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Usually keep pretty warm running around digging. Have some insulated Duluth trading jeans for long days. For upper wear I like a layer or two of long sleeve shirts with a moderately thin fleece jacket on top. I don't like bulky jackets. It's easy to remove a layer or two If you get warm.
Also have a nightlite brand jacket made for Hunters, it's made out of some type of modern
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> > Really hope it's water proof. If it can get wet
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> It is not waterproof.
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I also run it in prospecting mode (per Paul's reccomendation) and go from there. Mainly a water/relic hunter. My unit hasn't been updated yet.
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From everything I ever read about that coil, people weren't really keen on it. There was a guy in Pennsylvania supposedly making garage concentrics for FBS but it's been years and years now.
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Prior to you mentioning it keith I never even knew they made the ultimate for the AT. Very little info if you Google, heck it's hard to tell they make them looking around the Web. Two of my friends use the 13x14 Nels and they are very deep. I filmed a friend dig a .58 at a measured 13" (real good dirt). I was really suprised
How's the weight/balance on the ultimate vs the stock?
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Agree with whats been said, it's deep and generally good targets lock on well. If the 13" ultimate compares to the stock coil the way it does on the mxt and stock D2 coil, it will be a game changer for the machine.
I've mainly used mine in the water. I feel it does a good job communicating the size of ferrous targets; this has become paramount to me in a water unit. While the
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Agree on the at pro gain. I can often run it wide open and it's wisper quiet. Wish they would've gave the user the ability to push as you see fit.
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John, respectfully you're very wrong regarding the nautillus. You state the nautillus isn't the right freq to be deep???The dmc's are 14khz, the mxt which you claim to dig targets at the earth's core is 15khz?
They are antiquated, power hungry, complicated and ergonomically tough for sure. Heck I probably wouldnt buy a new one, but I can assure you in good dirt they are mo
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Congrats harold. I need to use mine more and youre giving me the itch. The guy that got me into relic hunting had a little 4" coil that he found alot of rebel buttons in house sites with. It was the size of a skoal can, looked funny back then. He had a good relationship with Jerry and had a few things made like that coil, a water hunting rig, etc.
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Hopefully they get it right. I'd really like a machine that offers the ability to drop down to the 6hz-8hz range and smack zinc/minie' balls targets up to high conductors like alot of the old whites and fisher's, paired with a modern DD coil while retaining the racer swing characteristics.
Also an actual useful all metal mode would be great. In my ground AM on the core and racer
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LRP is one of the better kept secrets. A friend got one for his son, he wanted to try my V3i and on a whim I swapped with him. By no means is it the muffler on a stick bounty hunter of the last 20 years. For the price you cant go wrong, I'd take it over the bell tone ace series in a heartbeat. If you hunted newer parks it would pay for itself pretty quick.
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Hope she treats you well Daniel that's a killer as you know. Most of our dirt is good and those bad boys are DEEEEP. Don't care too much about the way a machine looks usually but with the relic faceplate and flags on the box it doesn't get much cooler than a blue and grey.
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Mine ran suprisingly better than I thought at OBX in the wet sand. Had to manually adjust GB and back off sensitivity but it'll hunt. Maybe the 950 coil would fare better, like on a DFX?
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Forgotten underatted machine. Great in remote op3n woods. Friend used to run one and it was very deep in our good dirt. EMI gave him fits, but thats what you get with alot of high gain machines like that. One spot with an electric fence gave it so much trouble that it was unusable where other machines could still function.
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Its been talked about that imaging is being further developed. Look at the advances in 3D depthfinders in the last 5-10 years. My buddy took a screen shot of a sunken deer stand recently, you can count the rungs on the ladder.
A secret that few know, GPR is already being used to locate disturbed dirt from civil war action. You can find hut sites and covered trenchs reliably.
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Was hoping the omega 8500 would be a step in this direction. A high gain, threshold based lower freq machine with a tight DD coil and fast recovery should be a no brainer. Honestly if the racer could maintain its swing attributes and hit minie balls like a 1266 type I wouldnt need another machine for the land.
Filmed a deus dig a breast plate at a measured in the hole 21" in 8 khz a few
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Its junk...The chinese "steel" isnt even tempered. The metal itself wont hold up. Theres a video on facebook of a guy that had one fold in the middle of the blade.
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Possibly Civil War trust property. Lot of it around here. It's kind of a double edged coin, it's not going to get developed into a neighborhood, but no detecting so the history rots away.
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Does anyone know if you can buy the female port somewhere? In other words, I have a set of the Gray Ghosts for the AT on the way, would like to be able to use $150 headphones on other machines if needed. I can make a traditional 1/4 plug to come out of it and mate to it, but need something to link up with the Gray Ghosts. I've emailed Garrett to ask if I could buy the port that goes on the d
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It's not weight that really matters. It's balance. The old whites machines had the counterweight of the box under your arm and a pistol grip. I used a blue and gray pro (5900) for years, it was heavy and it just swang "right".. Really like the way those older whites hunted vs the V series.... I'm stronger than most folks and have a hard time running an AT Pro more than a
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I recently picked up a used at pro with no paperwork. Went to YouTube looking for a run down on the unit and Garret has I believe 4 instructional videos that go through EVERYTHING the detector does, clearly and concisely. They did a really good job. The guy that does the video is actually an experienced hunter and it shows. He even goes a little more in depth on things like manually increasing g
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> I encourage folks to use XLTs. I love to detect
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Having ran one for 2 years in good dirt, and going to great lengths to get aquanted with it and get the most out of the machine I agree. My sites came alive after re-hunting them with other units. Stock coil in disc mode a 6" dime was just
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Same issue here on att. My galaxy S6 active has been doing it for a few weeks. My phones been having several issues since the last update .
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Enjoyed your post daniel. Recently went on my first legit water hunt and was humbled as well. It's amazing how much modern junk was in such a remote area. I think I have a better understanding now of where lighter things like cans will settle vs the heavier keepers.
Only keeper was a brass pommel guard, which was encouraging. Keep the MX sport posts coming. I've really grown fond of
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