Well, got out yesterday to another iron patch and open pastures. Finds were 1/2 and 1/2 between the two machines. Hunted 1/2 the day with the 1000 and the other with the Gold. I have to say, in the soil I was in, both worked extremely well. Good asortment of relics, strange thou, no buttons. Most of the buttons that I have found there were roached anyways, most falling apart as soon as they hit the air. Most of the lead/ bullets were in the 8-9" range. Both machines work well in heavy iron trash, mostly recovering .22 bullets and buck balls at extreme depths, some at the 10" range. With both machines, most deep targets sounded like they were on top of the ground. The deepest object I found was the coffee pot at 24 inches. It gave a good bullet high tone when I found it. Even at nail reject these machines love horseshoes, washers and chunks of cast iron pots and stoves. I dug no nails with either machine, working in two tone mode, the nails were just low tones. The Buffalo Nickel was a suprise at 8" with a strong tone. The main difference I can see between the two machines is that the 1000 had a broader disc range. At 12:00 on the disc it will knock out small lead and brass and at nail reject at 9:00 it will give a blended tone on small lead and brass, sounds kinda like the AT Pro in Pro mode. The Gold disc can be cranked up with out loosing small brass and lead. This site has had lots of pre 20th century activity with a road running thru it and having early telegraph/phone lines thru it. The insulators have lead threads in them, that's how I found them, wish I would of found a whole one!!
Anyways, if you want a pure relic hunting machine, the Vista's are the way to go!!!!!
Anyways, if you want a pure relic hunting machine, the Vista's are the way to go!!!!!