AT gold on the beach

**mnornewbie** · Dec 15, 2011, 06:54 AM

so I like the reviews and everything so far about the At gold. using it in parks and fresh water river and streams and shorlines mostly, but would love to bring it out to the coast and use it on the ocean sand beaches, some wet hard packed, some dry, but not very often going past ankle deep tide water. so why can't you use the gold model in saltwater. Can you buy a different coil to fix that, or is it in the way the detector works. Again, im new, so any info can really help, thanks, I really want to buy one soon and get out.

**Bart@Big Boys Hobbies** · Dec 15, 2011, 07:10 AM

Garrett states the gold won't ground balance to salt. It will work just won't be stable and get really deep.

**Younghunt** · Dec 15, 2011, 10:02 AM

I got the garrett at pro just for that reason, my family and i go to the ocean every year so that being said i went with the at pro! In the future i will get the 5x8 coil to seperate trash better! The at pro is better for all around use when the at gold was built primaerly for gold/relic/coins!

**Sandman** · Dec 15, 2011, 03:25 PM

Sorry, the AT PRO is not so hot at the saltwater beaches either. It has one frequency and depending on the amount of black sand and salt concentrations it may or may not work well in the wet sand. It will however work in the dry sand just like most of the other detectors. But if you wanted the best, thats the Sov GT. with the Excal next and then the CZ-21. PI's work well too, but they find every piece of junk real deep.