First and foremost I have to get this out of the way. This machine has been the simplest machine I think I have ever used. The pinpointing with retune is amazing and just remembering to lift and reset back to disc and bam back to it. I was using the button halfway but found it just as easy to switch it. The thing I love about this is sizing up the targets. The detector is like swinging a feather. My gosh I could swing 12 hours and still go. I had no troubles ground balancing or anyof the modes. Everything just worked as I had seen in the videos.
I did not have a camera as my wife had it. We did goto the school but we hunted a new area and not the old stomping grounds as I wanted to have a fresh area to test with my son as he is new to this. I set him up with the ATpro and I took the outlaw and just stayed a bit apart so we could check each others signals. I will do this the next time with a camera. We started hitting targets like crazy. These areas are untouched as we were digging fools today!! My boy loved it. So here is what I have seen in the time we had.
1. I dig alot more trash! There is a suttle difference in the crackle of a bad signal to a good one but I can't always catch it. Gonna take time. Fricking bent nails can kiss my but. I was pulling them from stupid depths.
2. I got used to having the different tones of the ATpro and the iron audio. The iron audio helps alot with bad targets. The high tone as simple dig it.
3. The outlaw is light and easy to use. The super pinpointing is so nice. I was getting to know if it was a coin size and how deep by the super pinpointing. I would retune and sometimes it would almost vanish and everytime it was a coin. When it did not it was a friggin bent nail. These were smaller prolly different on a quarter or half of course but all in time. All the quarters we got were around 4"
4. The ATpro VID craps out about 5" and bounces a signal. You have to realy on sound. On dime size we were getting a high mid bounce at 6. 50 - 81-62-82 A signal I would pass on. The outlaw of course just a loud beep no crackle nice even beep. We dug It was a dime. More than once on a pennies and dimes all around 5-6" We had one dime at about 6.5 and the ATpro would get it but it was a signal I would pass on. The outlaw was hitting hard on these.
5. The ATpro for a beginner like my son is alot easier to handle in the trash without a doubt. That machine is great and makes it easy for my son. The outlaw would drive him a bit crazy.
The ground we have here is very mild the AT pro GB at 95 which great soil. I had the ATpro in pro mode zero with iron audio on and at 40 and the sensitivity almost maxed 2 shy.
The outlaw was set up with threshold at 1pm and disc at the first notch. The soil is so mild I can crank the sensitivity all the way into the red and no chatter at all. Quiet as a mouse. I did set the GB slightly negative and was using the 8" donut coil.
We were pretty even on finds except I killed him in pennies. Everything else was pretty even. Well except one other thing..... I got the RING & small trinket
The ring was loud and clear on the outlaw. When I had him check before we dug it bounced from 45 - 52 - 45 - 50 -43 - 48 . I would not have dug it.
Here is our finds
16 quarters
1 dollar coin
10 nickels
12 dimes
54 pennies
1 ring and one trinket for a necklace
I did not have a camera as my wife had it. We did goto the school but we hunted a new area and not the old stomping grounds as I wanted to have a fresh area to test with my son as he is new to this. I set him up with the ATpro and I took the outlaw and just stayed a bit apart so we could check each others signals. I will do this the next time with a camera. We started hitting targets like crazy. These areas are untouched as we were digging fools today!! My boy loved it. So here is what I have seen in the time we had.
1. I dig alot more trash! There is a suttle difference in the crackle of a bad signal to a good one but I can't always catch it. Gonna take time. Fricking bent nails can kiss my but. I was pulling them from stupid depths.
2. I got used to having the different tones of the ATpro and the iron audio. The iron audio helps alot with bad targets. The high tone as simple dig it.
3. The outlaw is light and easy to use. The super pinpointing is so nice. I was getting to know if it was a coin size and how deep by the super pinpointing. I would retune and sometimes it would almost vanish and everytime it was a coin. When it did not it was a friggin bent nail. These were smaller prolly different on a quarter or half of course but all in time. All the quarters we got were around 4"
4. The ATpro VID craps out about 5" and bounces a signal. You have to realy on sound. On dime size we were getting a high mid bounce at 6. 50 - 81-62-82 A signal I would pass on. The outlaw of course just a loud beep no crackle nice even beep. We dug It was a dime. More than once on a pennies and dimes all around 5-6" We had one dime at about 6.5 and the ATpro would get it but it was a signal I would pass on. The outlaw was hitting hard on these.
5. The ATpro for a beginner like my son is alot easier to handle in the trash without a doubt. That machine is great and makes it easy for my son. The outlaw would drive him a bit crazy.
The ground we have here is very mild the AT pro GB at 95 which great soil. I had the ATpro in pro mode zero with iron audio on and at 40 and the sensitivity almost maxed 2 shy.
The outlaw was set up with threshold at 1pm and disc at the first notch. The soil is so mild I can crank the sensitivity all the way into the red and no chatter at all. Quiet as a mouse. I did set the GB slightly negative and was using the 8" donut coil.
We were pretty even on finds except I killed him in pennies. Everything else was pretty even. Well except one other thing..... I got the RING & small trinket
The ring was loud and clear on the outlaw. When I had him check before we dug it bounced from 45 - 52 - 45 - 50 -43 - 48 . I would not have dug it.
Here is our finds
16 quarters
1 dollar coin
10 nickels
12 dimes
54 pennies
1 ring and one trinket for a necklace
A question though about the iron. Were you able discriminate it out or would it still come in turning up the knob? Were you just keeping it set at iron and digging and that is why you were getting the iron? I often read that the Vaquero has issues with iron sometimes, especially deeper nails but have not heard much regarding this about the Outlaw.