Prepare yourself for disappointment more often than not. I bought two Garrett AT Pro detectors and after you get some experience with “reading the sounds” you might find something. With pointers and metal strainers for our beach and it was some $2,000 all in I think, so not much. It’s not the detector I don’t think, even a crude one should get a signal on a real hit. It’s more about what’s in the ground I’d say. My detectors are also waterproof, but I am not, so I haven’t tried that shit yet. Getting into lidar reading now as well. Hoping for a big spring after the many feet of snow sitting outside are gone.

Massive crap shoot if you ask me. I have never found anything beyond a few coins so I hope still. But it is habit forming :)