Hi everyone ,
I picked up the 150 about a month ago when I was on vacation in Bethany Beach Delaware . I had no clue what I was getting myself into ! Hurricane Irene had just came through and noticed alot of stuff washing up onto the beach. That was the end of life as I knew it . I spent hours on the beach that weekend finding a few coins and went back the following weekend to search under the boardwalk . It was obvious no one had been there in quite a long time by the amount of change that I found , ALOT !!! That was it , I was hooked . I came home to Northern VA and proceeded to dig up my yard finding more coins and misc items , teaching myself to dig in grass and dirt without any damage to the yard . I got really good at it so I decided to graduate myself to a local park feeling confident in not tearing up there grass . Guess what ? More coins , mostly pennies but still a variety . Any trash I dig up gets saved and thrown away as I leave and it looks like I was never there . So far 289 coins and misc items excavated in a few weeks .
I started looking for a new detector almost immediately after I got the Ace 150 , Being very patient not to jump into anything I waited .Finally I happened to find someone selling there AT PRO at a great price much to my liking. After watching the how to videos
and playing with it for a couple days , I decided to take it out to my uncles property near Warrenton , VA . After 4 hours of hunting I came home with 32 casings , 1 old wood splitting wedge , some aluminum about 8 inches down , a tin bowl I think , and an old plow blade that had a tree growing on top if it ! Supposedly the property used to be mined for quartz , and a long time before that Indian battles ? I plan to go back again soon to see what else I can find !
As for the ACE 150 and the AT PRO , They are both great machines and I love them both but they are different worlds . After today I understand The Pro alot more , I left it in Pro mode Zero with iron audio on and my discrimination set at 30 . I dig everything so I can learn what to expect and the tone of the items coming out . I know that 63 and mid tone is telling me its another bullet casing I really don't want to dig
Thanks eveyrybody I enjoy the stories I read on the forum and wanted to share some of my own !
I picked up the 150 about a month ago when I was on vacation in Bethany Beach Delaware . I had no clue what I was getting myself into ! Hurricane Irene had just came through and noticed alot of stuff washing up onto the beach. That was the end of life as I knew it . I spent hours on the beach that weekend finding a few coins and went back the following weekend to search under the boardwalk . It was obvious no one had been there in quite a long time by the amount of change that I found , ALOT !!! That was it , I was hooked . I came home to Northern VA and proceeded to dig up my yard finding more coins and misc items , teaching myself to dig in grass and dirt without any damage to the yard . I got really good at it so I decided to graduate myself to a local park feeling confident in not tearing up there grass . Guess what ? More coins , mostly pennies but still a variety . Any trash I dig up gets saved and thrown away as I leave and it looks like I was never there . So far 289 coins and misc items excavated in a few weeks .
I started looking for a new detector almost immediately after I got the Ace 150 , Being very patient not to jump into anything I waited .Finally I happened to find someone selling there AT PRO at a great price much to my liking. After watching the how to videos
and playing with it for a couple days , I decided to take it out to my uncles property near Warrenton , VA . After 4 hours of hunting I came home with 32 casings , 1 old wood splitting wedge , some aluminum about 8 inches down , a tin bowl I think , and an old plow blade that had a tree growing on top if it ! Supposedly the property used to be mined for quartz , and a long time before that Indian battles ? I plan to go back again soon to see what else I can find !As for the ACE 150 and the AT PRO , They are both great machines and I love them both but they are different worlds . After today I understand The Pro alot more , I left it in Pro mode Zero with iron audio on and my discrimination set at 30 . I dig everything so I can learn what to expect and the tone of the items coming out . I know that 63 and mid tone is telling me its another bullet casing I really don't want to dig
Thanks eveyrybody I enjoy the stories I read on the forum and wanted to share some of my own !
You're off to a great start!
Great clad haul!
Nice finds!
Happy Hunting!