BentRod
Elite Member
Today I took my new AT Pro to an area where I'd found silver in the past. There are a lot of trash targets, mainly old ring style pull tabs, but have found plenty of clad and a fair amount of silver as well using my BH Tracker IV over the last couple years. Granted I'm new to the AT Pro, I have read countless "how to" articles and threads and watched equally countless videos as well. I practiced in my yard a bit and thought I had a pretty good idea of what to listen and watch for. Additionally, having already learned to hunt based on the Tracker IV tones I thought the audio response was very similar between the two units.
I thought that with this being a much better unit, I'd surely find a number of coins (clad or silver) that I'd previously missed with the Tracker IV.
I researched the Iron Audio feature last night, so was excited to put that into play today. So, my settings were:
Pro Zero, Iron Disc. 35, Iron Audio On, Nothing notched. Sensitivity full, GB auto (93), using the 5x8 coil. For the sake of my sanity I ignored all signals below ~72 due to the fact that every signal below that pretty much resulted in a pull tab of one form or another. I would dig jumpy signals if the high tone was present enough on the off chance it might be masked coins.
Frankly, the results were a bit disappointing for the four hours I spent hunting. I did waste some time chasing some bits of foil, some ghost signals, and dug up a few bottle caps...at least I suspected them of being bottle caps before I dug them up, so wasn't surprised, but overall I really didn't find much in the way of clad. In fact besides a few pennies (like 4 or 5) and a corroded nickel, I didn't find any clad, let alone silver coins. I did manage a Sterling silver military Marksman's badge that was a great find and obviously something I'd previously missed, but that was all. This place is really littered with trash targets and I was impressed with the recovery speed of the AT Pro, but was surprised at the results. There is still plenty of terrain to go over and also have the bigger stock coil that might be worth giving a run for depth, but was hoping the sniper type ability as well as the reported "better" depth capability of the AT Pro over the BH TRKIV would lead to better returns today. Maybe my excitement was misplaced. I have read that the highly mineralized ground here does hamper the depth capability of the AT, but still thought it'd be better than the TRK IV. I do like the features of the AT Pro and the near constant chatter when using the Iron Audio feature doesn't seem to bother me (wasn't much different than listening to the Tracker IV really), so look forward to future hunts, just wondering how much of an upgrade I really got. I will reserve judgement until I get quite a few more hours of experience with this machine though.
Thanks for reading. Any tips or advice is welcome.
I thought that with this being a much better unit, I'd surely find a number of coins (clad or silver) that I'd previously missed with the Tracker IV.
I researched the Iron Audio feature last night, so was excited to put that into play today. So, my settings were:
Pro Zero, Iron Disc. 35, Iron Audio On, Nothing notched. Sensitivity full, GB auto (93), using the 5x8 coil. For the sake of my sanity I ignored all signals below ~72 due to the fact that every signal below that pretty much resulted in a pull tab of one form or another. I would dig jumpy signals if the high tone was present enough on the off chance it might be masked coins.
Frankly, the results were a bit disappointing for the four hours I spent hunting. I did waste some time chasing some bits of foil, some ghost signals, and dug up a few bottle caps...at least I suspected them of being bottle caps before I dug them up, so wasn't surprised, but overall I really didn't find much in the way of clad. In fact besides a few pennies (like 4 or 5) and a corroded nickel, I didn't find any clad, let alone silver coins. I did manage a Sterling silver military Marksman's badge that was a great find and obviously something I'd previously missed, but that was all. This place is really littered with trash targets and I was impressed with the recovery speed of the AT Pro, but was surprised at the results. There is still plenty of terrain to go over and also have the bigger stock coil that might be worth giving a run for depth, but was hoping the sniper type ability as well as the reported "better" depth capability of the AT Pro over the BH TRKIV would lead to better returns today. Maybe my excitement was misplaced. I have read that the highly mineralized ground here does hamper the depth capability of the AT, but still thought it'd be better than the TRK IV. I do like the features of the AT Pro and the near constant chatter when using the Iron Audio feature doesn't seem to bother me (wasn't much different than listening to the Tracker IV really), so look forward to future hunts, just wondering how much of an upgrade I really got. I will reserve judgement until I get quite a few more hours of experience with this machine though.
Thanks for reading. Any tips or advice is welcome.