Newbie looking at AT Gold...Your thoughts?

[ATGoldGuy]

Hello everyone. I'm a Newbie to the forum and to MDing. I have about $1000.00 total to spend and have been reading quite a bit. I have decided on the Garrett AT Gold...based on my budget...and the fact that I want to get a hand Pinpointer, digger, etc.

I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on the AT Gold they could share with me.

I called myself ATGoldGuy when I registered...not very original huh?

Thanks!

 

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[ATGoldGuy]

does anyone have an opinion they could share with me on the AT Gold?

 

[Terry Soloman]

I think you are making a mistake living in Ohio. The AT Gold is way too sensitive and runs too high a frequency for regular coinshooting. It is going to LOVE trash and deep iron. The AT Gold is supposed to be a nuggetshooter. You would be MUCH better off with the AT Pro, Tesoro Vaquero, Minelab 505, yadda, yadda, yadda. If you want a gold nugget machine, get a real one: Fisher Goldbug Pro; Tesoro Lobo Super Traq; Whites GMT; Teknetics G2.

Sorry if I sound a little harsh, just trying to give you a heads up.

 

[ELITE]

With my at gold i have the garret propionter, piranha from predator tools, and a lesche digger, this combination works great.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

the at pro is a everything metal detecter correct it can just a easily shoot nuggets as it finds nails or coins correct

 

[yelnif]

Hello everyone. I'm a Newbie to the forum and to MDing. I have about $1000.00 total to spend and have been reading quite a bit. I have decided on the Garrett AT Gold...based on my budget...and the fact that I want to get a hand Pinpointer, digger, etc.

I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on the AT Gold they could share with me.

I called myself ATGoldGuy when I registered...not very original huh?

Thanks!

If you look on the forums page- down a ways- you will find threads on MDing and you will find manufacture specific threads there. May help- a lot of good info. Yelnif...HH

 

[ATGoldGuy]

Thanks everyone for your help. I truly appreciate it. I think with my budget I'm going to go with the AT Pro

 

[lonewolfe]

You'll do much better with the AT Pro as a 1st machine and being that your main focus isn't nugget hunting. The Gold version is a higher frequency machine with a pumped up gain better suited for raw gold hunting/prospecting. It also has a "True All Metal Non Motion Mode" which if you're just starting out will be more confusing to use than it's worth (good for the gold fields/streams) but bad for parks, schools, everyday hunting/coin shooting, etc.. You'll dig tons of iron/trash using that mode and quickly turn it off/forget about it - so - you'd be paying for that feature for basically not even using it!

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

alll you would have to do is get the gold coil for it couldnt you