posting were watching cheeers
I am currently deployed overseas with the australian army and will be home by christmass
so when i can get on the net which is not often ive been following the ATX with a great deal of interest ,as i have one payed for and hopefully
my wife will have it wrapped for christmas ,i was gong to buy a GPX5000 then saw the specs on the ATX and more importantly the price,i now know that i havent wasted my money as it runs quiet and picks up small gold to at least match the 5000 ,now it remains to be seen if it will do this in Australia in our minrelised soil,i hope so as my money is spent!
Hows it going to go on hard to detect specimen gold ?cant wait to find that out! keep posting were watching cheeers
steve herschbach
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Here we go, let the detector wars begin!
lytle78 said:
bearkat4160
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Yep well said again Steve...how do you type so much so fast? Lol
Like you said the Minelab 5000 guys won't be giving theirs up for the ATX but some will buy it to add to their arsenal, and some that have never done it will definatlety look closely now at the ATX.
Bearkat
Like you said the Minelab 5000 guys won't be giving theirs up for the ATX but some will buy it to add to their arsenal, and some that have never done it will definatlety look closely now at the ATX.
Bearkat
Bearkat.
Thank you for taking all your time in putting these clips together over the past few weeks. It is so important for myself and others to "hear" the ATX responses to gold as we are due soon to pluck down nearly $4000 on our new units. It's only due to guys like you that we can pick up so much information by going by sound alone. So ....thanks again.....much appreciated.
Would love to see a few different size pieces in under undisturbed ground from four inches to twenty inches in comparison to the GPX .....If you can could you make that you're next project?
.....but I guess I'll be doing that myself in a couple of weeks anyway. As will others.
Thank you for taking all your time in putting these clips together over the past few weeks. It is so important for myself and others to "hear" the ATX responses to gold as we are due soon to pluck down nearly $4000 on our new units. It's only due to guys like you that we can pick up so much information by going by sound alone. So ....thanks again.....much appreciated.
Would love to see a few different size pieces in under undisturbed ground from four inches to twenty inches in comparison to the GPX .....If you can could you make that you're next project?
.....but I guess I'll be doing that myself in a couple of weeks anyway. As will others.
rigger572 said:
Good on you 572.
After your deployment you deserve a great Christmas. This ATX should handle our ground fine. Something tells me they will run on the same ground that gets our GPX's moaning, so we should do okay with them.
They've got us in under the ground and give us a nice response though, so fingers crossed.
Be good to have you back digger.
Smigo
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Hmm! Not putting rubbish on this machine as I hope it is good, if so I would buy one. But that test shows ZIP. I ran into a guy out bush the other day with a VLF and he wanted to test it against my 5000. I kept telling him don't bother, it'll be a waste of time unless I found a target to compare undug. I didn't want to do this though as he was dodgey and don't detect with anyone I don't like, full stop. Let alone show them where I find gold. He persisted and got out a little bit, put it on the ground like in this video and went over it. I relented and did the same. There was little diff in the depth. He was going "see, see, my $1700 VLF is as good as yours that you spent 6 grand on!" I said "yeah, keep telling yourself that mate!"
Thing is gold in the ground is different big time from gold not in the ground. Undug gold even more so. I have seen VLFs that look tops testing above ground but on undug targets that the 5 gets no probs they did not even register. Iv tested that many machines over the years that I gave up doing planted gold testing years ago, its pointless. I test one way only. Take the detector out and hunt. Get a target, don't dig it and test side by side. Its the only true way to do it.
Not bagging the Infinium but when it came out a guy did the planted test and showed people it matching the Minelab 2200 on larger gold. Out in the real world though it didn't and guys that got them after hearing it matched the 22, later were spitting bullets they got it.
Why didn't the guy in this vid at least use a metal rod to push a little hole in the ground where you would find and dig for nuggets or anywhere at least, causing minimal ground disturbance and have them surrounded by actual ground? How easy would that be to do? You could even do it with the pick point for that matter! But on top! Huh!
The 5000's ability shines in bad ground, that's what it is good at doing, seeing through that haze of mineralisation. Get a normal spotlight and a fog spotlight, like a blue eye, on a good night and there is no dif, try them on a foggy night and see what happens!
Thing is gold in the ground is different big time from gold not in the ground. Undug gold even more so. I have seen VLFs that look tops testing above ground but on undug targets that the 5 gets no probs they did not even register. Iv tested that many machines over the years that I gave up doing planted gold testing years ago, its pointless. I test one way only. Take the detector out and hunt. Get a target, don't dig it and test side by side. Its the only true way to do it.
Not bagging the Infinium but when it came out a guy did the planted test and showed people it matching the Minelab 2200 on larger gold. Out in the real world though it didn't and guys that got them after hearing it matched the 22, later were spitting bullets they got it.
Why didn't the guy in this vid at least use a metal rod to push a little hole in the ground where you would find and dig for nuggets or anywhere at least, causing minimal ground disturbance and have them surrounded by actual ground? How easy would that be to do? You could even do it with the pick point for that matter! But on top! Huh!
The 5000's ability shines in bad ground, that's what it is good at doing, seeing through that haze of mineralisation. Get a normal spotlight and a fog spotlight, like a blue eye, on a good night and there is no dif, try them on a foggy night and see what happens!
goldpoacher
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I agree any test has to be done on undisturbed targets,also the small target was very audiable on the ML detector even when tester said No Response, I hope to get hold of a ATX and put it through some tuff test that will make or brake the ATX in Hot Ground
Even if proofs not as good as GPX5000 I beleive it will still be great viable option for Gold detecting
Even if proofs not as good as GPX5000 I beleive it will still be great viable option for Gold detecting
bearkat4160
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I think you missed the point of the video as you seem blinded by your infatuation with the 5000. Looks to me the meaning of the video is to turn on detectors, with both in normal modes, quick scan, shut off, thats it. And the Minelab did worse...Lol. You just don't like the results...
bearkat4160
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Yes I think the 5000 should still have an edge...it should for $5500!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like the ATX is a fantastic alternative to those that want to buy a great PI and also buy a plane ticket to Australia to hunt for gold and extra food and Hotel to boot, all for the price of the GPX 5000.
Looks like the ATX is a fantastic alternative to those that want to buy a great PI and also buy a plane ticket to Australia to hunt for gold and extra food and Hotel to boot, all for the price of the GPX 5000.
Night Crawler
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I wonder how the 5000 would compare to the ATX in EMI conditions?
Great "out of the box" comparison video bearkat4160, thanks for posting it.
Great "out of the box" comparison video bearkat4160, thanks for posting it.