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Ace 250 question

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budha24

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I am going to be hunting a school built in 1929, and I have had my ace250 for 3 weeks now and havent hit the silver. I think I should have a good shot here. My question was what would be the best setting to run on I have been using all metal at 4 bars of sens. and only digging the coin tones. I have yet to see the 8+ light up should I hunt at higher than 4 bars for the deeper silver. Thanx for any advice. HH
 
First of all the fact the school was built in 1929 doesn't guarantee that silver is there. Detectors have been around since 1931 and all silver coins don't sink halfway to China. Most are well within the reach of most detectors out there. If you're just starting out stay out of all metal. That's the poorest piece of advice ever given to a newbie. Hunt in coins mode and at four bars until you have enough time on the 250 to familiarize yourself with it. Take your time and hunt slow. Good luck and keep us posted on your success.

Bill
 
Even if the school has never been looked over and depending how long the school was used, remember kids back then until sometime in the '50 - '60's didn't have that much silver in their pockets.
 
Yeah when I went to grade school way back in the forties I didn't have any and neither did too many others. Kids weren't loaded with money back then like they are now and everyone carried coins in a coin purse or a Bull Durham sack - not loose in their pockets and if they lost a coin they hunted for it. Coins were valuable then. When I was a kid one quarter would pay my way into the movies and buy me a box of popcorn, a coke, and a candy bar. At today's prices that quarter was equal to a twenty dollar bill. That's why not too many were lost.

Bill
 
You might also try dropping the nickle notch off your coins mode. I know that takes nickles out of the picture, but should help cut down chatter.
 
go in coins mode! id say 3 bar sensitivity ...man a pro pointer would really help ...listen to the tones...also what i used to do was get bored. in that you d sweep an area and get nothing ...i always thought do i have a faulty detector or am i doin it wrong, so id switch out to all metal ...THEN id hear all the crap that was there...once u get motivated at a site then you ll be there for hours ..all it takes is a couple solid finds, the 250 really rocks, but switch up ur modes too, may not be money there but old trinkets that are actually cooler
 
Cool thanks guys for all the advice I went out to another school tonight and hunted in custom mode with everything penny and higher. I pulled around $2 in clad all of which was 4-6" deep and all dated between 1966-1972. I do have a question though decided when I left it would be a good time to test the depth of the 250 since I have never seen the 8+ light up. I dug down around 8" and dropped one of my quarters in the hole and then refilled ran the coil over and nothing. Switched modes and left sensitivity at 4 and still nothing. The 250 I bought was a demo at a hobbytown never used in the field but used in the store and then sold as new. Should I consider sending my 250 to garrett to have it looked at it?
 
Four things. One. A quarter placed in a hole, even if it is refilled with dirt, will not react like a coin that has been buried by nature for a period of time. Two. Six inches is about as deep as you can expect the Ace 250 to detect a coin sized object in most cases. If soil conditions and coin orientation are optimal you can detect deeper and I dug many coins with my Ace below six inches. That said, 95 percent or more of my finds, even with my GTI 2500, are six inches or shallower. Three. The deeper an object is the less accurate depth indication is. For example. Last weekend I retrieved a US Large Cent at 10 inches. Even with a very accurate pinpoint it indicated a depth of 6 inches and ID'ed as a penny. If it was shallower it would have ID'ed as a half dollar. Four. The faster you swing the coil, the deeper our detector will detect. UW suggests quick twitching on iffy targets which works very well. The problem with swinging too fast is you will miss targets because the detector needs time to recover between targets.

You will retrieve deeper objects as you gain experience. There are plenty of keepers within six inches of the surface. It sounds like your Ace is working fine and that you are doing a good job of getting to know it.

Chris
 
Thanks cwik I was hoping that was the answer. I am really enjoying the ace and was hoping all was ok with it. HH
 
Freshly buried coins are difficult to impossible to detect due to an effect known as "Metallurgical Phenomenon". Nothing wrong with your 250. I've dug quarters at ten inches in damp bark chips with the 250.

Bill
 
as a new ace owner it"s a good idea to follow the advice above :thumbup: after ya get a bit more experience & confidence with your ace you may like to try running in all metal at 5-6 bars so you can hear the full story of what the ace is telling ya some times in A/M you can pick good targets out between junk just by listening for a small bouncing high tone, here's how i do it when detecting for old coins ( both copper & silver ) in junk filled parks i listen for any high/bell tones once i get one i stop then swing the coil over the spot "quickly" 3 or 4 times in different directions if i"m still getting high tones maybe in one direction or on every second pass i pinpoint the target then try again, if i"m sill getting a high tone in one direction or intermittently i dig, if the high tone stops i go on to the next target.
i never use the depth metre i use pinpoint to check the depth- a newer or shallow coin will give a sharper/crisper signal an old deep coin will give a smaller "scratchier" signal. my second oldest coin i found with my ace was a 1835 silver sixpence which is a little smaller than one of your Penny's it was real deep & gave a bouncing signal with a few high tones when i try-ed to pinpoint it i got a small blip signal on every second or third pass of the coil so i dug a big plug & the signal got better when i put the coil in the hole by the time i pulled the coin outta the hole it was deeper than my digger :surprised: to date this is my deepest coin found with any of my detectors. so when i go hunting old coins & relics i tend to leave the sharp signals & concentrate on the scratchier signals even large deep targets have a scratchier / blippier signal in pinpoint.
hope this helps ya find some oldies :thumbup:
lazyaussie
 
One final thought. The only time I recall my 8 inch depth notch lighting up was for deeply buried cans, pipes, or other large metal objects. Lazy Aussie gave some good advice down below. (That's sort of a pun isn't it?) Those iffy signals can be very interesting finds if you learn to interpret them properly. In fact, I had one today that was a very deep silver dime. I'll post it later on.

Chris
 
Another tid bit of info that I have found is that the moister the soil the better the signal comes through with the ACE. Maybe you should try this site after a good rain when the soil is damp say a day or two after a rain. Of course I do not know where you are located and mineralization may cause you problems but that is something you may want to try as well. Alot of people have given you alot of advice take it all with you in the field and good luck.

Let us know of your success!

Don
 
I found silver at about 5 inches! * inches is alot for the 250, maybe Im wrong? Depends on the signal, I had great signal when finding silver.I use GTP 1350 by Garrett
 
Rescue2

If you want to find coins of any kind go to a ball field near you that has a concession stand. Gauranteed coin location...of course get permission first and...fill your holes well.

Don
 
Well I have to say something here seems like every one has the answer to where and how to run a machine. I run the ace250 it is all I have. First and foremost. Forget the depth scale. a coin buried 6 or even 8 inches down will have different readings according to the soil type. That being said I will say when I went to the full cover headphones I could pick up other sounds that the cheap headphones can't pick up. I have dug quarters dimes and nickles down to 9 inches. How? I listen to what the 250 is telling me. Listen to the noise there is a big difference. Now that being said our clad is different that the american coins. Yes i have dug up american coins here some are the same as our currency and others not. Like the penny it comes up different than what the 250 says both the am and can coins. Swing slow and I mean real slow if you want the deeper coins and turn the sens up!! I am two bars less than full scale. You will notice a difference. Low sens you can swing faster but hey your missing out on the deeper stuff. Go with coin mode go with jewelry mode!! and try the relic mode. the machine can do all of them there is no one way to do things. Experiment try different modes and sens why limit yourself if we all did we wouldn't get anywhere.My deepest coin is a 1969 Canadian quarter 7 1/2 inches down. Oh yea one thing people won't say too much here but it is #1 in everyone's books..... Location location location.
 
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