A piece of Australia, Canada, and a little bit of Japan too! :)

[Ian (Japan)]

Changed the beach found coins to paper money.
Then visited a gold shop today to convert most of it into what I like to call 'real money'.
Ken chose the 1/10 oz. Australian Nugget, Riki the Canadian Maple Leaf. And I added another 20 grams (making it a total of 40 grams this year).

Photo naturally isn't actual size, but they sure look and feel like 'real money'.

The most memorable part of the trip to the gold shop for me was that initially we couldn't find it.
I had left the map to it at home!
Then the car navigation system suddenly didn't work.
So, we are driving around the second biggest city in Japan with traffic jams all over the place. With just a rough idea where it was.
Jokingly I said to Ken and Riki they will have to open the car window and smell for the gold at the shop. Then maybe we can find it. Riki said he couldn't because he has a cold! Ken said okay, he will try. So there we are, driving along, he suddenly says "I can smell the gold!" You know what was right in front of us, and I'm not making this up, not the gold shop, but the JAPAN MINT!!
Wow, he must have a nose for the mother load!

The shop wasn't far away from there.

Then, we get home later and I look in my jacket pocket and there is the map to the gold shop!
Fixed the car navigation system easily too.

So, maybe the moral of the story is......mmmm.......I don't know.......mmmm......Don't forget to smell the roses?!

HH
Ian, Ken, Riki @ the land of ninja and very fine things.
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[DavHut]

You gotta love the yellow stuff!. Its my goal this coming year to convert all my common coinage to Au pieces, just like you and some others do. Normally I just sit and stare at the heap of grubby coins, admiring my handiwork. But not this coming year...the gold teeth got me all 'a fever!

Thanks Ian
David

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I'm going to convert all my 250 finds into gold ( $150 so far ) and all my pennies ( got a few thousand of those).

Bill

 

[DavHut]

How is the 250 stacking uo for you, Bill? Didnt you do a review of the thing somewhere? I finally got one and am awaiting its arrival. Reading ()and re-reading) one of your excellent pieces would give me something to do in the meantime

David

 

[Uncle Willy]

Somewhere on this forum I spoke of it when I field tested it way back. It's very sensitive so run your sensitivity at four bars to start with. Target response and recovery is lightning fast so it's virtually impossible too swing to fast to miss a target but slower scanning still works better. Also if you whip the coil it will go somewhat deeper.

Practice pinpointing as it is a little different. The hotspot is the center front tip of the inside oval on the coil. It almost pinpoints like a DD coil. Just scan side to side to center the target then drag the coil straight back until the instant the signal stops and your target will be right there. If you have trouble with a target turn ninety degrees to the target and scan it again and you'll hit it right on. On deep targets the hotspot will move back from the tip of the inside oval a bit. Garrett has an animated diagram on their site that gives a general idea on pinpointing.

The 250 is sensitive to small objects and gold and you will find it performs like detectors costing three times as much - which is why Garrett is selling tons of them. The 12-inch coil will get you another 2-3 inches in depth and operates and pinpoints just like the standard coil. The Sniper coil is hot in trashy areas and gets great depth for a small coil and is sensitive to small objects.

Bill

 

[DavHut]

Its just what I needed!
David

 

[RebOne]

Uncle Willie-
2nd post to this fine group- from 1st post, wife got me a Ace150 for Xmas,went out before weather got to cold, found 2 pull tabs, and a bottle top-wasn't thrilled but...Did more reading, sent the 150 back and got the 250-Haven't had a chance to hunt but think I will like it better and have more bang for the buck-detector wise. Your post here with tips on sens level etc is the BEST info I have come across yet-easy to understand and helpful. One question-"whip the coil and it will go somewhat deeper" Whip?? Little help with that if you would be so kind and any other tips you might give a brand new don't know anything but wants to learn novice will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for the tips and Thanks in advance for the upcoming ones!

Rick

 

[RebOne]

New to this-

left you a note in here (see above) didn't change header-you might never have seen it-

Rick

 

[Uncle Willy]

You're going to like the 250, especially the pinpointing feature. "Whip" means to scan rapidly over an area or target. Most all motion detectors will gain some depth the faster you swing them, but you can also miss some targets this way. You won't miss to many with the 250 as it has lightning fast target response and recovery.

Remember to start out running your sensitivity at about four bars and scan slow until you have spent several hours with the machine. Practice on the pinpointing and it will become deadly accurate. There are a ton of instructions on this forum regarding that and an animation on the Garrett site showing how to pinpoint. Good luck.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I done one on this forum many months ago when I field tested it. Did you check the archives?

Bill