Is this "normal" with an ATP and a VERY NEW (User)...?

[treadhead]

Hey folks, I've been using an ATP (With the 5X8 coil) in a "trashy" old park for a couple of months now.

I'm having a lot of fun digging some 100yr old iron stuff ( Before this place was a park it had a couple/three 19th century
mills on it). This place is littered with iron (I mean.....LOTS and LOTS of iron!), nails, pieces of old machinery, old tins and
the ubiqitous "can-slaw"...it's freakin' everywhere here.

Anyway..., about 6 weeks ago, after reading about test gardens here, I buried a Barber dime at 5 inches and a 1957
quarter at 6 inches (You have to fight your way through some truly nasty blackberries to get to My "ON-SITE" test area)
and I hit it again today (I understand that some folks here have test gardens that're 1-2 decades old).

Here's My problem....My test targets (At 5 and 6 inches) barely register (I mean, REALLY weak, not at all consistant
tones on My ATP whether I'm running in "Pro coin" or "Pro zero". I'm getting "hits" that range from the low 20's on the
VDI (IF it picks them up at all?) all the way up to the mid' 60's [IF, I orbit the target]). It's pretty discouraging to My
newb enthusiasm...lol

Should I just let My tests hang out a little longer or...(?)... I understand that they'll "hit" different depending on how
they're oriented and how deep they are but (Hell..lol), I'm really starting to hate you folks with '250's and 350's that
seem to find silver pretty regularly (Bastages!)...lol

 

[Sandman]

AT Pro is weak on freshly buried coins as are most detectors except Minelabs. I would suggest you dig up your test garden and rebury them in your yard if you have one.

As for the "Silver Finds" others have posted, remember not everyone is honest and some post silver coins they bought at a coin shop as they just want an Atta boy. Same goes for some of the jewelry finds. Take all pixs with a grain of salt.

 

[gleaner1]

I dont use the small dd and I dont have a test garden. The big dd hits acid rotted wheats and silver dimes at 6" no problem with sense set at 5 and dead neutral gb. It will go deeper I just gotta find some deeper ones. I may have pushed 7 inches on a wheat or two. Try this. Forget air tests and gardens for the moment. In that trashy spot with the smaller coil, try sense at 4 or 5, iron 40, zero notch, pro mode, iron audio off. Get a good gb. Turn confidence meter up to pegged. Work the area slowly with attitude and start out digging the good high pitch signals, then work on the mid tones. You wont miss much. Just remember, in pro mode you have proportional audio, which means the deeper the coin is, the fainter it sounds. It aint too loud so ya gotta have your "coin ears" on. But it still beeps clear and you can still pp it. The pro has awesome pp.

 

[Jay In NewKen]

I dont use the small dd and I dont have a test garden. The big dd hits acid rotted wheats and silver dimes at 6" no problem with sense set at 5 and dead neutral gb. It will go deeper I just gotta find some deeper ones. I may have pushed 7 inches on a wheat or two. Try this. Forget air tests and gardens for the moment. In that trashy spot with the smaller coil, try sense at 4 or 5, iron 40, zero notch, pro mode, iron audio off. Get a good gb. Turn confidence meter up to pegged. Work the area slowly with attitude and start out digging the good high pitch signals, then work on the mid tones. You wont miss much. Just remember, in pro mode you have proportional audio, which means the deeper the coin is, the fainter is sounds. It aint too loud so ya gotta have your "coin ears" on. But it still beeps clear and you can still pp it. The pro has awesome pp.

Confidence meter?

 

[JunkShopFiddler]

Confidence meter?

Yeah, what he said...confidence meter?

 

[RobRieman]

Yeah you gotta want it to find it.

 

[Kodiak43351]

You know confidence. As in believe you will find the good stuff.

 

[Jay In NewKen]

Hell, if that's the case, my is red lined with each good tone! LoL

 

[JunkShopFiddler]

All I got is a clad-fidence meter.

 

[Kodiak43351]

Lol

 

[hoosierguy]

AT Pro is weak on freshly buried coins as are most detectors except Minelabs. I would suggest you dig up your test garden and rebury them in your yard if you have one.

As for the "Silver Finds" others have posted, remember not everyone is honest and some post silver coins they bought at a coin shop as they just want an Atta boy. Same goes for some of the jewelry finds. Take all pixs with a grain of salt.

Sandman...you have a talent for saying what I am thinking. I've always thought that there were a certain percentage of "attention seekers" who pull old coins and other things out, snap a pic or two and post them as finds. I don't think that's anywhere near the norm, but my gut tells me there are some that do...

 

[Kodiak43351]

Sandman...you have a talent for saying what I am thinking. I've always thought that there were a certain percentage of "attention seekers" who pull old coins and other things out, snap a pic or two and post them as finds. I don't think that's anywhere near the norm, but my gut tells me there are some that do...

I agree. Too bad though I love finding stuff and posting just haven't found any good stuff lately except a charm that I can't figure what it's made of.

 

[treadhead]

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I agree. Too bad though I love finding stuff and posting just haven't found any good stuff lately except a charm that I can't figure what it's made of.

To the three of you that this quote refers to (And who all claim ATP ownership) thanks

As I've mentioned, I'm very new to all of this. I just sort've blew me away that My machine wasn't picking up silver at depths that
I would've "thought" it would (Eh, I'm new to all this stuff).

For what it's worth, yesterday (The morning after this post) I found a clad coin-spill (34 cents) and the ATP hit hard on all of them.
I went away pretty happy...lol

 

[treadhead]

AT Pro is weak on freshly buried coins as are most detectors except Minelabs. I would suggest you dig up your test garden and rebury them in your yard if you have one.

As for the "Silver Finds" others have posted, remember not everyone is honest and some post silver coins they bought at a coin shop as they just want an Atta boy. Same goes for some of the jewelry finds. Take all pixs with a grain of salt.

See, I kind'a worry about that sort'a stuff... I mean, I really hope that folks ARE finding those treasures out there but.....lol...some of
the YT videos....eh...maybe I just suck...lol

 

[Kodiak43351]

See, I kind'a worry about that sort'a stuff... I mean, I really hope that folks ARE finding those treasures out there but.....lol...some of
the YT videos....eh...maybe I just suck...lol

No you will find them they are out there good luck.

 

[paul of Penna]

I just got my AT PRO two weeks ago and ran through a few battery changes so far. I am finally pinpointing much better with it, and have found two silver quarters where I and many others have been over quite a few times. I was using the stock coil, to get the best depth as is the case when I know it's been hammered. Another place I went to I just decided to turn on my detector as I finished the walk in to the site, and three feet later I got a high tone, repeatable in all directions (just like it should sound) and it was a 1906 barber quarter. My arm has worn out swinging the big coil, so I am going to stay with the 5x8 for a bit now. LOL Stick with it, and you'll find the silver you are searching for!
Paul of Penna

 

[solaryellow]

I had a rosie dime at 7" and a Merc at 5" they appeared to be in the ground for awhile. they both air test exactly the same at 9.5 with (I would dig it) repeatable numbers.. Pro Zero max sens, Freshly buried I struggled in the 6" range.. So i guess its normal for the ATPro.

 

[bzbadger]

I love my ATP and its funny how in our club the ATP guys stick together. The machine speaks for itself, it does a heck of a job. People think they have quirks or don't work, fine keep thinking that and while you decide on what moanlab you think you can afford months from now I will be digging up stuff with my quirky machine. I've pulled stuff as deep as 18" and while a $2k+ moanlab tried desperately to find the target. Learn the machine and you will learn to love it. I actually like minelabs but just too much green for a machine.

Get your facts first, then distort them as you please-Mark Twain

 

[gleaner1]

A blind, unwitting caveman, forced into a freak metal detecting challenge, blindfolded, with one hand tied behind his back, using a radio shack, could easily find the elusive 6" silver crap, on Monday morning, after a blowout vodka bender, all banged up and hung over. No offense intended to the radio shack folks indeed. I guess the cavemen hate vodka I hear and stuff.