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Looking to move an overstock supply of the best pin pointer on the market, the Garrett Pro Pointer AT or better known as the "Garrett Carrot"

Be sure to email us at Bart@bigboyshobbies.net for special unadvertised pricing!

What all us Minelab CTX 3030 guys have been asking for! Volume control on our Gray Ghost headphones! Well they are here in stock and ready to ship!

Check out the Gray Ghost Amphibians for the Minelab CTX 3030

The XP Deus MI-6 Pin Pointer is one amazing pin pointer and doing very well in the field!
The ability to hear your targets through the headphones give it a real advantage over traditional pin pointers. Makes it much easier to narrow down the desired target over trash much faster.
The new research mode allows you to locate it as well if you lose it in the field. No more walking around aimlessly looking for a lost pin pointer.
Another MAJOR advantage of the MI-6 is that it has no interference or cross talk with the XP Deus itself. Other pin pin pointer allow interfere with your detector to some degree. Not the MI-6!
If you have any questions about them or anything else we sell always feel free to call or shoot us an email. Be glad to help in any way!

So the Garrett AT Max is almost ready to release for 2017 and we could not be more excited. The Garrett AT Pro and Garrett AT Gold have been outstanding machines and often our favorite mid to high level metal detector to use and to point our customer toward. If price, value, performance, depth, all around build quality and honest to goodness good ole American made metal detectors is what your after look no further than the Garrett AT Series.

New Built-in Z-Lynk Wireless Technology • Lose the old cord! Integrated and built incircuitry transmits audio to your Garrett MS wireless headphones. Six times faster than Old Bluetooth speed! All with easy to use Auto pairing. No cables or wires to tangle up, and no interference from other wireless electronic devices.

New Adjustable Volume control • Garrett has just added a volume control to the Garrett AT MAX. Now you can use any headphones you want and control the volume from the machine or use no headphones at all and adjust the built in speaker to your liking and situation.

New Garrett MS-3 Z-Lynk Wireless Headphones are now included FREE • The amazing speed of Z-Lynk Wireless Technology, and high-fidelity stereo audio with no wires cords attaching you to anything.

Even MORE Maximum Detection Depth for the MAX • Increased TX transmitting power and enhanced electronics gains the AT Max with significant depth increase over older AT series machines!

New true All Metal Mode • Garrett AT MAX detects every type of metal and provides the even greater possible detection depth and sensitivity for those hunted out areas!

Bright LED Backlight • Illuminates LCD screen for improved visibility in low light situations to keep you in the field on a hotspot after others had to call it a day.

All new optimized frequency • The AT Max 13.6 kHz operating frequency provides deeper and excellent detection on a extreme range of new targets. including deeper silver coins, gold jewelry and rings, and brass and civil war relics.

Better High Resolution Ground Balance • Easy to use automatic and manually adjustable for improved performance. Includes 175 points of Ground Balance resolution or adjustments, allowing the Garett AT Max to push deeper through both conductive soils (such as saltwater beaches) and highly mineralized ground which all detectors have difficulty with.

Fast Automatic Ground Balance Window • Garrett New Exclusive feature will simultaneously ground balance the AT MAX to a range of values to help overcome localized ground mineralization and differences. The Garrett At Max reduces subtle ground responses, the Automatic Ground Balance Window smooths detector audio and allows the user to hear faint targets that otherwise would NEVER be heard!

Brighter and Larger Display Numbers • Digital Target ID number, Iron Discrim number to make things easier to see in the daylight and at night.

More Control Buttons • That are all easily accessible with a single finger as you swing away with the AT MAX.

Manually Adjustable User Threshold • AT MAX users can now manually adjust the audio threshold (the constant background sound or “hum”) to better hear faint targets that would be missed by other metal detectors.

Click here to see the key differences between the Garrett AT Pro and Garrett AT Gold

Check out the all new Garrett AT MAX Metal Detector with all the features we are asking for in one machine!

Comes with New Garrett MS-3TM Z-Lynk Wireless Headphones included. NO MORE WIRES! True All metal Mode. New Backlight, More detection depth, larger display and much more!

Be sure to call us at 405-206-9010 or email us at Bart@bigboyshobbies.net to reserve yours. The Garrett AT MAX will be a very limited supply and extremely popular!

Expected in late June or July 2017.

Pricing is out on the new XP DEUS 9" Round Waterproof DD High Frequency Search Coil!

No availability yet but keep checking our website for updates!

Minelab Metal Detectors introduced a new wireless system for use with ANY metal detector! These will be here any day and we are excited to try the Minelab Pro-Sonic Wireless System out!

Check them out and let us know what you think!

Check out the latest update form Tesoro Metal Detectors! The all new The New Tesoro Mojave Metal Detector!

Let us know what do you think of it!

Beach metal detecting can by far be the most profitable and most fun for the detectorist. Not to mention the easiest to dig! ha ha Gold rings add up quick with todays gold prices! Most often a couple found rings can pay for you detector or come real close to it. If your like me the exercise is an added bonus! The beach view is not bad either!

Serious beach detectors come in two main groups but really any machine will work but just not as good as the first two. Especially in dry sand.

Group 1 is not my favorite do to the excessive digging for bobby pins at 12" that sound like good targets. PI machine or Pulse Induction like the Garrett Sea Hunter, Garrett Infinium and Whites Dual Field Surf Master are very deep and sensitive machine but all lack good discrimination. That is just par for the course on PI machines. As I said you wate a good amount of time digging bad targets when you could be on to your next good target if the machine could tell the difference. PI machines are not BAD per say because you do get more depth and sensitivity but pay for it in lack of discrimination. Still many people prefer to the dig them all mentality and love the PI machines. Not me...

Group 2 are the multifrequency VLF machines like the Minelab Excalibur II, Fisher CZ-21 and Minelab CTX 3030. The discrimination is MUCH improved on these metal detectors but you do lose a bit of depth and sensitivity. You get payed back by being able to skip over obviously bad targets so you can move on to the next gold ring hopefully! They do a MUCH better job hearing iron targets and properly identifying them. Although no machine is perfect on this they are much better than most. the multifrequency helps penetrate the high mineral content in the salt water and properly ID your next gold pendant! haha

Other good single frequency machines like the Garrett AT Pro and Whites MX Sport are waterproof to 10 feet and do a great job in the dry sand and sometimes even the damp sand can be used as well. When you get in the surf they often become very erratic and you have to turn sensitivity way down to compensate. Nulling out any chance at deeper targets. Both companies claim these machines to work in the salt and they do but just not very well. Dry sand they are great! Wet sand not so well. In the actual surf?... ehhhh Now fresh water they are AMAZING! Go jump in any pond or creek and go to town!

(UPDATED 2-14-2019) Now with all the info above that is still great food for thought the metal detecting world has changed dramatically since the introduction of a couple new machines by Minelab Metal Detectors!

The Minelab Equinox 800 and Minelab Equinox 600 were introduced and set everything on ear. They are multi frequency machines that can handle the salt minerals and handle any park or old home site as well with fast recovery in trash. Metal detecting have for SURE changed with the introduction of these to machines!

As always if you have any questions or looking for a better deal call or email us. We would be glad to work with you and get you set up correctly to find the next lost pirates chest full of gold coins!

Bart at BigBoysHobbies.net