AussieTreasureDigger
Tony
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- May 21, 2013
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Over the next few weeks/months i will be hunting with my AT Pro U.S version pretty much exclusively. Why? i enjoy a challenge and i have the CTX under control now haha
Also just a short note, the AT Pro International and the U.S version are the same machine except for the tone spread and the facia. The International wasnt designed for Australian conditions, it was designed for Europe and the hammered coins they find there. The AT Pro U.S version is available from overseas if the narrower high tone suits you better than the wider one on the euro, i do prefer the narrower hight tone, but that my own preference.
My AT Pro is stock except i will be using the SunRay Gold headphones i bought for it last year, these things are the go on this machine for sure and really highlight the individual signals, i am a listener more than a looker and pay not much attention to the facia of my machine other than to check a number. The machine will use no discrimination and will be set to max sensitivity, i will manually ground balance and adjust sensitivity where needed if things get out of control.
I intend to work some of the most trashed and detected areas known to man...and woman. I can control this machine next to telecom towers and HT wires and was doing 20hour+weeks on it before i bought my CTX3030, so i know its ins and outs pretty thoroughly.
Saturday 3 weeks ago i went to a place thats so trashed and thrashed it sounds like machine gun rapid fire in the headphones, i would never of been able to handle this sort of battering when i 1st got the machine April 2012. I have been through this area with discrimination on many times, until it all but dried up of good signals. The soil is a mix of sea water, stagnate ground water and tidal creek swamp, its full of junk and has a very high salinity.
Straight onto the task and what a shock, i needed a few minutes for my brain to get around the racket, but i was up and going ok in 10mins.
Not long into the hunt i pulled a 1954 penny from amongst alot of foil and pulltabs, then a 1951 Halfpenny that was in suprisingly good nic then an unknown penny that was trashed, but i was still hopeful of dating it. I also dug up 2 old pocket knives in different spots and a musket ball. I got myself a swag of screw caps and old sinker and some unidentifiable relics. All in all i had a good 2.5hours with an i will return next week remark, but take the 11.5x8" coil off and put my small 5x8" coil on, both are stock Garrett coils.
I have ordered a NEL hunter coil for the machine and it should arrive in the next 2 weeks
I will post all the trips out in one thread to keep it neat.
My main finds for the arvo, check the penny on the left
Cleaned and dated using the kebab stick method, a 1964 penny wasnt what i was hoping for haha
My bag of not much but happy with the finds. Check the piece of leather harness gear with the tacks still in it.
Week 2 coming soon and i am out with the small coil to the same spot.
Also just a short note, the AT Pro International and the U.S version are the same machine except for the tone spread and the facia. The International wasnt designed for Australian conditions, it was designed for Europe and the hammered coins they find there. The AT Pro U.S version is available from overseas if the narrower high tone suits you better than the wider one on the euro, i do prefer the narrower hight tone, but that my own preference.
My AT Pro is stock except i will be using the SunRay Gold headphones i bought for it last year, these things are the go on this machine for sure and really highlight the individual signals, i am a listener more than a looker and pay not much attention to the facia of my machine other than to check a number. The machine will use no discrimination and will be set to max sensitivity, i will manually ground balance and adjust sensitivity where needed if things get out of control.
I intend to work some of the most trashed and detected areas known to man...and woman. I can control this machine next to telecom towers and HT wires and was doing 20hour+weeks on it before i bought my CTX3030, so i know its ins and outs pretty thoroughly.
Saturday 3 weeks ago i went to a place thats so trashed and thrashed it sounds like machine gun rapid fire in the headphones, i would never of been able to handle this sort of battering when i 1st got the machine April 2012. I have been through this area with discrimination on many times, until it all but dried up of good signals. The soil is a mix of sea water, stagnate ground water and tidal creek swamp, its full of junk and has a very high salinity.
Straight onto the task and what a shock, i needed a few minutes for my brain to get around the racket, but i was up and going ok in 10mins.
Not long into the hunt i pulled a 1954 penny from amongst alot of foil and pulltabs, then a 1951 Halfpenny that was in suprisingly good nic then an unknown penny that was trashed, but i was still hopeful of dating it. I also dug up 2 old pocket knives in different spots and a musket ball. I got myself a swag of screw caps and old sinker and some unidentifiable relics. All in all i had a good 2.5hours with an i will return next week remark, but take the 11.5x8" coil off and put my small 5x8" coil on, both are stock Garrett coils.
I have ordered a NEL hunter coil for the machine and it should arrive in the next 2 weeks
I will post all the trips out in one thread to keep it neat.
My main finds for the arvo, check the penny on the left
Cleaned and dated using the kebab stick method, a 1964 penny wasnt what i was hoping for haha
My bag of not much but happy with the finds. Check the piece of leather harness gear with the tacks still in it.
Week 2 coming soon and i am out with the small coil to the same spot.