Mick in Dubbo
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As tomorrow is 12 months to the day since I bought the 1500, I decided that I should bring it's total up to the next even $100 mark. So I took it out for a couple of hunts this week end.
yesterday, I took it to my favourite haunt, a park that has the local farmers market in it twice a month (pictured). I pulled up just over $21 out of it in a bit over 3 hours. I had 3 12yr old aboriginal boys followed me around for about an hour. They were very curious and impressed, especially when I told them that one target was a 1c piece. These coins have been out of circulation for about 20 years now, but it was going to be that or a $2 coin on edge (hitting a notch higher with a narrower signal). It was a 1c piece. (I was impressed too.
) The boys were full of friendly cheek, dropping a few coins in front of me to see if I could detect them and pretend to not know how they got there.
One of them spied a $2 just in front of where I was detecting and dived on it like a Magpie in season! (Magpies are a midsized black and white bird that for 6 weeks of the year, dive bomb just about anything that moves, as they see just about anything a threat to there young. They can do some damage from time to time as well with their beaks, but mostly , onlookers get to have a good chuckle at the antics as the latest unsuspecting victim is dive bombed from behind.)
I thought that I had reached my goal when I packed it in, but checking when I got home found me $5 short. Isn't it a shame when you have to go out again to detect.
So after a few matters were dealt with today, I headed out for an afternoon hunt to finish the job properly. When I had less than $2 to go, I recovered a $2 coin that had been cut in half. The next coin was a $1 coin followed by yet another chopped $2 coin. my goal was just teasing me. At this point, I had to go and pick my eldest up from work and run around on a couple of errands. After this was done, I was forced 
thumbup: to go out on one final hunt to complete the goal, which was done after half an hour, but you know how it is; why stop there. I was only a few minutes late home for dinner. It was still mostly warm
So; after 12 months with the GTI, I've found $600+ with it, had a lot of fun and learned that it takes me over 60 hours before I like any detector. I've been pretty grumpy with all of my detectors to different degrees inside of this time frame. I guess that's why it's called learning frustration. I love the imaging and much prefer the softer sounding tones over the Ace. About it's only real weak points are it's slow recovery speed with the imaging coil, and both the battery cable is vulnerable when the battery pack is hip mounted and aggravated wear on sliding the battery pack on and off are it's only real flaws. A part from that, it's a great little detector. Putting the Scorcher coil on improves the recovery speed and the tones are more animated (you can tell targets apart more easily by listening to the width of the signal (same in pinpoint). It will see many more years of use.
I thought that I would include a photo of my favourite hunting spot today. It's only a 15 minute walk from home. Over the last 3 years, I've pulled out over $600 out of this spot.
Mick Evans.
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yesterday, I took it to my favourite haunt, a park that has the local farmers market in it twice a month (pictured). I pulled up just over $21 out of it in a bit over 3 hours. I had 3 12yr old aboriginal boys followed me around for about an hour. They were very curious and impressed, especially when I told them that one target was a 1c piece. These coins have been out of circulation for about 20 years now, but it was going to be that or a $2 coin on edge (hitting a notch higher with a narrower signal). It was a 1c piece. (I was impressed too.
) The boys were full of friendly cheek, dropping a few coins in front of me to see if I could detect them and pretend to not know how they got there. One of them spied a $2 just in front of where I was detecting and dived on it like a Magpie in season! (Magpies are a midsized black and white bird that for 6 weeks of the year, dive bomb just about anything that moves, as they see just about anything a threat to there young. They can do some damage from time to time as well with their beaks, but mostly , onlookers get to have a good chuckle at the antics as the latest unsuspecting victim is dive bombed from behind.)I thought that I had reached my goal when I packed it in, but checking when I got home found me $5 short. Isn't it a shame when you have to go out again to detect.
So after a few matters were dealt with today, I headed out for an afternoon hunt to finish the job properly. When I had less than $2 to go, I recovered a $2 coin that had been cut in half. The next coin was a $1 coin followed by yet another chopped $2 coin. my goal was just teasing me. At this point, I had to go and pick my eldest up from work and run around on a couple of errands. After this was done, I was forced thumbup: to go out on one final hunt to complete the goal, which was done after half an hour, but you know how it is; why stop there. I was only a few minutes late home for dinner. It was still mostly warmSo; after 12 months with the GTI, I've found $600+ with it, had a lot of fun and learned that it takes me over 60 hours before I like any detector. I've been pretty grumpy with all of my detectors to different degrees inside of this time frame. I guess that's why it's called learning frustration. I love the imaging and much prefer the softer sounding tones over the Ace. About it's only real weak points are it's slow recovery speed with the imaging coil, and both the battery cable is vulnerable when the battery pack is hip mounted and aggravated wear on sliding the battery pack on and off are it's only real flaws. A part from that, it's a great little detector. Putting the Scorcher coil on improves the recovery speed and the tones are more animated (you can tell targets apart more easily by listening to the width of the signal (same in pinpoint). It will see many more years of use.
I thought that I would include a photo of my favourite hunting spot today. It's only a 15 minute walk from home. Over the last 3 years, I've pulled out over $600 out of this spot.
Mick Evans.
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but i did own one and miss it alot i up graded too the gti 2500 last fall and only got too use it once befor the snow and hard ground arrived so we will see how it holds up lol im sure it will do just as good.