I would have agreed with you when I first got it pennypacker, now that I know what it is telling me, I do awesome with it!
Likewise it's no secret that its easier to find metal if the ground is wet...
How long did you have your AT Pro before getting rid of it because "it sucks?"
Well maybe you have the "right stuff".
Look at IceScratcher, he kills it in the water with an ATPro.
"Likewise it's no secret that its easier to find metal if the ground is wet..."
I never stated otherwise.
I did a side by side comparison hunt, a friend got one and I was genuinely excited for him. I thought it was going to be a good machine.
Needless to say I was not impressed in the least.
He got into the hobby with an $80 detector, then a bounty hunter discovery 1100, I was amazed he was still hanging in there and figure he would take off with the ATPro, a week later it was up for sale.
I couldn't figure out how to bull-!!!! him into using it, my mind went blank.
I know my way around a detector half decent, but there is something off about the ATPro, despite being fast, it is overly difficult to "X" a target out with it.
Incoherent comes to mind.
I took him to a field absolutely polluted with coins for practice, this machine only liked the scrap.
He couldn't buy a single coin at a place that yields 50-100 coins in 4 hours for the average detector with an ambitious operator.
There was a new lady there with some sort of Technetics, she was drooling all over this ATPro, (As most newbs do) which was ironic as she had a pouch full of coins and he had none, I literally don't recall him finding a single red cent.
I thought OK I will figure this out for him, it didn't take long to decide this machine wasn't for me.
Why waste the time trying to learn something that is so difficult to use in the first place.
This isn't a high-end machine, it's a mid-line detector in a class full of stable machines.
I even preselected probable coins targets ahead off time, real easy ones, the ATPro was just plain unintelligible on these targets.
I mean there was some trash, but not that bad, I have hunted that site with DD's myself.
Perhaps that is why some prefer the 5x8 on the ATPro.
I'm still perplexed, I just don't get it.