ACE 250 advice.

[Amarillocrat]

I just started with the ACE 250 last week. My dad got it for me for a grad gift for my associates... He has the same machine, and he can't seem to find much of anything too good. I have bee extremely lucky with mine finding a gold chain right off the bat. But, I still have hell with finding hardly anything on a consistant basis. A buddy of mine and I spent 3 hours Sat hunting an old park, he used my old 50 dollar walmart detector, and I used my new ACE. He was pulling stuff up left and right. A silver/tourquois ring, and about 4 dollars of clad including a buck. Me, I found a whopping 34 cents and a half million pull tabs... Is there something we are missing about the ACE 250? It just seems my dad and I are having hell with finding the goods...

 

[khouse]

People who don't know any better dig most every signal - good or bad. They get the best stuff. (lesson here). Stick it in relic mode and dig anything that beeps? You will be surprised..............................................................Your Dad too......................................... Good hunting!!!!

 

[MNCoinhunter]

If you don't want to dig pull-tabs or foil, discriminate out everything below pennies. You may still dig-up the occasional larger iron or aluminum trash, but you should also notice your coin count increase. The only downside to knocking out the nickel range is that you may not find any nickels or gold items. But as khouse said, if you want to find the good stuff, such as gold, detect in Jewelry or Relic mode..Good luck !!

 

[Jerry-Wi]

Any metal detector is just a tool that you can find buried stuff with. However if you discriminate or notch out stuff, you are ignoring a lot of what the machine is trying to tell you. I do not dig everything but I do want to know when the coil passes over something and then I can decide to dig or not.

Jerry

 

[slingshot]

Get the sniper coil and the next time kick butt.

 

[sandtrout]

Your friend probably knows his machine a lot better. As mentioned above....set your mode to JEWELRY and DIG EVERYTHING until you start learning your machine. My ACE 250 can clean house now that I know it inside and out!

 

[Digger 45]

Make sure that you chris cross your targets, if the sounds are consistent it is usually a good target, if you get a different sound, especially a scratchy sound it is probably a junk target.

I usually search in Jewelry mode, but try to always bury target in the area that i will hunt just to see how the detector reacts to that soil.

 

[Amarillocrat]

Thanks for all the advise yall. We'll get it figured out!

 

[dabbie1]

A couple of things I can tell you. When I hunt in coin mode And get hits between the penny and dime the target has always been an aluminum can. At the beach in wet sand in coin again it always has been a false signal when displaying target as a nickel , it took me a while to pick up what the machine was trying to tell me. Just keep using and do not give up. This is an excellent coin machine Wayne Good hunting