Garrett AT PRO
Price: $700
Avg. Score: 
3.92
Based on 142 reviews
3.92Based on 142 reviews
Avg. Durability:
4.29
Avg. Ease of use:
4.41
Learn to adjust the pro
March 12, 2011
I believe most of the people who have a pro model probably expect to much
while learning the detector. Its obviously isn't a turn and go machine.
Most of the time the rattling and noisy is the depth setting isn't adjusted
right. If all you are finding is trash, may be you are in a junky area.
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Don friedley from
Unknown location
1357
AT Pro -Wow!
March 11, 2011
Bought my AT last month and could only take it outside for a couple of
minutes due to the weather. It falsed terribly and I sent it back for the
"fix". I had to wait a couple of weeks for the weather to break and during
that time I contemplated selling my brand new AT, but decided to give it a
chance first. I have several detecting sites that hold old coins, but there are hundreds of rusty bottle caps hiding the coins. I have watched all the you tube videos on the iron disc and iron audio and when I bought the AT, I knew if it could perform here, it was the "real deal".
This week, the snow melted and I took the AT along with my Explorer to the bottle cap infested fairgrounds. Since I had watched the videos, I knew how to set the AT up for coin hunting. Even had I not watched any videos, it is a very basic detector adjustment wise.
I was able to swing the Garrett very slow and when I got a repeatable signal, I checked it with iron audio on. The first signal was a shallow znc which I popped with my screwdriver. The second was a flashing high tone blip that once or twice hit an 80 vdi. Found a rusty nail about 6 inches down. Rescanned the hole and got a solid high tone. 1930 wheatie.
I kept on detecting and found two more wheats with both buried in rusty nails or bottle caps(checked in iron audio and the signal rang clear) If the signal was rusty iron, the good signal would give a garbled burb, with no clean high tone from any direction checked.
I was working next to an old concession stand where I have found many coins as old as Barbers. I got a zinc number along with a tone that agreed.
From about 5 or 6 inches I found an old foil gum wrapper. I rechecked the hole and got a solid mid tone that locked on 52. A couple of inches deeper I found a dateless buffalo nickel. Go figure. Out of the first five targets, I found three wheat all about 8 inches deep, one buffalo, and a zinc penny.
I purposely dug just about all good signals that when checked in iron audio sounded bad. I dug them even though the iron audio said "junk". This feature is awesome in my opinion and works very accurately.
For the record, I was in Pro mode(proportional audio mode) with iron disc at 30. There are three adjustments in each mode and was set at "zero".
It will chirp and chatter with these settings, but if you want the best performance, learn to live with these settings.
Many people will not be able to deal with the constant chirping, but you will find that when you check these quick chirps from different angles, a coin will often repeat. You can't dismiss these chirps. You can swing this detector moderately fast or super slow and get accurated readings.
When I crept this coil ever so slowly, you can check all of these deep chirps for repeatability. In Pro mode the AT is "high strung". In standard mode it is like an Ace 250.
If you want a quiet detector, buy an Ace. If you want a high end detector, learn the "Pro mode". After owning every detector made in the last 16 years, the AT is the best "single frequency detector I have ever used. One final thought: This detector is water proof to 10 feet. I am not a water hunter, but I don't know of any metered water detectors. R.L.
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R.L. Johnson from
Conneaut, Ohio
6258
Don't waste your money on the at pro
March 07, 2011
All the hype about this detector was just that...hype. All they did was
change the color of an ace 250 and jack the price up almost 400.00. All it
took was one day to realise that I hated this detector more than I hated
the other couple garretts I had tried in the past. Well, no more garretts for me after this last fiasco of having to send in a brand new detector to try to fix all the falsing and other problems with the at pro. Buy Fisher or Tesoro if you want a metal detector that works like it is supposed to.
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Richard Head Jr. from
Johnson City, TN.
6382
Garbage machine
March 04, 2011
So I bought the garret at pro thinking it was so awesome. So then me and my
friend went metal detecting and in one day of metal detecting we found over
80 bottle caps(that means over 80 holes dug just for garbage!) and lots
more trash. The only good things were 49 coins totaling $1.40- mostly
pennies, a few nickels and only one quarter. So if you wanna find lots of
garbage, I highly recommend this detector.But I'm still not giving up all hopes.
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D&j treasure hunters from
Anderson,sc
5665
Stay with the ace 250!
March 03, 2011
Waste of money! Pay $212 for the ace 250 put the larger coil on her and you
have a AT Pro! And you save $300 bucks! Stop playing the shell game like
whites does! This detector has no more depth than the Ace 250 with the
bigger coil. And this machine is a noise box. I was wondering why we heard
very little about this machine before it came out. Now I know why. It
should be called the AT Prophylactic! Because it was nothing but a pain in
the ---! The extra bells and whistles are not worth the trouble they do
little when the machine can't run smooth.
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Roger from
Ohio
5062
Not bad but there are better out there
March 02, 2011
The AT Pro has some nice features. I like to be able to use the notch
discrimination and also have the iron audio turned on. I have used other
Garrett metal detectors in the past such as the Ace 250, Gtax 550, and the
Gtp 1350.In the std mode the at pro seems to perform about like the 1350 but with some added featurs. In the pro mode it seems to get a little better depth. I do not like the audio when in the pro mode. It seems real noisy. The sound it makes on a target in the nickel range is almost like a broken up signal. It does not hit solid. Deeper targets are kind of hard to hear over the other noises it makes when in the pro mode.
When using coin mode it seems like noise and beeps still get though even when discriminated out. Pinpointing is not the greatest but is acceptable. Being waterproof is a plus if you like that type of hunting.
Overall not a bad detector and it has a lot of good features and performs fairly decent in the depth department, just don't expect it to out perform high end detectors like some of the minelabs.
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AT Pro user from
Mid West
6817
True All Terrain-Depth+Fast Recovery+Waterproof
February 20, 2011
I have the ACE 250 and AT Pro. They are not the same. Larger DD coil and
the new advance iron discrimination allows you to find target next to
nails. The recovery time is lightning fast and the AT Pro can go in water
up to 10'! This was the feature that sold me. I can't wait for summer to
wade in the water. And because the AT Pro runs at a higher frequency
(15kHz), same as White's MXT, it will be a good gold prospecting machine as
well and the AT Pro sells for hundreds less than the MXT!
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Metaldetectingoregon.com from
Oregon
3446
Comeing soon!!!!!
February 05, 2011
Hello everyone I ordered my Garrett AT-PRO from colonial metal detector
sales Rich you are a top notch dealer and I will have a nice review when I
have some time using it but from what I have read and the videos I've
watched minelab and other brands have got some really tough competition in
the metal detecting world.
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Paul Bellanceau from
Auburn, maine
1287
Is always the same nothing machine
February 05, 2011
GARRET has created AT pro.... There´s not difference, I can´t see
advantage from ACE 250.....It´s the same! Come on.... I think it´s time
to make a serious detector like Minelab but less price.... Can you? Stop to
sell rubish!Oscar
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Oscar from
Argentina
5796
ATPro is an awesome machine!
January 25, 2011
I've been metal detecting off and on for several years. Purchased the AT
Pro a month ago and it is a great product. As with all detectors it takes
time to learn it, but once you do you'll be happy with it's performance.
Excellent depth, 0-99 target id display helps distinguish targets. Spent three hours detecting today and dug 57 coins. Thats one every 3 minutes... 7 wheatties, 2 silver dimes, belt buckle, and tons of clad.Compared it to ace 250, garrett master hunter 6, and garrett master hunter cxII for depth performance and it smoked them by about 2-3 inches.
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Rcdetector from
Springfield, MO
5040