John of Edmonton keeps the Findmall forums alive.
At Pro's up here in Canada are a favorite of many as are the ACE series. Think 50% of the folks that hunted our seeded hunt owned a Garrett, then Minelabs and Whites, a few Fishers, couple Tesoros.
I don't care for the AT's or the ACE series. The last modern Garrett I owned was the Gti2500, a bit heavy, clunky, with no smaller Imaging coils. Just that large sucker. All metal mode was deep, disc mode was average. It did work excellent for about two hours before the weight caused pain in my wrist, elbow. Took it to Georgia when I moved there, performance was about half of what it had in NYS. The red clay soil killed performance. After about a year, I figured out there were almost no Garrett dealers in Ga, for that reason.

From what I read by John the Gti2500 still hunts deeper than the AT's.

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