Any of you Old Timers remember one of these??

[Dave N Japan]

Not sure what year I bought this Garrett ADS 7, The picture was around 1990. This was a big move up because it had a meter that gave you a idea of what you had plus depth. The ADS 5 I had before this just had depth, but the depth worked well for knowing if it may be old or not.

Boy, I wish I looked like that now" This was in front of a cave and I did fine one bronze coin in this area dating to the early 1600's

 

[Tom_in_CA]

ADS 7 dates to the mid 1980's. I had the predecessor, the ADS 2, which dated to 1983.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

ADS 7 dates to the mid 1980's. I had the predecessor, the ADS 2, which dated to 1983.

Tom, I think it was earlier. I know I had my ADS III in '82. Got that receipt here somewhere in these boxes behind me. One of these days I'll get to that!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

You're right. The II and III were available by 1982. Because now that I think of it, I was using it during the storms that break down Coast in the winter of '82 - '83.

 

[against the wind]

I had an AT 3 in the 80's, no meter, but it would give you different tones. Beep and Dig. I did well on the beach with it.

 

[Dave N Japan]

I had a At-3 yellow box, first time I took in the water I cleaned up....got the bug for the water and then got the Fisher impulse.
Notice the Hot Head coil on the ADS -7

 

[Terry Soloman]

Here we go..

 

[NWMP]

Was there some truth to the stories I"ve heard. That back in the 80"s etc. guys would easily come home with half a tea cup of silver coins from untouched spots ?

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Nice list, Terry. I've got a master hunter BFO. Bought it in 1973. Have two different dual-coil setups, too.
Jim

 

[Jason in Enid]

The ADS7 was my first "big boy" detector! I used that thing for many years. The one aspect I loved the most was that you really could HEAR a difference to silver targets. I could predict when the target was silver and be right about 90% of the time. After moving to a newer (computerized) machine, I could never get that kind of tone difference again.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Terry Solomon, thanx for the list. That puts the ADS II and III at 1982 introduction. I recall having just gotten the ADS II when the winter storms of 1982 started on our coast. So it must have just come out earlier that year.

Those 2 machines were Garrett's foray into the motion discrimination market. Ie.: their "answer" to Whites 6000's, for instance. They were several years late in doing that. Stubborn to move away from TR disc I guess Red Baron had it in 1977, and Whites in about '78. So as you can see Garrett was about 4 yrs. late to that game . And those II's and III's never really measured up to Whites 6000's of that era, IMHO. I always got my b#tt kicked in the turf and on the wet-salt beach, when hunting along-side Whites guys. But it was definitely better & deeper than the VLF/TR Groundhog I'd used up till then !

 

[franklin]

Not sure what year I bought this Garrett ADS 7, The picture was around 1990. This was a big move up because it had a meter that gave you a idea of what you had plus depth. The ADS 5 I had before this just had depth, but the depth worked well for knowing if it may be old or not.

Boy, I wish I looked like that now" This was in front of a cave and I did fine one bronze coin in this area dating to the early 1600's
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Hi Dave,

I bought my ADS-7X in 1990 and I still use it. You can get a two box attachment for that if you want to hunt deeper for larger targets. Great machine.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Was there some truth to the stories I"ve heard. That back in the 80"s etc. guys would easily come home with half a tea cup of silver coins from untouched spots ?

It is true. I used to find fist fulls of old silver with my Red Baron. Capped, Walking, Standing, silver was almost as common as clad in many areas.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

It is true. I used to find fist fulls of old silver with my Red Baron. Capped, Walking, Standing, silver was almost as common as clad in many areas.

Which Red Baron model did you have, and what year did you get it ? What was the most silver you got in one day back then ?

The first guy in my town to swing a 6000d (1979-ish) would routinely get 3 to 5 silvers any day he wanted, plus all the wheaties and clad he cared to, any day he went to our town's central park. In a years time, we estimate he pulled 200+ silver from there. But now, I pity the poor fellow who tries to pull silver from this park now. Even me with all my experience and tricks will struggle to find any more silver from here. But back in the late '70s to early '80s, it was routine, even for beginners.

 

[Tradertom]

Just thought I would post a picture of one my old detectors. Still works well. It also takes a box full of batteries to fire it up.
Sorry for the upsidedown picture. Doesn't look like that on my iPad.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Was there some truth to the stories I"ve heard. That back in the 80"s etc. guys would easily come home with half a tea cup of silver coins from untouched spots ?

Not only did we find silver coins with our detectors back in the 80s, we still got them in change frequently. I can remember walking construction sites back in the late 60s, early 70s in Hagerstown. Md. eyeballing civil war relics. I and my friends would only pick up the lead bullets because they made good skippers at the creek. The buttons were too light to throw!

 

[Terry Soloman]

Which Red Baron model did you have, and what year did you get it ? What was the most silver you got in one day back then ?

The first guy in my town to swing a 6000d (1979-ish) would routinely get 3 to 5 silvers any day he wanted, plus all the wheaties and clad he cared to, any day he went to our town's central park. In a years time, we estimate he pulled 200+ silver from there. But now, I pity the poor fellow who tries to pull silver from this park now. Even me with all my experience and tricks will struggle to find any more silver from here. But back in the late '70s to early '80s, it was routine, even for beginners.

I want to say 1977-'78 on the Red Baron. The best Silver day I ever had was 1979, in Yonkers, New York. 33-silver coins at Tibbits Brook park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibbetts_Brook_Park

 

[Mackaydon]

Back in the day, I had a Teknetics 8500. I would sweep the Venice (Ca.) beach and stop each night after finding $1.00 in face.
No need to search more since I never saw any competition--and there was always tomorrow--till I moved.
A virgin area trumps a technically 'so-so' machine any day.
Don......

 

[Honest Samuel]

The first detector that I had purchased was a White with a wooden coil with a hole in it, from the great Karl Von Mueller around 1965. It did not worked. We do missed him.

 

[NHBandit]

I still have an ADS 5 with crossfire coil