The AT Pro-What a Detector

[RLOH]

This am I drove 20 miles to the county fairgrounds only to find 4 inches of snow covering the grounds so I drove up to Lake Erie to get some open grounds to hunt. I went to a spot in the park where I have not had much success because of it being an old parking lot which now has 4 or 5 inches of dirt on top of it. This place is a cinder lot and it drives every detector I have used nuts including all of the Explorers I have used. I was going to enjoy a sunny day, but I was not expecting too much. The AT ground balanced at 95 and was chirping away on these underlying cinders. I chose not to reduce the sens and left it one bar from max and listened for good signals punching through the chirps. I got a 88 vdi and when I checked with iron audio on, the high tone was poking through the grunts. The depth gauge was showing 8 inches as I barely moved the coil to isolate the good signal. I dug down to about 8 inches and found a large rusty bolt with a nut . I stuck my Pro Pointer back in the hole and quickly found a 1924 wheat penny. I rescanned the hole with my detector and got another 84 signal. Back in with the Pro Pointer and found a 1942 mercury dime. Now I am thinking pocket spill! Rechecked and found a 1947 silver quarter. Rechecked with pinpointer and found another old wheatie. Rechecked again and found 1937 Buffalo nickel. Now for what I really like about the AT Pro. I hunt in Pro mode, zero. Iron disc at 25. If you are using a similar type setup, do yourself a favor and even if you are getting the iron grunts, if there is a good signal poking through, dig it. I have never used any detector that is as good as the AT Pro when the good target is close to a piece of rusty iron. This detector is phenominal at unmasking a coin next to rusty iron. I wish I could say that every time I check one of these high tones mixed in with the iron grunts, it will be a coin. Many times it is not, but more times than naught, it will be something good. After this nice spill, I found three more wheaties and two tokens. I purposely left the area so I will have a place to look forward to hunting in the spring. This year was my worst year for silver coins since 2000. Todays two silver made 40 and 41. But, I have had my best year ever with Indian Head pennies. I have found 29 of them with the majority found with the AT Pro. I have also found 352 wheat pennies. If you do the math, that is about one silver coin for every 9 wheat pennies. I am going to buy the smaller dd coil when I cash in my clad this winter. I have a very good feeling that this coil will be the bomb in high trash sites. The 8.5x11 is extremely good in trash for a big coil, but if the smaller version is nearly as good as the big coil, it will make it even better. R.L.

 

[B.RATNY]

I totally agree, I've used them all and the ATP is by far the best detector in the iron. Sounds like you made some nice finds this year.
HH Butch NY

 

[John-Edmonton]

I too have found very iffy signals where I pulled out a rusty piece of junk, recheck the hole and out comes a coin. It can sure do some magic which other detectors can't!

 

[William-NM]

Yep, even us newbies are pulling shiny stuff out of the same hole with rusty iron or slaw. Love my AT Pro

 

[Sailorman]

...and the AT-Pro with the new 5x8 DD is even better in the trash!

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Great post here! Very true!!