Garrett Scorpion or AT Pro, which one?

[junglejim]

Which of those two machines would be the better gold finder?

 

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[Willee]

Which of those two machines would be the better gold finder?

The Scorpion is made for finding gold.
The AT PRO is made for relic hunting.
Which do you think would be better at finding gold?

 

[Smudge]

The Scorpion was specifically designed for gold hunting and if you look at John Edmonton's postings in the "Garrett" forum you will see he does really well on jewelry and on coins (though the coins tend to be more shallow, 5" or less).

I know there can be some confusion, as both machines operate on 15 kHz, but I have been told by people smarter than myself (not hard to accomplish) that finding gold has less to do with the frequency and more to do with how the circuitry processes that frequency. As a general rule, the 15 kHz machine will hit on small, shallow gold better than a lower frequency. I think the Scorpion is designed to go even deeper on small gold.

However, be warned that the Scropion requires at least 100 hours of practice (that is according to Garrett themselves) to get proficient, so be prepared for a learning curve. But those who put in the time really seem to love theirs.

 

[ThTx]

From my somewhat limited experience with the AT Pro so far, the AT really does stand for All Terrain. I haven't been to the gold fields, but it hits hard and deep on ANYTHING not discriminated out. Such as foil and pull tabs in the gold range. And the learning curve is much better than the Scorpion (IMHO). You can start in the Standard mode and it is as easy to use as an ACE, then advance to the Pro mode as you gain experience with the machine. VERY nice!

 

[palmercanyonsavant]

Well folks I recieved my new garrett AT PRO been testing all week with it .
I is different than my older models, I am used to turning and always trying to repeat my last settings , now I can lock it in digitaly .
I hope it work well in the river , it worked great in the bench placer mine , only draw back was the edges are sensitve on the coil and was picking up things was confusing to me to find the actual target I was trying to get a reading on.
The good point is at least this time if I drop the detector in the water it wont hurt it, it is water proof up to 10'
yes I said "feet" that includes the box. I wish my vid cam was , it went swimming and drowned and had to bury it a week later.... any how I am going to give it a real heavy work out this weekend on all test (red oxide dirt "adobe", hot rocks area, coin shooting )

I am curious to see if it works in the old graphite mine , no other detector can sit still in the mine they go nuts.

P.S. I posted this and copied it to here also.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Go for the Scorpion. Been on the market for 30 years and is a dedicated gold machine - the AT PRO as spiffy as it is is not a dedicated gold machine.

Bill

 

[Willy]

I'd hold off on the Scorpion. Wait till some better results come in on the AT Pro. As a gold machine, and Garrett fanboys aren't going to like this, the Scorpion is a relic. Get an MXT, XTerra 70/705, LST, GB SE/Pro instead of a Scorpion. I've used all of the above (including the Scorpion and excluding the GB Se/Pro) for both nugget hunting and all-round use and the Scorpion falls flat in comparison. In fact, I've hunted ground where the Scorpion was just plain unusable (as was a Compass AU52, GB1, GM4) and the MXT had no problem handling it.. to the tune of several thousand $'s in nuggets (when gold was going for $286 oz). Compared to a dedicated nugget detector like the GMT, GB 1/2, Eureka Gold, the Scorpion looks even sadder. It also has a gawd-awful battery choice/replacement scheme. It's a shame that Garrett didn't see fit to update the Scorpion, swung one for 2 yrs in the late 90's, 'cause it had potential. ..Willy.