Monty
Gold Member
- Jan 26, 2005
- 10,746
- 166
- Detector(s) used
- ACE 250, Garrett
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I was out of town during the Thanksgiving holiday and my ATPro arrived on my doorstep. You'd think that since the holiday stealing season is in progress they wouldn't just leave it on your front doorstoop, but they did! Luckily, I told my next door neighbor to watch for it and he saw it delivered and picked it up for me.
It was fairly straight forward and easy to assemble except for the connection for the coil wire and headphone set is in an indented place on the detector head and my fingers were too big to easily attach them! I was afraid I would break the tiny male pins in the process but after getting down in the floor with a flashlight I finally got them attached. I had to attach the leads first and then put the coil on because the tension on the attached coil caused the wire to twist out of alignment. It would be extremely difficult out in the field on a hunt I would think. A little engineering boo boo? I also ordered the optional waterproof headphones because knowing me I would drop the regular ones and ruin them immediately on getting into the water! I have attended several local club hunts at the local lakes and have a dedicated water machine but I don't think I will need it now that the AtPro is waterproof to ten feet. And no more worries about getting caught out in a sudden unexpected rain shower either.
I haven't had a chance to get out and do any hunting yet because of my ongoing knee problems but I am going to do my own air testing on various objects I keep in a little bag just to tune my detectors. I have seen the tests done on the net, but I want to see and hear the tones for myself. No need to report the results since they have been available for viewing for several weeks now.
I started out with a cheap detector and soon graduated to the GTI 2500. I loved it but with my old back injury it was just too heavy for me to swing for over 30 minutes or so without a rest. The AtPro will be much easier to swing I hope. Now I will have to save my $$$ and get a DD sniper coil at some later date as I have found them to be extremely useful around junky areas.
There really isn't a whole lot of difference between it and my ACE250 except for a few more bells and whistles and the huge new 11" coil it uses. The brains of the outfit fits into a very similar shaped container and the feel of swinging it is nearly identical. Come to think of it, my ACE 250 coils may work on the AtPro? I'll have to check that out. I bought it from Kellyco, one of the site sponsors, so we have a rep here on Tnet to ask about that.
I will do a little short hunt and report it here as soon as my knee heals up and the weather permits. Garrett has incorporated some of the things I have been nagging them about for some time so maybe it will fill the bill for my needs? The only thing more I could wish for is perhaps a multifrequency abilitiy such as you know who. But I had a Safari and really never did get the hang of the alien sounds it made! Monty
It was fairly straight forward and easy to assemble except for the connection for the coil wire and headphone set is in an indented place on the detector head and my fingers were too big to easily attach them! I was afraid I would break the tiny male pins in the process but after getting down in the floor with a flashlight I finally got them attached. I had to attach the leads first and then put the coil on because the tension on the attached coil caused the wire to twist out of alignment. It would be extremely difficult out in the field on a hunt I would think. A little engineering boo boo? I also ordered the optional waterproof headphones because knowing me I would drop the regular ones and ruin them immediately on getting into the water! I have attended several local club hunts at the local lakes and have a dedicated water machine but I don't think I will need it now that the AtPro is waterproof to ten feet. And no more worries about getting caught out in a sudden unexpected rain shower either.
I haven't had a chance to get out and do any hunting yet because of my ongoing knee problems but I am going to do my own air testing on various objects I keep in a little bag just to tune my detectors. I have seen the tests done on the net, but I want to see and hear the tones for myself. No need to report the results since they have been available for viewing for several weeks now.
I started out with a cheap detector and soon graduated to the GTI 2500. I loved it but with my old back injury it was just too heavy for me to swing for over 30 minutes or so without a rest. The AtPro will be much easier to swing I hope. Now I will have to save my $$$ and get a DD sniper coil at some later date as I have found them to be extremely useful around junky areas.
There really isn't a whole lot of difference between it and my ACE250 except for a few more bells and whistles and the huge new 11" coil it uses. The brains of the outfit fits into a very similar shaped container and the feel of swinging it is nearly identical. Come to think of it, my ACE 250 coils may work on the AtPro? I'll have to check that out. I bought it from Kellyco, one of the site sponsors, so we have a rep here on Tnet to ask about that.
I will do a little short hunt and report it here as soon as my knee heals up and the weather permits. Garrett has incorporated some of the things I have been nagging them about for some time so maybe it will fill the bill for my needs? The only thing more I could wish for is perhaps a multifrequency abilitiy such as you know who. But I had a Safari and really never did get the hang of the alien sounds it made! Monty
Don't forget to read 
the manual first, not after..... 
One of them had a leather spiked/studded collar and the other ATE THE WHOLE THING. Needless to say, my dog beeped a lot when being detected 
Even got a haircut! Now I have to go grocery shopping with Kay to buy the Christmas goodies as Christmas dinner is always held at my house. Then maybe I'll get some time to play this afternoon? Monty
