anyone break even on a ATP cost searching randomly in non-historic areas?

[73dguard]

I like the looks of the ATP mostly because it can be submerged. To justify the expense to myself first, has anyone broken even on their expense for a ATP doing random hunts in typically non historic areas?

Thanks, Joe

 

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73
I`m sure some have done it in one find
The AT pro is a great machine if you take it to where the gold rings/jewelry/coins are.
Gary

 

[CincinnatiKid]

Check out Beau Ouimette!

 

[dale68]

The quickest way is to head for freshwater beaches where detecting isn't prohibited (in & out of water) boat ramps, sking & tubeing hills. Random searches arent nearly as effective as spots found through research.

 

[Jason in Enid]

If you are thinking of this in terms of $$$, this isn't the hobby for you.

first, you have to figure out what types of items you want to search for, what environment to hunt them in, and THEN you pick the detector that fills those roles.

 

[Metal Detecting Stuff]

I've seen guys locally that pull at least 50 rings a year out of well pounded parks and soccer fields. You can get a payback if that's what you desire. You have to put the hours in, dig lots of clad and dig the jewelry signals.

Wayne

www.metaldetectingstuff.com

 

[RustyGold]

It's great exercise!

 

[cooper1841]

Anybody ever break even on their golf clubs, fishing tackle, snowmobile, hunting stuff?

 

[Msbeepbeep]

At some point it will pay for it's self if you keep hunting, unless you make a fantastic find!

 

[mangum]

You will get your money back if you are persistent. I haven't sold anything. I'll sell my gold & silver jewelry if I have to. I've found close to $2000 in gold jewelry this year (I haven't found any since June). Btw- I've got a Mxt Pro & just bought an At Pro this past weekend. If you're looking for gold plan on digging a ton of trash. I'm about sick of if personally. I enjoy relic hunting & I'm not in it for the $$$.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I have an AT Gold and it costs a little more than the Pro and it paid itself off in the Tot lots in less than a year: clad, plus gold class ring,silver charm and a carbide tungsten ring worth $500. So yeah you can justify the cost and I didn't even buy mine for coin shooting I bought mine to go to the mountains nugget hunting but I realize those will be far and few between so I made it pay for itself before I started the real fun detecting.You are not going to get rich doing this.

 

[73dguard]

to Dale68: LTC Johnny Beales '#1 rule: "everything requires research"

 

[73dguard]

to cooper 1841: yes, but they all on TV.

 

[73dguard]

Beau Ouimette is a salvage god! I love him (platonically)

 

[Keppy]

Anybody ever break even on their golf clubs, fishing tackle, snowmobile, hunting stuff?

….. I do not think so money on those pass times are like throwing money away ….. Now in detecting we all have a chance of finding something worth while ….. My self i quit , golfing , quit fishing , do not snowmobile , sold my dirt bike , and quit hunting …. SO YOU ASK WHAT DO I DO……..​I DETECT I HAVE NO TIME FOR THINGS I DO NOT ENJOY ANY MORE … BUT I DO HUNT WILD ANIMALS STILL …. BUT NOT WITH A GUN WITH A CAMERA……….
…..

 

[luvsdux]

Good location and technique means a lot more than whether you are using an ATP or other detector IMO. A good location and a bit of luck will produce good targets whether you use an ATP or not.
luvsdux

 

[scaupus]

absolutely. I cleared close to $900 in melt value last week (last weeks prices). (Not with an ATP but that will work just fine). About 4 hours work. That's not a typical week, in fact, it was one of my two best weeks this year, but it's in the mix. As for historic, if it's pure loot you're after, the less historic the better. Modern, high-toned suburbs with young families and lots of weekend warriors in the parks, that's what you want. And of course, in the water at the beach when its stirred up good and the sand has been carried away. I see you're not near either coast, so maybe scratch that last. I can't tell you anything about freshwater beaches, nobody goes to those around here, and never did, as they didn't exist until they dredged the swamp and built suburbs. By then everyone believed the freshwater was all polluted as it catches the stormwater. Plus alligators.

Anyway, don't buy it if you think its going to be easy. It's not. You have to dig trash to find gold, and lots of it. Well, maybe you could skip a lot of the trash, but the thought that you're skipping over gold will haunt you, and you probably would be skipping over gold. So you will end up digging all the trash, and then you will get sick of it and sell your detector. Your only hope starting off that way, is if you find gold very quickly, and you probably won't.

That's why it's best to start off coin-shooting in historic areas. It's fun finding clad, especially in the beginning, and then one day you will find some silver coin and it will be a thrill. It's easier on your brain, because you dig coins not trash. It doesn't have to be very historic, either. If the homes were built in the 50s that can work, especially apartment houses. Folks in the 50s were feeling rich, money had depreciated, everyone had a car, and men carried coins in their pockets not in purses like they used to do. You can figure it out from there.

Anyway, you won't get ahead of costs just finding clad and modern silver coins, unless you are a prodigious hunter and digger. Maybe you can find more valuable collectible coins, which I'm not sure is a really viable career in Ohio. At some point, if you want a return on this hobby, you will have to go over to the Dark Side, and prospect for gold rings if you want to make this pay. Good Luck dealing with the devil, because that's what you will be doing from that point forward.