I took the ACE 250 out for a spin Saturday....

[Butch in Colorado]

.... I tried the 9X12, the shooter coil and then finished the day with the 6X9.

I am having a bit of a problem pinpointing with the 9X12 and the 6X9 so I'll take any hints from anyone and will appreciate the insight.
I have been consistantly off to the left by a couple of inches when I pinpoint with both DD coils.
One thing I have noticed is that when I pinpoint only the inner coil seem to be active, is this true?

I do like all three coils and can see where the larger coil will come in very handy in clearing a large field.
The shooter coil is a nice coil and suprizingly deep seeking coil.
And the 6X9 is a great all around coil. I like the 6X9 on my MXT as well so I guess I am partial to that coil.

The ACE 250 is a very nice machine and easy to use. I can see where it will be a very commendable addition to my MXT and XL Pro arsenal of detectors.

Here are the finds from yesterday.

The main highlights are the two wheat cents, 1952D and 1958D and the silver ring.
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[liltracs]

Some nice hunting and good finds. Congrats on the silver

 

[oldrivers]

pretty cool hot wheel car too

 

[treasurefiend]

Great haul, I only use my 9x12 coil. I only used my 6x9 only 1 time for less than an hour. I learned how to pinpoint with it, so I couldn't be able to help you an how to pinpoint with it. It should be the same as the smaller coil.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Some good finds..Your doing well with the ACE

 

[Uncle Willy]

Try turning 90 degrees to your target and locating and pinpointing again. This generally narrows it down.

Bill

 

[Butch in Colorado]

I'm gonna have to go out in my backyard and practice, practice, practice.

I'm used to pinpointing off of the front edge of the 6X9 with my MXT.
I just have not found that spot yet with the 6X9 and the ACE yet.

 

[NM5K]

If you are off to one side when pinpointing, that usually means you need to be
more careful on the side to side measuring when you get close to the "cut out"
point.
The closer to get to that point, the more critical the side to side measuring
as the pattern at that point gets narrower and narrower the closer you get to
cut out. So when you get to the tone cut out, check the side to side distance
and make sure you are right in the middle. Shouldn't be hard to tell, being
at that point the side to side area is so narrow.
If you only check the side to side distance while the coil is right over the target,
that distance is much wider, and if you make no further checks while moving
back to the cut out, you can be off a good ways.
If you are super careful on the side to side at cut out, you can stab coins in place
half the time.

 

[a74thson]

Well - after haunting and lurking on the forums - helping with button identifications and such - my wife surprised me with an Ace 250 for my birthday this weekend. So, we have played in the yard - or rather she and the seven year old and found a few recent pennies. We looked at a small kids play area next to the house and found four pennies, a lot of bottle tops, and I am certain we pinpointed the path of a water main! ;-) 8+ inches and a constant line!

It's a great little machine from what I can figure out. Being out west, not a lot of really older sites to hunt and visit...but a lot of fun none the less with this machine.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah it's sort of tricky but improves with practice. Just remember - the deeper the target the farther back from that magic spot you have to probe or dig. Only shallow targets will be found under the front tip of the inner coil loop. Elliptical coils do it a little differently than round ones. Even if you think you have the target perfectly centered - often you don't and the target will be off to the side of the sight line. The 90 degree trick often solves this. That's why I use a 24-inch probe. Saves bending or getting down on my old knees and allows me to locate the target much easier.. Wish I could find some more I'd offer them up as prizes in a contest or two. I very rarely get on my knees. Just probe and bend over and pop it out with my big screwdriver or the EZ-Digger

I ran into a guy one day ( using a 1350 ) who watched me and wanted to know how I did it. He said he didn't know how to do that and had to dig holes for all his coins. I showed him how easy it was but don't think it sunk in as I noticed later on that he was still digging big, ugly, holes..

At that same site I was hunting the edge of the baseball field when some players showed up and shortly after this guy called me on digging holes in his ball field. I told him in the first place that it wasn't his field and I wasn't digging holes. He came over to look and I told him I had just retrieved three coins and was doing one when he hollered at me. I asked him if he saw any holes anywhere. He looked all around and admitted that he didn't then asked me how in the hell did I get a coin out of the ground without digging for it. So I showed him and he said, " Well I'll be damned, guess you ain't digging any holes after all." So I went back to beeping and he went back to the home plate.

Bill



Bill.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah they both pinpoint in the same spot.

Bill

 

[Butch in Colorado]

n/t

 

[Butch in Colorado]

I have never heard of the EZ-Digger. I'll have to go look that one up.

It is rather humorus how people believe that a public park belongs to them and only them! I have run into that a couple of times as well.

24 inch probe?? Dang if I used one of them, I'd probably stab myself with it before I even had a chance to use it.

 

[Butch in Colorado]

n/t

 

[Shooter65]

I bought an Ace 250 a month and a half ago and it's done a great job. Pinpointing did have me going for a couple of days but figured it out by using my probe and marking the sweet spot and by watching the cursor and listening to the tone. I then dug a couple to see exactly where the coin was. It's worked out fine and usually on shallow coins I can pop them right out but on the deeper ones I dig as I've found 2 walking liberty halves 1934, 1943, a barber half 1913 and a standing liberty quarter 1930. I've also found a bunch of silver dimes and would rather dig the deep ones as not to scar them up. The two walking liberties I was told by the fella at the coin shop are worth about 27 bucks each because they were in such exceptional condition. A little trial and error with my 9x12 coil worked out great and now is easy.

 

[Butch in Colorado]

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