Garrett ATX
Price: $2120
Avg. Score: 
4.2
Based on 10 reviews
4.2Based on 10 reviews
Avg. Durability:
4.20
Avg. Ease of use:
4.80
Great machine for the money
February 07, 2021
I've had my atx for about a year now. I live by the mouth of the Columbia
river and decided to do a test. Here we have 100 percent pure solid black
sand on the beach in places, I was able to detect a quarter about 3 inches
which is fabulous for this type of ground, I have 4 vlfs and they couldn't
touch it, wouldn't work at all, the atx is the first detector I've seen
that would actually detect a coin in such adverse conditions,
I had to turn disc up almost all the way to achieve this. Also people are complaining about falsing, well, for 1 don't wear shoes that have metal in them, also here in WA state we have some of the hottest ground in the country, when you hit a hot spot, you get a signal, so rebalance the detector if the signal goes away its a hot spot, if yer not sure dig it.
This machine is awesome if you know how to use it. I found a 1920 walking liberty half dollar about a foot deep in the woods and a 1940 silver quarter close to it, I worked this area before many times with a at pro and never got a signal, but don't get me wrong at pro is a good machine.
I also found a 10 inch cannonball 2ft. deep with the atx in a area that I combed many times before with the at pro and a 15 inch nel attack coil attached and never got a hit, overall the atx is a super detector with super depth if ya know how to use it the atx will hit a pop can over 3 ft. I buried a brand new quarter 12 inches deep, and detected it at 14 inches, no head phones.
Max Depth: 14 inches on US quarter
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Yes, absolutely!
Mark Sholin from
Long beach, WA
40
Vallon mine detector pulse induction vmh3cs
September 05, 2018
A great machine, deep on land or surf, no discrimination but that doesn't
bother me, comes with army style backpack. So good I bought two.
Max Depth: 18 inches on US quarter
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Yes, absolutely!
Jake from
Scotland
75
Gold country rivers
March 25, 2018
I bought my new ATX recently after weeks of searching utube reviews. High
water washed boulders off bedrock here that's been buried since the 49er
gold rush. My AT Gold was good but bedrock has massive amount of magnetite.
River too high yet but tests show the ATX is responding to something deep
in cracks. Found small pieces of lead but this detectors reporting on
something deeper than I can get to without breaking bedrock. Going to be
fun opening the cracks. Love this metal detector. I'm 75, less than average
size and have no problem handling the ATX.
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Yes, absolutely!
Ralph from
Gold Country California
72
Garrett atx
February 21, 2015
Hi everybody may name is Koroush and from Iran, in Iran we don't have
nugget gold we mostly find coins and any relic and historical jewels. Often
they find in 60 inchs or 2 meters under of land. I to requesting you do air
test with1010 copper sheet with DD COIL and 20 inch MONO search coil. For
discover this ask. The atx can detect the copper sheet in how altitude? And
please send me your results to it mail thank
you.Www.Fazisaeid10(at)gmail.Com
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Saeid from
Iran
1226
Garret atx
February 17, 2015
Is as overpriced as is complete disaster on the field I used it vor 5
months and was depression nearby I sold it with 1000 euro loss so happy I
was to get rid of it!
First of all: iron check only works till 25 CM! And even then it only works for bigger iron It's the perfect cramm detector in European fields Yes you dig some stuff out on iron crap! Sometimes a coin appears between the iron piles Ground balance never worked properly Electric powerlines everywhere disturbed Coil constantly flipped after a month use Cable in shaft gets out of shape so it didn't fit anymore properly after a few times coil change Included swing harness is crap: after a few weeks it' was totaly outreached so I have to buy an extra minelab harness just to have a decent one!
After 2 months: the shaft steel didn't shuffle good anymore. The attachment of the coil began to sweep after 2 months: extra in combination with the flipping coil Extremely heavy detector!!! Yes it goes deep that's true!!! But also at a piece of iron After 3 holes of 80 cm for a rusty piece of junk in 30°C: your search day is over believe me.
Max Depth: 18 inches on US quarter
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Yes, absolutely!
Rondags Eddy from
Belgium
2120
Great for nugget hunting and beach detecting
November 06, 2014
I'm very happy with the Garrett ATX, the more I use it the more I am
impressed. I have used other pulse induction units at a particular beach
and they were unusable due to the EMI. My ATX takes it in stride and
smoothly detects this beach without any noise at all. The weight is only an
issue if you fully extend the coil and don't use the harness. I hardly ever
use the harness, don't need to.
The battery life is great! I can get two long days of detecting from one charge and this thing seems to be very scratch resistant for plastic! The iron ID works very well to weed out most nails and bottle caps but some get through. I have dug many small items very deep in the beach sand, it can be exhausting ,)
Max Depth: 18 inches on US quarter
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Yes, absolutely!
Wesley from
San Jose Bay Area
248
Garrett atx
July 21, 2014
Excellent metal detector! Using the 12" DD coil, I found some coins as deep
as 18" on the beach in Ocean City Maryland. I have found all kinds small
metal items buried deep in the sand... The detector did a great job with
only minor sensitivity changes in scanning the beach. True that this unit
is a little heavy but if you adjust the length to your shoe instead of
extending it all the way, you find the weight isn't a big deal. Wish they
lower the cost of the small mono coil... That would be a nice one to have.
I have the 20" Deepseeker.... Nice!
Max Depth: 18 inches on US quarter
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Rd from
Frederick, Maryland
297
Garrett atx
March 11, 2014
We finally had a chance to test one of the New Garrett ATX's. We took it
gold nugget hunting out in the Nevada desert. We have to tell you we we're
very impressed. It handled the mineralized ground with ease. It had no
problem with EMI's. It was extremely easy to ground balance and very easy
to use.
One of our biggest concerns was with the search coil. Being hinged in the back instead of the center like all other coils we wondered if it would stay in place. That turned out to be no issue at all. The coil stayed firmly in place in whatever position we set it.
We did manage to find a 1.5 gram gold nugget at 5 inches. We buried a 1/2 gram gold nugget at 3 inches and the ATX had no problem locating it. The gentleman that complained about the weight must not have been using the carrying strap correctly. We thought it did a good job of taking the weight off of your arm. After running the Garrett ATX through our tests we have to tell you we're giving it a 10 out of 10. The New ATX appears to be as good as advertised. We can't wait for our next trip in a month so we can get back out with our New Garrett ATX Pulse Induction Metal Detector.
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Yes, absolutely!
Rian from
Idaho
426
ATX looking for gold
February 18, 2014
I was in Arizona in Jan. 2014 picked a new ATX from Arizona Outback with a
days training. I also have a AT Gold, I was able to find 4.5 grams of gold
over a weeks time. ATX was easy to use easy to adjust. The coil was
standard double D, ground was very dry, hard and most finds we're 8 to 10
inches. Really like the ATX.
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Yes, absolutely!
Mike Orr from
Burlington Ontario Canada
437
Returned atx
January 22, 2014
I like how the Garrett ATX is easy to operate. However, it is very, very
heavy and, thus, uncomfortable to be swinging for hours. Another problem is
connecting the headset to the detector box: the two very tiny, male prongs
on the headset cord look fragile and are extremely hard to line up with the
female fitting in the detector box. I cannot imagine plugging and
unplugging the headset each time that this detector is used. I took a long
time to connect the headset to the detector box, and then I was not sure
that the two tiny prongs had not been damaged in the process. I would have
kept this detector despite its heavy weight, but connecting the headset was
nearly impossible for me - very aggravating, so I returned the detector.
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Would you recommend this to a new user?
No, not really.
Wayne R Ivey from
Tucson, Arizona
2299