well a couple of weeks ago i did some horse trading on here with a member went from my v3i ....to a AT pro took it out a couple times just to learn a little during the week.....this morning after watching some of the great tutorials and reading the manual and believe it or not reading some of the instructions as my wife says i never do lol.........i think im hooked on the garrett ..have never been a garrett fan...only beccause i grew up with whites products...not dawging either one of them i still love my white xl 6000 but WOW the AT ... im learning the language of it ..its going to be so great!cant wait til summer to do some water hunting