Anyhow the 100 hour jab was not directed at you, .
Since we're talking about 100 hours
Let me tell you, when I first got my AT Pro, like pennypacker, I had no idea what it was telling me.
I had used several detectors, like penny packer, before I ever got my AT PRO.
I mean it's a metal detector, same exact thing as all the other detectors, right? Or so I thought...
When I first got the ATP, I would leave it at home and take my Fisher F5 or Fisher F2 with me because I knew what they were telling me!
Eventually I got more and more brave and started taking the AT Pro out with me. On my first hunt with it, I found a canadian silver dime, and this stuff:
Even though I found silver, and all of these other items, I was experienced enough to realize that I didn't KNOW the AT Pro.
I had an "idea" of what I was doing and found some good targets in a volleyball court and park.
"some" of my previous experience carried over to the AT Pro, but I also knew that this was a different kind of machine with it's own nuances that I would have to learn.
A year later, I am fairly confident that I KNOW my AT Pro. Looking back on the times I would leave it back home makes me smile now. I knew my F2 and was confident in my abilities to interpret it's tones, but that new AT Pro, man was it overwhelming!
2015 has been my best year so far and a large part of that is because of the AT Pro. It has proven itself to me in the field, time and again, and my Ring count skyrocketed this year.
Anyone who has taken the time to chat with me knows that I am not brand loyal. I have swung Whites, Teknetics, Fisher, BH, Garretts and they all had their strengths and weaknesses.
I didn't drink any kool aid of any one brand and have tested and reviewed several metal detectors of many brands.
When I was leaving my ATP at home and taking my Fishers when I went detecting, I didn't have 100 hours on the AT Pro yet.
Did I find silver on my very first hunt with the AT Pro? Yes, that's a fact.
Was it because I already knew how to use it based on years of experience with other detectors? Not entirely, I didn't know the numbers silver would show up on that machine. I got a high tone and dug it. It was a silver dime.
Since that time, after my 100 hours of basic learning the machine, I can confidently say that 5 hours, 15 hours, 48 hours into using it I still didn't know the machine very well. I hadn't learned the various nuances to the tones yet.
The 100 hour period of learning is designed to allow you enough time to really understand your metal detector and it's nuances.
I asked if you had the minimum 100 hours on your AT Pro because I know where I was in my understanding of it at first too.
I didn't invent the "100 hours" I asked that for a reason, and it wasn't to take a
jab at you.
You are surely entitled to your opinion about the "cult" that "drinks kool aid"
Even if you are wrong in your assessment of me and my choice of using the AT Pro. I got it because I wanted it and couldn't be happier with it after clocking over 100 hours on it.
I think that makes me more qualified to tell you that the AT Pro is far from junk that "sucks."
I didn't need 100 hours on it to find good stuff... I needed 100 hours on it to confidently say I understand the machine. I am a fast learner too, but I am not going to fool myself into thinking I know a new detector the first couple times I use it.
I wouldn't have replied, but your continued snide remark only shows your ignorance.
Now. before you say I call you a name, google the word.
