AT pro for nugget shooting?

[Carson Coin Master]

I live out in Northern Nevada just a stones throw from abandoned mining claims all over the place. I'm going out this Sunday to a claim I got permission to detect on and I was wondering what the best set up for my AT Pro would be to find nuggets. Has anyone here found them with the Pro, and if so what kind of settings did you have it on? What kind of reading did your machine give? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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[jmoller99]

Get some small gold sample targets (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 grains in size) - Attach/glue them to a poker chip or a paper card - one for each target. If you can detect any of these in air tests, then try them on the ground in the soils you plan to hunt. If you can find the targets there, then you will have figured out what settings work and what your smallest target gold sizes will be. If you can't find any of them - then you need a different detector to gold prospect with.

 

[Steve Herschbach]

Use the smallest coil you have. Set for zero discrimination and dig all targets. Set the sensitivity as high as you can while having a relatively stable machine (minimal false signals - but maybe just a few). Check your ground balance often. Main trick, put it where the is some gold! Be patient, go slow, have fun, good luck!