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Ace 250 seems to be hot on nickels

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Trackerman

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I went to a park for a few hours and noticed the Ace had hit manny nickels i guess thats a good thing for rings sake.Hmm maybee thats why i see good ring finds?
 
Nickel hunting is a lot of patience and technique. Example. With my Ace, roughly 12 percent of my coin find swere nickels. The fist year with my 2500 only 9 percent were nickels. This year I'm up to around 11 percent and that is with digging a whole lot more pennies. As the percentages for these coins has risen my dime and quarter production has decreased, at least as a ratio of total coins found.

If you're finding more nickels, you're becoming a more patient, and better, treasure hunter.

Chris
 
When my brother and I hunt together we have a contest. All coins are face value but nickels. They are worth 50 points. Any ring is worth 100 points. Silver is double. It makes more fun.
 
It is good on nickels. Bill and others said they could hear the difference between nickels and trash-but if the nickels are over 2" I can't tell the difference and take the ID's word for it.
 
With mine the new pull tabs and lead tone sounds like a nickle and most times shows up as nickle as well, so you just have to dig to find out. I have pretty much given up looking at the display and just go by the tones.
 
Some can hear the difference and some can't depends on the range of one's hearing. Me, I can hear a fly fart across the room.

Bill
 
We have a couple of Aussie coins in the main pull tab notch, but it should work on any coin in the same notch. Waive the coil past the target five times. If it hasn't bounced off the notch, then it's a coin. a pull tab will always bounce after that many passes. Sometimes a coin will bounce too, but if it hasn't, you know you have a coin or even a ring.
I tried to write a letter to Garrett a couple of days back with a request for them to make a DD coil, ie like the 5x10 scorcher coil, but I had the wrong e-mail address. On the GTI it is supper hot at telling these sort of targets apart dead easy, not to mention screw caps and coins as well. It's all to do with the width of the signal and the notch that that signal shows up in. If they could develop a coil like this for the Ace, then the Ace would be unmatched in it's ability to discern targets, for a detector of it's weight! (Note that I didn't say price range!)
Mick Evans.
 
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