Those Ace 250's are still making some really great finds aren't they?

[KCK]

I bought an ACE 250 new for the wife, and the wife loved it at first, she used it twice, and threatened to continue to use it so I ordered her a neat little 5" coil for the trashy area's of course! Everyone posts great finds for the Ace I was telling her. She even used it more than once....Why thats more than she's ever used a different machine other than her TURBO RED THING! I thought great...she's leaving her old 1980 detector in the closet! So I beefed the ACE up a bit and bought her a Sunray probe! Mounted it on the Yellow feller and thought to myself great ...now she's finally up to par! Right?

Wrong .....Now the Ace with all those fine accessories is just setting in the closet and the RED Turbo is on the prowl again! She'll never quit using that thing! And to make it worse... she just hit a cache and had a 500 coin day with her other detector!
The Ace 250 with Sunray Probe and her 2nd coin shooter coil might as well go on the market, she's not going to touch it again!
Listen the Ace 250 is a great machine I keep telling her but it's to no avail, Anyone else have any idea's?

This hobby is getting expensive I just blew 475.00 on that Yellow Fellow!




KCK/Ohio

 

[hobbes_lives]

Use it yourself for a few hunts and compare your finds.

Maybe she's right in using her old machine. If she's doing well with it, then why should she change? After all, becoming proficient in using your machine, and having confidence in your abilities with it, is half of the battle.

 

[KCK]

I enjoy the sounds of my Minelab! You know how those sound guys are!

KCK/Ohio

 

[Beale]

I am sure you could sell it. You will take a hit, but it beats sitting in the closet. Then you can get a new: coil, digger, whatever, Beale.

 

[khouse]

n/t

 

[pizzacoil]

It's obvious she's quite familiar with her old machine. Now, this is going to sound somewhat unbelievable, but it's becoming more and more obvious to me that there might be other forces at work here...

Dowsing, if you believe in the process, can eventually be translated to hunting with a machine. For me, after spending a year with my 250, I began to let go of the rational "Where do I start hunting?" question, and started following my gut. I worried less, and started to relax. If you had been hunting alongside myself, as my friend and hunting partner has since the beginning, you'd know what I was talking about. I eventually started to almost miraculously hone in on targets... Walking to the middle of a field, then 10 minutes later finding an 1803 Large Cent. The rest of the field later proved to be devoid of anything worth digging. I believe you can atune yourself to a machine, and use it as a sort of dowsing rod. I also believe women have this power more readily at hand, given my wife also, after five minutes swinging the darn thing for the first time, found a change purse full of coins.

Now, I have atuned myself to the GTI 2500, and because I've learned to do the half-step, I am digging up great coins in places considered "hunted out".

Let your wife hunt with what she's comfortable with. It's obvious it's paying off. Any chance of a pic of that cache?

HH

 

[tab-nabit]

Its a good machine, makes a fine back-up, makes a fine loaner, and if that Turbo Red ends up kaput, gets bashed up, she should be happy that the 250 was ready to roll...

 

[Uncle Willy]

I always said detecting was 90% operator and 10% machine. She has her 90% working like a charm. No need for her to change machines until she is ready. I have a buddy who still hunts with the only machine he has - a Compass 77-IB TR from 1972 and he finds lots of goodies.

Bill