Garrett AT Gold!

[TennTyrant]

I am about to order 2 new AT Golds one for me and one for my son, We relic and coin hunt and from what I have read this seems to be good for that, The reason I am going with the gold is that we like to hunt in all metal. How deep can I expect to detect mini balls and buttons with the AT gold? And I will be ordering them tonight from a dealer on this site just trying to choose which one, I live in Tennessee and want to get them by wed if possible? How well does the AT Gold pinpoint and how fast is the recovery speed? Thanks for any help I am going to order right after WWE goes off so any help before then would be great.

 

[John-Edmonton]

There are too many variables to accurately tell you how deep a detector goes on any given target, however, in good soil, a minnie ball could easily be picked up at 6+ inches, and even more from reading some of the posts. Buttons even deeper. The detector pinpoints well.....the more you are familiar with it, the better it pinpoints. The recovery speed is good also

 

[MikeLab]

If you go the the Garrett website, there are several instructional videos for the AT Gold you can watch. Down the page there is one about hunting in trashy city parks (part 1) . Right near the beginning he puts it in all metal and you can hear how fast it is.

I've never dug any mini balls around here, but any lead hits really hard.

 

[MikeLab]

Did you get to watch the video? I should mention it is a good idea to start out in the less trashy areas. Where Steve was working is pretty much overwhelming trash. It's something you will need to build up to if you want to work there. Even in areas like that I try to find the edge of the extreme trash, where it starts to thin out. Another thing, he was working in DISC 2. Many of the targets are on the edge of the discrimination cut-off and that's why all the scratchy signals. If you recall, the all metal every signal is clean sound.

 

[MikeLab]

Now I feel bad about directing you to that trashy park video. That is extreme and I don't hunt areas like that. I think he was just trying to show how the machine can single out targets even in that much trash. I do about 75% of my hunting in DISC 1 and the rest in All Metal, especially if I start finding good deep targets. In DISC 1 you will get a few scratchy sounds at the edge of the discrimination cut-off, but it's minimal. And you can switch to All Metal if you get an "iffy" one.

I'm not saying to stay out of the extreme trash, just that it will overwhelm you in a short time. Some people have a lot higher trash tolerance, but I'm not one of them. If you are doing the relic hunting, you really want to learn the Iron Audio and how to set the Hi-Res iron discrimination. Those are very powerful tools that really make that detector. Well, ALL the features make that detector. I've found coins at least twelve inches, but they don't ID accurately at that depth. You have to dig a few inches then recheck. If you watch the relic hunt videos, you will see they find a lot of lead.