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3 Days with the Ace 250 = Fun and Finds! First Silver and Gold for 09!

This machine is NOT a toy! Anybody that does not believe it, I will take out and give em a green whoopin! I spent Sat afternoon(4hr) and most of Sunday(6hr) getting to know the machine.

Things I've noticed,

1. At too high gain the ID lies, esp when using the 4 inch coil. foil blobs would ID as coins or pulltabs. Fixed it by lowering the gain.

2. 98% of the time if the machine says it's "crap" - bad signal,short,one way or "ghost" targets it was a speck of nothing, hence CRAP.

3. Sensitivity settings are critical, too high it sounds like a machine gun, pop,pop,pop,pop.......turn it down. One notch won't kill you.

4. Coins on the surface sound way diff. The closest I can describe it is - the drum intro on a striptease, boom,ba-boom,ba-boom (ding sound)

5. The Green and Yellow is a people magnet.

6. Seems like the silver coin was a softer "belltone" than a clad? Not 100% as I was in turn-the-dirt mode.

7. If you don't have the 4 inch coil get it. You can get into those areas where the 6x9 is going nutz!

8. Hunt in Jewelry mode, Just listen for the flat nickle tone or ding, seems like the machine chokes less than in coin mode.

9. All the targets that changed id all over the scale were foil blobs.

10. Used both the coils and for trashy areas the 4 inch is the way to go, You'll do way better with it. Also it fits between roots- see the eagle pin.

11. Best ID for the $$$ I've ever used. You can be lazy and still pull good stuff.


A 10k ring, Silver dime 23 merc, several wheats, several nickles, a 5 dollar bill! Earring, Broach lot's o cool stuff. I alos think I found a train coin, smashed. I may want to get the "big" coil I was hunting an open school yard that had been hunted, pulling a few targets from the 7 inch range w/ 6x9 coil.

I saved all the crap too, look at all the coins! Woot! :crazy:

GO :garrett: !!!!!!!!
 
R-n-R you were a busy man.
Congrats on the great finds and hunt.
 
For #8, what did you mean by nickel signal? Do you mean that a nickel signal will sometimes mean jewelry?????

I once had a dollar come out of nowhere and get wedged between my coil. Talk about irony!!!!
 
Great finds r-n-r I love my Ace 250 also. So glad I started with it. Good hunting:garrett::thumbup:
 
Awesome finds, man!:super: I realy love it when I find those bills, too. Found a $100 bill one time out huntin' about ten years ago. And gold and silver are always good! WTG!
 
No, I ment using the machine set in Jewlery mode and just looking for coins, just digging the coin signals. It seems to work better/smoother when you accept more notches. ? could just be me.?
 
I've been through quite a few detectors , but there's something you have to love about the Ace.
When we go on vacation to Maine or Florida and I hit the beaches the 9 x 12 is a must have coil.
Otherwise for the soccer field and tot lots I've been really happy with the stock coil.
But some day the addition of the snipper coil will be coming..

Thanks for a great post..

Happy Hunting

Bruce
 
n/t
 
Very nice hunt pal, I got my GTI 2500 a hunting buddy. I bought a Ace 250 for a back up
 
But it's too damm heavy!!! The AM mode is a real deep striker! and the imaging is really cool. Once you try that Ace it'll be hard to put down.
 
Looks like I may have to buy another Ace 250. My son is claiming the 250 is his. I guess the Whites he uses now isn't good enough. Man they sure grow up fast.
 
That was on great weekend for you. Just think.....if everybody bought an ACE 250 and searched for just coins, we could probably pull this country out of the recession :thumbup:
 
Hey R-n-R

What is the eagle looking find? Is it a pin, button, medallion? It looks interesting...

Don
 
Beats me, looks to be a pendant of some sort. Looks old, was in between tree roots at the base of a tree. Never would have gotten the 6x9 over it but the 4 inch fit right in the crack. I used to have a football coil I'd use on my Fisher 1236x2 that was perfect for hitting mini's in the deep woods like this.

It looks like a shiny piece of coal sounds off intermittintly and id jumps, found by the waters edge. Gonna do some testing with my other machines and see if it sounds off and what I can do to get any machine not to see it, unfortunelty I think without a GB to adjust I may have to use another machine at the lake to avoid these :rant: nusiance "rocks" ? ? ? These type rocks are a nusiance when hunting cause you ignore the jump and maybe miss a good target or the become so frequent that the noise makes you move or give up.
 
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