Bought a GTI2500

[phs3194]

I just bought a used GTI2500 on an EBay auction. It will replace an Ultra GTA500 that I've used for years. I bought the new detector almost entirely because of the imaging feature. I have bad knees and find it very difficult to get back to my feet after digging a target. I'm hoping the 2500 will help eliminate a lot of digging for trash. Since I've already bought the detector, it's too late to tell me it won't work the way I hope. I guess I'm just looking for someone to tell me I'm not just wasting my money! Thanks.
Charles

 

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[Sandman]

Charlie you did good with the 2500. I have bad knees also so I know the crawling to a picnic table to get up. The imagining feature only works for coin sized objects but is pretty accurate. Take up water wading and you get to use a scoop and no more kneeling down.

 

[XT18000]

First thing you might want to do is get your self a Swingy Thingy! That will take a lot of the weight
off your swinging arm. Next is to round up a few gold rings and a sliver one or two; these and
some small bits of foil, a few ring tabs , pull tabs, rusty nail,and maybe a rusty nut or two, well
maybe you can leave out the rusty nuts, every one knows about them! These will be used as
your test targets so make them as much different from one a nother as you can find. When you
get them ready, put that machine in the custom mode and run them across the coil and hit the
reject butten on each trash target and accept on the good ones ( also with coins ) when you have done that hit operate and you will be good to go. When you hit a bad target you will hear kind
of like morris-code on the trash targets, and a bell tone on the good ones. Works like a charm!!!!
You can set it up the same way in the jewelry mode if you want and save the custom mode
for some thing special if you want, works the same way. And don't forget you can set the surface
elimination to get rid of what is at 1, 2, 3, or 4". You don't have to dig junk no more ( 99% of the
time at least ). If the weight still bothers you when using the Swingy Thingy you can make
your self a swing arm and use both arms to swing it with and that really helps.

 

[phs3194]

Thanks for the replies! I haven't had to crawl to a picnic table yet, but i do carry a large walking stick to help pry myself back up. When i saw that I had won the auction, I ordered a shoulder harness from KellyCo. Setting up the custom mode as you suggested seems to be a good idea, thanks!
Charles

 

[The Master Chief]

phs3194, I would check the ser# on it. After you have that call Garrett and they can tell you if it has been updated with a new mineralization chip for ground balancing. I love my 2500 and just recently turned it in for update.

 

[dogpound]

ya made a great choice and garrett's customer service is top notch

 

[John-Edmonton]

Once you learn that machine well, especially the Imaging and true all metal modes, you will just love it. I often feel a little lost when relic hunting without that Imaging feature. It really saves you a lot of time by ruling out larger junk targets when searching for ammunition, coins and jewellery. Good luck with that unit.

John

 

[warsawdaddy]

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