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GTI 2500 depth question............ :detecting:

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Bryan/EastTN

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I had a question about the depth for all you 2500 users out there. The 2500 is probably the next Garrett on my list to get and was reading alot of info about it. Was wondering what kind of depth does the 2500 get on coin objects in the discriminate mode in good soil..... i.e. low to mid minderalization? Will be hunting alot of parks, houses and sites like that.

The 2500 has some cool features that I really like and look forward to getting one. :beers:

Thanks in advance for the help,
Bryan in TN
 
The short answer in my experience. 6-8 inches with stock coil. 8-10 inches with the 12.5 inch coil.

I have found coins down to at least 10 inches in discriminated mode with the large coil installed. A few silver quarters which indicated on the proper notch. I found about 50 silver dimes and over 250 wheats last year some down around 8-10 inches. The deep ones indicated all over the place on the scale and many were very iffy signals. I prefer the large coil when looking for deeper stuff. I use the stock coil at sites where I don't expect to find any older coins.

One note. On those iffy signals I usually switch to true all metal mode and scan a target again to try and pin down what it might be before I dig. Once you get this one, two, punch down pat, the silver really begins to accumulate.

One more note. I find when I go to a site that has old coin potential and hunt with the proper attitude (mostly patience) I usually find something worth digging.

Chris
 
i rarely make posts here but, i will tell what the deepest find me and my son have ever made. we were hunting the oldest home in our town. it was built before the civil war and was built by slaves. the owner is about 78 yrs old and gave us premission to hunt but, had to give him any finds that were historic to the house. i had just brought my son a new gti 1500. i was using a ace 250 that i first brought him. he got a signal over the middle of the driveway which is gravel. it was a good signal and i swung my 250 over it and got nothing. i told him to dig it. it imaged a quarter. he had a very hard time getting through the gravel. he finally got through which was about 4 inches. he pin pointed and got nothing but, swing the gti over the hole and still had a strong signal. the ace picked up nothing. he kept going and got down about another 4 inches in some soft soil. he had a hole around 8 inches now. no signal with the pin pointer but, a strong signal with the gti still yet. i had no signal with the ace 250 at all. i was beginning to think that there was a big piece of metal down there and told him that. he had spent all this time digging and was not going to give up now. besides the gti still imaged a quarter. we dug the hole out wider so i could get the ace 250's entire coil down in it at least 4 inches. the ace picked up nothing. my son kept digging and went down another 4 inches. i thought this is getting crazy now. my son stuck the pin pointer down in the hole. he was up to his elbows. if i am lying may the lord strike me down right now but, we had a hole dug out a good 12 inches. the pin pointer sounded off. i couldn't believe it. he took out another 2 inches and there was a brass tag just a little bigger than a quarter but not as big as a half dollar. it had a name on it and a number. we showed the owner the tag and he was shocked. it was a cattle tag with his grandfathers name on it and was from the late 1800's. if the gti 1500 can pick up this kind of find than the 2500 is surely capable of doing it. we have never found anything that deep since.
 
I totally agree with cwilk above. I had an Ace250 and after a years of use I upgraded to the GTI 2500. I am able to detect pennies and dimes easily down to 10 inches in discriminate mode with sensitivity set somewhere between 60 and 75 percent. I picked up a BB at 4 inches without any problems. My soil conditions are low mineralization clay environment (New Orleans mud and blackjack).

I loved the Ace250, but now I did far less and have I success rates with the GTI 2500.

Nick
 
The depth in disc mode of the 2500 in low mineral environment is quite impressive. Once the mineralization gets up there the disc mode lacks depth unless you run it on 10.5+ sensitivity. It might be a little unstable but it does help. The all metal mode seems deep wherever I go.

Alan
 
I dug a 3 cent siver at 8" inches with a GTI 2000 which is like a 2500. This was after hitting the same area with a DFX and Explorer 2. Last weekend I found two colonial buttons in a few minutes of hunting that my other two dectors had missed. Maybe it's me but I sure think I will be holding onto the GTI. Hunt in relic with sens at about 10 works for me.
 
Yeah I field tested the 2000 when it first came out back in the mid to late nineties. It's basically the same as the 2500 and it will find the goodies.

Bill
 
Yeah the 2500 in good soil conditions will go a lot deeper than many imagine. Years ago I pulled three Barbers ( in the same hole ) out from under a big tree root at a measured 14 inches. Had a helluva time digging those puppies out.

Bill
 
Yeah I don't know how much the mineral chip has helped as I haven't used my 2500 much lately or had a chance to come across anything real deep but I know from past experience it will get way down there. Has the chip made any difference for you in your nuggetshooting?

Bill
 
Bryan

A few years back one hot dry August day, I got a good signal that bounced back and forth between a dime and a nickel. This was in a gravel driveway where and old church once stood. The depth; meter showed 10 inches to bottomed out from nickel to dime.
Long story short I dug thru dry hard packed red gravel to about 8 inches and retrieved a 1965 dime. I then Checked the hole and had a solid nickel signal, so I dug out some more dirt and there sat a Buffalo Nickel. I did not measure the dept with a tape but it was at least 10 to 11 inches. (Digger was 10 inches long and nickel was a little deeper)
I dug a coin spill in another gravel driveway about 8 inches in damp ground. I thought they were all wheat pennies until I got home and cleaned them and one was an Indian head.

Those finds were all factory preset coins w/GTI 2500 treasure talk machine with 9 1/2 coil.
 
I'm excited about getting my 2500 (hopefully in a couple of weeks) sounds like the depth is gonna be great and be able to pull some deeper coins out that my ACE might be missing! :bouncy:

Thanks everyone for the posts,
Bryan
 
Oh yeh it has help stability in hot ground while in all metal mode. Being more stable I can crank the sensitivity up more, esspecialy with the DD coils. If I am in the woods I can run the sensitivity at 11-12, usually 12 with the DD's and makes it one hot machine. If using the stock coil and if prospecting and am hunting around "soil with few rocks" I will hunt at 9 sensitivity, and if on like a gravel bar that is ALL rocks/boulders and using the round coils, she can be quite noisy and hunt around 6-7 sensitivity. The tracking system seems to work better with the new chip. But the tracking on an Whites MXT in hot ground is still more aggressive and smoother for some reason.

Alan
 
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