I got out last week a few hours before the frigid temps arrived. Might get out a little this week if the weather men are right. 
Went to a park...started at a very steep old sledding hill and thought I'd try a little jewelry hunting. But the ground was still frozen in some areas, and first I started hitting some tabs, and notched some of them out...started going after the solid nickle and foil range. But there was shreds of aluminum everywhere. And this little coil hits hard on small bits of foil too. So I left the hill and wandered all over this old big park, picking up clad and investigating all kinds of targets just to get used to the Ace. It does bounce around on trash as most have said...and hits solid on better targets. I've been on that hill before with several other detectors and always end up picking a few coins and getting tired of the aluminum pretty fast. I'll go back when I get used to this Ace... there has to be some jewelry in them thar hills.
I got a solid dime hit both ways, but from every other angle the ID jumped all over, mostly in the tab ranges. About 4-5" down was an old square tab. I got the same ID about 3 more times, that I dug just to be sure, and it was an old square tab 4" or so deep each time. Out of the ground, it read a solid tab. I only got these dime ID's on these tabs if they were 4" or more in depth...and it was only with one back and forth sweep each time...bounced everywhere else as I walked around the target. Strange but very consistant.
I ran the sens high most of my time out...but from air testing and very little field trial time, I think this little coil in trash might get better lock on ID's on good targets with the sens turned down a notch or two. Has anyone tried the sens down some with the small coil?
Here's some air test readings on old gold coins for anyone that's interested.
All ID's were solid lock ons...no bounce at all
$2 1/2 Gold coin............notch below the beaver tail on the tab
(a modern 1/10 ounce hits the same, and is close to the old $1 Gold coin, so that's probably where it would hit also)
$5 Gold 1/4 Eagle coin.......notch before the 1 cent notch
$10 Gold Half Eagle coin.....notch after the 1 cent notch
$20 Gold Eagle coin..........solid dime
There you are...now go dig them thar gold coins.
Went to a park...started at a very steep old sledding hill and thought I'd try a little jewelry hunting. But the ground was still frozen in some areas, and first I started hitting some tabs, and notched some of them out...started going after the solid nickle and foil range. But there was shreds of aluminum everywhere. And this little coil hits hard on small bits of foil too. So I left the hill and wandered all over this old big park, picking up clad and investigating all kinds of targets just to get used to the Ace. It does bounce around on trash as most have said...and hits solid on better targets. I've been on that hill before with several other detectors and always end up picking a few coins and getting tired of the aluminum pretty fast. I'll go back when I get used to this Ace... there has to be some jewelry in them thar hills.
I got a solid dime hit both ways, but from every other angle the ID jumped all over, mostly in the tab ranges. About 4-5" down was an old square tab. I got the same ID about 3 more times, that I dug just to be sure, and it was an old square tab 4" or so deep each time. Out of the ground, it read a solid tab. I only got these dime ID's on these tabs if they were 4" or more in depth...and it was only with one back and forth sweep each time...bounced everywhere else as I walked around the target. Strange but very consistant.
I ran the sens high most of my time out...but from air testing and very little field trial time, I think this little coil in trash might get better lock on ID's on good targets with the sens turned down a notch or two. Has anyone tried the sens down some with the small coil?
Here's some air test readings on old gold coins for anyone that's interested.
All ID's were solid lock ons...no bounce at all
$2 1/2 Gold coin............notch below the beaver tail on the tab
(a modern 1/10 ounce hits the same, and is close to the old $1 Gold coin, so that's probably where it would hit also)
$5 Gold 1/4 Eagle coin.......notch before the 1 cent notch
$10 Gold Half Eagle coin.....notch after the 1 cent notch
$20 Gold Eagle coin..........solid dime
There you are...now go dig them thar gold coins.