New here - GTI 2500

[Jims]

Hello All,

Just saying hi after lurking for a month .I've been enjoying reading your posts. I got a Garrett GTI 2500 last month, took it out the first day and it shut off after 5 minutes and wouldn't turn back on. I sent it back to Garrett and they fixed me up and I'm good to go now. I used to MD back in the late 70's when I was a teenager with a White Beachcomber back before discrimination, dug tons of crap, but used to find lots of old silver coins . I took out my 2500 last night for the first time to a school and I got to say what a great machine. I only went out for an hour and much of that time was learning to swing the machine after 30 years and found 4 dimes and 9 pennies. Nothing special but I was pretty happy about finding some stuff my first day out. The pinpointing on this is deadly and if it says it is a coin, it was always a coin. I'm looking forward to learning its ins and outs so I can get proficient. I'm just going to hunt for a couple months in the Coins discrimination until I get some practice in.

 

[cwilk]

You might consider adding one or two more notches on the upper side of nickel and removing a few below zinc cent. Most of my big gold rings hit around notch 5 or 5.5. In fact, unless you are digging way too many pop tops and pull tabs, I would suggest jewelry mode and just dig all repeating signals until you figure out where everything indicates. Some day one of those pop top signals will blow you away with a sweet ring or pendant.

Your 2500 was probably damaged in transit. Garrett has the best customer service around so I know they treated you right. I think the more you use it the happier you will be with your choice. I use mine 3-5 times a week and mine never lets me down.

Chris

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah stay in the coins mode for a good spell until you get familiar with the 2500. It has a bit of a learning curve. It will reward you We'll be looking forward to your success and some pics of your finds.

Bill

 

[Jims]

Thanks for the hints. Next trip out I will try Jewelry mode. I figured Discrimination was the reason I wasn't getting any nickels.

 

[prospector 55]

Two of my GTIs died too after a recent purchase, plus a schocher coil was also bad, Garret really needs to improve on there qualty control, we the customer should not have to put up with there mistakes, but they did make good on there warranty I really appreciate that, one thing I found out about the GTI 2500 it hits almost all galvanized metal and nails as good targets and IDs them as coins, but so do my other detectors, another thing that is nice about this unit is it hits placer gold in all metal or disc mode, this was a small amount of flake flood gold that I mined with my sluice box and pan, it actually picks up the placer gold as well as my minelab eureka gold does, galvanized screws and nails can be a little frustrating with this unit I dug a #4 galvanized screw at about 5 to 7 inches thats a fairly powerful detector, I have alot of construction trash in my area, the more you use the 2500 the more you will like it, I have four cols for mine I think this guy will make a pretty good nuggett shooter, it is more powerful than I thought it would be, I also get a number of false targets but that could be metal that I am not seeing or my magnet is not picking up, all in all this is a fun machine to use and it hits on very small targets at some pretty good depths hope you find lots of keepers..
Happy Hunting/ Prospector 55

 

[Uncle Willy]

I had a deep detector years ago that drove me nuts. It was a Fisher 441 straight VLF - no discrimination. It found the head off a nail at 14 inches. That's when I parked it and quit using it.

Bill

 

[awhitster]

Welcome to the forum. Let us know what you find.