I received my Garrett ATX Deepseeker package in early March and have just had my first trial with it using the DD coil. The first thing was setting it for operations, and this was easily achieved and in a very short amount of time. I must state that the last time I used a metal detector was back in the late 1970s or early 80s, when I had a Whites unit, the model's name of which now escapes me, though I do remember it had "ground elimination balancing". I found that I could GB the ATX easily and also the threshold level was able to be set quickly. The sensitivity was able to be set between 10 and 13 (max). The ground I was going over was fairly hot and the ATX was able to be kept in a stable condition without too many hassles. While the ATX did produce "signals" when hitting some objects, this could generally be checked and ascertained as a false signal quickly. The result of the search netted me several small pieces of iron, some foil, and a five cent piece. One of the pieces of iron was about the size of a match head and was buried about 2 inches down.The deepest I had to dig was about 12 inches for a small item of aluminium foil. I am off to some goldfields shortly now that I have a basic understanding of how the machine operates. Time will tell if I have made a good choice.
The first thing I did notice, was just how heavy the unit was with the DD coil in use. I will have to trial the big mono coil next and I am sure this will be even harder on the arms (and back). Incidently, I am using a Minelab harness with the ATX, as the supplied Garrett harness is, I feel, useless.
