Anyone found Nuggets with their AT Pro....

Hi All,

Just interested to here if anyone has used their AT Pro to find gold nuggets and what you think about the unit...?

I'm looking to try it myself in the coming few weeks/months and see for myself however would love to hear what others have achieved with it.

Also keen to know what do you think of the detector in general.

Thanks

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Doesn't seem like much response.  I'll by trying it out for nuggets in July so you will have to wait for my response.  No gold nuggets in Florida, yet.

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Look here, this is really promising   

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Posted on: May 01, 2011, 09:24:03 AM

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That doesn't seem to work.  go to findmall.com and go to the Garrett Scorpion forum and a guy compared to the AT Pro to the Gold Stinger and it worked great in hot ground on a .1 grain nugget. 

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	Is this the one where he air test, then sticks it on the ground near a concrete slab which I would assume has reenforcing in it...and uses a Ace250 as a base line...? I really want to hear about and hopefully see for myself these things finding wild home less gold thats looking for a happy owner... :

This seems to be a never ending quest for someone to come here and tell you that they found truckloads of gold nuggets with their AT Pro. Here's the deal. As a next generation machine based on similar technology as the Ace 250 (see Garrett's site) it will do everything that the Ace 250 will and then some. It WILL detect gold. It WILL be affected by reinforcing bar in concrete. You cannot find gold next to a reinforcing bar. No detector I know of can do that. If you use all metal mode, the bar swamps the receiver. If you use discrimination, it hides the gold target. That's just physics.

You already have one according to your inventory. Just try it and see what happens. Do some air tests on gold jewelry and put it next to an axe head or frying pan to see how close you can be to the large metal object nearby and still find gold. You should be able to answer your own questions and become an expert on answering about the performance of your AT Pro in future threads. Easy.

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Mate, it's not a dumb question, just repetitive. You keep asking the same question and seem to expect a different answer. The AT Pro comes with some presets that you should experiment with. You'll find out a lot more than asking people who either don't own an AT Pro or have any real experience with using it on gold.

The realities of gold nuggets is that they are not simply salted around in the ground in places where gold is found. Some people go weeks without a single nugget. Others find that lovely patch of nuggets and dig one every 20 minutes. That's more down to the luck of the draw than skill or detector ability.

Now before you get any more irritated with my answer, look and see what you said. You wanted to see for yourself and I gave you some short, to-the-point options for trying things out. It was 3:30am local time and the dog wanted his morning walk with me. I go out for a morning couple of hours of detecting around 4:00am or so. In fact, I was looking at the door typing as fast as I could. I wrote facts and nothing more. I was under the impression that facts were what you wanted.

Do you live near gold bearing land (Georgia and Alabama are both likely places)? Can you go in the field easily or is that a once a year trip for you?

Gold is so high in cost right now that you would pay a huge amount for even a small nugget to use in testing. Lead fishing weights smashed flat are a fair but not perfect substitute for a nugget. If you haven't got a real nugget handy, see about some of the pear shaped fishing weights and go at them with a hammer. Bullets are good for small gold simulation too. Pretend they're me when you smash them if you wish. I don't care, just have fun trying to figure out your machine.

And now, I'm off again on another couple of hours swinging the coil but without the dog who is sleeping soundly.

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