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Deathray -- Agreed 100% on the coil connector and headphone connector!! It makes swapping coils a hassle. You really have to be holding your mouth right to get it in there. Sometimes I just have to walk away from it for a few minutes and then come back to try again later.
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Jimmy -- I wouldn't think I'm not GBing properly. I mean it's pretty self explanatory there...hold the GB button in and pump the coil up/down several times in a spot with no metal in it. It usually GBs in the low to mid 80s from what I've seen so far...once place it balanced in the upper 70s.
Past the pulltab icon = 60+ VDIs.
Air test on a copper penny in Pro/Zero =
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The problem I'm currently having with the AT Pro is getting some decent depth out of it. I've been hunting a few spots that are like any other place...they've been in use since the 1800s so there are layers of trash on them. I've been trying to ignore the surface trash and still digging anything that shows on the display as deeper, or just sounds deeper due to the audio. I w
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I got a new Cabelas catalog in the mail today and it had several detectors in it. I about flipped my chair when I saw an apparent miss print on the price. "Minelab GPX 5000 Gold Detector....$1,149.99". And it is pictured above it. But the item number is for the Eureka Gold, also listed in the book. Drats!
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I've met Bill a couple of times at those DIV hunts. He is a bit hard for me to understand in that yankee talk...I guess I am the same way with him though via my Appalachian Mtn talk. He and I hunted close together on one of the hunts; he is a real digger for sure. Gets very excited digging what we would consider "common" Civil War relics...but he likes going after those bottles
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Kevin -- The point is made of white quartz. It is very common to this area and I guess they just used what was readily available. We have a mixed bag of them that we find...grey, red, and black flint, but I have several that are white quartz.
Regarding Nugget...you just have to remember he is just a kid...and a very spoiled one at that. He hasn't had to work a day of his life. It shows th
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For what it's worth...I just picked up a used AT Pro with stock coil and 5x8 coil. I think it's going to be everything I would need a detector for. I get out so little that I really don't need a high dollar machine. As a matter of fact, me and a couple of buddies went today and covered about 100 miles round trip, and got to hunt just one place of the spots we tried. I have been
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88 -- I agree and at the same time, disagree with ya. I agree that there is not a magical detector out there...nor is there a perfect detector. If I may, I will use the cliche that detectors are just tools...each one has a specific thing it is excels at doing. Detectors that are noted for extreme depth, usually don't work well in trash because of the type filters they use, and or they no
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Well hmm....how bout an AT Pro, with cam locks, great condition, with stock coil, 5x8 coil, Garrett headphones, and headphone adapter for use with other headphones.
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I'm not gonna get too excited. When the AT Gold was shown in teasers, I was convinced that it was going to be their new PI unit too. I sure would like to see a new PI unit though, that's not $3,000+....even if it only got 3/4 of the depth of the Minelab, I would be happy if it had a similar iron discrimination to it.
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Yep kids usually find them there. I remember several years ago, a real young girl found a HUGE canary colored diamond there. I think she was only 2-4 years old, and canary diamonds are rare to find anyway...the sheer size of hers made it even more special. Her parents were actually doing the sifting for diamonds and they let her play in the dirt with her little plastic scoop and plastic bucket wh
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goodmore Wrote:
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> I never really checked into one of these detectors
> because I can't afford one and really don't want
> one. But they use the term discrimination. Do
> these PI detectors have discrimination or is it
> more or less what the TDI offers?
No...the GPX machines are unique in that they can &qu
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Federal land is protected by ARPA law. Unless specified/posted as legal, you can get in big trouble on it. In Tennessee, we can hunt a few certain freshwater beaches but everything else is illegal as far as detecting. You can pick arrowheads and such up off the surface but cannot dig or dive for them on govt land.
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Keith -- People thought, and so accused me of filling the forums full of hype when I was running the Blisstool and talking about how deep it could go. To date, it is still the deepest VLF machine I have ran. I only ran the stock coil on it...never got a chance to hunt it with the 15" coil, but I can only imagine how deep it would go with that. There are for sure tricks to it that I never
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Didn't they change the battery setup for the 6000 XL Pro? It seems like the other ones took large C size batteries...and the newer one took AAs. I know a friend of mine bought a B&G Pro a few years ago....he got it with a 15" round solid coil...and that sucker gave new meaning to the word HEAVY. He bought the machine solely for hunting artillery shells....but he also had a couple
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Harold -- Wow, calm down there Kemosabe!! I think you read into my post wrong. I was simply saying that the 6000 XL wasn't as popular to relic hunters as the 5900/Blue & Grey Pro were, but that I didn't know what the reason behind it was Those machines haven't been made since the early 1990s and are still commanding pretty good prices for machines that old and in bad shape..
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For some reason, there are a lot of relic hunters that did not like the 6000 XL-Pro....they preferred the 5900. They made the 5900 with a different meter card inside, and called it the Blue & Grey Pro. That machine is over 20 years old and is still VERY popular in northern Virginia. I remember asking about the 6000 XL on the forums one time, because I couldn't find a Blue & Grey P
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That machine had my interest as well. It shares the look of a Minelab GPX machine and those are REALLY comfortable out in the field. The GPX itself is a heavy machine if you look at the weight...but the balance of it is so good, you can swing it all day and not get fatigued. I've done it...for 3 days in a row of 12 hrs a day hunting each day. Maybe the Velox One will be a great machine..
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Well I'm back in the game. Went to meet a fella in Chattanooga earlier today that had responded to my WTB post. He had a super nice condition AT Pro with the stock coil and the other coil for a really great price. So I have a detector again. This weekend is the last of the big national level archery tournaments for the year and I'm ready for the off season. Gonna do some good diggin
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Keith -- Very good comparison between the two. I've used both of them and agree. I do have a question though...maybe you or someone else can answer it.
In depth comparing the MXT...do the DD coils make any notable difference in depth compared to the concentric coils? When I used the MXT, it came with the 950 series coil...the round 9" concentric. I never tried any DD coils on it th
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I think I'm going the AT Pro route. I have had several people send me messages with what they have. I've got a couple really good ones on the table...it's just a matter of which one I pick out of the bunch. It wasn't the deepest machine out there but it was adequate for what I will be doing with it...a great all arounder machine.
Keith -- I was just figuring the GMP to
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Yep gettin' back in it a little. Don't want a super expensive unit because I'm not going to be hunting much...but do want SOMETHING to scratch the itch with.
Ozzie -- It's still listed...just checked. It's out of Poland and ships to the US...was at $900 something US dollars right now. The other ones are about $1,050 new though.
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If anybody has one or the other for sale or have been thinking of parting ways with it....shoot me a message. I'm interested in finding an AT Pro with stock coil and maybe an accessory coil or two if the price is right. I can get them new all day for $550 with stock coil but if I can save some money on a used unit, I would like to do so. Doesn't have to be in showroom condition machi
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The key to the Bliss is: less is more.
This is one machine you DO NOT have to crank the Gain way up to get exceptional depth out of it. I was a bit bummed when I discovered I could not run my gain higher than 1.5 around here; most sites would only allow me to ground balance with a setting of 1. When I first took it out, I was ground balancing the machine with the gain set really low....then
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Kevin,
Yes that is the very book. I also got it for free on the Kindle and just finished it yesterday. It's a quick read; I started and finished it in two days. He doesn't see much battle action during the war, but I think you will gain quite a few prospects for sites, if you can locate where he describes...he is pretty good at doing that in the book. His biggest action/battle was
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The last I remember, he had sold his detectors, but a friend of his was letting him borrow one of their machines when he took the notion to want to go some place. The main thing was that he had a REALLY awesome run of good finds one right after the other...several nice buttons, a martingale, and that gold coin, just to name a few. Then when that site begin to dry up, he started trying to find a
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I thought this was interesting. A buddy of mine sent this to me via text. He's into security/law enforcement and this was in one of his catalogs for equipment. Do you reckon it's just an AT Pro or different? I know the stickers are different on it. But check out the MSRP on it.
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Re: vx3 - 10 years ago
The M6 is just a stripped down MXT. Just like the VX3 is a stripped down V3i. To each their own...they are just tools. The more tools you have in the box, the better you will be able to handle given situations. Having just an M6 in the tool box is like only having a phillips head screw driver in there. You'll encounter a lot of situations where that is just fine and all you need. But yo
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Re: vx3 - 10 years ago
The thing about the V3i and the VX3 is that you have the option of running them in 3 freq mode or to run each of the 3 frequencies individually. You will note a pretty significant increase in depth by opting to use one the single frequencies the machine offers. The 3 freq mode is okay but it does lose quite a bit of depth. The V3i is the better of the two; can be setup to do more things and to
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Daniel Tn
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Thank you for the tests and all the info!! This is the kind of stuff the forums should have on them. I like raw unbiased data. Your findings almost echo the same thing we discovered here in our part of Tennessee on relics. I only had the eTrac and not the CTX but we did run a CTX in the same ground. As far as Civil War relics go in undisturbed ground...the eTrac didn't really fare too we
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