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A tribute to the ole 1250 (lotsa pics)

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...after 4 years with the 1250, I broke down this spring and picked up a 2500. The 1250 has been a real workhorse for me, and I've been delighted with it's performance. Since the frost went out of the ground, I've been putting the 2500 through it's paces, digging lots of targets and trying to get a feel for it's capabilities. I must say I am really delighted with it.

But meanwhile, everytime I put on my detecting hat, my trusty old 1250 gets all excited then just looks at me like an old hound dog that is being left behind the hunt.

So for the many. many hours of pure joy it has given me and for it's always-ready-to-go-in-sun-and-rain-and-snow dependability, a tribute to my 1250! :clapping:

A couple notes... the bayonet is from a Potsdam musket. the hatchet is a French trading hawk (c. 1600's) the big coppers are mostly old Upper and Lower Canada Tokens, as well as a couple dozen large cents. There are a couple US large cents and some old silver as well. The oldest coin is a Spanish copper from the 1500's, restamped 1655. Not much jewellry or rings as this is promptly confiscated by my wife and daughter. The military buttons are British Regiment (c. 1860's), WWI uniform buttons and a couple very early police buttons. Also a dog tag from 1895. Those are Enfield bullets, plus a couple Whitworths. Some old toys, shoe buckles, old copper jewellry...


Hope you enjoy. Please don't make me get into the big box. :lol:
 
give her a spin now and then. I still have mine and although I use my other Garretts more, she sure feels good in my hand every once in awhile. Quite an impressive bunch of goods she gave you. You should be proud!!
 
...what's that saying-- may your first love be your last? :)

I sure like the extra depth and information that the 2500 gives with imaging and quickly flipping between Discrimination/ All-Metal/Pinpoint, but that 1250 is a great little machine. I've had buddies with the top of the line machines go into the places that I hunted to death--and I'm now in the process of working through all my favorite old sites with the new 2500--and I can tell you that you have to work pretty darn hard to find anything that the 1250 left behind. :thumbup:

Thanks again for your comments, BigCatDaddy. :)
 
You should do a story for Lost Treasure and publish these pics. Garrett would probably love to have them in their news letter. Just a thought.

Bill
 
Some great stuff Gabe. I to have a 1250 and love it. I do have the 2500 on my Christmas list. Nice finds.....HH Rich

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
 
I really like the 2500... a very versitile machine that works well with whatever style of hunting suits the location or your mood.

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Whose woods are these, I think I know,
His house is in the village though
he will not see me stopping here
to see the woods fill up with snow...

Robert Frost (great stuff that ;) )
 
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My first Garrett detector was an ACE 250 that I bouight as a backup toanother brand that I won't mention. Hint (It looks like a muffler on a stick)! I was so ilmpressed by the ACE that when I was ready to upgrade as most of us do, I of course chose a Garrett GTI 2500. I thought it was a new offering from Garrett, but I have found a test article in a treasure magazine dating back to 1999. So, it's been around for a while. I just wonder why more hasn't been written about it since it is a state of the art machine. I love mine and I have had it about two months and nearly every time out I learn something new that it will do if I can only train myself to listen. When I unmasked my 2500 at a recent club hunt I heard a lot of criticism mainly that it was, "too heavy", "won't go deep enough" and that the "bell tone is too long". The criticism was easy to put down. With the beautiful way the 2500 balances and with the removable power pack the weight is hardly noticed. I let several of the guys give it a few practice swings and they changed their minds right quick. I don't know how deep not deep enough is I guess. On a recent outing I was using the all metal mode and kept hearing a faint signal at 8". Being curious I dug it up and after several minutes searching I found a steel BB! I could hardly believe how deep that small a target was picked up! The bell tone being too long? Well for a club hunt where the targets are usually shallow and many perhaps the tone is a bit long, but when you hear it you know damn well something is there. By too long I mean that by the time the bell tone finishes sounding your coil may have swung another 3 or 4 feet beyond your target, causing you to have to go back and search again to pin point it's location. It does slow you down on a club hunt situation due to the rapid pace you have to maintain to be competative. But a seeded club hunt is an unusual application, seldom used in the field. For everyday use I just don't think the 2500 can be beat. If there is such a thing as a do it all machine, the 2500 is definately in that class. JIM
 
...Those little sleigh bells are one of my favorite finds. It's always so nice to find them in one piece and when you clean the dirt out to hear them ring for the first time in 100 years. They are so nice that my wife confiscated a bunch for her Christmas wreath on the front door as well. :)

I do alot of night hunting, especially in the winter when it it is dark up here by 5:30 and I'm intent with gettin in the last hunts of the season before the frost sets in and there is no digging till spring. The last couple years, the conditions have been perfect with just enough snow on the ground to keep the frost out, but not enough to hamper swinging the coil. With the ambiant light from the white snow, it is like hunting in the daylight and when the big moon comes out from behind a cloud, the sudden shadow that appears on the ground bside you can make you jump out of your socks.

Anyway, one night, ridiculously late, I took off my head phones and paused to rest. The night was as clear as a bell, the stars were out and the big old moon lit up the area like a floodlight, and I was sitting there looking at my tracks back and forth across the snow. The rest of the world was fast asleep and the only sound was the hollow bark of a dog way off in the distance. Suddenly as I was sitting there, I heard as distincly as anything... ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching of sleigh-bells coming across the empty field and past me.

Like I said, probably tinnitis from being tired and listening too long to the Garrett bing/bong/bell-tone. :)
 
You only came into our world after you stopped believing you know... :) Guvner..
 
From the looks of that pile I think Santa visited him often. HAA. Hope he does a piece for one of the mags. Would make a great article and photo display and the editor would eat it up.

Bill
 
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