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Dragged my skinny, sickly, body out for an hour and me and the 350 went tot lotting..

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Uncle Willy

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and scored about a buck eighty. 350 works great and the coil pinpoints like a champ. I pinpoint off the toe. Depth should be exceptional. Pulled up a few pennies in the bark chips at eight inches or so. Going to try to get out this weekend even though I'm still puny but phooey on it. The whole unit is nice and light. Garrett done good making a light DD coil. Target response is quick as is recovery. With the narrow signal you can isolate targets real well, like slicing with a knife. Had a bunch of pennies scattered close and had no problem isolating each one. When I get out again I'll play with some of the other stuff. I haven't even done any air tests to check probable depth and other things. I have an idea it's going to be a great little machine and if you liked the 250 you'll probably love this puppy. More to come.

Bill
 
Sounds like the new ACE 350 is turning out to be a nice machine from the reviews I have read so far. Improved depth, faster target response and super easy pinpointing. That last issue should benefit all of us as we won't have to dig big plugs for the deepies, keeping lots of hunting areas from getting shut down due to large holes being dug. It's a win-win situation for everybody and the hobby of metal detecting could sure use some positive comments in some areas. It looks like Garrett did a lot of brain storming to put some excellent improvements over the previous ACE series.
 
I'm going to do the same today Bill (regarding dragging my worn-out rear-end out), and see if the crops are harvested in a couple fields I'm hoping to gain permission to hunt. If not, I'll hit a park just to get out, and to gain some time on the end of the stick :detecting:

Smitty
 
From the land of the Bluenose.....sounds like a decent machine but this bouy is still waiting for Garrett to reintroduce the Freedom 3 Plus....have one kicking around?
 
Wish I did. But when the AT comes out I think that one should keep you happy for quite a spell should you spring for one. It's going to be the one to beat.

Bill.
 
Yeah I've got to play with it some more and learn all its tricks. It's basically a souped-up 250 and should do everything the 250 done plus a lot more. The DD coil makes a big dtfference.

Bil
 
Yeah the coil is fast and pinpointing is a snap which saves a lot of fiddling around. Should be a real winner, especially for Newbies.

Bill
 
For grins, you oughta slap that coil on your 250 just to see how it does.
I'm still betting that the coil is probably 85% of any increase in overall performance,
and that the 250 with that coil would do just about as well as long as the slight
frequency mismatch does not stunt the performance. But it appears not to, being
as they are selling the other older coils for use with the newer 350.
Would make for an interesting comparison anyway..
One thing that kind of makes me think that, is the video's of the 350 air testing seem
no better than the 250 air tests with the 9x12 coil.
Actually, the 250 with the 9x12 seems to beat some of his tests on certain materials.
But I could expect that being as the 9x12 is slightly larger than the DD they are using.
As far as the actual detection, the only difference between the two that I can see is
the slightly different frequency. And I don't think that small difference is going to make
too noticeable an increase in performance, except for maybe a small bit on gold nuggets,
etc. Garrett themselves state that the main reason for the change was for increased
performance detecting small objects. But.. the 250 already was good at detecting
small objects, even with the 9x12 coil. :shrug:

Anyway, the point is not to slam the 350, which I'm sure is a great machine.
If I were starting out now, I'd quite likely get it over the 250 just to have the
better coil.
I'm just guessing you could get most of the same characteristics using that DD on a 250.
I might consider that coil to further round out my collection for the 250.. :biggrin:
But from what I can see so far, I know I won't be upgrading the 250 to a 350..
Just not enough extra bang over the 250 to spend the extra 300 bucks on.
But that's just me.. I'm tight as a drum.. :rofl:

If I upgrade later, the AT Pro would definitely be in the running. :thumbup:
It's got enough extra bang to be worth the extra bucks I think. I like the ground
balance options, and also the digital ID is kind of handy for "fine" ID resolution.
And it has the DD coil.. And 15 khz.. Which is an increase large enough to
be fairly noticeable.
I think they have a hit on their hands with the AT Pro.. If it pans out to be as
good as the initial hype, it could well be their next "Ace 250" as far as sales,
except for mid range, instead of beginner level.
And I'm sure the Ace 350 will sell well too.
 
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