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Ace 250 gold question
- Thread starter dk dogs
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Roscue2
Active member
The gold area in the Ace 250 icons is where the gold will pop up. Sometimes it will stay mostly towards the penny, other times it will be bouncing all over that area, and even still it will appear as a pulltab. Not sure exactly why gold pops up on the icons like that, but it might have something to do with the golds karat. HH
Robert2300
New member
I found an 11.1 gram 10k Masonic ring with the Ace 250.
If the Gold is there the Ace 2ill find it.
Robert2300
If the Gold is there the Ace 2ill find it.
Robert2300
Here is my experience with the Ace 350 for the last 2 seasons.
Believe it should be similar to your Ace 250. Most of my gold
jewelry on sports fields hits on the nickel icon or the one just
below it. My first year I experimented and dug virtually all signals
except those I believed were iron. Found enough gold jewelry on
one soccer field to pay for my Ace 350 a few times over. This was
hunting for 3 hours periods for 4 days. Last season I narrowed my
search to just the nickel icon and the notch below it. Just searching
for gold jewelry on those icons. Again I found enough to pay for my
Ace 350 well over 3 times hunting this same field for 12 hours.
Yes, I am sure I missed gold jewelry by limiting the targets I was willing
to dig but I also kept on going over all kinds of junk. You will dig a lot
of aluminum foil in the icon just below nickel but that's where the nice
small ladies rings are and some of them have diamonds. Doesn't take
long for the totals to start adding up. In the nickel notch you also get pull tabs.
When you get a nickel signal pinpoint it and swing the coil maybe 6 times
or so and see what happens. Most times if it is a pull tab it will not lock on.
When you swing over it keep watching the meter and if it ever, even once,
moves out of the nickel notch it is probably not a nickel but a pull tab or other
junk you don't want. All the gold rings I have found in the nickel notch have
locked on and not bounced by the way. I am a jewelry hunter and not a coin
hunter. I let others stay busy digging coins while I go out and get the gold jewelry.
Takes a lot of patience but once you find a good area and start digging gold jewelry
it will all be worthwhile. Very little competition hunting gold jewelry on dry land
at least where I hunt. I know this is kind of long but hope this helps you out.
What I have written is based on my experience and not anything I have read.
Works for me. Hope it works for you too !
Believe it should be similar to your Ace 250. Most of my gold
jewelry on sports fields hits on the nickel icon or the one just
below it. My first year I experimented and dug virtually all signals
except those I believed were iron. Found enough gold jewelry on
one soccer field to pay for my Ace 350 a few times over. This was
hunting for 3 hours periods for 4 days. Last season I narrowed my
search to just the nickel icon and the notch below it. Just searching
for gold jewelry on those icons. Again I found enough to pay for my
Ace 350 well over 3 times hunting this same field for 12 hours.
Yes, I am sure I missed gold jewelry by limiting the targets I was willing
to dig but I also kept on going over all kinds of junk. You will dig a lot
of aluminum foil in the icon just below nickel but that's where the nice
small ladies rings are and some of them have diamonds. Doesn't take
long for the totals to start adding up. In the nickel notch you also get pull tabs.
When you get a nickel signal pinpoint it and swing the coil maybe 6 times
or so and see what happens. Most times if it is a pull tab it will not lock on.
When you swing over it keep watching the meter and if it ever, even once,
moves out of the nickel notch it is probably not a nickel but a pull tab or other
junk you don't want. All the gold rings I have found in the nickel notch have
locked on and not bounced by the way. I am a jewelry hunter and not a coin
hunter. I let others stay busy digging coins while I go out and get the gold jewelry.
Takes a lot of patience but once you find a good area and start digging gold jewelry
it will all be worthwhile. Very little competition hunting gold jewelry on dry land
at least where I hunt. I know this is kind of long but hope this helps you out.
What I have written is based on my experience and not anything I have read.
Works for me. Hope it works for you too !
BigCatDaddy
New member
I must agree, you are MOSTLY correct. Except for one thing. You want to dig everything from one notch below nickle to one notch below penny for the gold. Large mens wedding bands will hit right up there near the penny icon sometimes. I've had gold hit all over the range I described. A heck of a lot of junk too, takes patience to get the gold!!
Thanks for the info. I have been out a lot this month ending up with 649 coins and a fist full of silver rings. I have yet to find one gold item in 4 years. I do notice that the nickel spot seems to almost always ending up in junk. I will try what you have said. I did dig the pull tab notch today and ended up with 20 pull tabs. I know I have missed gold but thats why I am trying to learn more about the gold end of things.
Thanks for the advice
Thanks for the advice
I found a gold bracelet on the iron icon. I found a 14k ladies small ring on the foil icon. I found a 10 k on the nickel icon. I found a large class ring right below screwcap. I hunt in a/m mode at totlots, and that's how I found the bracelet. I set my Customs mode up for high trash areas by recopying either the jewelry or relics mode and omitting the tab icons. Then , I just go there with the push of a button!
Robert2300
New member
You would be surprised what pops up under pennies on te Ace 250!
Robt2300
Robt2300
Yes, you are correct BCD. But I just have so much junk in that area below penny
that I have it notched out. There is another reason I hunt this way that I didn't talk
about. I can only hunt this field between Christmas and New Years Day and then
only during the week. Have to keep really moving and playing the odds as time is
not in my favor. The guys that play soccer on this field like to score goals no
doubt but they also try to see who can wear the most gold. They don't take it all
home with them though. This I know for a fact. I am well satisfied with I get off this one field.
Wish I could find another one that produces as well. Still looking.
On other sports fields, when I have all the time I want, I do dig everything that I believe
isn't iron. Now that's a lot of digging and a true study in determination !
Thanks for your comments as I know you are an accomplished and successful hunter !
Good hunting to you ! Gene
that I have it notched out. There is another reason I hunt this way that I didn't talk
about. I can only hunt this field between Christmas and New Years Day and then
only during the week. Have to keep really moving and playing the odds as time is
not in my favor. The guys that play soccer on this field like to score goals no
doubt but they also try to see who can wear the most gold. They don't take it all
home with them though. This I know for a fact. I am well satisfied with I get off this one field.
Wish I could find another one that produces as well. Still looking.
On other sports fields, when I have all the time I want, I do dig everything that I believe
isn't iron. Now that's a lot of digging and a true study in determination !
Thanks for your comments as I know you are an accomplished and successful hunter !
Good hunting to you ! Gene
I am thinking that we will never get all the gold jewelry in any area
unless we dig it all. What I do is just concentrate on gold jewelry
in a certain range. The range I have selected is the foil range.
This includes most of the small ladies rings that once they are
lost are very difficult to find just by the person looking for them
without a detector. Even with a defector there is a ton of foil on
the sports fields I hunt. You just have to keep going digging all that
foil. Kind of like paying your dues I like to think. Some of those
rings you find in the foil area have diamonds and can easily pay
for a detector. I speak from experience not anything I have read.
Sweep about 6 times when you get a nickel hit and watch the meter
as you are doing that and see if it stays locked on nickel or bounces
out. If it bounces out of nickel even once, chances are, it's nothing
you want to dig. Pull tab hits usually represent large rings and are
less common on most land sites compared to those in the foil range.
Just playing the odds. Good hunting to you ! Gene
unless we dig it all. What I do is just concentrate on gold jewelry
in a certain range. The range I have selected is the foil range.
This includes most of the small ladies rings that once they are
lost are very difficult to find just by the person looking for them
without a detector. Even with a defector there is a ton of foil on
the sports fields I hunt. You just have to keep going digging all that
foil. Kind of like paying your dues I like to think. Some of those
rings you find in the foil area have diamonds and can easily pay
for a detector. I speak from experience not anything I have read.
Sweep about 6 times when you get a nickel hit and watch the meter
as you are doing that and see if it stays locked on nickel or bounces
out. If it bounces out of nickel even once, chances are, it's nothing
you want to dig. Pull tab hits usually represent large rings and are
less common on most land sites compared to those in the foil range.
Just playing the odds. Good hunting to you ! Gene