NC red dirt & Ace 250

[Tabcollector]

Hey everyone, my first post on this forum. I was looking to buy a Ace 250 and was wondering if anyone has used one in the NC red dirt. I was concerned since it has no manual ground balance, I am not sure if red dirt is highly mineralized or not. Thanks for any replies, this is a great forum.

 

[Uncle Willy]

I'm sure there are some guys on here from your neck of the woods who can give you a heads up. The 250 should handle the red clay. I live in NW Oregon where the soil is all volcanic ( as nasty as it gets ) and the 250 performs just fine here. Hope you get one and become part of the great bunch that hangs out here. Good luck.

Bill

 

[bearkat4160]

Georgia red clay is the same stuff and I hunted in it for 15 years...you will hit pockets of minerlized clay that there is no metal there. Just lower sensitivity if that happens. It will do ok. It might chirp every once in awhile in the clay but, just listen for repeatable signals.

Alan

 

[Uncle Willy]

Dang I forgot you lived back there in red clay country. Have you hit anything like it here in Oregon?

Bill

 

[bearkat4160]

n/t

 

[bearkat4160]

n/t

 

[bearkat4160]

n/t

 

[bearkat4160]

Hey Bill, well no red stuff yet in Oregon, just that dark brown stuff which on my GTI 2500 grnd balances a little higher on the scale than the red Ga. clay. which means its hotter. (Ga. bal at 9, Ore. is around 11). But I have come accross alot of that red/orange clay down in Happy Camp. It doesnt cover the whole area like it covers ALL the South seems. Just large pockets of it in weird places. Also here in oregon some tan dirt but no red/orange clay yet.

Alan

 

[Uncle Willy]

You may or may not find any of that clay. Don't think volcanos spit out much of that stuff and this whole state was built by volcanos. The Snake River Canyon in Eastern Oregon ( deepest in the U.S. at 6000 feet ) cuts down through pure basalt and geologists claim the basalt goes down another 15,000 feet so that's one helluva lot of lava.

Bill

 

[bearkat4160]

Yeh Ive been all the way up to bend and is all volcanic there. Very strange state geology. Seems the volcanic flow stopped at the edge of the Siskiyou's, which is where I am. Just a short drive to Cali is a whole different Geology. Still lots of basalt bedrock though.

Alan

 

[NM5K]

Dunno about NC red dirt, but the dirt up in Oklahoma is quite red and my 250 seems to
do very well on it. I can usually crank the sens pretty high with little falsing too.
It's pretty stable where my property is, and objects seem to hit well.
The soil here in Houston is gray looking gumbo clay and I can't tell that the
machine works any better here than there..