Great video as always. I started with a Ace250. Found all kinds of stuff with it. Upgraded to a Nox 800 on your and Heaths recommendation and love it. How do you like your 900? I typically hunt pretty trashy spots. 6 inch coil on my 800 was a game changer. Had it a couple years now and have not taken it off.
💥💥💥Here's what I think. The Garrett Ace 400 is an excellent example of a low-end metal detector. Let's start with metal detecting before we discuss metal detectors. Metal detecting: technique versus technology. Technique is knowing and mastering the fundamentals of physically using a metal detector and recovering targets. Technology, is of course, low end too high-end machines. A guy with excellent technique and a mid-range detector, such as a Garrett AT Pro, will always find more than the guy with the $2,000 machine, and little knowledge of technique. Comparing two guys with excellent technique, the guy with the high-end $2,000 machine will find 50% more good targets than the guy using the Garrett AT Pro. Moving on: A guy with excellent technique and a high-end machine can make old sites new again and find great stuff at pounded locations if they know the best places to look within those locations. The places within places. I'll only use Parks as an example since I'm going on a bit in this comment. That 150-year-old park did not have air conditioning. For cooling, they used a sophisticated technology called: “Shade.” What do you think would happen if you went for a picnic at the park and left your cart and horse exposed to direct sunlight for hours? They’d drop dead. You wouldn't just be out of a ride home, you'd be in serious Financial hardship. The streets around the old Parks were lined with shade trees to protect your transportation. They had plenty of shade to picnic under. Grandma can't picnic for hours in the direct sunlight. Knowing this, what are the two most likely places a person is going to lose something during this picnic? I'll tell you. The place in the shade they had the picnic, and the shady place they parked the horse cart to unpack for the day and to pack up upon departure.
Fast forward to now- the trees are gone from that park, and people have been littering it with pull tabs, bottle caps, cans, and other junk for decades. That AT Pro isn't picking through all that. How do I know? I owned one. Thanks for watching!
@@freedomdiggersmetaldetecti8964 I agree with you 100%. I own a Garrett AT Pro as well. Haven’t used it since I bought my first Deus about 7 years ago. Picked up the Deus II when it came out. I prefer the XY screen and my own tones across most programs. Reactivity is out of this world! Easily picks out good targets among the trash. Excellent iron hunter as well. Impossible with machines like the Garrett AT Pro. Great video. Thank you!
Another great video by you with great advise...
I appreciate your support!
great video!! thank you!
I appreciate your support!
Great video as always. I started with a Ace250. Found all kinds of stuff with it. Upgraded to a Nox 800 on your and Heaths recommendation and love it. How do you like your 900? I typically hunt pretty trashy spots. 6 inch coil on my 800 was a game changer. Had it a couple years now and have not taken it off.
I love my 900! I'm really getting tuned into it. It came with the stock coil & a 6". That small one is absolutely a gem.
💥💥💥Here's what I think. The Garrett Ace 400 is an excellent example of a low-end metal detector. Let's start with metal detecting before we discuss metal detectors. Metal detecting: technique versus technology. Technique is knowing and mastering the fundamentals of physically using a metal detector and recovering targets. Technology, is of course, low end too high-end machines. A guy with excellent technique and a mid-range detector, such as a Garrett AT Pro, will always find more than the guy with the $2,000 machine, and little knowledge of technique. Comparing two guys with excellent technique, the guy with the high-end $2,000 machine will find 50% more good targets than the guy using the Garrett AT Pro. Moving on: A guy with excellent technique and a high-end machine can make old sites new again and find great stuff at pounded locations if they know the best places to look within those locations. The places within places. I'll only use Parks as an example since I'm going on a bit in this comment. That 150-year-old park did not have air conditioning. For cooling, they used a sophisticated technology called: “Shade.” What do you think would happen if you went for a picnic at the park and left your cart and horse exposed to direct sunlight for hours? They’d drop dead. You wouldn't just be out of a ride home, you'd be in serious Financial hardship. The streets around the old Parks were lined with shade trees to protect your transportation. They had plenty of shade to picnic under. Grandma can't picnic for hours in the direct sunlight. Knowing this, what are the two most likely places a person is going to lose something during this picnic? I'll tell you. The place in the shade they had the picnic, and the shady place they parked the horse cart to unpack for the day and to pack up upon departure.
Fast forward to now- the trees are gone from that park, and people have been littering it with pull tabs, bottle caps, cans, and other junk for decades. That AT Pro isn't picking through all that. How do I know? I owned one.
Thanks for watching!
@@freedomdiggersmetaldetecti8964 I agree with you 100%. I own a Garrett AT Pro as well. Haven’t used it since I bought my first Deus about 7 years ago. Picked up the Deus II when it came out. I prefer the XY screen and my own tones across most programs. Reactivity is out of this world! Easily picks out good targets among the trash. Excellent iron hunter as well. Impossible with machines like the Garrett AT Pro. Great video. Thank you!
@leesmith2798 I have thought about getting a DEUS 2. Target separation is king in trash/iron.
@@freedomdiggersmetaldetecti8964 It's deep too.