Why make it something it is not?

[woodchiphustler]

The AT Gold is foremost a gold machine. It is very sensitive to small low conductive metal. I have been using it to relic hunt colonial sites loaded with iron. In iron ID mode you have to concentrate on the two signals it produces to pull out good targets from the iron. If you chose to turn off iron id you will become a "meter watcher" because in all metal mode all targets sound the same with iron id off. With 40 choices of iron resolution it allows the operator to adjust just the right amount of iron disc to prevent iron masking. From 40 to 50 is a range of conductors that is mostly small non ferrous targets. When relic hunting in woods and fields this is mostly small buckshot, .22 caliber lead etc. You must be patient and willing to dig a ton of these targets in order to find larger, deeper conductors and targets on edge. If you use disc. 2 you will miss many buttons and the signal will break up on some Minnie balls. Why do people ask will this detector find coins? It will find all targets down to a certain depth. Most coin hunters including my self when I hunt coins ,would want a detector with a little more disc or notch ability. Real world depth on most coins???? Depends on ground minerals and coil size and detector frequency enhanced to find high conductors. The small coil has excellent depth but its advantage is to separate targets in close proximity. To me the AT Gold is a well made, well thought out machine designed to do just what the add says. FIND GOLD. You want to make it an "all rounder" you can but don't complain when using it for certain applications. Chose wisely.

 

[1ringedingy]

The finds shown here on the forum prove that this detector works nicely for many applications. To each his own, but I for one, like my AT Gold much better then i did my AT Pro for any application.

Ray

 

[widebody]

[size=large]i for one don't think the ATG has shown it's better'n the ATP. nothing i've seen shows that it couldn't have been found with the ATP. if this hype follows last years model then it's gunna heat up real soon. the holidays are upon us.

HH [/size]

 

[Frank in NH]

But i have seen what the Gold can do on gold. Here in NH all we have is small flakes of gold in our rivers in the mountains. The AT Gold will detect these flakes using the small sniper coil. Will also detect small gold chains.

 

[1ringedingy]

It will also find the gold flakes with the stock coil

Ray

 

[Jerry-Wi]

I do not think enough time has passed. The only people who can really tell are those that have and use both the At Pro and At Gold machines. I do not have the Gold at the moment so all I will say is it seems like the At Pro is intended as a more of a general purpose detector while the At Gold is more specialized towards a specific task. However, from the reports that are being posted on the forums, it does quite well at more than just hunting for gold so I may be completely wrong.

Jerry

 

[Frank in NH]

Mine is coming today, and sent my AT Pro back to Garrett for upgrades. I think i will end up keeping both.

 

[woodchiphustler]

I have both models. The Pro at 15khz will not hit as hard on small non ferrous targets as well as the Gold.I'm digging allot more small non-ferrous targets with the Gold so if I was a gold hunter this is great news. But remember colonial sites are littered with iron targets and after over two hundred years there is a ton of non-ferrous trash in the ground. I have dug less small non ferrous targets with the Pro. I'm picking up the 8.5 x11 dd coil for the Gold this week. Want to see if it will be less sensitive to small non-ferrous targets based on its size. Leaning towards the Pro for relic hunting at the moment. 50 id and up just seems to get more good keeper targets.
On another note I have seen allot of silver coins posted . Most are in the range of any detector. My theory is simple. Small coil, faster response finds masked shallow targets.