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Got my ace 250 today and met garrett any tips?

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oldrivers

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I drove to garland today to garrets plant , toured the museum, and met vaughn garrett (Charles Son). These are great people and I got my new 250 and the optional bigger coil.I'm also now a Garrett dealer as well as filming a detecting show. Tomorrow I'll try this baby out and hope it's as good a detector as a lot of you say. Any tips from 250 users?
 
Be sure you get a sniper coil. Your going to need it in trashy areas.
The small coil pinpoints dead on.
The standard coil that comes with the Ace is been a problem for half the people who buy the Ace.
They say the pinpointing is way off. I had problems with it at first as well. I think its because most new people
are not used to elipitcal coils, or maybe not. Some people catch on to the pinpoint right away while others have to work at it.

You will probably like the Ace. Many people find themselves useing more than their other machines.

I use mine about half the time and my MXT the other half. Just depends on my mood swings.

The Ace likes nickels but it also likes chewed up pop can metal. Most of the signals I get for nickels
end up being chewed up pop cans.

Pennies are a bit of a pain. Sometimes I get a solid signal for a dime but when I dig it its a penny. More times than not, though, its a dime.
This is because the conductivity of some pennies are close to the Dimes conducitivity. Zinc pennies never seem to wavier. If the Ace says its a penny then it's probably a zinc penny but sometimes the machine fools you.

Quarters are always right on in my experience. When my Ace reads Fifty cents it is usually two quarters in the same hole.
I have never found a fifty cent piece. I have never found a dollar either. Those readings usually end up being over sized junk targets, usually cans.

RR
 
I spoke to mr. garrett about the issue some had with pinpointing with the 250. He showed me a bench test and how accurate the pinpointer is. is was dead center of the inside hole. He did say he left out a tip for pinpointing that will be added to new cd. After you have it pretty well pin pointed by xing lift the detector a few inches off the ground and very very quickly release and then pushdown the pinpointer button. it narrows it even further to a very fine pinpoint. everytime he did it the coin was dead center of the inner ring. maybe that will help somebody.
 
is when the signal falls between the penny and dime, it will be a zincker 99% of the time. When it signals dime, it will be a dime, or a penny 1982 or older, in other words a memorial. I just eliminate the zincker signal and dig up the rest.
 
[quote prodrigsr]is when the signal falls between the penny and dime, it will be a zincker 99% of the time. When it signals dime, it will be a dime, or a penny 1982 or older, in other words a memorial. I just eliminate the zincker signal and dig up the rest.[/quote]

I have always wondered if all 250 were created equal. My dime notch reads dime most of the time. One notch below that is copper cent and one notch below that is zinc. Zinc is also where IH hit. Silver charms and small silver rings hit on copper cent.
 
Go right ahead and leave those zinkers and then tell me where you hunt. A 10k gold mans wedding band and small gold religeous medallions can hit just like a zinker and so will Indian head pennies as well as a lot of old tokens. Although zinkers are a pain, every once in awhile you get a real goodie!! A detector can only give you a probability of what a target is, not exactly what it is. So......where were you gonna hunt????
 
You got that right! I toss them in a jar, then fill a plastic soda bottle w/them along with dishwashing powder that you use in an electric dishwasher(doesn't suds as much) and just sit there and shake them (w/top on!) until all the crud comes off and then put a little rinse water in and shake them again. Then I pour them in a wire basket and shake the lose water from them,then dry them farther. Then I take them to the grocery store to one of those auto coin counters and when I receive the money slip to be cashed out by the cashier-I buy my batteries.
 
OLDrivers:
You might want to get yourself a little pinpointer as well.
I just bought one from www.harborfrieght.com. Its a cheapo for us guys
on a budget, but it sems to work ok. $15.00. Comes with battery and
case to snape on to your belt. Don't know how I did without it for so long.
RR:detecting:
 
The above pinpointer, man I think for the money, and what its intended to do, It fantastic!!! Lets face it, we don't need pinpointers to metal detect, it just speeds the process along. I use a $40 tinytec pinpointer and I love it...

Now there are some pinpointers that are $100, $150, $200, +, & I'm sure they are nice. But shouldn't your machine be by far the most expensive piece of gear that you take while metal detecting? And your metal detector is what found the object, so why spend hundreds of dollars just to pinpoint your target that your detector found anyways???:detecting:
 
As for the IH's , about a 0% chance of finding one down here (South Texas). The gold that you have found at the zincker mark, have you tested it to be 10k?
I have found "gold" items at the zincker mark but all have been plated or fake, evern with the mark of 10k on it. Interesting.
 
What is the zinc mark on the Ace 250??? I just see penny...
 
Well, my wedding band for one. No testers needed, bought from a reputable jeweler!! All of the small ladies or childrens gold rings I have found hit right at nickle or one notch below. Actually gold rings can come in anywhere from foil to zinc.
 
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