AT PRO Pro/Coins Mode- Pull Tabs!

nsm1978 · Jun 25, 2014

Need advice from you experts, I'm currently using the AT PRO in Pro/ Coins mode with Max sensitivity, ground balanced. Is there any reason why I'm still picking up pulltabs?? This is driving me crazy. Is there anything I can do

Also I am picking up faint targets but they're not coming up on the target ID. Location is an old church from the 1700s.

ivan salis · Jun 28, 2014

faint deep[ (but good sounding) signals often can be old silver that might have been passed over by earlier detecting folks , if your willing to dig it --you MIGHT repeat MIGHT FIND A GOODIE OR TWO IN WHAT IS THOUGHT TO BE "PLAYED OUT" SPOTS

NGE · Jun 28, 2014

dustytrails123 said:
Your right on that it isnt always a nickel...infact i havent ever dug a nickel with it yet i still try....i dig all kinds of can slaw that lock in on nickel id think i would get a random nickel if i keep after it but so far even a random nickel seems to elude me with the at pro ....my back yard is a ball field and its been a bar back into the early 50's so theres many beaver tails and pull tabs to be found here ..more then anyone would ever want to dig so i notch them out ...with the ace 350 ive dug 12 or so war nickels atleast another dozen buffalo nickels and countless clad nickels ....the ace can lock onto a pull tab and id bet you my corvette its a pull tab ...thats one thing the ace can do is discrim pull tabs ....if only it could do something besides scream silver on a rusty bottle cap they might have something worth selling

yes, if you have a mustache, the hairs get caught up in them!

masterjedi · Jun 28, 2014

nickles

cooper1841 said:
I agree 100%..........Over 600 hours on my AT Pro, if it is a constant 52-53....................not jumping to, 54 55 or 57 but 52-53 steady I am digging a nickel. Dustytrails and I or anyone else will never agree on this machine, I am not just a once in a while weekend hunter, I hunt 3 to 4 times a week, lots of digging to back this up

I agree... My AT Pro finds nickels all of the time at 52-53...

Indianametal · Jun 28, 2014

I've only got one week on my ATPro and am at 5 nickels everyone 52-54 but solid. Every pulltab so far has jumped except the old beavertail ones that ring in solid 60-61. However I have found that when you run the target pulltab on tge edge of the coil it will grunt and really start to jump around. I have positively ID'd probably 50 so far this way. The one ring I have found rang up 55 and never moved at all.

masterjedi · Jun 28, 2014

I have been detecting since the late 70's... you dug pull tabs then & you dig pull tabs now...Aluminum has hi conductivity... you can discriminate it out, but if you do you will miss so many good targets... you had better get used to it

GatorBoy · Jun 28, 2014

That's it in a nutshell

lookindown · Jun 29, 2014

The AT pro has no problem finding nickels...you hear everything on T NET...the Ace 350 is better on nickels than the AT pro?...that's a good one.

dustytrails123 · Jun 29, 2014

lookindown said:
The AT pro has no problem finding nickels...you hear everything on T NET...the Ace 350 is better on nickels than the AT pro?...that's a good one.

Guess you'd have to get the ace350 to find out for yourself

lookindown · Jun 29, 2014

dustytrails123 said:
Guess you'd have to get the ace350 to find out for yourself

Ill take your word for it.

Metal Detecting Stuff · Jun 30, 2014

The other posters have given you great advice, if you just don't want to dig those tabs, see where they show on the meter and notch eliminate them out.

Wayne

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BcuttinPlugs · Jun 30, 2014

dustytrails123 said:
Guess you'd have to get the ace350 to find out for yourself

I'm not here to bash anyone or any other detector. I am def not biased to any detectors. Iv had a cheap bounty hunter a f2 and the at pro.. They all find nickels just fine.... It's funny but almost annoying how much I see u bashing the at pro. Ok everyone gets it, u don't like the at pro. Y don't u just stop writing crap about it.. Didn't ur mother teach u if u have nothing nice to say don't say it at all. I realize what I just wrote isn't very nice but it's not mean. Just tired of seeing the name dusty trails followed by an at pro bashing. Get over it man

lookindown · Jul 1, 2014

BcuttinPlugs said:
I'm not here to bash anyone or any other detector. I am def not biased to any detectors. Iv had a cheap bounty hunter a f2 and the at pro.. They all find nickels just fine.... It's funny but almost annoying how much I see u bashing the at pro. Ok everyone gets it, u don't like the at pro. Y don't u just stop writing crap about it.. Didn't ur mother teach u if u have nothing nice to say don't say it at all. I realize what I just wrote isn't very nice but it's not mean. Just tired of seeing the name dusty trails followed by an at pro bashing. Get over it man

Hey, is the buckle in your avatar silver...Ive found two like it but both are silver plated.

BcuttinPlugs · Jul 3, 2014

lookindown said:
Hey, is the buckle in your avatar silver...Ive found two like it but both are silver plated.

Yes sir it's silver. The clasp is broken and it was nickel but the whole buckle itself is indeed sterling.

Rawhide · Jul 3, 2014

There is little things that may give you a edge on nickles vs pull tabs. But if you dont dig every signal you will miss targets. Try this to get your trash to find ratio up. Pick the coil up a few inches and see if you get the same numbers? Or maybe change your settings and see what it reads. Usually if Im within ten feet of a sidewalk, trash can, or tree I wont dig a nickle target. Learn what works for you and you will get your keeper rate up. I swing a F75 and it is good at telling me what I have, but I still dig pull tabs and bottle caps, though not very many. It really is the operator. The atp has good discrimination and in the right hands it will find the goodies. Maybe you can just run a little disc and that will cut down on all the pull tabs.

davehky · Jul 3, 2014

dustytrails123 said:
You should be able to discrim the pull tabs out and keep your nickels they dont ring up the same on any machine ive ever used ...that being said the at pro isnt a nickel killer ive dug every nickel target ive found with the at pro and never once had a nickel ...the ace350 dominates the at pro on nickel signals

Even with the ace 250,with a steady signal over nickel is a nickel and once even a 14k medal! Low tone...

WhiteTornado · Jul 3, 2014

Casca said:
Usually if Im within ten feet of a sidewalk, trash can, or tree I wont dig a nickle target.

I've been detecting for about a year, mine is a beep-and-dig machine, a Tesoro Cibola. But, the above is very good advice. Take notice of your environment. I have found it easy to get tunnel vision when detecting. Example: I was recently detecting near a tennis court and dug up a large pop top, the kind that comes from a can of tennis balls. This was near the entrance and then I happened to look around and all near the entrance there were lots of those large pop tops all over, even on the surface. So, it seemed fruitless to keep going for that kind of a signal in that exact spot.