Garrett AT Max On The Beach

Great video Robert I have the at pro and when I go to the beach I have some of the same problems you had with the max maybe not quite as bad glad you shared that I am now saving up for a Excalibur 2 Happy Hunting my friend. But in freshwater my at pro works fine.

Did you ground balance

I have an ATPro and hunt nothing but beaches down here in Texas. That’s why I’m about to get a White’s MX Sport. Can’t handle the chatter. I do love the AT Pro for the dry sand, tho. Love your channel. Just found you yesterday. ;)

You can either ground balance to the minerals in the ground or the salt can't do both unless it has a beach setting

hi Robert i just found your channel. i got myself a ATMax and dud a search to learn the sounds. whats the other machine your using. spunds really good in the black s asnd area. cheers Andy perth Australia

Robert, have you watched the Garrett training videos for the AT Max? They always re-ground balance, even as they move from wet sand to salt water. You CAN set it to ground balance automatically, I guess - which you may have done. They show that excessive ground balance also causes noise. Ground balance manually to the point at which noise is least. Which kind of ground balance did you use? I saw you pumping it, but .... Wow, that really does not get it, if you did it right. Yeah, your ground balance just was not working at all. You can't give up all that sensitivity.

The AT Max does have increased sensitivity! With it's 175 levels of ground balance you should be able to get it close then turn down the sensitivity till you eliminate the chatter. If you think about it, the reason you couldn't pick up the Black Sand with with your old detector is that it was already tuned out somehow. High sensitivity will pick up Black Sand and chatter unless tuned out someway. Its detecting!

Interesting hunt and I think there may be some getting used to that has to be done with this machine. Thanks for sharing!

Do you think Apex or at max is better on the beach?

Hi Rob, I have run the AT Pro on the beach for years and never had that amount of noise and it hunted fine. first I wouldn't have it in All Metal, Don't run it with a coil cover on it, ground it yourself, I have an Excalibur 2 also and since getting that the AT stays home for park hunts. I cant see myself getting a Max. Good luck on your hunts.

My Garrett AT Pro suck on the beach but great for fresh water rivers and land. Its paid for itself from river hunting. Do you still have your excalibur? All your current videos are with the equinox.

The AT Max looks like it may be a decent park or homestead machine, but I think I might stick with the Surfmaster or the Excalibur for the surf. Nice and very informative video.

I hit that beach once in a while, tough hunting. Lots of black sand. Definitely a spot to bring your Minelab-

Glad to see ya💚

I always enjoy your videos but I enjoyed this one especially! Garrett has a problem with coils.. I had one too and it would never shut up. I sent it in and it turns out the coil was bad.

I own a $44.00 detector from menards and I set the discrimination to 1/2 and the same for sensitivity and got a penny and a quarter just under the sand in the water and works just the same in the dry sand. It's a Barska winbest pro edition. Yeah, it's a cheap one but I'm a newbe for about a month now, but I still enjoy doing this stuff! Gonna get a "real one" soon! Good hunting!

Another great video, where you showed a cranky AT MAX and a reliable and accurate Excalibur. Have a great week.

I know this machine runs pretty quiet in the saltwater with waves breaking over it with most of the sensitivity I want to say three bars down from the top however I don't think the settings for this or in the instruction manual and there's certain hoops you have to jump through in the settings and some voodoo but you can make that run nice and quiet and have it run hotter to

It's funny to see you walk around in circles like trying to not see but you really are lol

Muy buenos equipo! Saludazos