Well, I took the GTi1500 out to the beach yesterday for it's maiden voyage.................

[mtdoramike]

and was very impressed with it. I had heard that the GTi's weren't very good at the beach in the wet sand, but I found this not to be true. It will hit a coi at 6" in the wet sand, how much deeper? I don't know, I didn't run into anything deeper then that. I ran sesitivity around 8 in the salt mode. I'm really impressed with the GTi and even bought a 4" coil for it, which I rarely ever do. But the GTi is a keeper for sure so I figured I would invest in a small coil for it and the Gti inline probe.

One of these days, I'm going to have to try me one of those 2500's.

 

[John-Edmonton]

I have always had good hunts in the dry sand with my 1500. I dig in zero discrimination (less the 1st 2 nothches at the left end of the screen)and dig everything. I have pulled out some nice silver coins at nice depths that others have missed. Nothing wrong with the 1500....

 

[richg]

The problem is with that is if you did start finding coins and got them at 6" twice as many were left for the guy with the Minelab Explorer 2. I was simply amazed with its beach and land performance. Once site I hit with the 1500 and beat it to death with the 12.5 and 14" dd, I thought nothing was left, well in my second trip to that yard 10 wheat pennies came a calling. I did not find any silver with the 1500 and I wondered why, well its there because I have found the signals with Explorer. It seems to me that the smallest amount of iron anywhere in the ground renders the gti useless for anything deep. It is unreal how the explorer can pick out a quarter next to some iron why the gti took the night off. I agree it is a great coin shooter and dry sand detector and thats about it.

 

[mtdoramike]

because I took the Minelab Quattro and covered the same ground at the beach, mainly because I was curious, but didn't find anything that the GTi left.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah the GTI's don't leave much.

Bill