Garrett AT Pro Early Victorian Metal Detecting Hunt 

To be fair though… I’ve found literally tens of thousands of good targets & many great ones as well.

They did actually move this house to a nearby historical sight & reassembled it for preservation.

I'm glad!

@@MrThedocholiday Yay!

Mary-Anne Swanson kindered spirits... My wife & I now live in a very old house that we're restoring. All the original craftsmanship remains intact. It's bound to be a long haul but with encouragement from others like yourself & the good Lord at our side, it will not only get finished but we'll treasure the journey as well... Lord willing. Thanks for watching!

Intriguing insights… Thanks for the advice & thanks for watching.

JustMe thanks for watching...

Great Lakes Dirt Fishing thanks Dirt. I'm working on a new series with an 1880 Victorian on a several acre lot. Should prove interesting but will take time to produce due to other commitments. Thanks for watching & stay tuned.

Are you in NY too?

Ken Clarke thanks Ken... Advice well taken... I'm working a killer Vic currently also. New permission with 3.5 acres unlimited access... I'm in heaven!

lightfusegetaway thanks for watching...

... comical isn't it?

Thanks for the encouragement. Aside from just a couple trolls, almost everyone has voiced appreciation of my videos. I'm just glad people can benefit from my efforts & time. I am humbled by the overwhelming support. Thanks for watching & have a great week!

Much peace... Thanks for watching Seth!

I've tried that before & you're right - it's noisy. But, I've also learned to do that very same thing with my Tek Delta 4K & it's paid high rewards. So I plan on taking your advice & just tuff it out until I get used to it because there is no substitute for using my own brain to discriminate targets instead of letting the machine do the work for me.

That place I'm sure has been hit hard in the sixties and seventy's.

How does your wife feel about 3/4 of your silverware being from your digs?

I suspect you're right about being hunted out previously. But, I hit another house just like this one from the 20's & scored one of my biggest & best hunts ever. One of the coins dated back to the 1700's! I found a total of 19 very old coins in all. So you just never know on these old ones until you hunt them.

I use all my silverware finds too except for the silver plated. Almost all of them are flaking off. I love using them! Lol. Hubby’s not a fan though. 😎

Sorry, too late. I was way too busy & now the site is a massive sardine can where half a million houses are packed together so tight your neighbors can hear you snore at night. That's Cali for you... We drove passed this house for months & never knew it was there until it was suddenly uncovered from the surrounding orange groves. What a beauty! Then within just a few weeks all the groves were ripped out, the house was moved & the new housing tract was going up. God knows these old houses are awesome. I've had more views from this one video than all my other metal detecting combined. I think it's the house!

KameMan I totally agree... Will do it different from now on.

Yeah, what part of the country did you live at the time? I love these old houses!

Duster Dan I lived in Oregon. Wish I had pictures, as the house is long gone now.

Thanks for watching...

Thanks for the advice friend...

You get an idea what is under the house & porch by what you find around the house in the yard. The exception would be if someone detected the yard hardcore previously but neglected to detect under the porch.

Thanks friend... I've hunted with several good detectors before but I'm still learning this particular machine. Having an alternate coil is great advice so perhaps some time in the future. You're comments are a pleasant change from the typical criticism of taking several minutes to dig my first target through the rock hard soil here in So Cal. Thanks for watching & for the advice.

Only once found a sterling silver fork but this one had my blood pumping for a moment.

She Pirate they moved the house and preserved it 🙂

Didn't have time...

I know... :(

These people in my town tore down a beautiful colonial house from 1713. Tore it down and built an ugly house on top. So sad. It was in good shape too.

Thanks Worldwide! I learned a while back never to take these properties for granted when I found a killer hoard on a property developed in 1924 which included a coin dating all the way back 1739! To bad I didn't get that hunt on camera. Still have the entire hoard of 19 coins in all though. Thanks for watching.

Matt Eastman Matt Eastman it’s hard to beat any Teknetics! I use the Tek Delta 4000. I’ve used it side by side against one high end Whites machine, a garrett ace 150, ace 250 & at-pro. The only machine out of those four others that has any advantage over the tek d4k is the ATPro & that simply because it out powers the Teknetics with greater depth ability. Have you ever experienced anything so real that everything others said about it was pure noise? I’ve found tens of thousands of great targets with my d4k & I will challenge anyone to out hunt me with my Teknetics. If they can find more good targets in the same amount of time on the same property on the same day I’ll give them a fresh ten dollar bill. I’m sure countless fanboys will argue with me on this but talk is cheap & noise is noise. The Garrett AT Pro is a great machine compared to most & more powerful than my Teknetics, but I can hunt circles around an at pro with my Teknetics in the top 4” of soil. Ask me how I know for sure? I own them both & use them regularly. Hope that helps...

Duster Dan awesome thank you for the reply ! Happy hunting

I have two Teknetics Delta 4000 machines & one Garrett AT Pro. The Tek D4K is in my opinion the best machine for your money but it lacks depth & features that higher end machines offer. I have literally found everything with my D4K & I can also tell you I think it’s the best machine for beginners because of the absolute accuracy of the target ID feature compared to Whites, Garrett & Fisher. I’ve literally found tens of thousands of great targets with my delta 4000 within a five year period. And this was not full time either. I was running my own roofing business at the time during that period, so it’s not like I spend every day detecting. I’ve found British coppers dating back to 1700’s, gold, silver, coins, jewelry, diamond ring, & everything in between. Then, several times after using the D4K I detected some of the same areas & still found more goodies with my Garrett AT Pro at greater depth. That’s about all I can say. They’re both great machines but the D4K is faster & has a more accurate target ID than anything else in the market while the AT Pro has more power at depth & more features.

Ginchiest1 Okay so first question... Why was silver removed from our larger currency? Second question... Why was copper removed from our smaller currency? Today's pennies are a mere skin of semi-expensive copper filled with worthless zinc. Today's larger coins are comprised of relatively worthless alloys instead of valuable silver like they used to be. The same goes for gold coinage. Gold was removed from circulation altogether & now we even have bronze coinage to resemble gold. So why have precious metals & semi-precious metals been removed from all our coinage & relatively worthless metals been substituted in their place? We'll, there are actually several reasons for this, but not the least of which is the government's obligation to make good on their promise of currency value to the public they serve. And, the government's beholden obligation to the banks that fund government functions... The central bankers tell politicians what to do based on central bank practices of investing & minting of currency & whenever bankers can substitute leeser valued currency for higher valued currency & convince politicians to legislate such substitution in order to profit from that substitution, they will do so. And substitution of worthless metals for precious & semi-precious metals in currency is a major profit swap for those who mint our coinage; especially on the scale of coinage supplied to our population today. So if the govt & central banks profit by swapping worthless currency for inherently more valuable currency, who loses out in this value swap? The public, that's who. How? By having the inherently valuable precious metals removed from our currency, the value of our currency goes down. This is called "Inflation". Ever heard of it or wonder what causes inflation? Now you know. This is the primary reason why a twenty dollar gold piece from 1933 is worth 1300+ dollars today... Because the value of the paper dollar has decreased by approx. 7 thousand percent if my math serves me correctly. This was not only intentional on behalf of central banks & government, it was done deceptively, under the guise of what was necessary & good for the public at the time. This has happened to all our coin currency & now even with our paper currency, but in a slightly different way. This is the corruption I was referring to in my video & it is well documented throughout history with all governments.

Yeah, I have two very special hunts under my belt where I found coin hoards (Off camera) on properties developed in similar time eras. One property (1924) produced a large coin hoard of nineteen vintage coins - one of them dating back to 1739 - three of which were British Coppers & one an LC. So you never know where these amazing treasures may be hiding until you hunt - satellite dish or not. Thanks for watching...

They actually preserved the house & moved it to a historical site nearby.

@@MrThedocholiday oh that's good! You should go back to hunt it... I wouldn't be able to sleep with a permission like that😍

Anything is possible. Thanks for watching.

Yep, sounds about right. Me too...

Sounds like a great idea... I was really convinced that I would find good targets in the yard though & by the time I realized I wouldn't find them there, it was a too late.

Maybe... still learning the AT Pro.

The Red Book of US coins can be way more helpful than my brief explanation, but I’ll give it a shot in the meantime. By “clad” quarters I mean quarters minted after 1964 that are made of a copper core which is clad or encased with cupronickel on the outside. Cupronickel is made of 75% nickel & 25% copper. Clad quarters have zero silver content in them so they have little worth compared to silver quarters. 1964 & earlier quarters are made of 90% silver & 10% copper. These are not considered “clad” but rather silver quarters & are way more valuable than clad quarters. Hope that helps.

Yes... I use several shovels. Ever hear of decomposed granite? Ever try digging in DG after it’s been re-packed by the rain & baked by the sun? Ever see a true detectorist pass up an opportunity to detect a house this old & dig in DG anyway?

Unfortunately, now they're developing the property to build either houses or apartments. In any case, property values in CA are too high to just let the land sit empty without capitalizing on the potential for rents & mortgages. At least the house was saved & moved elsewhere. Thanks for watching.

Oh I'm glad the house was saved!..That's the main thing!..It's like they say. Once the developers move in, there goes the neighborhood!

In a lot of housing developments, a large victorian house, usually brick, is used as an office for the contractor, or storage space for collectible tools, and furniture. They may rent it out to a family member who is homeless, or may sell it to a groundskeeper.

You don't like Bill Lad? Just curious...

Duster Dan i do and i don't. I don't like how cocky he's been over the past year or so and now he's picking on Jocelyn with the troll. It was funny at first but 10 episodes of it is enough.

I get it... cockiness gets old real fast & really shows what's in a person's heart. On the other hand Jocelyn's pretty cool. I really dig her song, "I dug it up" because It tells the story of the passion of treasure hunting that only those who catch the bug understand. On another note, I'm planning to do some serious hunts in the next couple years on multiple late 1800's homestead properties - one of which is nearly 4 acres & unlimited access. Planning to record every hunt but it's gonna take some time before I can upload them. Lord willing everything will work out so stay tuned. Thanks for your response.

I.W.C Chennur From zero to about ten inches.

I'm planning to go for an AT pro n d seller claims tht it can detect upto 25". How true is that?

Dan plz help me out with zeroing on my first MD. And also let me know what u think abt Makro Jeohunter 3D series?

I.W.C Chennur it depends entirely on the size of the targets... Sure, it will pickup an engine block 25” down, but who metal detects engine blocks? See what I’m saying? Most people detect coin-size targets or slightly larger. The ATPro can detect coins about 10” down. The other thing that nobody talks about is discrimination... You have to either discriminate with your own senses or tune the machine to discriminate for you. There is a ton of targets to discriminate in the ground under your coil the deeper you go. While the atpro is great at picking up those targets it takes a long time & a lot of practice discriminating out those targets with your own senses. The only other option is to tune the machine to discriminate for you & risk missing good targets down deep. Does that make sense?

I.W.C Chennur Makro Jeohunter is designed as a deep seeking detector. First, you have to know what you’re hunting for & at what depth you’re likely to find it. The last silver quarter I found was about 4” down on an 1880 property. Coins & other heavy object typically sink about an inch per decade depending on soil type & conditions. It is rare to have a need to hunt more than 10” down - unless of course you’re hunting beach sand for gold jewelry. Most of the valuables lost in the last century are within 12” inches from the surface. Not only that but if you hunt deep you have to have the will to retrieve those targets. Digging 12” down for every potential good signal can burn a person out on detecting. While the treasure hunting bug can become feverish, you still need endurance for the long haul & most of us find that by using lightweight hand tools & machines that can hunt & retrieve quickly within the top ten inches of soil are preferred. Any deeper than that & you better pack a lunch, bring your bug spray, carry water for cleaning & rehydration, bring a heavier deep digging shovel & have the willpower to not only work hard retrieving, but also work hard to replace the earth that you dig. Now, as far as zeroing any unit goes... Just follow the instructions in the manual & test your machine after zeroing it. Practice is king in this hobby!

Do you mean big according to size or big according to value? I usually don't dig the larger targets, but the most valuable target ever was an 18K gold ring with a 1/3 carat diamond in it. I found it 3 inches down in the dry sand at Carpenteria state beach in CA.

mean value-well done then. The country I live.one man found coins value of three million pound.

I think it will be saved, it bounced up and down on it's foundation, and had one Hell of a Hissy Fit!

Not sure what you're talking about but thanks for watching anyway. Perhaps you saw them haul it away after they cut it in half...

It's not a dumb question... The zincs ring in at 76 & the coppers ring in at 82 on the ID's of both the Garrett AT Pro & the Teknetics Delta 4000. Occasionally the numbers vary a little but not much more than a digit or two. The Teknetics has a more accurate & consistent ID than the AT Pro but it's not as deep or as powerful at depth.

thanks for answering. great explanation. i may get the AT pro soon. cant see spending the $2500 on that ctx 3030 people love. u think that 3030 detector is worth the extra $1700 over the at pro?

AT Pro is a way better machine for the money. If I upgrade from my atpro, I would buy an ETRAC.

kimberly gibson Me too... 😉

It's been bulldozed & developed with dozens of modern houses jamb-packed right next to each other... Good luck!

Really?

That's the way it's been told. I don't believe in that stuff but that's what people say. It was some old thing told by my ancestors. Usually bury the spoon by the water for good luck. If someone digs it up, they have to bury a new one or they'll break the chain of good luck. Yours wasn't found by the water though.

This might have been believed in South Wales in the 1800's, but not in their new country,America!

I have several traps if the gopher isn't happy with my backfill results. I think the traps are called the 'Death Clutch 2'. I found them online & use them whenever I need to get rid of the little digging devils from my own yard.

You've never heard the term recent past? I did a hunt in the local mountains & the iron was so bad that no matter how much I tuned it down I still couldn't hear the good signals through the iron. I'm used to Running my machine wide open but I can't do that with the Garrett cause it's too sensitive.

Oh look, another troll... How wonderful! Have you met Cainboy yet? You two ought get together & practice your grammar while you're gouging out your eyes with spoons. Nothing would make me happier... That way you'd miss-spell all your profanity & my children wouldn't be able to ready your inane comments, because you probably can't even type without looking at the keypad. Very mature Phil...

If you're gonna get two machines get at least one Garrett AT Pro & possibly the Teknetics Delta 4000, or a second AT Pro. The Teknetics Delta 4000 is the best machine for the money but they interfere with one another. My buddy & I used to go out with two Delta 4K's & we couldn't hunt within fifty feet of each other. The AT Pro is the best machine in it's class as far as I'm concerned but the Delta 4K is the best machine for the money - almost as good as the AT Pro itself & that's not to take anything away from the AT Pro. But the AT Pro is a $500 machine while the Tek Delta 4K is a $280 machine.

John Savage There was a gopher hole directly beneath the target & being careless & having it fall another foot or two into the rock hard soil is not my idea of fun, despite the need for patience from viewers. The soil in this hunt was very hard compared to other areas of the country. Thanks for watching...

The copper penny signals always indicate that there are potential great targets remaining there. It’s not the penny itself. It’s the value of the target signal. Experienced detectorists know this. Newbies don’t. Newbies just want the best targets quickly. They don’t want to put in the hard work necessary to discover & preserve history. They just want the glory without the discipline. But experienced detectorists know the value of a good target ID. That’s the point here.

@@MrThedocholiday I am both a coin collector and a metals stacker. Of course i love gold and silver, but i will also save all the copper and nickel i can find as well. All targets are worth digging in my opinion. Any copper target could be a wheat, Indian or even better.

That's okay, I've had better hunts that I didn't get on video. I'm planning another old permission in the near future that's abandoned but hasn't been bulldozed yet.

Philip Callicoat Yes, I know. Want to buy one for my birthday?

Wanna buy me one for Christmas?

Yes, but they also make softer soil to dig in with those bigger shovels. 😉

Mike Nauer It kinda looks that way don't it? But no, I checked on Google Earth & Zillow & this house has been here more than a hundred years. Pretty sure it was previously hunted though. Thanks for watching...

Why didn't some one move the house? I know that cost a mint, so do these new houses; built to look-alike chicken houses. With the flimsy 2x4's? they use any more, a F3 tornado would make a nice splinter pile!

I found out they are going to move the old Vic. Sweet!

Kenneth Barker I know... Can’t help myself. I learned a lot from others who talk too so...

Don't know about the Ace 350 but I hunted with a guy who had an Ace 250 & the refresh rate of the AT Pro seems much faster. It's just slightly slower than my Tek Delta 4K. Just an aside, the Tek Delta 4K has about the fastest refresh rate in the industry, but I digress. The AT Pro has a faster refresh rate than the other entry level Ace models, is waterproof, does well around saltwater & goes deeper than anything else in it's price range. Hope that answers your question. Thanks for watching.

Had to dig one handed in rock hard soil trying to preserve potentially priceless targets & hold the camera with the other hand. My guess is that you've considered all these challenges & you have some superpower skill that I simply don't have that enables you to do all these things & take a lunch break at the same time. I'm simply not a treasure hunting superhero like you... yet! But I should get there by the next hunt. Stay tuned...

Mark Branton I know right

Duster Dan, I am new to metal detecting and your video explains to me what I might expect on one or more of my future "expeditions" of metal detecting, however boring to the old pros. Keep up the good work.

That's what I figured too... Thanks for watching.

Thanks...

You may be right friend, but I'd be willing to challenge anyone to a 30 minute hunt-off with my Tek against any other machine & I'd bet a twenty dollar bill that I could retrieve more good targets in the trash than anyone using another machine. But I think you hit the nail on the head when you said, "When I get used to my AT Pro it will leave my Tek in the dark". The last two times out my AT Pro has performed flawlessly in the trash & just about as fast as my Tek. So I think it's mostly a matter of what I'm used to. You get the same thing in firearms training... It's partly the tool you use & partly your training with that particular tool. Thanks for watching & for the advice... No chance I'll be turning in my acme hand shovel for something larger that I have to lug around though... Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you too and Happy hunting